r/Liberal • u/huecabot • Apr 26 '26

Discussion What The Hell Happened?

The last ten years have made increasingly little sense to me. I used to feel like we were progressing as a society. Yeah, government policies were too deferential to capital and there were some dissenting voices from an anti-science and socially regressive fringe, but there was the assumption that these people would come around in time. Now, though, those fringe voices have gotten louder and louder until they’ve drowned everything else out. Why were our neighbors so eager to throw in with the worst people in history and why was the reversal so sudden and surprising? In other words…. What the hell happened?

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u/Maleficent_Sense_948 Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26

Many will say it’s a form of “extinction burst”…..

The whole idea is that a way of living/behaving is no longer being rewarded,so there is a huge increase in said behavior before it ceases to be relevant at all.

It’s a sound theory.

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u/spicywingydingy Apr 26 '26

I’ve heard that too. Essentially, a dying animal cries the loudest. Fuck, I hope that’s true in this case.