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.
It depends on what deep end you consider the breaking point.
I was a MRA for a long time, we hit peak feminism sometimes in the mid 00s and that was years after going off the deepend on that front. Someone could say Rodney King was the tipping point for their anti-nigger stances.
The later Obama years was when they finally felt comfortable enough as an Intersectional whole to leave the shadows and stop operating as puppetmasters and could just outright act in your face.
I remember seeing "Ron Paul 2008" everywhere on the internet and in real life. YouTube comments, bumper stickers, laptop cases, in restrooms even. If elections weren't ratfuckedly rigged at every level, I was convinced Paul was going to sweep '08 with how popular he seemed.