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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
But I'll cop to being old - old enough to recognize that the tactics employed by identarian ideologues are the same tactics used by religious conservatives back when I fought with them in my youth: a bunch of true believers who have heard the Word treating their desperately simplistic worldview as a universal truth, and trying to shame everyone else into conforming to it. I'll no more resign myself to identarian dogma being the new normal than I'd resign myself to young people turning collectively to Mormonism and trying to impose their views on everyone else.
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You don't even have to be that old. This was still the tone during the 2000 election and the first Bush administration. Probably the biggest political disillusionment I have experienced was the transition from my undergrad days, thinking "if we could only get the public to swing a but farther left, we could outvote these bible-thumping, gay-bashing, pro-life-and-if-the-mother-dies-that-was-her-choice, gun toting self-righteous ideologues and enter a new political age of reason, evidence and civil disagreement on logical grounds."
It turns out the problem wasn't the conservative ideology that held away back then, the problem was people. This is just how people are. This is what they do with the power conferred by being a part of the moral majority. It's a seriously depressing realization.