The international behaviors & rhetoric of the Covid-Industrial Complex these past 16-odd months (and I do mean odd) have revealed four major shifts in our sociopolitical culture:
1) The Mainstream has become dominated by Leftism2) Normative Leftism has become more extreme, such that the Center Left has transmogrified into the far Left
3) Leftists have become neo-Nazi Fascists (previously supposedly the exclusive privilege of the "far right")
4)
Right-wingers have become rebellious protestors,
"sticking it to the Man" like Leftists used to do back in the 60s.
One thing perdures through these shifts, and adds reinforcement to their dynamic: Leftism is still "cool" and thus popular amongst the youth -- and the youth, in turn, continue to exert pressure to be "cool" on adults stuck in arrested development (cf. Diana West's book The Death of the Grown-Up).
P.S.: I would add that it's difficult to tell whether Covid caused all this to develop, or whether it revealed a latent dynamic already underway. Difficult, but not unreasonable to surmise it's the latter. That said, Covid certainly has accelerated and perhaps even augmented what may have been already there.
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