Matt

I really don’t like living through historical periods like this. Culturally I have far more in common with coastal progressives (these are the people I’ve worked with & gone to school with my whole life). I’m an agnostic / atheist. Socially I’m generally extremely liberal (legalize all drugs, marry who you want, etc). I used to laugh off their political & social excesses as them simply being misguided cultural descendants of the 60s counterculture. But it’s different now. The highly flawed Donald Trump scared the shit out of these people, because he represented the white-hot anger of middle America, the giant mass of the white working class who the coastal liberal elite have treated with derision, disdain, & dismissal for the last 30+ years or so. The hippy-dippy progressive descendants of the 60s counterculture have wholeheartedly embraced all the tools of brutal authoritarian statecraft they have at their disposal now - a mass digital censorship/ propaganda apparatus they are openly, in front of our eyes attempting to formalize & institutionalize to use against the unwashed masses should they rise up again. They also have “shock troops” - groups designed to violently intimidate people into politically falling in line - they are radicalized in colleges & higher education, groups like BLM are allowed to burn & terrorize cities, & radical gender theorists now openly talk about “genocide” being perpetrated by Christians (for simply wanting to be in charge of their children). They are whipping up violent leftist “Brownshirts,” essentially, in order to enforce their regime. This is a sickening time in American history. I don’t like living through Neo-Maoist cultural revolutions. They do not end well, historically.