I vary by the day (and sometimes more often) in how much optimism / pessimism I'm feeling about this.
I see a major pushback developing. The long march through the institutions has met some stumbling blocks, and no longer can count on each next conquest just quietly rolling over.
But the institutions and the educational, cultural and economic elites are already deeply pervaded by the ideology, and that's not going to change easily.
What I see is:
* affective polarization getting ever stronger
* an increasing culture-war divide between the elites and the masses
* increasing geographic assortment creating ever more extreme legislation
* a different set of dysfunctions growing on the right
So I see a growing pushback, but I'm not sure it's going to result in a more humane rational society.
Persecution validation. Genocide. The “trans teen suicide plague.”
This is their moral foundation and thus is their weakness, because it isn’t true.
This is what we need to dismantle.
The worm is turning. People are getting sick of them. LGB no T is on the front lines.
Walsh’s film has had a hundred million views. Walsh is a putz but his film is very powerful.
I vary by the day (and sometimes more often) in how much optimism / pessimism I'm feeling about this.
I see a major pushback developing. The long march through the institutions has met some stumbling blocks, and no longer can count on each next conquest just quietly rolling over.
But the institutions and the educational, cultural and economic elites are already deeply pervaded by the ideology, and that's not going to change easily.
What I see is:
* affective polarization getting ever stronger
* an increasing culture-war divide between the elites and the masses
* increasing geographic assortment creating ever more extreme legislation
* a different set of dysfunctions growing on the right
So I see a growing pushback, but I'm not sure it's going to result in a more humane rational society.
I SERIOUSLY don’t like finding myself agreeing with the right. But it’s the red states that are banning gender affirmation.
I have to face the fact that my faction is promoting this “trans” shit. I send a lot of emails.
But we have the moral high ground. Castrating little boys, mutilating little girls, these are not cool.