Who Will Win America's Next Civil War?
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A New Counterculture? If the Right captures some of the Left’s youthful energy and rebellious cachet, it would represent a tectonic cultural and political shift. - https://amgreatness.com/2022/09/25/a-new-counterculture/
That's a serious possibility if we play our cards right. Since the left controls all the main cultural institutions just being a right winger is a rebellious thing to do. It's also a major reason that the left like to pretend to be the underdog. They know that being the rebel appeals to a lot of youth. The youth vote going to the Dems is also a pretty new thing. It only started 30 years ago. Reagan did just fine with the under 40 crowd. We do need serious energy though. Ghouls like McConnell are dead weights. We need someone who can offer the youth something more appealing than the free shit the left offers.
I remember it being considered a bit of a shift actually, when Reagan was popular with college kids for a while; it's the whole point of the humour behind Alex Keaton (and really, the whole basis of Family Ties - the parents were Democrat-voting hippies, but the girls were materialistic mallrat slackers and Alex was a Republican sock puppet) and a Bloom County series making fun of the phenomenon. The previous generation were the hippies, so, yeah, Reagan was just a kind of setback in a leftward march that began in the 60s (though the roots were probably even earlier than that, because the hippies were influenced by older people themselves.)