Describe the type of person who holds the following views:
You wanna know something? If you said any of these things in the late 90s or early 00s, chances are, you were a left-winger of some stripe.
The moral authoritarians were little old Republican grandmas with blue rinses.
The opposition to globalism and foreign debt was because of sweatshops and structural adjustment programs that enabled wealthy nations to prey on the poor.
The opposition to bureaucracy was because it was viewed as destructive to life and liberty; inhuman and robotic, opposed to all of our creative energies.
Corporate propaganda was taken as a fact of life, to the point where Noam Chomsky wrote at length on the topic.
People wanted unionism and higher wages to protect the underclass from corporate exploitation.
Anti-interventionism was aimed at protecting civilians in other countries from becoming victims of imperialist aggression.
In twenty years, I have watched, with shock and dismay, as this entire narrative has been flipped completely on its head.
Now, the moral authoritarians are Social Justice Warriors concerned about representation in fiction, and if you criticize them for any reason, that means you're literally Satan and Hitler in the same body.
The opposition to globalism and foreign debt is allegedly because people think it's all some Zionist plot.
People dislike bureaucracy because they don't understand why bureaucracy is good for them because they're too uneducated to understand what bureaucracy is and what makes it special and above criticism for plebs.
If you disagree with the mainstream media, you're an extremist and a nationalist thug.
Unionism means you're a xenophobe and don't want Asians to have jobs.
Anti-interventionism means you're selfish and isolationist and want the treasure spent on those wars to stay in the West's coffers.
I can't help but sit back and think, gee, this state of affairs sure is convenient for the people in power.
For one thing, nothing has fundamentally changed in America's foreign or domestic policy in sixty years, and for another, the powers-that-be have successfully discredited all of their opponents.
So, what the hell happened? How did public perceptions flip-flop so completely in two decades while nothing fundamentally changed about our nation's policies?
- There’s too much censorship from moral authoritarians.
- Globalism disenfranchises people and leads to abuses of labor rights.
- We ought to put an end to stifling bureaucratic institutions that threaten our way of life.
- The banker cartels control everything, and foreign debt enriches shady special interests.
- Our media is 24/7 corporate propaganda spew.
- We need more unionism to protect our high-paying skilled labor jobs.
- The perpetual security state makes the underclass fight their stupid petrodollar wars for them.
You wanna know something? If you said any of these things in the late 90s or early 00s, chances are, you were a left-winger of some stripe.
The moral authoritarians were little old Republican grandmas with blue rinses.
The opposition to globalism and foreign debt was because of sweatshops and structural adjustment programs that enabled wealthy nations to prey on the poor.
The opposition to bureaucracy was because it was viewed as destructive to life and liberty; inhuman and robotic, opposed to all of our creative energies.
Corporate propaganda was taken as a fact of life, to the point where Noam Chomsky wrote at length on the topic.
People wanted unionism and higher wages to protect the underclass from corporate exploitation.
Anti-interventionism was aimed at protecting civilians in other countries from becoming victims of imperialist aggression.
In twenty years, I have watched, with shock and dismay, as this entire narrative has been flipped completely on its head.
Now, the moral authoritarians are Social Justice Warriors concerned about representation in fiction, and if you criticize them for any reason, that means you're literally Satan and Hitler in the same body.
The opposition to globalism and foreign debt is allegedly because people think it's all some Zionist plot.
People dislike bureaucracy because they don't understand why bureaucracy is good for them because they're too uneducated to understand what bureaucracy is and what makes it special and above criticism for plebs.
If you disagree with the mainstream media, you're an extremist and a nationalist thug.
Unionism means you're a xenophobe and don't want Asians to have jobs.
Anti-interventionism means you're selfish and isolationist and want the treasure spent on those wars to stay in the West's coffers.
I can't help but sit back and think, gee, this state of affairs sure is convenient for the people in power.
For one thing, nothing has fundamentally changed in America's foreign or domestic policy in sixty years, and for another, the powers-that-be have successfully discredited all of their opponents.
So, what the hell happened? How did public perceptions flip-flop so completely in two decades while nothing fundamentally changed about our nation's policies?