Let's not do what leftists do and assume that everything happened first with us. 'Culture wars' have happened since mankind figured out reading and writing was an efficient way of recording knowledge. It's happened between religions, ideologies, kingdoms and empires, the only difference is how it has been fought either through force or conversion.
From a personal point, I think the left currently are done, their plans are failing more often, they are losing even acknowledgment from the normies and they are more prone to infighting than anything else. But that brings a new problem, damage control, the left unlike a lot of other failed ideologies and groups have no lifeboats, they don't have an out or a way to go back into the shadows. So they are going even harder, desperately trying to hold onto power because they know they'll face the wall (figuratively or literally) when they no longer have it.
So now it's literally a race in the west especially but all over the world to remove the leftists and their collaborators from any power before they can cause even more damage. That's my take but maybe others think the feminists win, China forms a worldwide empire or skynet takes over after having to listen to Twitter for a week. It just seems like the actions of the past 2 years especially is less of an organised, decades/century long plan and more 'throw as much shit at the wall as possible to hopefully damage our enemies'.
I am sure some on here would not agree, but I still stand by the theory of the world going forward that was laid out in a video I watched about a year ago. The TLDR is here, but I believe it because many of those have already started happening.
As for the culture war itself, I think we have already passed peak woke. With the lag that exist in the movie industry, most of what we have been seeing come out was done in 2018-2020, at the height of TDS and Woke Outrage. But according to people in the industry (like Chris Gore), many of these companies are starting to walk back their policies.
They cant keep denying the success of things like Top Gun, or that Disney has lost ground to Illumination and Dreamworks (who had successful animated movies while Disney bombed last year). They cant keep denying that foreign entertainment like Manga, Anime, and even foreign movies are starting to make a dent if they havent eaten significant chunks (apparently RRR being a financial success rattled them). And no matter how much their PR and Marketing teams try to tell them otherwise, they can no longer deny that Woke is failing. Or did you think it a coincidence that PR/HR/Marketing are the ones getting slammed in the current layoffs. Think of the upcoming D&D movie: Yes, we know that everything they are doing is woke, no matter how much they are trying to deny it. But that they are desperately trying to deny it (including by name!) shows that they realize being called "woke" is brand poison, and they will try to avoid it. We arent at the point yet where they know what it means to avoid it, but they are trying.
Meanwhile, you are starting to see more and more "anti-woke" appearing spaces. Not necessarily "based", and dont expect that to change yet. But consider that one of the biggest songs on the radio for a significant time was an explicitly anti-woke song, and its not the only one.
Until I see solid evidence to the contrary, I stand by my theory that we are living in the "History doesnt repeat, it rhymes" version of the 1970's. We have Black Nationalist movements in ascendance thinking that they can go genocide Whitey and implement their tribal utopia (with growing resentment towards blacks from every other race due to that fact). We have unrestrained crime and drugs in the big cities. We have domestic politicians and business leaders trying to sell us out to our enemies for their own personal gain, even though the people dont want that. And on and on. The only difference is that in the '70's, film had started moving out of the Hayes Code era into an era of Classics, so we are behind the ball on that one. But I think 2020 was, much like 1976, their last shove they could do. And now 2024 will be the pushback. Who will be Reagan in this theory? Dont know, but personally I think its leaning toward DeSantis with Trump being the "Nixon".
EDIT: I would like to say though: This theory all applies to the United States. The simple fact of the matter is Europe never recovered mentally from the World Wars and has been in the equivalent of civilizational-level depression since, and it really does seem like they want to die. Meanwhile, the US has been characterized by going down kicking and screaming and actually putting up a fight to where they might take back the power.
The difference is in 1970s we didnt have democrats dumping fake ballots in broad daylight. they will just do the same thing again. Desantis is no different from bush jr
JFK and the mob say "Nixon was properly paranoid." Tammany Hall says "Are we a joke to you?" The Dems even back in the Civil War era say "It's just that easy."
The Democrats have been stuffing ballots literally since their founding. They have never stopped. Its just a matter of getting someone so overwhelming popular it overwhelms their attempts to rig it.
Not necessarily, but they have engaged in gross ballet stuffing that is probably on par in terms of faked votes. The issue with with trying to pull that sort of stuff outside of smaller local elections in the US (which is partly why places like Chicago and NYC have been Dem for 100+ years) is two-fold historically speaking:
Its EXPENSIVE to pull of that much bullshit, so it has a tendency of "It works until it doesnt." And the bigger the gap they have to overcome, the more expensive it gets.
There is actually a tendency of the person who got screwed to come roaring back and win their next go around because they and their supporters are pissed by being cheated. Both Andrew Jackson and Richard Nixon were screwed out of the presidency by cheating, and both of them won their next elections in overwhelming landslides, after their supporters won Congressional seats and raised hell against the ones who screwed them.
Incidentally, on that note, if we are going with my "Nu-70's" timeline, we are already doing better in that regard. Because Carter and the Dems gained seats in the 1978 midterm, even in the face of Carter's historically low approval and a general distaste about the direction of the country. At least with 2022, the Republicans actually got a [narrow] House majority.
Chris Gore is really good. Overall I agree with your statement.
Falling In Reverse is interesting. A couple of the songs were very reminiscent of Tom MacDonald, others are more mid-2000s rock/pop-metal trend.