I’ve been watching pop culture a bit more intently as of late and noticed a few things are happening that should terrify the lef. Generally speaking, culture has moved drastically left without much pushback from people on the right. Right leaning people are generally live and let live types. They’re okay with you doing your own thing as long as it doesn’t intrude on anybody else. This amounts to true libertarianism which is something that has always attracted me.
Recently, those easy going, live and let live right leaning libertarian types have had occasion to feel threatened in body, mind and spirit. The left has taken the live and let live behavior for weakness. They’re slowly discovering that they are in the process of awakening a sleeping giant.
I said during the BLM/Antifa riots of 2020 that the right was tolerant but not accepting of the left’s bad behavior but if the left pushed too far that there would be consequences. It’s now summer of 2023 and they’re beginning to discover what those consequences are. The left is trying to use the same tactics they used 3 years ago but the results are much effect. Jason Aldean has a song entitled “Try That in a Small Town” that addresses said bad behavior and the left leapt to label it racist. Rather than see it disappear and have Aldean issue a pathetic “love me daddy” apology he has stood firm, the song has shot to number one on Apple Music and those playing the racist card are being mocked mercilessly.
My hope is that things don’t wind up where they could – with violence. Joe Biden is famous for saying that in order to stand against tyranny from our own government we’d need F-16s. I don’t think he accounted for the combined might of the disenfranchized right and the sympathies for right leaning morals and principals that remain in the government. As more and more of the abject corruption surfaces from within, the more he and those like him will be confronted by what Barrack Obama called “bitter clingers” and Hillary Clinton slandered as “deplorables.”