I live in Texas but I’m seeing these Georgia results and I’m honestly shocked at how far left the south has shifted. I live in Texas which is red for now but I feel it will flip. I do think think a good portion of this has to do with people moving to red states. I’ll never understand people who move from blue states, complain about high taxes, and then vote for the same policies. Doesn’t help either that public schools are propaganda factories.
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Reasonable people ignored the brewing of cultural idiocy in universities around 10 year ago. This has bubbled over into society as a whole because the people warning about it were laughed off as doomsayers desperate for a negative story on the left. They were proven correct, and we are dealing with the consequences.
The left is very good at commanding the language of society. I have met so many people who don't seem to realize what they say, who have no idea how to defend their ideas beyond calling you a bigot, who only take pride in their positions because they're granted a false moral authority...
We have allowed a group of know-nothings to rise up because the social pressures on speaking like a fool in public were eased and even erased in many areas (work, school, social media) with censorship and threats of firing / discipline. Immunization to criticism allows social tyrants to run unchecked.
It will take a while for the "silent majority" to reach their boiling points and start speaking their minds in public again. As soon as that happens, we can be back to reasonable politics and perhaps a depoliticized country where we can enjoy things without bringing race, gender, and political struggles into them where they don't belong. I am just losing hope that will ever be possible.
The cultural Marxism really started 20 years ago. I went to college in the 90's and law school in the 2000's and when I went back I shocked to see how universities had changed and not for the better. Kids who were fresh graduates going on to law school had issues when confronted by differing opinions, which some of the law school professors would do for the sake of argument still at that time. At least the older professors. The younger ones were there to train and create activists.
My wife is in corporate law and 5 years ago was still "Oh they'll change when they get into the real world". Then the first millennials started to get elevated to the VP positions and began trying to implement this woke shit...at a trucking company.