Call me a liberal, but I can’t keep derailing threads about this and fully address it in a post on its own. I am worried all the progress we have made is down the toilet and the right’s now the one advancing and winning year by year.
I get it, we’ve been in the minority opinion before like with gay rights. As doom and gloom as it looks, there is no denying that things have gotten better. And even during the aughts backlash times of the “anti-PC tirade”, being progressive still felt avant-garde and more sophisticated than being a chud. Some of that energy eventually manifested into Obama (as much of a fraud he was, even when I was a kid it was still awesome seeing him win.)
Now I feel like it’s the inverse. Not only are we losing these cultural battles, but I feel fogey being a non-CHUD. CHUDs are highly praised everywhere and thanks to the internet, CHUDs have been able to make their own Hollywood alternative and their own cultural institutions to build real soft power.
I would love to know of any possible signs of hope this little golden age of chuddery will be short-lived and we’re making some small wins. I would also love to know how the rest of y’all keep on trucking.
I am generally secure in the knowledge that any success they do have will inevitably lead to them eating themselves. These people are wholy selfish and self-centered, and do not have an actual understanding of the system that they run.
If they keep pushing on the gas like this, they will continue to cut out larger and larger sections of the populace, which democratic liberalism uses to shore up the empire. If you stop shoring it up, eventually the tide will wear down the barriers and take back the beach. I am personally more worried about the Democrats coming back in and figuring out a way to square this circle.
Like, even young military people make fun of Trump constantly. These people are not actually united for a cause because there is no cause to believe in anymore. They can't convince anyone that America is a greater good, and the idea that we are a lesser evil is becoming more laughable by the day.
Everyone is in their own little media corner these days, but because of that, there very little societal cohesion, which will make it incredibly difficult for the U.S. to actually muster itself in either a defensive or offensive posture. They will blow shit up and kill a lot of people, but we are a significantly less cohesive society than we were in the 90's.