>>2808968>free market of ideas dominated bu the bourgieosieThat does not and has not existed at all.
The only people who are actively trying to convert right wingers are ACP/Hazite morons, who are at the end of the day are just confused fascists. Meanwhile everyone else has concluded that 99.9999999% of American conservatives are a lost cause.
In Tsarist Russia, Christianity had a significantly stronger grasp on working class culture than it does in the modern United States. But did the Bolsheviks resort to religious tailism? Fuck no; they fought Christianity at every turn. Why? Because it is incompatible with dialectical materialism, and in a world where we have discovered dialectical materialism, it is an objectively reactionary force that encourages people to sit back an accept worsening material conditions with the promise of an eternal afterlife.
The reason we have a vanguardism (one of the many reasons) is that the popularity of a sentiment among the working class has no bearing on its actual correctness. Most members of the working class are uneducated, and have absorbed most of their ideology from the bourgeois media surrounding them. Our goal is to educate them so that they have the correct line of thought, not to indulge their bourgeois programming. Obviously you need to speak to people at their level, but this is not the same as diluting your ideology to make it look more appealing to them.
Part of the problem is that the US left has not meaningfully been a thing since like the 70s, and even then the New Left was really sloppy and vibes based a lot of the time in its theory and praxis. the so-called left in the US today seems to largely be either people with good intentions but who are still basically libs or like lumpen street gangs (a lot of anarchists fall into this camp and I think the latter is at least capable of throwing down and doing shit) or otherwise ideologues detached from reality who have an autistic special interest in like Leninism or something. either way people end up uncritically reproducing their programming with a lot of things, like in this case the liberal bourgeois myth that political change happens through rational civil debate and that ideas rather than material conditions and violence are what drives history. additionally a lot of the culture of Protestantism and esp Evangelicalism remains in the need to proselytize and save people, so you have leftoids who think we can only do a successful revolution by winning over backwards classes of people instead of like forming a vanguard and seizing power and killing everyone who disagrees with us like how history always happens.