Tension and the Ties that Bind

This post was inspired by a conversation I saw on 8chan's /pol/ regarding another right-wing-oriented site, The Right Stuff, adopting an openly gay moderator and creating controversy. Many disapproved, viewing him as watering down the far right. I, personally, took a different view. Perhaps the person that brought up the topic, and many of those involved (including the rather enthusiastic person that posted over 150 times in the thread) were honest. I doubt they all were. Regardless, the lines of thinking that I saw there could have a drastically negative effect on the movement as a whole.

My view on the matter revolves around tension, and the role of it in shifting the Overton window. When I say tension, I don't mean it within the sense that common parlance does, to mean stress or a heightened state of emergency. I mean it to be in the physical sense, in which two forces pull at an object from opposite directions, creating a strain upon that object and keeping it rigid.