@jensorensen Remember women, if they start to try to repeal the right for you to vote and you're not concerned. Look up Stockholm syndrome and treatment options.
@jensorensen This is actually not surprising. Any action prompts a reaction. That's how human psychology and societies actually work!
That's why you need to be prepared for winning:
Instead of letting go and relaxing that things are finally the way you wanted them, you need to brace for the incoming hailstorm of arrows from those who only now realised they didn't want you to succeed.
@gimulnautti@jensorensen True, but it was made much, much worse by the growing economic uncertainty. The Dems quelled that by rolling out progressive programs in the 1930s and '40s that greatly helped the working classes and eased those economic anxieties. With the Dems being every bit as bought off as the GOP today, we're seeing a resurgence of those same anxieties as back then and it's only going to get worse.
Economic anxieties always serve to push a lot of those who would be tolerant otherwise to the hate camp, because the general higher ”threat level” presupposes the mind to interpret non-dangerous signals as potential threats, too.
Conservatism is rooted fundamentally in observing the world primarily through threats. The clinging to hierarchies & strength is the coping mechanism, not the root cause.
@jensorensen Excellent comic!
Disclaimer: not a native speaker
I would call it "The great backlash", to emphasize that this is the result of extremely concentrated campaign of active rollback of progressive achievements by reactionary forces, and not the "normal" and "natural" regression [towards the mean] that some [myself included] might read into it.
@jbiserkov I was initially going to call it The Great Backlash, but settled on "regression" because I wanted to suggest an actual move backwards (and there's also some wordplay on The Great Depression). I'm still not sure which title works better.
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