When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won.
  • solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 days ago

    Eh, let’s not get to impressed:

    Owning the libs became a lucrative strategy.

    Of course, the left made it easy for them. The left really did purge conservatives from universities and other cultural power centers. The left really did valorize a “meritocratic” caste system that privileged the children of the affluent and screwed the working class. The left really did pontificate to their unenlightened moral inferiors on everything from gender to the environment. The left really did create a stifling orthodoxy that stamped out dissent. If you tell half the country that their voices don’t matter, then the voiceless are going to flip over the table.

    But he almost stumbled onto class warfare:

    This political moment isn’t populists versus elitists; it is, as I’ve written before, like a civil war in a prep school where the sleazy rich kids are taking on the pretentious rich kids.

    • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com
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      17 days ago

      The same argument the south used. “You can’t have morals and be mad that we don’t”. The north did tell them their voices didn’t matter and they did table flip like brats and started a war that the north didn’t want. It sucks that some people have to be dragged kicking and screaming into morality, but the truth is that it’s not against the working class. They just like to believe the working class are all racist bigots just like themselves. The left kept working families safe and fed with support for unions and osha.

      To call educating “pontificating to their unenlightened moral inferiors” is such a self report. As though talking about climate change equated to beheading their family in front of them. These are people that don’t like being wrong and don’t care about being right, so anyone disagreeing with them is forcing them to be awful people, because what are they supposed to do? Change their mind? Learn something? It really feels like they can’t even hear themselves sometimes.