oh I know some act as a good bogeyman, but the ideas are spreading nonetheless
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The Cathedral will collapse, because reality is immune to all appeals to political correctness (= neo-puritan spiritual purity). ...
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... The Alt-Right is more of a parasite upon that process than an effective catalyst for it.
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It’s the 1930s all over again! Alt-Right: "Great!" NRx: [*facepalm*]
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oh I actually think it's the opposite. I've seen enough people being influenced over time
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influenced to change their opinions. The first step is changing people's minds.
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yeah the big difference of opinion here is how much opinion/influence is generated from the top-down vs. bottom-up.
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I'm familiar with the "elites drive opinion & people vote how they're told" school of thought, but I've always thought of
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the causation as less direct, and I suspect this relationship is more about correlation of elite views with mass views plus
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elites just being more in touch with trends than the masses & thus ahead of them
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