Thread: What are your politics Part Deux
And have they changed over the last 5-8 years?
I’ve asked this before, but about 1,000 new people have signed up for this newsletter since I did (for free, unfortunately — but welcome!), so I’ll ask it again: what are your politics and how have they changed over the last, say, 5-8 years?
Secondary question: If you’re a lifelong Democrat/straight ticket D voter, would you consider voting for a Republican today?
(Less likely: if you’re a Republican/straight R voter, would you consider voting D?)
Thread is open.
Since calamity befell the elites in 2016, I have been pushed right considerably. My disdain for the upscale voters of whom the Democratic Party now largely consists reached new levels during the pandemic.
I was a consistent Left/liberal from my first vote in 1992 until about 2016.
But once the Left injected itself with the Critical Theory brain virus they became my instant enemies.
I was a Lit major at a private liberal arts college in the 80s so I got to witness the birth of this malignancy up close, and if you had told me back then that the postmodern Crit Theory cult—dreary dogmatic conformists who were mostly miserable rich kids babbling about "power" and "oppression", who tried to convince me that I only loved Tolstoy and Homer because I'd been brainwashed by unseen hegemonic structures, essentially Puritans posing as Bolsheviks—would one day rule our entire culture, I would have died from the shock.
The Crit Theory/Soc Justice project is a full-on scorched-earth project against freedom of thought and expression, against the imagination and esthetic values, against the integrity of art and culture, against all free and joyful interaction.
I will vote for whoever promises to punch them on the nose (metaphorically).