Ignorance proliferates when our society is starved of meaning.
Politics today doesn’t aim to make sense of the world. It’s built to communicate with the people you think are your friends—built to flatten belief and scrub every message until it’s nothing but safe permission. What’s left is a culture where saying nothing clearly feels smarter than saying something deemed truth.
That’s the motivation for this (and the next piece). Dialogue needs to start. The points of contention need to be aired if our country is going to exist 20 years from now. We have arrived at a place where both parties are wrong, but neither would ever admit their failure.
The right has been turned over to incel twerps who fantasize about punishing women for not being their mothers.
The left has been moved to reject anything that looks like the other side, rolling out Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives in a way that always ends with: What sort of diversity, equity, or inclusion are you against?
Programs have been designed to create preferred employment and acceptance based on tailored demographics, hijacked by the LGBTQ community. The jobs once held by well-connected WASPs (straight white dudes) are now occupied by the same well-connected families—only now, they make sure to use “spicy” pronouns in their applications. Naming something with values is the best part of the initiative, because if you disagree with how it operates, you are a bad person. At a time when society, work, worth, meaning, is all changing and void, we are allowing these institutions to make people fight for scraps cloaked in terminology, rather than looking at the few that are robbing all of us.
This sorting has excluded a wide variety of America. Across cultures, across gender, touching every region. Now, people are starting to publicly refuse to be sorted into buckets that deem them undesirable. Refusal to speak in prefab slogans. Refusal to play a game where the rules were written by people who don’t respect you.
No more left/right choreography. No more pretending compromise and conviction can’t live in the same body.
Conviction Is a Skeleton, Not a Costume
Modern politics teaches candidates to sound confident without ever being sure. Every word’s been polished, rehearsed, softened by some team afraid of saying too much, or saying anything real at all.
But conviction isn’t how you talk. It’s what holds your thoughts upright when nobody’s clapping. When the cameras cut, it’s what keeps you from folding. Not because it’s safe, but because it is true.
Moderation gets mistaken for neutrality. It’s not. It’s the ability to sit with contradiction without flinching, without needing a crowd to make you feel right.
Some truths don’t poll well. Say them anyway.
Consensus is comfort, not freedom. Express yourself and break some shit. Now is the time.
Narrative Is Infrastructure
The right didn’t win the culture war with tweets. They built churches, media, schools, and systems that echo the same story until it feels like common sense.
The institutional left confused access for influence. Having the mic isn’t the same as having a chorus. The public (the ones who determine wins or losses) can detect the difference.
Ditch the talking points that come down from the Democrats’ sorry-ass think tanks. Hammer education, protecting rights, expanding opportunity, and equal access to a healthy life.
Because people don’t vote based on data. They vote based on who they believe they are. And if you can’t speak to that, if you don’t get that your message will always feel distant, even if it’s technically right.
We need to openly reject the story that people are just products of their category. Vote this way because you’re this race. Feel this way because you make this much. That is not politics. That’s soft determinism, and this is fucking America.
Exercise your freedom.
A new philosophy starts with the belief that people are capable. Capable of contradiction. Capable of mercy. Capable of resistance. They may not come to the best decision, but they can.
Freedom is not inherited. It’s wrestled with. It means you have the capacity to build your dream, regardless of the barriers in front of you. It also means that you can fail. Society needs to learn that difference. Freedom is not a guarantee of success, but the responsibility to try.
Rights, real rights, do not come à la carte. Speech. Guns. Abortion. Movement.
If you only defend the ones you like, you’re not defending freedom. You’re managing taste.
The future isn’t a moodboard. It is a responsibility, a responsibility that older generations have totally neglected.
Now it’s time for those not wanting to see these kids live in a post-apocalyptic story to step up.
So, the question I will leave you with:
What will you protect, even when it costs you?