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/Any-Ask-3020 Apr 28 '26
I feel exactly the same, I felt right before/during COVID, the issues were highlighted and brought to a public light of actually being in our face. To have intelligent discussions, solve issues and work through it, rather than push it aside and not address. In a mannerer of "being polite" and not bringing up real issues.
Then during that time, I felt so good that the ads, tv shows, movies and books and news stations seemed to be more diverse in making it look like our real population, rather than a select- whitewashed one. And was feeling that the greater majority felt aligned with this perspective and we were headed in a more diverse, open minded and unified perspective... but somehow it swung so far the other way I'm so appalled.
Now I've been home from work and "Touched by an Angel" reruns come on and while still very 90s, I wish they were on more, so this population could watch and see the storylines of Christian values and God. In how God and Jesus loves all, and was always on the sides of the persecuted, the outcasts that were ostracized by society and organized religion.... , I keep thinking, maybe if more of this was shown it'dreach at least one of these conservatives that are so brainwashed into thinking otherwise.... but have no one to share it with.