I know better than to romanticize prior generations of leftists, they've always been this vile. But I don't think they've always been this retarded. My experience engaging with them over the years has been that I used to engage in actual arguments with them, to nowadays trying to educate them about their own ideology.
Also, engaging with boomer Marxist professors and the like is infinitely more pleasant than engaging with millennial and zoomer activists, though I'm sure a lot of that has to do with age. Plus these boomer Marxists laid the foundation for the California Baizuo pozz to emerge in the first place.
Maybe it's as simple as back when conservatives and even classical liberals still had a seat at the table, leftists had to be on their best behavior, to stay in their motte so to speak, which meant adhering to a modicum of intellectual standards. But now that they have a monopoly on cultural production and social discourse, they can finally enjoy the bailey.
Plus college standards have taken a nosedive, esp outside of STEM, and frankly calling the average proglodyte with a grievance studies degree a "Cultural Marxist" is giving them way too much credit. Most of them probably couldn't tell you the first thing about Gramsci or Horkheimer or Foucault.
Speaking of, most of them are frankly clueless about their own ideology's past with promoting pedophilia. They're genuinely useful idiots, who are super animated about being activists, despite having never read a book by any of the demons they may or may not have even heard of. Which is why "proglodyte" is such an apt term for these types, they're genuinely just ignorant and stupid and it's legitimately more difficult to argue with a retard than with an intelligent opponent because the retard is genuinely too fucking dumb to even understand their own "arguments," let alone your arguments.
Their schooling has been anti-intellectual, and their social media content is so extremely curated they literally have no idea of what's going on. Yah, they've gotten a lot dumber.
Also half of them are on meds.
They’re all medicated, it’s just half get it through a script pad.
Do they really seek to learn and understand? I don't think they do. They've been told all through the years while they attended school that they are smart because they are "educated" they have credentials and what not. They have made their whole life being doing what's prescribed and counting it as being intelligent.
Einstein on the other hand said, "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity."
They don't question....they accept.
Sowell refused to teach in the late 60s because the rot was set in by then. Colleges saw the CRA for what it was, an excuse to lower standards and start the machine printing of cookie cutter jobs. Everything has followed suit since then, we now have students who swallow the stupidest crap out of fear, compliance, and the need to appease legitimately stupid people.
Commander Rockwell's collage speech's show how pozzed they were even then in full force, and even speaking of his own days in uni (before WW2) he was talking about how degenerate art was encouraged so he just made slop to get by and got good grades.
The left's ideas have always been fundamentally retarded. At their core nothing their ideology is based on makes any kind of sense.
That's because their ideology is a front.
As for their rank and file? They're just ahead of the curve for the rest of the continent. The general population itself is getting dumber but that's not all. Machines break down more quickly than before, the quality of food has plummeted, prices are going up, scams are everywhere and in general everyone is pissed off.
This is societal decay. They're further along among other reasons because they are the cause of it.
I only know one lefty (amazingly) - and all she does is virtue signal. it's her Raison d'être. I simply don't even bother trying to talk her out of any of her positions. In fact I just avoid her most of the time.
Every woman I know is a lefty compared to every man. I think that's white people now.
Women are more susceptible to social influences far more than men. That’s why social media broke a lot of women, they will blindly follow the flock.
True with a few exceptions yes. My wife is to the right of almost everyone here, but I freely admit she's not typical at all.
In general, women aren't supposed to have authority over anything outside of their own house and children, and there's a reason why. When selfishness sets in and they become corrupt, they seek false idols almost habitually.
What’s the magic step to creating more women like your wife?
Raise your daughters right. Or did you want something more specific?
If I only knew, I'd start a business printing more. I thank the Lord for her every single day.
My wife is also extremely conservative, and I would say the two things that set her apart from most modern women are:
She was raised a Christian and has attended church from childhood. That has instilled a system of morals in her that insulates her from what feminism tries to tell women is the 'right way to live'.
She has a very wise and respectable father who raised her correctly. Because he led her well, encouraged her, and never bs'd her, she naturally learned to love and respect him. That respect for male authority was passed on to me when we got married.
Those are the two key points for creating traditional women, I think. A healthy system of morality, and a natural respect for male authority figures that stems from their father raising them properly.
If your honest which I doubt you teach them how to make a foundation with a loved one.
You work with her and change yourself and make sure she changes herself to be closer together becuase as long as your willing to work together you'll never have to separate.
After years of hard ship you'll finally have a flow with each other, but don't ever lose that fight of making it work, you may have a woman for life
Every woman you know probably veered way off the rails after 2016 too, I bet. I knew several who went from vaguely leftist/low effort feminist to militant street activist somewhere on the nonbinary spectrum.
