December 2014 At-Large Senate Election: Winner/Loser

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Another aspect of the difficulty of uniting the Roght is the fundamental "tone" of the ideology. Conservatism is about the preservation and defense of the best of our current society. Conservatives are fighting not to give ground on the best and will accept reform of the worst. It is an ideology that operates within the confines of existing institutions.

Libertarianism, on the other hand, has this overriding belief that they are waging a war of epic proportion to end an unjust system. The ideology, while still calling for free markets, is by and large an attack on existing institutions. The great, monolithic war being waged by libertarians is the same reason Ron Paul does so well while never winning. They don't have a problem "throwing away" a ballot,

The dysfunction on the Right, to me, displays the irrelevance of game reform. This game works well when there are strong ideological counterweights. Can you imagine 10 or so social conservatives registering in the Northeast? That would be extremely fun. American Conservativism seems to be dramatically underrepresented, which I think causes a lot of the breakdown we see across the whole game.