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3rd November, so gonna get political.
This is one of my favourite videos (minus the Trump winning part) - the gloating, smug, sneering from the Left, only to end up getting absolutely owned. We’ve seen this before here in the UK (Brexit ‘16, and a major Tory landslide in ‘19)... https://twitter.com/calebjhull/status/1323308250025119749
This is one of my favourite videos (minus the Trump winning part) - the gloating, smug, sneering from the Left, only to end up getting absolutely owned. We’ve seen this before here in the UK (Brexit ‘16, and a major Tory landslide in ‘19)... https://twitter.com/calebjhull/status/1323308250025119749
...that arrogance and self-righteousness, followed by disbelief and the doubling down from the left that they couldn’t have possibly got it wrong...that the masses who voted against them or their preferred outcome were stupid/racist/some other type of ‘undesirable’.
In a process that, IMO, has accelerated in the past 10 years, ‘leftism’ has changed from a movement for the working class to a virtuous trend made fashionable by unimportant, self-loathing, overeducated metropolitan populations who are too useless to find meaning as an individual
;hence why they’re so keen to box us into categories and derive their entire self-worth/identity from it.
And as the left devolves further away from anything resembling what we knew as the left, the right naturally become more reactionary. This is where the US is right now: Epistemic Divorce. And who is to blame for the acceleration? The MSM and SM ofc (watch ‘The Social Dilemna’)
US political support is much less about supporting a party, its ideas or its policies, and much more about opposing that parties’ opposition and everything it stands for. And this polarisation is a real threat.
You can see all of this unfolding in real-time over the course of the election, but perhaps nothing sums it up more quite like this tweet: https://twitter.com/annalecta/status/1323370439306055683?s=21
If Trump wins, it won’t be because all of those who voted GOP are some variation of bigoted, or because they like his policies. It will be because they reject the alternative. Same for those who vote for the DP, it’s just a rejection of ‘Trumpism’.
We aren’t going backwards, the left and the right are just polarising each other and it has the potential to be a dangerous trajectory. That’s why right now it’s important to have voices in the very centre, and the centre left/centre right.
We also need to start focusing on who really represents us, and what makes a party worthy of our vote. Sooner or later, the ‘it’s not Trump’, or ‘it’s not Labour’ isn’t gonna cut it and people deserve better at both ends.
‘Polarization based less on ideas than on dominating the abhorrent supporters of the opposing party,’ is simply not a way forward.
