It’s just cosmopolitan privileged brain rot, same as ever. As bad as rural backward brain rot but worse because these should supposedly know better. Israelis get to murder 40,000 people, without consequences or even official recrimination, because they are the in-group deserving of privilege. They get your tax money and they get to control your elections and your whole security apparatus because they are the in-group deserving of privilege.
Democrats get to do the same things Trump did because they are the in-group deserving of privilege. Urban wealthy elites get to drive even the BS dem fantasy agenda because they are the in-group deserving of privilege. Blue MAGA morons with stupid star trek memes and Red MAGA stochastic crypto throwbacks get left alone and anyone paying attention gets silenced or marginalized, because the in-groups deserve privilege.
Morality, politics, race, gender, none of that even matters. It’s the pretty, likeable, go-along-to-get-along-at-any-price corrupt cabals versus the disposables. It’s a transactional, tribal arrangement, with tribes holding representation within power structures or among gatekeepers coming out ahead of people basing their actions on objective observation and morality not derived from authority.
Colonialism of minds and thus control of practical outcomes. It’s not about taking and holding territory, anymore. It’s about taking and holding minds, particularly young ones, in a struggle to preserve disproportionate comfort for dying people in a dying global system.
So, it’s the same as it ever was, but it’s devolving as a viable social system because it’s happening very quickly, thanks to our instant communication capabilities (we don’t even have the evening delay we’d all get in a high school). But what it will lead to is a repeat of 2016. Maybe not tomorrow. Maybe not next cycle. But everyone is making the same mistakes, being the same small kinds of people. Nothing’s changed. 1968 ass lol.