Why is conservatism prone to so many grifters?

[MajinGoku]

Examples include matt walsh ben shapiro and the rest of the daily wire crew

 

[Historical Strelkov]

Idealism attracts grifters.
Propaganda is a great grift.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

they desperate just to hear someone agree with their ideals. most people that share their value get banned and censored so they think by giving them money, they get somewhat protected from that.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

Because agreeing with the right doesn't require you to mutilate your body or dress like a faggot. You just have to look relatively normal and say the correct things.

 

[A Cardboard Box]

Why is Sneed Seed with so much Feed?

This question has been asked here at least a dozen times by now.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

Because they're too afraid of the loonatics in the left.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

American conservatism is based around being reactionary, which is very easy for lazy content creators. Just have a daily video about some issue, spew the same opinions over and over. American conservatives are also prone to massively supporting minority pundits as "our niggers" or non-american due to belief that this makes them smarter. And to everything the fact that normal looking joes won't waste their little time doing politics, and probably won't be able to signal boost.

So basically even if it's not a grifter, you need someone to invest a huge amount of time shouting into space and yet still keep living in our world rather than get addicted to be constantly online and live inside a discord echo chamber.

 

[Chongqing]

The examples you listened are owned and funded by Israel.

Matt Walsh preaches that the US shouldn't be giving aid to any other country, so you can tell deep down he doesn't support Israel, probably doesn't love Jews all that much, and so on. But he has a lot of kids and be knows who signs his checks.

Conservatism is not that big. It's something like 15% of the American adult population, and Conservatives are dying of old age every day.

When your movement is that small and has so few voices, people will inevitably come to snatch money out of the air in the money chamber.

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]

Name one political movement that isn't filled with grifters

 

[skykiii]

Name one political movement that isn't filled with grifters

This is basically what I was gonna say.

Actually my man Mentiswave posted a video recently where he argued that its more likely the majority of conservatives online aren't Grifters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tHv384jPL0

IIRC his basic argument is that if you wanted to grift, you'd get more shekels coming if you were a leftie--being a right-wing grifter means fighting too many uphill battles for honestly not a lot of cash.

 

[Divine right to rule]

It isn't. Not any more than the leftist one, anyway.
The left just doesn't attack it's own over it.
This is one of the reasons conservatives always lose.

 

[User names must be unique]

Gap in the market if you're looking to ""give a voice to the voiceless"" there is much more space on the right

Plus it's far easier to outflank corporate media on the right as they'll never get too spicy about topics on race, gender or immigration, because of broadcast standards/journalistic ethics/advertisers concerns etc.

 

[Idiotron]

Did you know that all of Daily Wire is made up of failed Hollywooders?
Shapiro tried to be a screenwriter, Knowles and Cooper tried to be actors etc.
All of them reeeeeeeally wanted to succeed in the den of degeneracy that is LA but didn't so now they talk shit about it and the rest of "the left" for fame and money because that's how you make it as an entertainer these days.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

Every political movement attracts grifters.

 

[Pajeet123]

Conservatism is gay and grifters are attracted to homosexuality

 

[crowabunga]

Because it doesn't have a legitimacy manufacturing process. Left-wing ideology gets constructed and disseminated via universities, corporate employment of DEI/bridge/sensitivity trainers who got educated by those universities; journalists brought up in that intellectual zeitgeist push that message; the agnostic equivalents of the "good Christian women with their puckered, bitter faces" eat it up and inject it into whatever they touch; and so while there are also undeniably grifters on the left, there is still some social "structure" that you must kowtow to, a collective, ever-changing purity test that can be used to tear down anyone who falls from grace or gets too big for their britches.

Conservatism doesn't appear to have such a phenomenon: the closest there is is Trump's scorn/blessing, but anyone with enough gumption can go off and sell their brand of conservatism without giving a shit (and even better, knowing your audience won't give a shit) about whether you become a persona non grata to some portion of the "right-wing" movement (which, again, lacks sufficient institutional centralization to passively enforce and push updates for one "doctrine"). Occasionally sucking Donald's cock (and if you're savvy and contrarian enough, not even that) is an easier concession than staying updated on all the nuances of Palestine/Allyship/Black Worship.

Give me counterexamples to this hot take, if this has any legs I might Mottepost.

 

[Beautiful Border]

I reject the premise of the question. The left has plenty of grifters of its own - David Pakman, Cenk Uygur, Sam Seder and so on. I should technically count debate bro streamers like Vaush and Destiny but don't because their audience are mostly 14 year olds.

 

[DumbDude43]

Name one political movement that isn't filled with grifters

the ones that are so extreme that they get deplatformed to the point where they can't grift, like stormfront

overall politics is basically ALL grifters, both online and offline
online you have ben shapiro, matt walsh and libsoftiktok versus hasan h3h3 and vaush all grifting for likes, subscribes, and patron paypigs
offline you have corporate media grifting for advertising and sponsor money, and political parties grifting for donations and campaign contributions
basically the entire political system in a democratic state is built like this

 

[Stan]

Because conservatives are dumb people who really really want to believe they are smart. And dumb people want the validation of some grifter telling them they are smart (for muh internally inconsistent ""conservative"" values) and they will pay for grifters to tell them what they want to hear.
Democrats aren't much better, but at least I don't have to pay other democrats to purity-test me (official pastime of liberal parties everywhere.)

 

[Rudolf's Friend]

I just hate the word "grifter", its such a meaningless outdated term from the early 1900s that found it's way back because breadtubers and other leftists love using it to refer to anyone who's right wing while ironically enough doing the same moneygrubbing stuff that they complain about conservatives. Don't even know why is such a popular word here considering who it's mostly used by.