The end of the Cold War enabled the idea that inequality is the only threat facing the western world. When there was a military threat, the reality of that wasn’t as hospitable to utopian dreams. The juxtaposition of the USSR vs the US highlighted the lack of freedom that may come out of heavy handed guidance towards equality. Once that was gone, the ground was ripe for woke ideology to develop.
Edit needed: “While many Baby Boomers revolted against their elders, most of them still held on enough to traditional ways not “go full woke” in their adulthood.”
The end of the Cold War enabled the idea that inequality is the only threat facing the western world. When there was a military threat, the reality of that wasn’t as hospitable to utopian dreams. The juxtaposition of the USSR vs the US highlighted the lack of freedom that may come out of heavy handed guidance towards equality. Once that was gone, the ground was ripe for woke ideology to develop.
Edit needed: “While many Baby Boomers revolted against their elders, most of them still held on enough to traditional ways not “go full woke” in their adulthood.”
Edit needed: “The only alternative is the embrace the exact same arguments used by conservatives against them in preceding ideological battles.”
Edit needed: “All that the Center-Left can do is claim that the Woke or unrealistic or liable to provoke a backlash from the Right.”
Edit needed: “In terms of inputs (i.e. resources deployed), these Center-Left policies has been a spectacular success.”