The Political Hat

     Nostalgia can be a hell of a drug. One of the points your humble author has emphasized is how the Left works sub rosa and doesn’t work openly until they believe they have fundamentally transformed society enough and the Overton Window is right. Most people don’t notice this because the fundamentals are changed so slowly, it’s below the threshold of being able to notice.   But once those fundamentals have changed than the overt changes will not only be made but also generally be accepted, give or take an overreach from time to time.

     There has been not only resistance or even constraints against the Left, but also reversals by the conservative intellectual movement in America that have resulted in more Right-leaning and conservative stances than generally existed even in the vaunted early Cold War era that many people nostalgically remember.   It is also true that that societal ablative armor shielded people from experiencing the myriad things in the past that were comparably as bad if not worse. They were insulated from change and remember only the positive while they dwell on the new negative.

     The adage that there is much ruin in a nation is quite consistent in societal norms being ablative armor that insulates the superficial observer from those fundamental transformations occurring outside of most people’s daily lives. But that ablative armor for many has worn thin and what is normal for younger people who never knew anything else is devastating in its disastrousness to those who are suddenly seeing the changes that had already taken place.

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