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234 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 5 Nov \ on: What I Most Fear About a Trump Victory Politics_And_Law
If the current trajectory is waning wokeism, wouldn't an acceleration put an end to it faster?
That might just be pedantic nit-picking (which I'm famously in favor of).
always a fan of nit-picking -- accuracy is a virtue!
Hm, no I think the point is that wokeism got lifeblood from opposition, so it basically received a boost from hating a verifiably Bad Man. So voting in him again would send us down a similar 2016-2022 wokeness cycle.
Whereas if you vote in the woke kids, wokeness keeps dying.
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I take the point, but I don't find it compelling. I don't think there was genuine popular enthusiasm for the woke stuff and people are mostly glad to see it go away.
There's a broader version of this argument, though, that I find completely plausible: The left/establishment/regime will have some insane reaction to Trump winning that has a similarly toxic impact on our culture as the woke stuff did.
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To me it's not accelerating wokeism that I fear, it's Trump Derangement Syndrome.
That is, 3-letter agencies are willing to take any and all actions against Trump, no matter how unethical, and regular people looking the other way because it's Trump.
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That could definitely escalate and since it never really died down "acceleration" would be an accurate descriptor.
I've been anticipating the Fed letting the bottom fall out of the economy if Trump wins. That might be a better way to disrupt his administration than more hysterical overreactions to him as a person.
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Burn it all down.
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