>stage 1: gamergate, fighting about media. initial discovery of weird shit going on.
>stage 2: 2016 elections, we realize that weird shit go on.
>stage 3: post elections hellscape, we pieced it all together.
this was the pre-game.
>stage 1: the initial fights. the mosque massacre
>stage 2: political tensions, everything going to shit
>stage 3: civil war
this is the mid-game.
>stage 1: victory
>stage 2: political execution
>stage 3: paradise
that'll be the end-game.
>>stage 1: victory
>>stage 2: political execution
>>stage 3: paradise
nah dude Jow Forums's moment has absolutely passed. the only really big change that's going to happen is some more nationalist governments will get elected and Trump/AOC style shit talking will become the new norm in American politics. There's no big revolution coming or anything like that although there might be a spike in right wing terrorism (which won't actually accomplish anything)
this is a good take
trump can't do shit in government, and democrats can't do shit to stop him. or he does something drastic without thinking about it and the judicial branch shoots it down.
most people's lives are too comfy to even get close to a civil war or revolution, regardless of how angry they are politically.
>they think they aren't obvious
>most people's lives are too comfy to even get close to a civil war or revolution, regardless of how angry they are politically.
Yeah there's no civil war coming and that's ridiculously obvious when you consider the fact that ultimately everyone still has it really good. People talk about the declining real wages and everything but they ignore how we still have so much more money than people in most countries or past eras. If you're a westerner, a shitty life is like... you work at McDonald's and instead of having a whole apartment to yourself you have to share one. Or like, you live with your parents, which for all the talk about how humiliating it is, is ultimately a really comfy laid back life. This kind of shit doesn't inspire a fucking revolution. Those youtubers who constantly release "THE NEW CIVIL WAR IS HERE" videos are just fear pornographers basically.
I think most people got bored of it. The far right was disappointed that their victory lead to none of the sweeping upheaval they expected, but relieved with the fact that the american political machine was working as intended, and that they did have power and a voice. The far left lost most of their fear about the far right because the sweeping upheaval of order never came, but were also humbled by a check to their progress.
At the end of the day I think people have realized that its impossible to really make changes to the status quo in such a big nation with so many people with different backgrounds and ideas, for better or for worse.
It could be a psyop, but if it was, it wouldn't be needed. The victory was won long ago.
Civils wars don't happen suddenly, they happen silently and over time. The US is more divided than at any time in the past century. There's a militia situation going on in Oregon right now, even.
>Like, will Brenton Tarrant style political terrorism become a huge thing?
Of course not.
My bet is more silly attrition war like the current trade crap with China, then something actually noteworthy happens like Jakarta becoming unlivable or idk.
Then we wake the fuck up, notice there's a huge problem to solve, and join forces for a bit like Asimov predicted.
Overall, the 2016 elections and the years following it with the constant media pressure and shitflinging around a few central debate questions became tiresome for a lot of people. Radical left wingers and radical right wingers. Ultimately, neither side had not gotten what they wanted. The immigration and border issue, the LGBT+ issue, feminism, etc, have simmered down with a lot of people just settled in their camps and tired of the whole thing. I think the 2020 election will spark the fires of resentment again similar to 2016, but discourse and radicalism will increasingly uglify, become more confused, ambiguous, "ironic" and silly but also increasingly destructive and callous as well. It'll assume metamodernism. Overall, little will be gained and "revolutionary" movements will continue their efforts to create movements that will "affect" change that will in their eyes affect the most effective change. In an apolitical, senile world with few authority figures, who knows what that will mean.
I think some safe predictions to make from this standpoint are AI becoming a greater issue in newer elections, new ideological forms centering on more technological grounds, VR and investment into VR increasing, "bread and circus" policies taking a larger share of the political discourse (akin to universal basic income -- systems like Yang's UBI) especially as older generations die and the lines between middle and lower class begin to blur, college bailouts, increased popularity for systems of socialism while the populist right affects a compromise for harsher border laws (the left wing actually doesn't care that much for immigration and will also shift towards nativism as the world has done thus far for various reasons, and the right wing cares a lot).