Thread by @terrorhousemag

Horseshoe theory is stupid and is promoted purely to elide an uncomfortable truth that nobody wants to admit: the "far-left" and "far-right" draw their followers from the same base of young people who have been completely fucked by neoliberalism and Reaganism.

I remember Occupy Wall Street. I was a huge supporter of it and participated in Occupy Syracuse and Occupy Burlington as a fringe observer. It was a truly beautiful moment: people who had been screwed by the status quo coming together to burn the house down.

Occupy Wall Street was a big fucking deal. It scared the corporate bigwigs and their libertarian whores. It represented everyone putting aside their differences to take back the future that had been stolen from us by 30 years of deregulation and financial chicanery.

Wokeness and identity politics were the wedge that neoliberals used to destroy Occupy Wall Street. The "progressive stack" was a COINTELPRO maneuver designed to divide people and take the focus off of what mattered: taking down the banksters.

The wave of corporate genuflection towards minorities and LGBT that occurred after Occupy Wall Street ended was no accident. It was designed to get people to accede to plutocracy, make them support corporate domination so long as sassy LGBT women of color were holding the whip.

Whichever side of the divide you ended up on was based on how you reacted to wokeness. It was all by design: carving people up into the "dirtbag left" and "alt-right" and setting them at each others' throats, while the neoliberals sat back and continued to exploit us all.

I and many of my mutuals ended up on the right-wing side of the divide, but I have a tremendous sympathy for dirtbag left types because I know that I could have ended up part of the dirtbag left with a few molecular tweaks in my life history.

We're only just finding out that these conflicts have been inflamed by bad actors like Jeff Giesea and George Soros who profit off of the people they exploit training their ire on each other and ignoring the 800-pound billionaires in the room.

The 2020 election will likely herald the end of identity politics as an effective wedge between the "far-left" and "far-right." Trump's reelection in the wake of his failures and the coming recession will drive home to everyone that we are fucked and the system is going down.

You can't care about wokeness when you're destitute. You can't quibble about privilege when everyone in your age group is some degree of fucked. Young people are going to want to bring down neoliberalism and they won't care who they have to ally with to do it. I certainly won't.

Everyone who invested in inflexible identity politics (e.g. wignats, the woke dirtbag left) will be left out in the cold. The dream of Occupy Wall Street---young people uniting to bring an end to neoliberalism---will become reality.

I can't wait.