HE reader responses to yesterday’s “Odious Hit Piece” indicate that my side (i.e., sensible centrists with a leftward tilt) has really lost the culture war, at least among the elite/urban/media-wise hipster types who comment on HE.
To take in the comments, you’d think that the sensible HE view of the world (a.k.a. Bill Maher, Sasha Stone, Bari Weiss…liberal-centrist, in staunch favor of debate, skeptical of dogged presentism in entertainment and the trans issue, not in terms of tolerance but in terms of whether 12-year-olds should be making these kinds of life decisions)…you’d think that sensible types are a totally marginalized minority.
That’s not true, of course. If anything, most voters in a presidential election — even those who wind up voting for the Democrat — skew to the right of myself and others in my camp. By this yardstick HE is staunchly liberal.
The idea that some poll that says that people under 40 are approving of woke values, and that’s that…Jesus fucking Christ, all that poll measures is the idea of wokeness when it’s presented as “having progressive values about fairness and tolerance.” By that definition, I’m as woke as any Millennial or Zoomer out there.
But that’s not what wokeness means. And it’s why the Republicans are going to be making bales of hay out of this in ’24. Many decent people hate the progressive left.