@bonifartius Rich people were aways conservative when it came to the economy and workers’ rights. This made it easy to point at them and say: “That’s who we’re fighting against.” But the modern trick has been to change the definition of conservatism, from a purely economical point of view, to a moral one. And that’s how we have gay-supporting right wingers, or, put more simply, “rich liberals”.

This change allows them to say: “We are the good guys. It’s the workers, whose education we neglected and who consume our controlled media (which tell them that fighting for their rights is communism), who are racist and homophobic and nazi.”

It’s not that progressives have gone the full authoritarian arc. It’s just that the same people we used to treat with scorn years ago are seen with admiration today because they love trans people (even though they don’t know a single trans person), but they’re as authoritarian now as they were in the 1920s and 1930s. They just tricked you into thinking they’re ‘progressive.’ They’re not. They’re elitists.