Red_Rager
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- Sep 6, 2014
This is an accurate statement. During the Clinton era I was in elementary school and the news was just boring adult stuff to me. Most of my time was doing homework and hanging around friends. Politics didn't matter to me and I had no political identity. I wouldn't have been able to tell you what a conservative, liberal, republican, or democrat was back then.I've been thinking about this for awhile and I think I'm on to something here. Gonna history sperg a bit.
I think the current SJW movement and other garabage is just another case of American society shifting "left" after a period of general conservatism. Most the people who are SJWs now grew up during the Bush era. Too young to remember the Clinton era, they started forming political ideals at the height of Republican power in government. They where basically the kid who'd come in to high school wearing the Che shirt and said Bush sucked but couldnt tell you why when pressed for an answer.
It really started to come into full force when echo chambers like Tumblr appeared and they suddenly had a place to spew all this bullshit thus here we are today. The thing is this has happened before. I mean look at the hippy movement and then a few years later down the line during the Regan era with a resurgence of right-wing ideals.
I really dont doubt in a few years we'll see the same thing and be making fun of whatever hardcore right wing comes as the result of the next shift.
This is just another case of a new generation seeing something wrong with society and therefore believe their ideas will solve all the worlds ills. There may be some good points made with leftest ideology, but these SJWs do not have the wisdom to acknowledge that maybe there are a few flaws with their ideas. They are too busy fighting the "good" fight against the forces of "evil". They are the crusaders fighting against the unenlightened barbarians and have literally internalized their ideology as being a part of their identity.
I too see a serious conservative backlash coming up as the next generation will come along to fix what they see as going wrong and inevitably fuck something else up in the process. This is why history repeats. Humans are always striving for something better and with every lesson learned from the past the next generation has to relearn. Humanity is constantly getting the reset button set on them with each generation. On one hand this allows for change and adaptibility with the next generation being less afraid to try something new and challenge the orthodoxy, but on the other hand in the process it is easy to fall to arrogance thinking you have the solution. Right or wrong, the next generation will always try to set right what they see as going wrong.
Unlike the baby boomers, everything these people placed on the internet is there forever where a hippy baby boomer can say, "Yeah, I was stupid as a teenager, but it is not a big deal" and have an easier time whitewashing their past with maybe a few embarrassing photos.