by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
The fucked up thing about the battle over the “woke cancel culture mob” is MAGA actively works to obfuscate as to what exactly it means to be “woke.” They do this because they know the moment they make it a concrete concept, the center-Left will have something to latch on to so they can refute what MAGA proposes.
So, for the sake political expediency in the mind of MAGA being “woke” means everything and nothing. In short, MAGA just uses their hatred of the “woke” to put forth a general feeling of unease about bad “vibes” in America. I find this extremely fucking frustrating because it’s yet another sign of how broken political discourse in the United States is and how we continue to careen towards the existential choice in late 2024, early 2025 of autocracy, civil war or military junta.
The thing that we all have to let sink in is — the battle over the “woke cancel culture mob” is part of a broader collapse in American politics. At the moment, America has some serious small dick energy about it that comes in no small part from how we’ve reached a certain level of ossification of our institutions because, well, lulz, not enough white babies are being born. (I hope the droll nature of that statement comes across.)
Because of the so-called “birth dearth” you have people who should know better — conservative Traditionalists — who want to ban abortion and are willing to embrace fascism. If you combine the “birth dearth” with pretty bad income inequality then…oh boy are we fucked. Either you are hysterical because America is becoming a majority minority country or you — like me — embrace this new era as just a part of macro trends that none of us have any power over.
Something really bad is about to happen in the United States between now and the spring of 2025. It could be something as dramatic as a civil war or a military junta….or it could be something as subtle as a peaceful drift into autocracy. I say this because, by definition, the next Republican president is going to be an autocrat. The Constitution is going to be changed. The existing ICE camp infrastructure will be weaponized and loudmouth cranks like me who fucking hate MAGA will probably just go poof!
The thing about is, I find some of the more dumb extremes of “wokness” rather ridiculous because all it does is drive Traditionalists further into the arms of fascists. But this age of hyper negative polarization is such I am in something of a corner — MAGA expects me to defend the most extreme elements of the “woke cancel culture mob” just because I hate MAGA.
It’s all very frustrating.
