First make people crazy, then turn them against each other
1 in 3 Americans feel lonely every week and 1 in 5 feel lonely every day. Less than half of households are headed by married couples and the marriage rate hovers at 16.7. 63% of single people are not looking for a relationship and the majority of Gen Z didn’t date as teenagers.
Romance, relationships and sex that are disappearing, If you want to understand teenagers escaping into an upside down world of pronouns, identifying as the opposite sex, as asexual or anything except a normal healthy relationship, the collapse of those relationships is the place to start. “I choose me” is the narcissistic gateway to ‘self-marriages’ and online rabbit holes.
But it’s not just opposite sex relationships that are collapsing. Family is on the chopping block. 1 in 4 Americans are estranged from a close family member. Gen Z is the generation least likely, by far, to have a close relationship with their grandparents. Or to socialize in general. People of all ages interact with the world through social media. And social media is inherently lonely.
What replaces relationships for the social meda savvy is an endless search for self-actualization. The constant virtue signaling, the reflexive shift in flags and banners, is a testament to a life lived online even when it’s acted out in public. Moral panics have become childishly easy to set up and detonate while knowing that today’s crisis will be forgotten tomorrow. Black Lives Matter and DEI give way to Gaza which gives way to illegal aliens which will give way to something else. Political activism is every bit as transitory as pop music. Greta Thunberg isn’t abandoning a cause when turning from environmentalism to Hamas.
Attention is the cause. The issue isn’t the issue, the issue is the revolution may be true on the macro, but in the micro, the issue isn’t the issue, the issue is attention. Lonely people need attention and the more attention they get, the less lonely they feel. Parroting back a slogan, learning a TikTok dance and joining a crusade is still lonely, but it feels more communal. And more importantly it fills the void that is currently occupied by the expectation of nothingness.
Fewer members of Gen Z look forward to marriage, children, a career or life getting better. What’s left is someone to blame. Movements, extremism, angry words and hate.
The Left innately understands this. It politicises and then tears apart human relationships, between men and women, between parents and children, and between larger families, to undermine rival social ties and to create the unhappiness that makes for terrorism. What began with shattering economic relationships, pitting businessmen and workers against each other, escalated to deconstructing and then pulling apart all human relationships as power structures.
What do you do when you have no one and no hope? You click, swipe and then march. --->READ MORE HERE
They bark at the moon - while the MAGA movement barrels ahead.
California Senator Alex Padilla recently crashed a press conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. He deliberately wore no identification. He gave no advance warning that he would disrupt her briefing.
Instead, Padilla barged forward to the podium, shouting about the deportation of illegal aliens.
Immediately, Padilla got his media moment wish — once Secret Service agents, who had no idea who Padilla was, forcibly removed him.
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., recently attempted a pseudo-filibuster, speaking nonstop for 25 hours straight — not to delay legislation, but to fixate on President Donald Trump.
South Carolina Democratic state Representative Julie von Haefen just posted on social media an image of a bloody guillotine. It bore the title “In these difficult times, some cuts may be necessary” and was juxtaposed with an image of a hanging, beheaded Trump, who, a year ago, was the target of two failed assassination attempts.
The more Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and California Governor Gavin Newsom scream at Trump for nationalizing the California Guard to stop L.A.’s nightly violent anti-ICE protests, the more the two appear on the side of those who riot, destroy property, and attack police.
Yet who really wants to side with illegal aliens who spit on and burn American flags while waving Mexican flags?
Recently, some Democrats and leftists have romanticized Kilmar Abrego Garcia — an illegal alien, accused domestic abuser, gang member, and alleged human trafficker.
They also canonized illegal alien Mahmoud Khalil. But that pro-Hamas “student” helped organize and defend sometimes violent and antisemitic demonstrations at Columbia University.
For some on the Left, the assassin of a UnitedHealthcare CEO, the rich kid Luigi Mangione, has become a folk hero.
Others champion the undocumented family of illegal alien Mohammed Sabry Soliman and demand that they not be deported home to the Middle East — despite Soliman’s recent attempt to murder Jews using a homemade flamethrower and Molotov cocktails. --->READ MORE HERE
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