Maggie's Farm

Gen X culture.........
Tim Pool, who has a significant audience of young viewers, urges an effort to change the narrative and change the culture with a more positive slant. In many ways, that is just what Trump did. He lifted the Deplorables by sheer force of will and optimism. There should be some awareness, by now, that facts, patient reasoning, sarcasm, pointing out hypocrisy, and calling people “commies”, has little effect. I refer you to the bungled Senate campaigns in Georgia. The Georgia Rs, dominated by dinosaurs, totally disregarded American populism and opted for the Cold War memes. They managed to sound stupid, out of touch, and tone deaf. The real battle is against the powers who advocate for “Der Staat uber Alles”, the top down coercive, “sciency” regulatory state, characterized by: one size fits all central planning, concentrating wealth and power into fewer and fewer hands, representing the interests of the Bureaucracy and the Globalists to the detriment of everyone else. In other words they support the antithesis of the Enlightenment and the Constitution, by any means necessary.
The Deplorables are not powerless. They can use cash, they can avoid corrupt social media, they can avoid doing business with people who mean them harm and demonize them, they can support American businesses and like minded individuals socially and monetarily, and they can throw sand into the gears of the surveillance Tech Giants and the State by searching on nonsense entering bogus data and diluting and undermining the value of their products. Just my opinion, I’m hopeful that reducing their revenues of the Tech Giants just might get their attention like nothing else will.
Finally, James Lindsay, has pointed out that what, at long last, undermined the Soviet Nomenklatura was ridicule and mockery; they became the butt of the joke. Humor is a powerful weapon, but it has to be smart, incisive, and on target, the thing that makes you snort before you can stop yourself. The good news about the Establishment is that they are hobbled by many who are mediocre, whose primary skills are kowtowing and networking. The bad news is that they are terrified of their fellow travelers turning on them. Yes, this is what Irish Democracy looks like in the 21st century. I’ve barely scratched the surface and invite more ideas.