The Black Pill on the Culture Wars

Liberals will always win the culture war. History will inevitably be written by the liberal side. The conservative movement will culturally lose like it always has. For a few simple reasons.

People are, for the most part, kind and gentle creatures. The soft hearts of the coming generations will naturally and inevitably be sympathetic towards the figures of history who made themselves known as compassionate freedom fighters. In this sense, they will believe the liberal movement and its figures to be on the "right side of history." The "right side of history" will always be liberal. Take note, I'm not saying liberal history is truly the right side. I'm not even saying there is a right or wrong side of history. History, in my personal opinion, is a messy swamp of competing interests and narratives. But the mainstream consumption of history is presented via a binary structure. There is always a right and wrong side. The fight between liberals and conservatives is always about who gets to be on the right side. And the liberals will pretty much always win it because they simply appeal to people's emotions, sense of morality, and kinder proclivities. The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezes, the Hillary Clintons, the Cory Bookers, the Alyssa Milanos all scream the loudest about protecting human rights and bringing down evil regimes, so naturally they will be the good guys in the eyes of many.

For the past few years, the conservative side rode on a massive wave of silent indignation, which was called for. It was the 2016 Conservative Spring. Trump rode that wave to the White House. But can he ride that same wave for a second term? What has the conservative counterculture provided and advocated for the last 2 years? We're way past the point of righteous indignation. 2020 is a different ball game than 2016. You don't feel the same energy that you did back then. What have the conservatives built and paved the way for? It seems to me they aren't building anything. It seems to me they've just been coasting on sentiments of sarcasm and anger for awhile now. The conservative spirit of 2016 was attractive in a lot of ways. There was courage in the air. But have their worldviews evolved for the better in 2019 and beyond? Ben Shapiro's "liberal tears," Stefan Molyneaux's race realism. Are these the cultural items of a winning spirit? Maybe initially, it was. But is that the case after 2-3 years? If not, then the initial courage of the 2016 conservative will just be considered a launchpad for empty platitudes and a gateway to provincial philosophies for the consumption of the youth and politically adolescent groups in 2019. The 2016 conservative spirit, which held so much hope and promise, will have stagnated and decayed, allowing the moralizing rhetoric of the liberals to gain ground and credibility.

The biggest example of the conservative counterculture movement comes in the form of Qanon. Followers of the Qanon movement sincerely believe Trump and a group of freedom fighters are bringing down the global banking cartel that has put people in debt bondage for generations. As much as I'd love it to be true, the chances are that that's not what's going to happen. But there's a good chance Qanon is simply a controlled narrative opposition for conservatives. It's part of the tug of war for who gets to be on the right side of history. Presumably, the conservative side will lose and the left side will have their villain for the history books, equivalent to the Confederate states of the 1860s being immortalized as racist slave owners to this day. This is my grand warning to the conservatives in this cultural war. If you are a Trump-supporting, Qanon-following, and/or rightwing-leaning individual, I fear you're most likely getting set up to be framed as the villains of history.