Criticize Your Own Side

[David Horn]

(03-13-2022, 09:08 AM)JasonBlack Wrote: In retrospect, this is a good example of a Civic criticism of a political apparatus which has become heavily Nomad-dominated. Gen X is easily my favorite current generation, but politically, they tend to be ineffectual and disorganized in spite of generally having some decent values and contributing a lot more than they take out. As much as I tend to like to distance myself from other millennials, this tendency is typically millennial.

Gen-X is centered to the right ... the far right in many cases.  So what does the right want?  Apparently, they feel slighted by having to do anything or pay anything that contributes to others, unless they are preferred others, of course.  It should be easy to tear that apart, but the left has managed, over several decades, to muddy its own message to the point that even strong liberals fail to understand what it is their side actually wants.  

Take the environment as a potent example.  Groups on the left wail at the lack of transition to a fossil fuel free world, yet other groups, the Sierra Club comes to mind, actively oppose solar and wind farms because they fail the purity test, making the perfect the total enemy of the good.  So who takes this and runs with it: the right, of course.  No wonder Gen-X punches above their weight.  They're fighting a generation that's actively fighting itself on multiple levels.

In the end, though, change -- and major change at that - is not optional.  The alternative is a slow descent into squalor, and an even longer ascent back to rationality.  It would obviously be highly desirable to avoid chaos, even in the short term, but, unfortunately, that's on you and your generation.