04-17-2022, 02:15 PM
(04-16-2022, 01:59 PM)David Horn Wrote: This is a perfect example of Woke Overreach. Setting a whole new woke agenda for an unwilling nation is a fool's errand, and the fools have been at it now for several years. Nothing ever changes that quickly barring a cataclysmic event that impacts most if not all of us. I don't discount mayhem, since the stage has been set for it to erupt. I just fail to see evidence of it coming any time soon -- especially in this social sphere. I'm a cisgendered heterosexual -- about as safe a place to be as there is. It I was otherwise, I would be fearful of the Woke crowd as much as the haters. They feed on each other. But the fact is, a serious confrontation in the LGBT space will not affect enough people to generate real change in the larger sense, and, perhaps, not even in gender awareness. Sad.
Considering that the Hard Right now pushes an ultra-reactionary agenda that the evisceration of workers rights, privatization of anything possible in the public sector to rapacious monopolists, banning of abortion and possibly birth control and outlawing of homosexuality (need a population explosion for cannon fodder, cheap labor, and high rents), a denial of environmental regulations when those cut even slightly into profits, tax cuts for the Master Class but higher taxes for everyone else, and low-quality education compatible with Protestant fundamentalism, then we have a Class Struggle that the elites expect to win. After such, life will not be so precious even if it is done in the names of Life, Liberty, and Prosperity. The common man will be responsible to people who have no responsibility except to themselves.
If things get bad enough i can quit taking my blood-pressure medicine.
All that is necessary is for people to act humanely toward each other and demand the same in politics. The Hard Right has mastered the black arts of identity politics, rage, and political theater.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.