Came across another good substack today on my internet travels:
original: https://dennisonwrites.substack.com/p/why-your-son-is-right-wing
archive: https://archive.is/6Idmx
We trapped these kids in an ideological straight jacket against which they were not allowed to resist. Against which resisting made them evil. Then we gasped in horror when they aged out of our stewardship and decided that, actually, they’d had rather enough of all that.
Not to be hyperbolic, but what we did to these guys was something like abuse. What we did to their childhoods was something like theft. And we would have no trouble - none at all - understanding that if it had been any other group on the receiving end. We caused them to come of age in a world that hated and blamed them, and that never missed an opportunity to remind them of just how much.
10 years. For 10 years, we did this.
We also ruthlessly punished any liberal voices that dared extend them comfort or encouragement. Thus ensuring that the only supportive voices they could hear from were the toxic ones who’d made “cancel-proof” edge-lording their whole brand.
I know this is a bit long, but I think it is very good.
There's nothing quite like a "Hans, are we the baddies?" moment of realisation surfacing.
But, as Adamrises has already pointed out, this is just a brief lull in their momentum before they push on once again with a slightly different logo or brand.
I don't know exactly when or how it happened, cathode ray nipple or village idiots collectivising due to the Internet, but this hatred of daddy has outlived him. The daddy now is them, and boy-o-boy what a terrible father they have been.
They might moan about the housing market and whatever else they can think of that still stands after their attacks. But what have they built? What example have they set for their offspring to model themselves upon?
Rigour, character and success is the way forward. That's how we progress.
Saying otherwise means you don't understand what they jungle has in its shadows always waiting. And the jungle has been waiting a long time now.
They won't learn. Their takeaway is "go harder on White Men" because that's all they've got and doubling down is all they know how to do.