How the Left Got Left Behind,

and the paradigm shift that (so far, at least) negates their attempts to divide us.

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One of my go-to youtubers, Steve Turley, explains this era’s populist zeitgeist as a realignment: from “Left to Right”, to a new vertically oriented alliance between the common people, and ‘techno-elites’ who share our rejection of cultural Marxism. Iconic personalities as championed by Elon Musk hardly themselves exemplify MAGA moral virtues, yet have evidently been red-pilled and conservatives have celebrated their change of mind and heart whilst progressives, left behind in the dust of their degeneracy, try to use our differences against us.

To illustrate his point, Turley references a Politico article titled Elon Musk’s Techie Transhumanism vs the Religious Right:

The gist of the article is that there's a radical discrepancy; a radical partisan divide between Elon Musk's, well shall we say alternative lifestyle, right? — in fathering what they're claiming now, 13 children with four different mothers. There's a radical discrepancy between that and the family values crowd of the Christian right, which raises the prospect of a Tech versus Trad rift in 2025's most powerful Republican Coalition.

But, obtusely as usual, Politico fails to read the room.

Musk is an elite whose political awakening has made him an outcast of the Left who now try to use him to divide the MAGA populist movement, citing some religious conservatives' denigration of him. But even most Christian conservatives understand that Elon, for better or worse, is on our side (despite his kids-from-many-mothers and his brain chip aspirations). In the same vein, Trump's EO to widen access to IVF is unpalatable to many on the right— not just the religious right, either. Even those of us not on board with Dave Rubin’s surrogacy-procured kids, don’t hate or cancel him. On the contrary, a certain tolerance seems to have emerged; ironically, for diversity (!) of lifestyle choices, with healthy and mutually respectful debate on such matters. If you’re with us, you’re not against us, seems to be the overarching sentiment of the day.

So, while moral/cultural issues have divided us over the last half century, we’re at a moment of ‘strange bedfellows’— formerly contentious factions united against a common, much worse and larger threat. Which in this case, is the nasty Far Left progressivism that wasn't going to quit until it destroyed every last shred of human dignity and well-being. Whereas in the 1950s even Catholics and Protestants remained suspicious if not disapproving of one another, now we even joined forces recently with Muslim parents in protesting drag queen story hours.

Take-away: we’re seeing a new, redefined social order that defies the globalists’ plans for us. We’ve rendered impotent their verbal arrows of ‘racist’, ‘islamophobic’, ‘homophobic’ and ‘anti-semitic’. The left has been left behind for its utter failure to grasp that a paradigm shift has occurred wherein left/right, liberal/conservative no longer define us.

As Turley asserts, the formerly hegemonic Left holds an ‘elitist bias’ that attributes certain attitudes as representative of an entire class or segment of society. In their minds, MAGA is one homogeneous body of deplorables — back country hicks dumb enough to insist on Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays. At the same time, they wrongfully assumed that the Upper Classes were all theirs. But silenced as they’ve been this last decade, the Sane Ones, if not already outspoken were biding their time in the halls of academia, Silicon Valley, and even Hollywood. Musk’s take-over of Twitter was our major turning point, and it can’t be denied that ex-leftie Joe Rogan has also played a significant role in helping turn the tide from legacy media mind control.

Turley explains scholar Patrick Denine’s term “Aristopopulism”:

Patrick Denine draws from the observation of Aristotle who noted that you're always going to have an elite. You're always going to have your top 1% as it were. You're always going to have an aristocracy of some kind. But the key here is that you want an aristocracy that uses their [sic] power and wealth to enact and realize and bring into reality the values, interests and concerns of the vast majority of the people. So for Aristotle that's the healthiest kind of society of all where you have a harmony between your elite — between your aristocracy and the values, interests and concerns of the people.

By contrast, a society that has an aristocracy that despises the people, that hates the people, that wants them to eat cake [or bugs] like our Liberal elite — that aristocracy is an oligarchy — an aristocracy that rules in accordance with its own values and that despises and disdains the people and that care only about their own power and wealth. That's a hell hole.

But a society where the people overthrow that aristocracy and rise up against them like something akin to the French Revolution; it's just mob rule, guillotine chaos and the like, well that's not much better either. So what you want is, you want this balance — a harmony between the rich and the wider population and that harmony comes when the rich use their power and their affluence to enact and realize and help flourish the values interests and concerns of the people.

Turley’s youtube video here.

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To sum up; the ‘culture wars’ collapsed under the populist revolt and can no longer be weaponized against us. Hallelujah for that.

However, Aristotle aside; political analysis, while helpful in making some sense of the landscape, can’t make everything all neat and tidy. Turley, an Orthodox Christian, is an eternal optimist (my daily dose of hopium) who studiously avoids the genocide being perpetrated by Israel and aided and abetted by the Trump administration. Israeli supremacy is clearly NOT “help[ing] flourish the values, interests and concerns of [MAGA]” let alone those of our international brothers and sisters. What the actual hell, anyway???

It is crazy-making, trying to figure it all out. Insights such as that covered in this post offer but momentary relief in this ocean of contradictions.

Your thoughts?