Well I know that they were driven crazy by TDS. So yes around that time.
Even normies like Scott Adams noticed this trend. Until whites answer the woman question the West will continue to be pozzed.
You can throw 'urban' in there to make it more obvious.
Leftists have institutional power and the boot of the state backing them up. They no longer feel the need to debate. They are correct, you are evil; their professors and the media reinforce these delusions.
All of this was started by Soviet subversion of academia and media. They aren't called "useful idiots" or "NPCs" as a joke. They are literally trained to not think for themselves and regurgitate whatever the approved narrative is. The problem is that now the useful idiots are getting into positions with real power and making it entirely too obvious how stupid they really are.
Everyone has, but them probably disproportionately so.
The only distinction I've ever been able to draw between cultural Marxism and any other kind is in cultural Marxism white people are the bad guy, while in regular Marxism it's usually an economic class.
They're both unified by the satanic idea that inequality is the result of perfidy.
Thus Marxism was always going to inevitably become anti white. Because genetics is the ultimate inequality.
Whether race or economic class, though, whoever the you-know-whos wanted to get rid of became the oppressor.
Of course, they're one of the chief factions in service to the devil.
reading atlas shrugged and rand had these people dead to rights in the 50s. it's actually pissed me off reading parts of this and seeing that nothing has changed since then, we've just been constantly losing against complete retards.
I had a sort of moment of euphoria and shock when I first read Uncle Ted's Industrial Society and its Future and Atlas Shrugged. They were both such bullseye descriptions of the "Progressive" movement that it felt like it was targeted directly at me to believe without hesitation. I now view everyone who complains about Rand's books being bad as guilty Leftists who felt called out by them.
it is a bad book though. it feels like she took wisdom from people way smarter than her and than wrote a self-insert power fantasy that just meanders on waaaaay too long.
The left has always cultivated a class of fanatical religious adherents that are not very bright but are very willing to commit violence and crime. Before, they were leashed. Now they are loosed.
This is part of the buildup to open civil conflict.
When an ideology demands that you relinquish Pattern Recognition because it is racist, sexist, homophobic, fatphobic, xenophobic, abelist, and anti Science (TM), you have to switch your brain off. And it starts rotting.
They're much dumber due to a huge influx of non-Europeans, educated poorly on purpose, completely blown out by SSRIs/weed vapes/slamming energy drinks like water from age 13, and far crueler thanks to the drugs + getting lots of social interaction through screens.
I didn’t think it was possible, but probably.
As per Edward Dutton the entire West has lost twenty or so IQ points the last several decades, plus a couple inches in height. Those numbers went to the stomach instead.
Basically, a massive chunk of Americans are white niggers.
Being smart is only important if you want to win hearts and minds.
The left has the backing of violence. State violence and otherwise. They don't need to be smart.
I think this is a facet of us teaching people the answers and not the problem solving skills to arrive at these answers/solutions.
We(humans) do this a lot as we build off of past knowledge constantly and have developed society and technology into what it is today. But it is assuming that low iq people can understand why we used to do things in the past, and no longer do them today. I think that is why most leftists seem so retarded, no foundational knowledge or real critical thinking, just were taught answers to hard questions.
Yes.
The Useful Idiots are stupider than normal because they are being required to more and more believe bald-faced lies, defer all decision making to authority, and change long established truths due to "new information".
However, that is a normal process of authoritarian indoctrination. The problem is that even the elites among the Left have now gone through this same level of thinking, and are now more incompetent.
Old Leftist literature, including both Revolutionaries and Fabians, is clearly very sophisticated. The Fabians themselves being the most sophisticated and subversive. No matter the delusion, they understand their tactics well. However, nowadays they have drank so much of their own kool-aid that they are missing even the basic nuance understanding of what they should be doing, and they are resorting to straight lies and intimidation.
This is what makes them so dangerous right now, and so prone to violence. They have massive institutional power and control, but they are blind, panicking, and flailing because they no they are losing, and they don't know what to do.
Many are not even actually as malicious as they seem. But they are so ignorant and arrogant that it comes off as malicious, and then they are so prone to violence that their capacity for destruction makes them a terrible threat.
We are governed by institutions that are fully run by people with Borderline Personality Disorder, and Narcissistic Personality Disorder. The consequences for that are as silly as they are dangerous.
They've always been dumb, but before social media we only saw the ones that were objectively intelligent/charismatic. You can be an intelligent leftist because that only means you mentally absorb their propaganda more efficiently than others.