\n\n\n\n\n\n@femmenietzsche: \u201cI was expecting new permutations and approaches but nope, totally blows\u201d\n\nExactly! Everyone was talking about how we\u2019d get a realignment along new ideological fault lines, but that doesn\u2019t seem to have actually happened. Instead, we just got tribalism between groups that already saw each other as enemies, carried out in ways that you could make a bingo card out of.God I\u2019m so freaking bored. The discourse has stagnated so much since Trump\u2019s election.
these things take time
like the sad and disappointing truth that revolutions don\u2019t actually tear the government down to anarchy and build their own, they build a second government that eventually takes over for the first
this happened with Reagan, people were kicking and screaming and yelling fascism the whole way, it was just an increasingly stale discourse
before The New Republic was Jeet Heer\u2019s TNR, before it was \u201ceven the liberal\u201d TNR, it was \u201cmouthpiece of the DLC\u201d TNR *BCUZ* it was Reagan-era \u201cin-flight magazine of Air Force One\u201d TNR, the liberalism that even had a voice bcuz it accepted the new priors
I remember reading 80s comics in compilation while I waited for an M:TG or L5R opponent to open up on comic shop gamer Sundays, I remember a Vertigo Swamp Thing that was basically a Hellblazer/John Constantine takeover and it was like \u201cThatcher got elected! Yuppies! THEY ARE NAZI DEMONS WORSHIPPING HELLFIRE-BLAZING DOLLARS\u201d and from the modern day I expected the subtle twist on the twist but nope that\u2019s it, that had altitude to glide for a while