Many of us are amused with how fast the left acquires a sudden mission to propagate the one holy acceptable opinion. How it changes overnight, and how it comes from all of them at once, in almost the same words. And how it gets repeated ad-nauseam, in defiance of all sense, until the message changes.
This has led the least kind among us (eh. Myself, sometimes) to refer to our leftist brethren as "NPC"s who do whatever the programmers put in their heads.
The sad truth, though, is they're not NPCs. They're humans, like the rest of us, just -- a lot of them -- through cowardice or a more conformist temperament, humans who want to be "right" with the "majority" as they perceive it. They, like most primitives the world over, have no moral center, and want to back the winner and the strong horse.
Add in a dose of truly bad education, and their self-conceit as smart, and what you have is someone who reads all the accepted publications, catches on to what they're saying, and runs to get ahead of what they think will be (and to be fair is, of their kind only) a parade.
The sequence goes something like this: Leftists, for nefarious, stupid, or money reasons (and often all three) declare that they want something utterly, inconceivably stupid to happen: ban something, force some tech, whatever.
Immediately, on command, some "scientist" (usually of the softer side) who smells grant money does studies showing this idea is brilliant and will bring about utopia. The stupid is flawed and irreproducible, but the journalists are all leftists who want to "support the current thing" and jump on it. Suddenly every possible and some imaginary publications tell us how the Current Thing is the most important thing ever, and it must be done nowwwww.
Take Joe Biden's idea of cooling the Earth by covering the sunlight. -- Okay, not his idea. Or maybe it is. Who knows how much meth they're putting in his ice-cream? -- But the idea of the group of people who form "Joe Biden." Or the idea of those jokers at the WEF that the planet is BOILING and the only solution if for us peasants to surrender to their wisdom and eat the bugs, and give up private transportation.
All of a sudden maps showing perfectly normal summer temperatures are shown in red, and fire colors. And all the articles suggested for me by pocket talk about even more doom and gloom on the climate than normal: home insurance will stop working, because everything is going to burn up! (This shows you the pedestrian imaginations of the left. No wonder Hollywood is floundering. For heaven's sake, if the Earth is going to end in fire, I can come up with bigger worries than home insurance. These people have been entirely too sheltered all their lives.)
And of course, your leftist friends are probably breaking down and sobbing in the middle of the day because they're going to "burn up." (I suggest laughing and saying "Yeah, it's summer. Put on some sunblock, and let's go get ice cream." But then again, I enjoy liberal tears. They're so refreshing.) I do suspect, however, that except amid the young and stupid (the two conditions often go together, but less so if you didn't send them to public school), this is finding no purchase. Because the rest of us know "Yeah, it's summer."
Which means this gambit is going to ramp to insanity, because you see, the left believes the stuff they make up. It's part of who they are. Social, highly obedient personalities. So, they have no idea how to back down. It will become a holy crusade, all the more holy for being unbelievably stupid.
That is the big obvious play right now. But there are more subtle ones. You see, I live in a very weird place, being hyper aware politically, and living with someone who is not political at all.
So my husband sees these "studies" cross his screen, and has no idea why this is being pushed, or that it makes no sense whatsoever.
I -- as many of you know, and it causes entire days to fall into nothing, when I have to take benadryl to stop it -- suffer from hellish eczema. It's better than it was at altitude, but it's still pretty bad. My darling is always on the look out for articles on things that might help (Yes, I've tried some of the strangest remedies.)
So last week at lunch, he shows me an article saying showering with warm water might exacerbate skin conditions.
And he had no idea why I was laughing. "Honey," says I. "Joe Biden wants to ban water heaters. Mostly because they want us to go back to pre-industrial hygiene standards, because that will kill off most of the population."
He stares at me for a moment, then makes a disgusted noise. "I should have known!"
Yes, he should. But he doesn't pay attention to politics, so he's not aware of the crazy stuff they're going to try to push next.
I'd be angry, except at this point, all this push, and all this coordinated messaging is not working like it used to.
I remember their big push for "all women have to work outside the house or they're worthless" -- it was everywhere, from women's magazines to newspapers to official "studies" and it made three generations of women absolutely believe it and follow it lockstep (including my generation, yes.)
I remember when they were pushing for something, like oh affirmative action. Suddenly from case studies to sitcom characters everything would have the same message, till if you said anything against it, you'd be considered crazy.
Here's the thing: it's not working. Their spin on illegal immigration, which, yes, included sitcoms, did not budge the needle on Americans lack of appetite for it. Their CRT push, with again all artists fully behind this, did not budge the needle except amid leftists themselves. Their climate push has most people either laughing or increasingly angrier (and usually both.) And their attempt to make us be unwashed for our own good is going to fall even flatter. Most of us are already pissed off at toilets that don't flush and machines that don't wash.
But the left doesn't know how to quit. I'm looking forward to studies showing that candlelight makes you prettier and keeps you younger longer. They're coming, mark my words.
And we have to laugh, because crying won't help anything.
We're going to have to let them tantrum and say all the stupid things. Until it ends. And we can't make it end a minute earlier by being very upset.
But it ends.
And in the end, we win, they lose.
Be not afraid. All they have is their control of the message. It's a veritable coordinated storm of crap. Which, increasingly, only drowns them.
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