The Making of "Cancel Culture."

So I was talking with a buddy the other day.  We were trying to figure out just how somebody becomes a "Progressive" liberal, and how we among the as-yet "unhipppmotizzed" can hope to avoid a similar fate.  Sort of like, "How do we avoid the zombies so as to avoid becoming a zombie?"  How your average, ordinary, everyday Americans become two-dimensional, believe anything they're told, pupils fixed-and-dialated, bits of foamy spittle coursing down their sagging chins, signs-waving, arms wildly gesticulating, slogans-spewing, full-blown socialists?  That conversation consumed our thoughts that day.  Yet, we just could not come up with an answer.

Yeah, I know.  I should't start a sentence with a "So."  So?

We were offering up possible reasons why somebody - anybody - could buy into that whole "cancel-culture" meme.  How someone - anyone - could conspire to put others out of a job, or out of a school, or out of a business.  How someone - anyone - could render fellow Americans as non-entities, on purpose, solely because they possess differing ideologies.  How someone - anyone - could be so base and crass as to wish their fellow citizens ill simply for the beliefs they hold dear.  How someone - anyone - could come to believe that being a "conservative" is some sort of social "crime," and why "Progressives" should want to hunt them down (figuratively) and eliminate them (figuratively).

And maybe not even "figuratively."  

Anyway, after a couple of beers and several other failed theories, my friend came up with what I consider to be a plausible rationale.  He offered up that he thought the incessant bleating from the so-called "MainStreamMedia," which I prefer to call the "Corrupt Legacy Media," - hey, it's a moniker they've so richly earned, and deserve - have caused many of our citizens to believe that Conservatives are real "Troglodytes."  Sub-humans who are evil to their core and need to be eradicated.  This unprecedented level of vitriol has contributed to their being held in disdain by those on the Left.  He said that the Media's incessant bleating has enabled these commie pinkos to think that Conservatism should be banned from polite society  simply because they hold dear the idea that government and taxation should be no bigger than absolutely necessary to accomplish the task.  He suggested that Leftists have been convinced to believe that opinions different from their own are now "racism" and "sexism."  And maybe even "homophobic" and "misogynistic."  Notice how that works?  In other words, if you disagree with them, you're a racist and sexist.  And probably a wife-beater.  

He went on to opine that this belief gives Leftists not only a "license" to
"cancel" their fellow Americans, it gives them the moral high ground to do so. 

We've stepped through the Looking Glass, fellow Pilgrims.  In just a few short months those who control our "CLM," and our higher educational apparatus, and the unions, and our entertainment industry, and nearly all of our Social Media, and the entirety of the DNC(LOL), and it now appears even our professional sports, seem to have finally tipped the balance.  Those of us who believe in Conservative principles are now the enemy.  And they're treating us as such.  As an example, some dufus named Alyssa Milano, who I'm told is (or was) an actress, and an activist, and apparently some sort of leader of this "movement," presumably because her career isn't doing so well, although you couldn't prove any of that by me, just Tweeted:  "The entire GOP should be tried for treason." 

I rest my case... 

Here's a question: Since they've declared war on us, isn't it about time we returned the favor?