They know fiscal conservatism is wildly unpopular with younger people, so they’re pivoting to Nazbolism in a desperate attempt to attract a powerbase that’s not going to die off in the next 20 years.
And depressingly, I think there’s a decent chance it works. I know way too many young people who seem to be going down this pipeline IRL. Hoping I’m in a weird bubble, worried I’m not.
I think there’s a weird competitiveness among younger people who believe in Pink Capitalism and your proto-National Bolsheviks who are socially incredibly prurient and prescriptive but who loathe capitalism because of the transparent sense of destructive self-interest behind it. I personally dislike both of those systems, so I’m not sure who I’m rooting for in that particular ideological dogfight.
They know fiscal conservatism is wildly unpopular with younger people, so they’re pivoting to Nazbolism in a desperate attempt to attract a powerbase that’s not going to die off in the next 20 years.
And depressingly, I think there’s a decent chance it works. I know way too many young people who seem to be going down this pipeline IRL. Hoping I’m in a weird bubble, worried I’m not.
I think there’s a weird competitiveness among younger people who believe in Pink Capitalism and your proto-National Bolsheviks who are socially incredibly prurient and prescriptive but who loathe capitalism because of the transparent sense of destructive self-interest behind it. I personally dislike both of those systems, so I’m not sure who I’m rooting for in that particular ideological dogfight.