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Mike, there is a no danger of that occurring.

Allow me to explain.

The majority of people that care about clicks and likes on the internet are young people.

Young people have a higher than normal propensity to want to viewed as unique and special. It's why they are so concerned with trends, appearances and wanting to appear interesting. The more attention they get the more interesting they think they are.

When you marry those two things together you find that the internet amplifies and feeds the need.

When you were younger, my guess is in the 60s, it was "cool" to listen to the rock music of the day and to be seen doing whatever it was that made you more progressive than your parents. And then it was the same with your children after that.

There's an interesting culture piece I read some time back that tracked trends among young people thought generations. It went from the 1940s through dawn of rock music where it was "we can do as we please" all the way to the emo culture where it was "so hard to be me" and "nobody understands me". The trend clearly goes from being free, to angst to straight-up pity seeking. And it's all for validation.

The difference today is that now you aren't simply seen in the nightclub by a few people watching you and your lady jive to Elvis and getting whatever validation your young mind needed.

Today, you can fish for validation globally. Instead of twenty sets of eyes in a nightclub you can get two thousand likes on a post about what a victim you are.

The game is bigger and the validation plentiful.

I'll give you an example. When you watch/listen to songs on YouTube, the top comment with the most likes is mostly the one where somebody talks about how this was their dead father/brother/mother/daughter/friend/cousin's song and how it brings back memories of them.

Keep in mind that there are always a lot of other comments. Ones where people mention having seen the song performed live, how it was the first single they owned, how they met the singer or some other comment related to the song. But the one that almost always gets the most likes is the sob story. The one that, in a way, is playing on the morality of the reader.

This is why, despite enormous strides being made over the last 50 years, we have suddenly started to see all these victim based narratives take over the internet. It's why you hear people in videos talking about gay people being killed for being gay, or how racism is apparently worse now than it was in the 60s...on and on. When you were young, how many gays did you know of that were murdered for being gay? I've never even heard of that happening a single time. But if a young gay kid says that they're gay and terrified because gays are being murdered...then it's more likely to draw a click or like than if they simply said they were gay. I've know many gay people and not on a single occasion have any of them told me they felt physically threatened because they were gay. Yet, if the internet sob stories are to be believed, you'd swear there were hordes of jocks cruising around offing homos.

Humanity has an innate need to sympathise with victims, and the internet provides a perfect path for seeking validation through masquerading as a victim.

Think I'm wrong?

When you think about the current left, not just in the US but globally, what are the themes that they seem to survive on...here's a list;

Racism
Sexism
Homophobia
Transphobia
Wealth inequality / income inequality
Economic injustice
Climate change
Environmental degradation
Workers’ rights and exploitation
Corporate power / corporate greed
Healthcare inequality
Housing affordability and homelessness
Police brutality
Mass incarceration
Immigration and migrant rights
Disability rights and accessibility
Gender equality
Reproductive rights
Voting rights and voter suppression
Religious discrimination (particularly against minority faiths)
Colonialism and its legacy
Indigenous rights
Islamophobia
Xenophobia
Hate speech and online harassment
Gun violence
Food insecurity
Student debt and access to education
Privacy and surveillance (particularly by governments and corporations)

Do you notice a trend? Do you notice how populated social media is with this stuff?

You should, because in almost all of those you can draw out victims and the left is the home for victims. The internet provides the channel through which all those victims, predominantly young people, can get their clicks and likes, their validation.

But here's the tricky part. It's all exaggerated. If you go to a duck hunting contest, you'll see people with shotguns and dogs everywhere. But that does not mean the entire country is populated with men carrying shotguns while being followed by a gang of dogs.

The internet is the duck hunting pasture, the hunters are people seeking validation, and victimhood is the easiest way to attain validation.

However, that is only a representation of the internet, not of society at large, but because the internet is what we see the most, we believe its representative of society.

...until you see how Trump basically swatted the Democrats out of the way to take the presidency or how the EFF in South Africa is basically a dead party despite them being prominent on social media.

And here's the part that will comfort you, Mike. It's a losing game for the left. Society is growing more immune to victimhood every year but the left have invested in it so heavily they can't turn around now. If they do, the victimhood crowd would turn on them and they'd basically crumble. So they are forced to keep beating the same drum that can't lead them to victory again.

They can't win but they can't change their strategy either.

We are only just at the start of the pendulum swinging back towards the right. This, while the right, despite being bogged down by undertones of religion, have a plethora of strategies available to them.

Now have a chocolate and chill because your tream is winning and is set to keep winning for a good while.

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