Re: Woke Left is Collapsing, Beginning to Lose the Culture War

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The wokes are on the verge of an inevitable collapse, refusing
to pivot and desperately trying to hold onto what gave them a
means of influence.

The vulnerability of the social justice takeover began to appear
last fall when its participants failed to cancel Dave Chappelle
for the crime of performing comedy. At the time, it was the most
notable failed cancellation effort to date. Chappelle’s survival
proved that the progressive vultures are incredibly weak, so
long as companies and individuals do not cave into submission.

Though they looked mighty in stature, the woke Left never quite
captured the support of the country. Most Americans never liked
them. It only seemed that way because they had so successfully
taken over our most influential institutions — the media, tech,
Hollywood, sports, and academia — and thereby controlled public
messaging. Today, we see that the rest of the country is finally
fighting back.

And they are winning. Here are some developments just in the
past week:

Past week:
— Elon Musk bought Twitter
— Shaun King deleted Twitter
— Jon Stewart found out nobody likes his show
— CNN+ died
— Rogan announced 2M new subscribers
— Jemele Hill failed again
—Bomani failed again
—Judge struck down travel mask mandate
—Spotify dropped Michelle Obama
7:32 PM · Apr 25, 2022

What has changed?

Radicalized institutions have become a net negative for
progressives. The Left is losing influence over the consensus
conversation because even moderates have begun to resent their
abuse of power.

Americans have notably revolted against the corporate press, the
most effective source of messaging. Journalists and anchors can
no longer turn Americans against one another because Americans,
by and large, have turned on them.

Last week epitomized the fall of legacy media when a so-called
“journalist” named Taylor Lorenz sought to destroy the creator
of the Libs of TikTok Twitter account, an account that merely
reposts videos that goofy liberals have already published of
themselves. For the sin of sharing public content, Lorenz tried
to destroy the Libs of TikTok creator and her family. Yet in a
plot twist everyone except Lorenz saw coming, Lorenz
accidentally helped grow the Libs of TikTok account to more than
one million Twitter followers. She also exposed herself as a
disturbed sociopath in the process. Who knew?

The Libs of TikTok/Lorenz story followed a similar trajectory to
the politically-motivated witch hunt waged against Joe Rogan,
which, according to Rogan, grew his podcast by two million
subscribers.

“It’s interesting, my subscriptions went up massively — that’s
what’s crazy. During the height of it all,” Rogan said last week.

Meanwhile, CNN, the primary outlet that tried to ruin Rogan’s
life, couldn’t keep a $300 million streaming service on air for
more than three weeks.

This is the state of the cultural divide: character assassins
who have set out to expose their enemies have ultimately exposed
themselves. When you point one finger at someone else…

This explains why politicians and activists are in an
apocalyptic freakout over Elon 'Iron Man' Musk purchasing
Twitter in an effort to restore free speech on the internet.
Because the pro-censorship crowd never had a large or skilled
enough army to hold off challengers, they’ve had to rely on
censorship to fortify against the competition.

And Twitter had long been their greatest weapon. The verified
crowd, with an assist from Big Tech overlords, was able to drown
out dissenting voices in an effort to penalize wrongthink. They
managed to normalize even the most asinine talking points,
including that COVID originated from an exotic wet market and
that men can give birth, because the gatekeepers disallowed the
opposition to challenge them.

Then, Musk bought Twitter and disrupted the entire strategy.

“Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and
Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the
future of humanity are debated,” Musk said in a press release on
Monday. “I also want to make Twitter better than ever by
enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms
open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and
authenticating all humans. Twitter has tremendous potential — I
look forward to working with the company and the community of
users to unlock it.”

If Musk unlocks Twitter as promised, the “politically correct”
will lose their last remaining tool of influence. If suppression
of free speech is their final gasp for air, Musk just stepped on
their throats.

So the advantage in the culture war is shifting quickly.
Previously dispirited Americans now see how fragile these paper
tigers have always been.

It’s unfortunate that it took years of online smear campaigns,
the installment of CRT training programs across the country, and
social media companies interfering with the 2020 presidential
election for the pendulum to swing. The weak can only win when
you willingly play by their rules, and we willingly played by
their rules for far too long.

At this point, the far Left may completely self-destruct because
when ideology becomes a religion, its adherents never know when
to stop. Now many are literally paying for it. The devout
believers at Disney (Groomers) have just lost special tax and
land privileges because they so desperately want to preserve the
demonic anti-sacrament of grooming schoolchildren. Public school
officials in Virginia suffered a similar fate last November when
their infatuation with skin color cost Democrats executive and
legislative elections in the commonwealth.

This entire campaign has always had an expiration date. Its
existence was never to create a more equal society but to
advance the social status of corporate and political leaders and
to defeat the opposition. Wokeism has never bettered anyone. In
fact, it has fractured families, communities, companies, and
institutions across this country. Some may never recover.

But neither will the woke Left. Their stranglehold on public
messaging has weakened. It is now a losing strategy.

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Author: Bobby Burack

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beginning-to-lose-the-culture-war/