The American counterculture was solidly leftist from at least the 50s through 2008. Consider what was considered shocking by older people at
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various times: Elvis (50s): suggestive hip shaking, black rhythms Hippies (60s-70s): free love, anti-war/pro-commie
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Madonna (80s): sex, lesbianism Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson (90s): sex, violence, anti-religion, etc
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Notice that each step here represents a further decline of traditional "family values" until the rejection culminates with Manson. Leftist
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countercultures continued until 2008, but shock value all but disappeared post-Manson. Coinciding with the decline in shock value, leftist
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values became accepted by those in power until becoming fully dominant by 2008. What remained on the left to be countercultural from or to
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shock people with at that point? Suddenly after 2008 all leftist countercultures were subsumed by the elite-approved SJW narrative.We're now
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seeing a re-emergence of counterculture--this time on the right. What's the most shocking thing possible now?
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It's not sex anymore--it's anti-equality and pro-whiteness.
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I say all this as someone who even now still enjoys Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson, by the way.
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