The only thing that matters is power. If other people learn how to game the system and advocate for their own interests (aka everyone except conservative whites) while you don't out of &quot;principle&quot;, you will lose every time and your ideology will recede further and further into pipe dream territory. Grug-brain &quot;in-group good, out-group bad&quot; ideology has ruled since the dawn of time, and no amount of fart-huffing idealism will change that.