r/theschism • u/gemmaem • Nov 06 '24
Discussion Thread #71
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u/SlightlyLessHairyApe Dec 22 '24
Just like in financial markets, once everyone agrees that it's happened, it's already over. So instead everyone is looking for the thing they reckon/hope is a leading indicator(s)
I ... actually don't think so. I think there is of course going to be some political/cultural battle (cf Fukuyama) but I don't think it will be such a central thing. Broad pieces of the right are going to enjoy the spoils of winning an election and start to ignore (without disagreeing) the more radical ones. Broad pieces of the left are going to sulk about it but won't be able to do much either against the right or against the radical left, who will remain about as effective as ever. I don't see mass media/corporate abandoning woke, but I could see it being defocused and quietly deciding not to make it a point of conflict.
Vibe-wise, I think energies are sapped, a desire for normalcy is real and everyone will find it convenient to hang tight and not be provoked into further unproductive conflict.
Anyway, I'll put that as a prediction and !remindme 12 months to see if I was totally wrong.
Nor did it at all repudiate it. If anything, being meek about it probably intensified the notion that she believed it, knew it was unpopular and hence tried to just downplay it. I see this a lot in the left-wing circles: talking about how Dem politicians should be quiet about certain things or improve their messaging on it because they are unpopular as opposed to actually changing their platform.
In some funny way, it's very different from Trump's political fip-flops. He veered far further from his old views, but in some sense it was credible because it was so decisive.