I think your outlook is slightly too Americentric, and derives too many of its losses and wins from what happens there. The fact that there's a great mass of unspoken mistrust of MSM narratives and progressive idols was evident in Brexit, Trump's election, Corbyn's historic arsefucking, and various other outcomes around the world. The fact that most people have no time or sympathy for any of this is well known to the informational warfare agitators, who absolutely do not relent. And that's the point, they don't relent, but the normies do eventually.
I'd consider myself on the left, perhaps the Old Left(tm), under the definition that I believe in accountable (heavily underlined) government intercession in society to preserve fair outcomes for those with low resources. If society can't promise that, I don't know if there's much value in the concept of a 'society' in the first place, since it doesn't appear able to offer much to anyone. From this perspective, I've taken delight in every loss that the modern 'left' has taken in recent years. Every victory for anti-authoritarians - claimed as victories for the 'right', though I have no problem who claims the win as long as it happens - has kept extremely worrying global trends at bay.
But to the extent that anti-authoritarians are winning at all any more, it's only by fine margins, in irrelevant situations. Trump SHOULD have had the presidency if not for fraud. Rittenhouse SHOULDN'T have ever gone to trial. America managing to damage limit or claw these things back to a baseline is just flailing to recover sanity after the fact, and even then you end up dependent on eg. 12 people and a judge staying sane. This significant win for your country was a win on the defensive and a loss could have had repercussions for your entire culture. Constant legal tests of your rights will not produce the same sane, baseline outcomes forever.
Meanwhile, globally, the vaccine lies are utterly dominant. Governments are successfully pushing through unprecedented powers using laughable propaganda, economic blackmail and raw force. I am extremely blackpilled. I look at the average human being in the street these days and I don't see the same kind of creature I used to see. The extent to which they've sold out their pride and power of reason in exchange for a future promise of comfort, from the powers who are denying them the comfort in the first place... I've never seen anything like it. We're talking short time frames, so I hope all this doesn't last, but that's starting to seem like a pathetic hope. Due to technology, there's never been an age quite like this.
In Ireland, a few years ago, there were vigorous protests and opposition to the idea of new water tax rates. Now in 2021, a senator can propose no food purchases to the unvaccinated and there's not a peep. I think like you Americans, we'll all have to start taking our wins very small now, or else otherwise really crank the knobs to 11 and see where that goes. I wish I could say I'm ready and prepared for the latter, but I'm willing^2.
I'm open to whitepills, and speaking of small wins I'm currently preserving my sanity with an album release from a veteran band who kicked out a histrionic tranny and managed to put out some kind of masterwork in the messy aftermath.
I think your outlook is slightly too Americentric, and derives too many of its losses and wins from what happens there. The fact that there's a great mass of unspoken mistrust of MSM narratives and progressive idols was evident in Brexit, Trump's election, Corbyn's historic arsefucking, and various other outcomes around the world. The fact that most people have no time or sympathy for any of this is well known to the informational warfare agitators, who absolutely do not relent. And that's the point, they don't relent, but the normies do eventually.
I'd consider myself on the left, perhaps the Old Left(tm), under the definition that I believe in accountable (heavily underlined) government intercession in society to preserve fair outcomes for those with low resources. If society can't promise that, I don't know if there's much value in the concept of a 'society' in the first place, since it doesn't appear able to offer much to anyone. From this perspective, I've taken delight in every loss that the modern 'left' has taken in recent years. Every victory for anti-authoritarians - claimed as victories for the 'right', though I have no problem who claims the win as long as it happens - has kept extremely worrying global trends at bay.
But to the extent that anti-authoritarians are winning at all any more, it's only by fine margins, in irrelevant situations. Trump SHOULD have had the presidency if not for fraud. Rittenhouse SHOULDN'T have ever gone to trial. America managing to damage limit or claw these things back to a baseline is just flailing to recover sanity after the fact, and even then you end up dependent on eg. 12 people and a judge staying sane. This significant win for your country was a win on the defensive and a loss could have had repercussions for your entire country. Constant legal tests of your rights will not produce the same sane, baseline outcomes forever.
Meanwhile, globally, the vaccine lies are utterly dominant. Governments are successfully pushing through unprecedented powers using laughable propaganda, economic blackmail and raw force. I am extremely blackpilled. I look at the average human being in the street these days and I don't see the same kind of creature I used to see. The extent to which they've sold out their pride and power of reason in exchange for a future promise of comfort, from the powers who are denying them the comfort in the first place... I've never seen anything like it. We're talking short time frames, so I hope all this doesn't last, but that's starting to seem like a pathetic hope. Due to technology, there's never been an age quite like this.
In Ireland, a few years ago, there were vigorous protests and opposition to the idea of new water tax rates. Now in 2021, a senator can propose no food purchases to the unvaccinated and there's not a peep. I think like you Americans, we'll all have to start taking our wins very small now, or else otherwise really crank the knobs to 11 and see where that goes. I wish I could say I'm ready and prepared for the latter, but I'm willing^2.
I'm open to whitepills, and speaking of small wins I'm currently preserving my sanity with an album release from a veteran band who kicked out a histrionic tranny and managed to put out some kind of masterwork in the messy aftermath.