Victory Against the Politically Correct / Orwellian / Woketarian Left

So...this is basically all I've been thinking about, talking about and writing about for, what, a decade now?

   I've gotten sore at friends of mine who have been casually asserting for five or six years that it was collapsing. As I pointed out to them--it wasn't.

   But people did start to slowly wake up and speak up. One turning-point seems to have been COVID and parents seeing the abject insanity their kids were being taught. Students for Fair Admissions was another. The re-election of Trump seems to have been another. And Elon buying and fixing Twixxer.

   Finally, I'm optimistic.

   The insane house of cards seems to be collapsing.

   Except that's a bad analogy.

   Political correctness / woketarianism / Orwellian totalitarianism...there's still no great name for this phenomenon. PC or neo-PC (conveniently 'NPC's, another nickname for them) remains the best to my mind. Or my other weak effort, the postpostmodern mishmash. 'Prope-Marxism' might not be terrible.

   Never mind.

   It's not a house of cards. It's an insane, cultish, political quasi-religion that aims to subvert and destroy Western civilization, liberalism, capitalism, and the United States. It's honed its skills over decades at least, it's captured huge swaths of the intelligentsia and schools and academia, and it's deeply dug-in. It's captured almost all our institutions and one major political party. The media is its propaganda arm. This institutional capture extends even to the military.

   As I've said many times: I do not expect to win one big, sweeping victory against it.

   Even if we start winning big--as I expect us to do--it won't be the end.

   It'll be more like the ongoing battle against evil than like a Battle of the Black Gate.

   I'd be happy to be wrong.

   The Court's decision in Skrmetti will be big. I'm worried about Roberts and Gorsuch. But I haven't been following it that closely.

   Anyway. It's been a good year or so for the good guys. Obviously all the standard predictions apply: there'll probably be setbacks. Even if we keep winning, people will get distracted--but the Cult won't. It's already looking for ways to hide and new angles of attack, you can be sure. The right is also crazy, so it'll go too far--guaranteed. Which will be bad in itself, and which will help the NPCs.

   There are already cracks in the alliance. James Lindsay--always a sort of dicey force for good--has spun off into his own little world nattering about 'the woke right'--an idea that doesn't make no sense, but which I consider an error. We went through this bad in the day with the term 'political correctness of the right.'

   Anyway. This is an even less-well-thought-out post than most.

   But I'm feeling much better about all this these days.

[Well, one sort of sour note--of course! I've long said three things in this context re: transanity:

[1] There will be a "reckoning," especially when twenty-something girls start snapping out of this to find that they have ruined their bodies--many will be infertile, many have had their breasts cut off. The Cult mutilated them. The wave of lawsuits has already begun.

[2] But many of them--and their parents (mostly: mothers) will constitute a hard core of resistance that will likely never go away. For many of them--and their mothers--it will be easier to hold onto the lie than it will be to admit that they mutilated themselves or their children. What will happen with the intellectual tip of this spear, radical feminists and "queer" theorists, I do not know.

[3] This will probably all repeat itself some day when medical technology improves. As I've said many times, if you could flip a switch or take a pill and genuinely, perfectly change your sex, probably no one but the religious right would object. But that's not realistic. I expect this will never be completely squashed. Once the medical technology is sort of there, they'll keep trying to improve it. Especially the true believers. I'd guess it will slowly get a lot better--but reversibility will remain more difficult. They'll keep mutilating adults until it's not clearly mutilation anymore...then they'll come for the kids again...

Well, anyway.

On that cheery note...]