The core purpose of right wing dog whistling has always been to destroy the sense there can ever be an "us," a 'we the people' that merits collective social welfare, i.e. government. Lee Atwater told us this explicitly in his "Southern Strategy" for Nixon.
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“The push to eradicate so-called ‘woke gender ideology’ is also part of the assault on the government itself. The right understands this. It’s time the left did, too.”
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At first it seems something special to democracy bc the people are sovereign, but in the end, the rich and ruling classes were always at threat of revolt based purely on numbers. They need a certain amount of strife among the peasants
He kicked ass and took names