Sunday Thoughts February 23, 2025

I did not get to it in the show, but the Atlantic piece I mention at the end seems to be part of the plan to reboot the race war started under Obama. Scanning the fever swaps known as Bluesky, I see lots of posts claiming that the real point of the assault on the Blob is to “roll back the Obama legacy.” It is not about the mass of unelected and unaccountable people who have taken control of the state, but about the old bogeymen that haunt the dreams of the crazies.

It is another example of the problem facing the crazies. Their tactics worked when they were supported by the Blob with both money and legitimacy. Take away the megaphones and money and it is just crazy people mumbling to other crazy people on the fringes. There has never been an organic audience for the things we call the left. The audience had to be manufactured to look like a consensus and the way it was done was by the Blob controlling the means of cultural production.

It is why the left is struggling with a response to the Trump initiative. For a long time, they just had to point and hiss, and the problem went away. There was no need to come up with a convincing argument based on agreed upon facts and sound reasoning. They just needed to utter one of the many buzzwords and the Blob would activate the network like an immune system attacking a virus. As a result, the ability to engage in debate withered.

The same applies to conservative establishment. They are even more pathetic because their act assumed that their friends on the left would always be there for them. What you now see from them is a bizarre mix of 1985 posting (Muh principles!) and the old sneering at those to their right which became the default position over the last several decades. It should be impossible, but their content is even dumber and more pointless now.

Topics

* Your Fired (Link)

* Ukraine Game (Link)

* The Great Panic

* Race (Link)

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