The last couple years, especially, but there always seems to be some stupid fucking pop culture “thing” that American conservatives just universally latch onto. I’m not talking about them complaining about BLM or CRT, which I at least understand why they’re complaining about, but it seems that every few months there’s some IMMENSE outrage over something stupid like the plastic potato’s implied gender or stopping the print of some Dr. Seuss books no one was buying or Aunt Jemima or now a fictional character claiming to receive a COVID vaccine. There always seems to be some cultural lightning rod for conservative outrage that NEEDS to exist, no matter how frivolous or stupid the concerns are. Why is this? Why do American (though I could imagine conservatives elsewhere do the same, I’m just speaking from experience) conservatives feel the need to latch onto and be offended by SOMETHING?
Oh yes, getting actually frustrated over the minutia of politics is a waste of time, though I do think it can be funny from time to time. I more of meant frustrated that Americans as a populace keep returning to that trough of shit water over and over, not over the actual politics itself.
But I stand by the stronger statement that even getting frustrated with the general populace is just as much of a waste of time. The American public from the capitalist class to the working class is completely captured by capitalist ideology, there’s nothing there to get frustrated by. It’s a predictable mechanism.
I should clarify that I never meant in my post to be angry AT conservatives, I was merely wondering why they were doing what they were doing because I could tell there was some driving animus behind it all but I couldn’t imagine for the life of me what it was
I understand the Theory, but just because it is predictable doesn’t mean it isn’t frustrating. Doing actual politics is hard and slow going. I am doing it, one coworker at a time, but some days I just wish everyone would wake the fuck up.
