yeah, I've been a democrat voter since about '95. I started my path to my views now after 9/11. I was a raging identitarian radlib between 2000-2005 before that thing was even part of public consciousness.— Bloomberg/Warren 2020 Unity (@Shialabeefsteak) July 29, 2019
You wouldn't have thought it, but that just means that presumably lots more used to be polarized libs and had a coming-to-anti-intersectional-Jesus moment. I think that like Shia they came from the angry straight white guy demographic -- the one that the woke-ist Establishment is obsessed with herding in their direction, lest they join the Alex Jones fanbase and vote Trump. They're the ones that Vice Media targets using rebellious left-wing cultural posturing that is poisoned with neoliberal economics.
How else are the liberal elites going to make alienated young white guys ignore the fact that the fully Democrat-controlled government destroyed their chances of universal healthcare, unless they wave around a meaningless culture-war distraction like gay marriage that you can troll your racist Republican uncle with?
To tap into and encourage that conversion-anger, here's something for the formerly-woke Left, set to the tune of an angsty anthem all-timer:
* * *
I used to be such a rad, rad lib
Till they quoted Adolph Reed
I'd open borders to minimize wages
I followed Laci Green
I got no friends 'cause they're checkmark chasers
They can't retweet "Nazis"
And I'm getting real called out
And I'm cappin' screens
No more Mr. Vice guy
No more "YAAAS KWEEEN!"
No more Mr. Vice guy
They say, "No clicks -- he's unclean"
I got no friends 'cause they're checkmark chasers
They can't retweet "Nazis"
And I'm getting real called out
And I'm cappin' screens
No more Mr. Vice guy
No more "YAAAS KWEEEN!"
No more Mr. Vice guy
They say, "No clicks -- he's unclean"
My dog muted my account today
My cat told me "yikes"
(Reply guy, oooh)
Ma's been canceled off of social media
And dad undid his likes
I went to Verso, incognito
As I began to post,
The rose emojis, they recognized me,
And punched us Bernie bros
They said,
"No more Mr. Vice guy"
"No more! YAAAS KWEEEN!"
"No more Mr. Vice guy"
They said, "No clicks -- you're unclean"
bernard has gone full woke retard im out man
ReplyDeleteI've already cast my lot with el Bernarino for this round, but afterwards it's over. He's not getting the nom, and if he does, a Know-Nothing campaign will wreck the general against him. It's 1856 all over again, as detailed here throughout 2018.
ReplyDeleteBut there's literally no one else -- meaning he's the guy to support now, and then say sayonara when the GOP wins in November. No way am I supporting the Squad and their radlib garbage ("the movement is Bigger Than Bernie," lol I heard that one after Nader 2000, and it also went nowhere).
And on the excitement cycle side, we're already moving out of the leftoid bubble where everyone felt vulnerable and in need of some savior to protect against fascism. But that was just a politicization of their emotional mood swing. Once the mood swings in the other direction, boom, no more leftoid (or rightoid) bubble.
I saw that too last time the vulnerable phase ended -- 2005 and after, when the entire Left checked out and went back to normal life. That happened before Obama took office. I know there were still generic libs whining about Bush and jerking themselves off to the Daily Show during his second term, but I mean the widespread Leftist movement of the early 2000s (anti-globalization, anti-Iraq War, Nader campaign). That sucker was long gone by then.
The usual story is that Obama's admin killed it off, since the Left got complacent upon their party taking power. But it was more tied to the emotional mood swings, and was already invisible by 2005. IIRC, even during summer '04 there was hardly any protest against the RNC -- if it had been '01-'03, it would've been gigantic.
There was a decent protest against the DNC last time -- not just marches etc outside, but even the delegates who were seated on the Convention floor were holding up anti-Clinton signs, boo-ing the libs, and so on. That was 2016, already into the vulnerable phase and the leftist bubble.
What are the chances there will be a massive protest this summer in Milwaukee, when Bernie doesn't get the nom, including among delegates seated on the floor? This year's Women's March drew hardly anyone -- energy levels are back to normal, so people are getting back to normal life. It's not 2016-'17, when the refractory phase made people protest to be protected from victimization.
This isn't my first leftoid rodeo, and I wonder how many of the Millennials remember any of this stuff. I think they're too young to remember the left bubble atmosphere during the early 2000s (you had to be on campus) -- they just remember the passive, consumerist, checked-out attitude of the second half of the 2000s.
Still, I think I'm the only Gen X-er to point out these similarities / cycles, so maybe even living through the exact same thing before doesn't leave a trace in memory for most people. Knowledge of the dynamics does not change their trajectories.
Looks like your point about the polls being wrong with the news cycle was right again. SC was always in the hole for Biden
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