[Boring agenda serious post] The reddit mindset will be the end of western liberal democracy. Venting my probably r-slurred thoughts here cause who cares.

The reddit mindset came from somewhere. Since I am ancient, here are some of my thoughts. I remember the early days of the internet. It was new and exciting, but honestly, society was much different back then and more tolerant of a diversity of political opinions. That made the internet fun. Because people were interested in discussion and did not, in the back of their mind, have the purpose of obliterating other viewpoints. This sort of thing is still present in many small, closely-knit communities in America. People have lived in them for centuries. You rely on your neighbors. Republicans and Democrats get along because they know, in the end, they are in the same community.

During Bush's presidency, the internet changed. You started to see political discussions popping up in communities that were not about politics. It was democrats that usually initiated these political discussions. Republicans had mostly been of the mindset that you avoid politics and religion and contentious debate. The left brought it to communities that weren't about politics or religion. That only got worse. It's gotten exponentially worse. Politics had to be inserted into every facet of life. The technique is nakedly Marxist. You aren't allowed to enjoy your team sport, you must also consider how problematic some agenda item du jour is. You like that TV show? Did you know that one actor is a blatant Republican? And the leftist takeover of entertainment is obvious and disturbing.

It's not that people WANT to be only in groups that agree with them, it's that people were shoved out of groups, so they formed their own where they might exist and not be harassed. That definitely has the result of creating echo chambers. Thinking that reddit is a microcosm of anything is a mistake, since a LOT of people don't post on reddit. These people work all day. They touch grass. So their voices are absent on reddit and the voices of young, angry leftists are amplified. Because they are, it's given the false impression that their views (and some are radical) have mainstream support. I think that's part of what led to all the BLM activity. That's definitely what has led to the antifa activity. The political right doesn't really tend to take to the streets much. The last time the right had any kind of REAL widespread demonstrations was during the Tea Party era after Obama was elected. There was no violence, they often left places cleaner than they found them and they were still labeled terrorists.

For people who took part in Tea Party protests, watching the BLM activity and seeing it called justified and peaceful and okay was an absolute joke. But again, the right doesn't really tend to take to the streets. The right was also not ignorant of the fact that these protestors allegedly upset about George Floyd, were outside Trump's White House wanting to tear down the fence and do I don't know what...and Trump had nothing to do with what happened to George Floyd. Then the Democrats set up a way to bail out protestors that had actually done something so wrong they got arrested for it. The left claims that the Overton window has gone hard right, but every objective look at political issues shows the opposite. The public at large has moved left. The question is, how far left do these people want to go? Because we face a dangerous possibility now and one that I was deeply concerned about during the Trump era.

If there are people getting away with doing violence, if there is no law or a double standard for it, if people think that the Constitution is no longer in effect and the government has become unrepresentative of the people ... there's a possibility of electing an actual strong man to put a stop to it all. That's if we don't have a currency collapse first, leading to mass chaos and a government declaration of martial law.