One of the things that first stood out to me when I discovered Dr. Jordan Peterson about ten years ago was the question he asked his democrat friends. "How do you know when the left has gone too far?"
He said they would never answer the question. Never.
When he asked his friends on the republican side, how do you know when the right has gone too far? They would answer quickly, and confidently; when they turn to racial superiority, victimhood, and outrage mobs. That's when the right needs to be smacked back into reality.
The left maybe an election cycle too late in finding the answer to the 'too far' question. The DNC are just now coming up with the courage to start asking that small, but insanely loud insider group of the intersectionality wing, to be quiet. In the back rooms they asking themselves, are we sure we should be fighting to sterilize children, and to force young girls to have naked young men in their dressing rooms and sports teams?
It may take a few more election cycles for them to either shut these people up, or separate themselves from this insanity. It looks like the big-money people paying for these billion dollar election losses are starting to say no to the pro-Trans crowd. Money and multi-media culture are the coin of the realm in politics, so it may take some serious work to move the democratic party back towards the middle. We will see.
With the elections in November, we did see people like Democratic Socialist candidate Mamdani win, and that is disturbing, but not really surprising. Electing a young charismatic socialist can happen in deep blue city like New York, but that won’t work across all of America.
The left had their fun on election night in their blue state vistories, but I'm sure the frustration is boiling over inside the democrat party. This socialist stuff is not going to work in purple states, can it?
Watching the left embrace the extremes on the outside of their party is frightening enough as someone in the middle. However, I am now starting to see this same thing starting to happen on the right, and it scares the hell out of me.
The latest item I would point to is the recent podcast by Tucker Carlson. He brought on 27 year old Nick Fuentes. If you don't know who that is, good for you. He's an incredibly talented, yet extremely disturbed young man. He is becoming the ever increasingly popular face of what is called the Groypers. This is a dangerous ideology that is gaining traction on the far right, or the 'Woke Right' as they are now being described.
Now with everyone calling everyone Nazis, and anti-semites, I want to make sure we are describing what is true when it come to Fuentes. There's a never ending list of evidence for his fondness, and support, for both Adolf Hitler, and Joseph Stalin. That seems very odd to someone who has read as much history as I have. One would think it's hard to be a supporter of both fascism and communism at the same time, since they were murdering each other by the millions less than a 100 years ago. But, the woke right doesn't have to make sense, they just need clicks and popularity, and that will bring in revenue and relevance.
Tucker Carlson's interview was not problematic because he did the interview with Fuentes, it was the very friendly nature of the interview. He offered almost no pushback or questions digging into Fuentes' outrageous claims.
I used to like Tucker Carlson, even if he's had a some strange takes, and said some bizzare things from time to time, but he's gone off the rails of the conservative movement in a few short months.
Why is someone on the conservative side of things not stomping down a young pro-nazi, anti woman, anti semitic personality like Fuentes? This movement is really growing among those young disaffected men on the right. Like I said, the numbers of views and clicks make money in this new media world, and for a person like Fuentes, what else does he have?
Another person who I follow online is Bret Weinstein. He’s an evolutionary biologist who was one of the first people to be ‘cancelled’ at the University of Portland back in 2015. A bit later in 2019 he gave everyone a stern warning. He said this intersectional identity politics movement on the left was going to create an identity political movement on the far right. He was correct. This is a recent piece about why you should be able to criticize Israel, without being called names.
"What a terrible error it is to go after anybody who has legitimate questions about the interaction between the United States and not only a foreign state but a particular administration that has a very hard line bent within that foreign state.
You're allowed to have questions. You're an American. That's one of the great things about it. You're allowed to have questions. You're allowed to ask any question you want. And anybody who wants to say that the reason you can't ask that question is because you're revealing a horrible defect in character, or defect of character, is running exactly the risk of creating the enemy, effectively calling it forth."
So over the past twenty years or so, we as a society, and culture led by the left, called forth an entity called the Groypers.
So who are these Groypers? I didn't really know exactly until a few months ago. They are the outlet for young, mostly white, men and teens who are not playing inside the lines that modern culture allows.
They have lost meaningful connection with healthy masculinity, and are not engaging with each other in face to face friendship, and have almost ruled out interacting face to face with women. This fear and frustration of trying to engage with young women, who have been told that they don't need men, and men are useless, has been a force driving them to stop trying, and to turn to porn. Porn is their outlet for their sexual frustration with women and dating, and that is not good. They also have resorted to the online gaming world for social contact, and friendship. They have dozens of online gaming friends, and a few close ones, where they can spend hours shit-talking about how bad the real world is.
So, as someone who just turned 60 years old, and retired after a life of working blue collar and then white collar jobs, I do not see what they see. I can't, the world that I grew up in long gone. I need to ask myself, what does the real world look like to me, vs what it looks like to them?
In my next two posts, I will delve into what I see (from the outside) are the two main problems driving young people, but especially men, to drop out of the real face-to face work, and burrow down into artificial worlds of social networks, porn, and gaming.
Affordability: - Why is everything so damned expensive, especially homes?
Getting your shit together: - Communication, dating, socialization, working.
