>>509369367If it means anything my character arc was left -> white nationalism. A lot of it just came to do understanding how "social liberalism" creates conditions that make the economic goals of the left impossible, and after seeing enough examples of it I was forced to admit I was wrong. Once that threshold is crossed there is a big
>fuck>i've completely misjudged these people>these are mostly good people and i've treated them like they're monsterswhich then motivates me to get even more active since it's no longer just about achieving political goals, it's about the personal aspect of "apologizing" through action to the people I've wronged.
>>509370060I completely disagree here. McCarthy was minor, all bark no bite. What actually de-railed leftism in the US was the fact that almost all of the left's thought-leaders prior to the founding of Israel were Jewish, and with the founding of Israel many of them did a 180 due to the left's anti-Israel attitudes. If you want the deep lore on this, look into "Commentary". This was the primary journal hosting the conversations among the Jewish intelligentsia that led to their abandonment of the left and the creation of neoconservatism to replace and oppose it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentary_(magazine)
The old right didn't kill the left, the left's own Jewish leadership did. They saw themselves as Jews first and leftists second, and the left was seen as too hostile to Israel for them to continue supporting it. Neoconservatism was created to act as a pro-israel bulwark against the left and to replace the old right, now often called "paleoconservatism", which was also generally anti-israel. The Vietnam war was the tipping point where neoconservatism won and the American dialectic of leftism vs paleoconservatism went extinct in the mainstream and was replaced with the current zionist dialectic of neoconsertavism vs neoliberalism.