This sentiment of "there's gonna be a backlash and everything will revert to normal" is one that is quite frankly ahistorical and points to a complete, willful ignorance of history. Progress doesn't get "rolled back" it merely gets halted.
Many people here seem to think that progress works like this, especially as it comes to societal norms and culture
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When in actuality it works more like this:
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There is a backlash yes, but barring massive wars and sustained, wholesale violent pushback progress is only temporarily halted at the current level its at, before inevitably jumping forward again. These forward pushes are spurred on by greater education and dissemination of information (the printing press, radio, television, the internet) that coincides with leaps forward in technology. You see once you learn something you can't unlearn it, and in much the same way once information reaches the mainstream it can only be suppressed through authoritarianism and violence (The Nazis burned books containing information about trans people). You essentially have to attempt to remove information and rewrite history, because if people forget the progress they've made up until that point and educational information is erased they'll be easily led into moving into the direction you want them to go, even backwards.
What many people perceive as a pendulum swinging back and forth is more like the freewheel in a bike or an engine.
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Culture, progress, technology moves forward, and can only be paused, not moved BACKWARDS. What you perceive as a "swing back" is really just a temporary halt. Sure there are leftward and rightward pushes, but things never really go "backwards" per se. The pendulum swings back and forth, but what happens if you move the entire pendulum in one direction? This is why even though much has been said about Gen Z becoming more conservative, the TYPE of conservative that they're becoming is quite different from past versions. Many zoomers don't view gender like boomers do, and a lot of them are way more accepting of trans people than the old religious right ever was. They think different economically too, largely abandoning the "Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps and you can be rich!!!!" thinking of old. They realize that the differences between the left and the right can be more succinctly codified by looking at the Haves and the Have Nots.
Hell, look at the outlooks of people in this very threads. The only people who were really looking forward to the future were those that were financially well off. Everyone else here seems to be dreading it. This is the divide that will characterize the next few years. What moves progress is the simple act of people learning how fucked their situation is and realizing it DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY. Combine this with greater access to information, education, and better living standards and inevitably progress marches forward. The only people who think it doesn't have a vested interest in it not going that way, such as the odd /pol/ larper who fetishizes a time period he wasn't even alive for.
Basically, if you hate how things are now, you're gonna REALLY hate the next few years.
Fuck, even by the standards of Whig history, this is fucking stupid. I know you're a troll, but this is dumb even by your standards.
The Zoomers aren't conservative like the Boomers, but they trend to the right of the Millennials. They're still left-leaning, but the Millennial generation veered straight into communism, anarchism, and moral authoritarianism. When it comes to trending rightward of the Millennials, the bar is pretty fucking low.
Most of the "woke" Zoomers who buy into the "gender is whatever you want it to be" nonsense are older Zoomers who overlap with the later end of the Millennials. I know this because I'm one of those late Millennials and I have a life outside of the internet. The core of the Zoomer generation trends more in a liberal or center-left direction as opposed to the far-left direction of the Millennials.
They honestly remind me of Generation X in the 90's, more liberal overall but also more individualist and concerned with their personal lives more than politics. Don't even get me started on the Alpha Generation. They're at the same age right now that the Millennials were at the height of the Religious Right's hysteria.
Remember when you said major disasters such as war and violence cause major backlash and pushback? You're partly right, and the same applies to economic disasters too. The Millennial Left came about as a backlash following the chaos of the Great Recession.
If society was constantly progressing leftward, then why did the New Left of the 70's get squashed by the Religious Right in the 80's? Even accounting for the rise of the internet that happened in the 90's and 2000's, the rise of the Woke Left did not happen overnight. The Religious Right was in its death throes by the time the Great Recession began in earnest, but the Woke Left didn't fully coalesce into anything coherent until the Occupy protests in 2011-2012 at the earliest.
Part of why the SJW Left became a thing and was able to gain traction outside of college campuses and the punk subculture was because a lot of Millennials were burned by the Recession and spent most of their childhood and teen years living in the shadow of the Religious Right and the blunders of the Bush Administration. They rebelled and the chaos of the recession helped strengthen them, just as the Vietnam War did for the New Left of the 1960's and 1970's.
You're a useful idiot, Ashy. Those neoliberal corporations that you and all your Anarcho-Communist friends claim to hate are playing you like a damn fiddle. You think you're a grand revolutionary and that the future will be nothing but genderqueer commie punk bullshit, but you're in for a rude awakening when your cause dies out and a new flash in the pan cause becomes the big thing in leftist circles.
Even if things trend leftward economically, the woke culture and social justice bullshit will die out and a new zeitgeist ends up taking its place. Nobody likes a moral guardian. We didn't like them when they were redneck fundies and Boomer church ladies in the 80's and 90's and we don't like the punk chuds and pretentious dangerhairs that are the moral guardians of today.
Also, I find your grasp of history to be very poor at best. The Nazis did burn books, but I guarantee you they didn't burn books about trans people. The transgender community wasn't really a thing in 1930's Germany, even at the height of the Weimar-era libertine antics. There were transgender individuals, but they were few and far between and were often closeted. Any books on trans people that would've been around for the Nazi book burning rallies would've likely been scientific documents or early medical textbooks that discussed gender dysphoria.
The Nazis didn't like psychoanalysis but it wasn't because of any of the gender woo that the Millennial Left likes to spout. That shit didn't even exist in the 1930's. Even the concept of gender dysphoria as a condition was probably unknown outside of academic research circles.
The concept that someone doesn't need to have gender dysphoria to be transgender is very much a concept of the 21st Century. It's little more than pretentious nonsense with no grounding in reality.
The Soviet Union and Maoist China also persecuted LGBT people too. Even Vladimir Lenin wouldn't take too kindly to the Millennial Left's fetish for all things "queer"
Those "sodomy laws" that Lenin struck down dealt with prostitution, not homosexuality (in old-time legal jargon, "sodomy" was a vague term for illegal or taboo sex)
Those laws were struck down because Lenin was a whoremonger and a sex pest (and Lenin was a petulant edgelord with a hateboner for religion. He just wore a newsboy cap instead of a fedora) and the Bolsheviks still violently hunted down and murdered queer people, painting them as "decadent bourgeois" and associating them with the Tsarist aristocracy (Felix Yuspov was a Russian noble who supported the Tsars and condemned the Bolsheviks, and was also a bisexual libertine)
All Anarchists Are Bastards. Commie Punks Fuck Off.
