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.
Yeah, 2013ish was GG, and that wasn't even the first instance. And that was already the kickback to an existing problem since had been ramping up since the mid-late 00's. Really, it was all going downhill ever since we imported the communists and Nazis back in the '40s, and even before that, since we already had sympathizers.
It's been around century at least of the long march through the institutions. Saying this started in 2015 is indeed preposterous.
society has been infected since the french revolution started (and is still happening this very second)