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Having been a part of this from the true start way back then, it's hilarious how such a simple mistake years ago ended up creating an army that tore down all their daft plans. They just couldn't help themselves.
It isn't so much that they couldn't help themselves, but that their ideology demands absolute control over all culture. They can't allow "side groups", because those are potential enemies.
There is a reason why the Left employs things like "reeducation camps". They simply cannot allow anyone to have an opposing viewpoint. It is incompatible with leftist social engineering.
Their mistake was likely timing. They hadn't corrupted all of culture enough to go after gamers yet. The slow and steady approach has served the Left very well, but a couple of things have forced them to accelerate their plans. The first was the Tea Party movement, and the second was the MAGA movement and Trump (which are connected to the original Tea Party movement).
Following the rise of the Tea Party in 2009 and 2010, the Left starting attacking all areas of culture. They (correctly) understood the whole basis for that populist movement was that American culture did not jive with what they were trying to accomplish, and the changes they made had been too slow to prevent an uprising.
Contrast things in 2009 with things now, merely 11 years later, and you can see the incredible shift in everything from speech to attitudes towards just about anything. Yes, most of the cultural changes are on the surface and most people think the same, but most people are also afraid to voice their actual opinions now. That was not true in the 2000s and before.
Spot on analysis. Complete control is what they require to function.
Timing was wrong, but their hand was indeed forced at the start, then it appears to me like they lost control of their culture-war foot-soldiers who started going way too hard in areas that hadn't been subverted enough yet to accept their sweeping demands for change.
Like you, I've long been of the opinion that Tea Party, then soon after that the confusing mire that was OWS forced acceleration that lead to the harder push into casual culture. They found their feet quite well again soon after in many areas, but gamers resisted to a degree so severe even I didn't anticipate as one of them, that it forced them to dramatically overplay their hands. That event, in my opinion, is what prepared the meme army that was at the core of the online MAGA movement. Two solid years of fighting online had us sharp for when the same tricks started being played on Trump. I don't think places like The_Donald would have thrived like they did without that warmup round.
A lot of my perspective is probably just nostalgia and fog of war, not seeing the grander things in play, but I can't help but think one of our greatest assets in the last 6 years have been all the pissed off internet dwellers who were told their opinions were wrong and they didn't matter.
The left still have succeeded in shifting the overton window, however. The change I've seen in people I grew up with in the 90s who had the edgiest, most offensive humor imaginable are now completely spineless, afraid to offend anyone leftists drones. It's remarkable just how well they shifted culture in their favor, simply with consistent propaganda. It all seems so obvious to me, but to those that never participated in any of these 'battles', it works incredibly well.