>>780336Personalities
are material conditions, or at the least are formed by underlying material conditions. If I simplify, it is because the details aren't as relevant as the thrust of the argument.
You overestimate loud but irrelevant factors and underestimate boring ones. SJWs had less than nothing to do with Trump winning in 2016 (He did terribly with young people! The clinton campaign actively helped him get the nomination! Brexit shows that some other underlying cultural force
polarization of voting by age and education was at play, since nobody cares about the social justice implications of a trade bloc!) and very little to do with him winning in 2024*
For all the hype on "Kamala's for they/them", the actual determining factor was overwhelmingly the economy being bad, the same reason almost every incumbent government outside Canada has eaten shit in the last 5 years. "Vote for me and I'll bring back the economy circa 2019" isn't a bad pitch!
(this economic explanation for voting behavior doesn't clash with "politics is about personality" either: a lot of personalities are "apolitical"/swing voters, and don't neatly fit into the leftist/rightist archetypes of the SJW/Nazi dichotomy. What the dichotomy explains is why rightoids in every country love Trump despite him being a lecherous foreigner.)
*I think they were a factor in
business leaders going over to backing Trump, but this speaks to the desirability of SJWism/wokeness as a phenomenon: it was a genuine-bottom up set of demands from workers which firms first tried to buy off with token concessions (not a corporate conjuring trick to distract from class war), then flipped over to endorsing reaction when that failed and when all the various disparate identity struggles realized that since they all felt broadly the same way, there must be something wider at work… like capitalism.
Manhating is its own separate thing. I'll tell you a weird trick, but I doubt it helps: recognize when you aren't being talked about. When someone says "kill all men" because a certain man annoyed them, it's very unlikely they're thinking of you, odds are they've no idea you exist and i all but guarantee they've got no ability to impose harm on you, so why feel it has anything to do with you?
This phenomenon is at its clearest whe
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