One of the biggest things that pisses me off about the current, and really long-standing conservative narrative, is how they try to market themselves as the underdogs.
They get a HUGE assist from the very same “liberal media” the far right attacks all the time. For decades. That’s because the “liberal media” never really was a thing. They are the same picture, just on different points on the spectrum that’s almost all on the right.
Sure, a few outlets allowed, or did allow, a few things that acted as release valves. Like a few identity politics things, or satire that pokes fun of conservatives. But that’s mostly on the margins.
When it comes to narratives - the one that has been hilarious to me, but they’ve been pitching it since at least the 90s is that they are the true counter-culture (the 60s still really pisses off conservatives, even ones that were born long after the 60s).
Well, I sure hope so. Right now it seems younger generations might be even more captured, but I guess we’ll see.
I had a lot of hopes for my generation (Gen X) since many of us saw the hippie-to-yuppie thing and thought many boomers were selling out and cashing in as they entered the workforce, but that our generation had punk and zines, and a real DIY ethos and we’d carry the torch forward with a lot of that hippie sensibility, but with a different shape - different clothes and music and designer drugs, even if LSD/cannabis were still prevalent - and armed with the 'net, which was just being opened up to the public (for commerce and that was the fly in the ointment) and maybe more McKenna than Leary, more Coupland instead of Kerouac, etc…
And, well…you can see the results for yourself. I don’t see that spark in Gen Y or Z or alpha, either, if I’m honest. I sure hope I’m wrong, though.
It seems to be quite the opposite, despite the propaganda they want you to believe. For all the tacos man they completely ignore women, who have completely and utterly abandoned conservative politics, something no other generation woman has done on your own scale. Even among the men they still turn out for Progressive policy just not for captured controled opposition fake left parties. A lot of the support pillars that hold up the rights are crumbling and that’s not turning around. We also can’t economically sell out because it’s not being offered. We’re not being offered concessions and Investments to keep us in the system like homeownership, instead they’re taking away every reason to care about preserving that things as they are
They get a HUGE assist from the very same “liberal media” the far right attacks all the time. For decades. That’s because the “liberal media” never really was a thing. They are the same picture, just on different points on the spectrum that’s almost all on the right.
Sure, a few outlets allowed, or did allow, a few things that acted as release valves. Like a few identity politics things, or satire that pokes fun of conservatives. But that’s mostly on the margins.
When it comes to narratives - the one that has been hilarious to me, but they’ve been pitching it since at least the 90s is that they are the true counter-culture (the 60s still really pisses off conservatives, even ones that were born long after the 60s).
If they hated the 60’s counterculture they don’t wanna see what counterculture we’re gonna make
Well, I sure hope so. Right now it seems younger generations might be even more captured, but I guess we’ll see.
I had a lot of hopes for my generation (Gen X) since many of us saw the hippie-to-yuppie thing and thought many boomers were selling out and cashing in as they entered the workforce, but that our generation had punk and zines, and a real DIY ethos and we’d carry the torch forward with a lot of that hippie sensibility, but with a different shape - different clothes and music and designer drugs, even if LSD/cannabis were still prevalent - and armed with the 'net, which was just being opened up to the public (for commerce and that was the fly in the ointment) and maybe more McKenna than Leary, more Coupland instead of Kerouac, etc…
And, well…you can see the results for yourself. I don’t see that spark in Gen Y or Z or alpha, either, if I’m honest. I sure hope I’m wrong, though.
It seems to be quite the opposite, despite the propaganda they want you to believe. For all the tacos man they completely ignore women, who have completely and utterly abandoned conservative politics, something no other generation woman has done on your own scale. Even among the men they still turn out for Progressive policy just not for captured controled opposition fake left parties. A lot of the support pillars that hold up the rights are crumbling and that’s not turning around. We also can’t economically sell out because it’s not being offered. We’re not being offered concessions and Investments to keep us in the system like homeownership, instead they’re taking away every reason to care about preserving that things as they are