That will always blow my mind. I experienced what was once that great big counter-culture to the Bush era governance. Now, those same people ride the governments dick daily in hopes they squeeze out some coome. I guess we were all suckers to believe in anything that was out there. Before YouTube had a 'alt-right' problem, the real radical material was the Zeitgeist Documentary, The Young Turks, and The Liberal Viewer. Everything boiled down to 'why does the world have to be bad for so many, why can't we make it good instead?'. Now the aim is to just hurt other people who don't follow their ideals, many of which never hurt anyone else in the first place.
There's a video on YouTube uploaded in 2007 called 'Bushisms'. It's 10 minutes of all of Bush's best and greatest goofs and gaffs. I remember waiting for Bush to get out of office because of how bad everything had gotten. The economy was shit, we were never going to leave Iraq or Afganistan, there were no WMDs etc blah blah blah. Biden doesn't get the same treatment -and he's been a royal fuck-up since the primaries. Biden is a walking puppet fueled by ice cream and the olfactory stimulation of girls' shampoo, but he's on the correct side, so he gets a pass.
How did our peers go from watching South Park and Whitest Kids You Know to drinking BIPOC semen and collecting Funko Pops? There's a lot of causes for that change, but I don't even know how to articulate anything about it. For decades the Truth Campaign got kids to stop smoking to protect their health, but now the same types of propaganda systems are being used to tell boys to take estrogen and cut their dicks off. Maybe we're really just living in the biggest CIA gayop in history. Everything fucking glows.