John Ringo posted this to Facebook, commenting on an article on the Overton Bubble:
This is seriously esoteric and worth reading (and even rereading bits) til you get it.
I’ll add one thing. An axiom a friend of mine came up with watching the fall of Saddam Hussein.
‘Crazy regimes get crazier under stress.’
The ‘Overton Window’ and that axiom explain everything going on in US politics at the moment.
I’ll add one thing that he missed as a possible end game. One I hadn’t seen until quite recently.
As he noted (deep in the article) the elites within an Overton Bubble occasionally shift conditions of ‘proper thought’ so as to find and exclude those who should not be within the ‘elite’ faction. Thus the occasional purges evident throughout history of ‘elite’ groups.
As the faction comes under greater stress, it shifts more and more, tossing more out into the wilderness.
Thus the whole issue of a ‘woman’s march’ which would only accept women who supported a narrow series of causes but was okay with pro-Islam because: Reasons. (Notably, ‘pro-Islam’ was inside the accepted ‘good’ but ‘it’s okay to be feminine and a strong woman’ types were ‘outside’ the ‘good’.)
So one potential effect I’m starting to see is so many groups who were previously ‘okay’ to the Progressive Elites are being tossed out… their supporters are getting smaller and smaller.
Think about Jim Webb, one of the Democrats who unsuccessfully ran in the Democratic Primary.
Military veteran. Moderate economically. Pro-welfare state. Pro-big government. Believer in Global Warming.
In 2000 he’d have been a viable Democratic candidate.
In 2016, he was worse than Trump.
But he’s actually just fine with most of America.
So the ‘elites’ are making ‘acceptable’ so narrow… they’re doing what the Japanese are demographically. If the Japanese don’t start breeding, hard, soon enough Halsey will be right. Japanese will be spoken only in the afterlife.
If the ‘elites’ keep tossing every group that doesn’t match their current ‘conforming’ form to the wolves…
Pretty soon ‘Progressive’ will be spoken only in hell.
