The right used to smack down every expression of idealism. “That’s not how the world works,” “nobody will go for that,” and “you shouldn’t get ideas above your station,” were tools of abusive right-wingers to stop people who threatened to make the world a happier place despite them. The only acceptable idealisms were the right’s holy sanctimonies.
Then… they learned better! That shit stopped. The right started looking forward to a changing world with real energy.
Around that time the left started learning to treat idealism as a command. Every favorable sentiment was met with world-weary cynicism, outright rebuke, or histrionic spite. These tools were deployed against anyone who threatened to make the world a happier place despite them.
They were worse than the right, because even uttering their canned sanctimonies was not acceptable. Everyone was to know good was hopeless and only angry unhappy fearful people huddling in “safety” were tolerable.
That was the power that made Pizzagate sociologically inevitable. The far right is pathetic, but hostility to kindness doesn’t work either.
Did you hear about that R Kelly shit where he talked about a whole bunch of people havin’ better access to his money than he did? I’m Putin’ it in this thread because of some of what that guy’s accused of, but man, I don’t know about the accusations. Man says he doesn’t know how to hogtie someone and that sounds embarrassing enough to be real; who nowadays doesn’t know how to tie a gal up for some fun? Not even always gals, either. S’yeah… Thing is, a whole buncha people having their hands in his kitty treatin’ him like the Black Bank of New Slavery though, that sounds real too. I believe in that bit even more’n I believe he doesn’t how to tie anyone up. Maybe it ain’t so hot to be a celeb; maybe they’re being exploited and held to bad behavior on an’ or-else basis, y’hear?
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Wrong thread.