Sunday Thoughts May 21, 2023

During my first visit to AmRen back in 2015, I noticed that everyone talked about their journey, as in their ideological journey. Many people came through the libertarian door, but most took the logical journey from conservatism through the paleo space and then over the great divide. At that time, the journey was fresh enough that people still followed conventional politics and the failures of Conservative Inc to conserve anything.

I thought about that the when seeing some stories about the debt ceiling stuff. If I had not been scanning the normie news sites for content, I never would have thought about it. If I chose to write about it, the comments that day would be mostly off-topic stuff. No one on this side of the great divide cares about the debt ceiling. No one cares about the budget or taxes or any of the other stuff that the parties are including in their show.

Scanning Twitter, it is hard to find much interest in normie land either. There is far more interest in black on white crime. Thousands of posts depicting the latest outrage. There is Ukraine stuff. When you travel to black Twitter it is the usual hate whitey stuff. The rage heads from the media are obsessing over the Florida banning child mutilation, when they are not raging about Trump. The parties are putting on a debt show, and no one cares.

In other words, it is not just people on this side of the great divide who have abandoned conventional politics for other issues. No one cares. The reason for that is you care about conventional politics when you generally think everyone is concerned about the same things. The issue is the priority and how best to address those things. When the only thing that matters is the enemy, real or imagined, then there is no need to worry about what happens in Washington.

Topics

* Debt Ceiling (Link)

* Ukraine (Link)

* New Planes (Link)

* Travel Warning (Link)

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