Reply #65: A Thought from a Younger Observer

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I thought long and hard about the struggles your generation faced, and all the positive results of your generations' efforts, and have come to a theory that may or may not be accurate, but here it is:

I think we are seeing the right wing in it's last attempts to hold on to a smaller exclusive world of theirs. Just as they have created a God in their own image, they wish to recreate a World in that twisted image as well out of convenience. Everything is changing around them, and they are trying like hell to hold onto what they have. Unfortunately for them, their last attempts are seen by all political stripes as ridiculous, unconstitutional and full of hatred and fear. In the end, their efforts will fall apart and the majority will restore sanity, with some compromises. Most of them will be inevitably ostracized from a major counter-culture.

For every action, there will be a cultural reaction, and there is nothing the right wing can really do about it. In as much as they have tried to do, in the last 5 or so years, I am already seeing signs of a backlash, and it's not coming from politicos, the right or the left, but from average people, who see the right wing christo-fascists, as I like to call them. Now that these folks have naively assumed their place in the "mainstream", they will be beaten back by the reality that most folks inherently dislike, extremism.

The best thing for us to do, is laugh at them, while working hard on a grass roots level to change this country. Watch the average folks reject their fanaticism, and their efforts to control popular culture. Nobody wants to be "Square".