The End Game is Scary - Equality's Foundational Social Contract has Broken

It's looking like peaceful protests continue, with no lowering of the bar for what constitutes a sacrilegious offense...

I get the sense there's a huge holding pattern of energy developing within the US' other tribal faction. That's scary.

One interesting thing to come out of the Covid energized explosion is a better sense on what grounds the political tribes are now separating. The left - right divide has obviously foundered. The horseshoe theory of politics has proven itself true. The positions of the far right (KKK type) and far left (radical intersectionalists) are now pretty much indistinguishable except for which groups each consider righteous.

Steve Bannon's citizen nationalism (Trump) and economic nationalism (Sanders) was, for a long time, the most apt characterization of the new divide. But it always felt wanting.

I think the new divide is best characterized as equal righters vs intersectionalists. One side says every rule must function the same for everyone. They want special interest and loopholes out of government. But the Republican establishment will certainly never go along with that. Whether Trumpers have enough cache and integrity to do that is very questionable. Some progress may be made, but in the end, the House always wins.

The intersectionalists seem to want to revolutionize America's founding social contract that all people are created equal. The aim seems to be replacing it with equal outcomes. Albeit equal outcomes that make up for past oppressions. How could that not work well? </irony>

The rift is HUGE. It is all about an extremely fundamental social contract that makes American unique. I don't see that moral foundation going down without a fight. And, for better or worse, that sentiment is very easy to now frame as equivalent to 1860's slave rhetoric. 

I find it infinitely fascinating (in a 1984 double speak sense of things) that equality of law could suddenly get popularly interpreted as the most insidiously racist thing possible. Human culture is logic is, from a dispassioned view, unbelievably fascinating. Hyper-rationalists, like Sam Harris, who argue that pure logic can govern social systems, have never before seemed so naive.