The rapid and total promotion of degeneracy and anti-White/anti-Christian values in children’s entertainment has become something of a unifying force on the Right, from the normies to the dissidents. With the exception of the most slavishly pro-corporate elements of the Right, which consider any criticism of big business to be tantamount to the Storming of the Winter Palace, the Right has been able to rally around just how blatantly vile children’s entertainment has become in just a few years. And, I am not referring to demented parents taking their children to drag shows, no matter how despicable that may be, but rather what now regularly plays on television and in movies.

In some ways this is not new, as much of this leftwing subversion has just become more blatant. There have been, at least since the 1990s, characters in children’s entertainment that were intended to be homosexuals – Scar from The Lion King qualifies here. However, since that film was released at least two major shifts have occurred: 1) no matter how much it may be played up, the film never outright states Scar is a homosexual, and it wouldn’t be until years later, when watching the film again, did I pick up on that aspect of the character and 2) Scar is clearly the villain. Neither the subtlety nor the villain status would likely be employed today. Additionally, there has been a major push to heavily use non-White characters in children’s entertainment, as well as vilify White people. For example, demands for reparations from the “systemically racist” United States were included in a recent episode of The Proud Family.

Although we may find the roots of the current surge of degeneracy in children’s entertainment in earlier times, a major shift has still occurred, and that change must be examined. In some respects, the Left’s demand to control children’s entertainment appears to be counterproductive. After all, as soon as these kids turn 18 and go to college, or in some cases even in high school, they can be indoctrinated with limited parental oversight. As an example, watch the episode from The Sopranos where AJ is taught to hate an Italian icon, Christopher Columbus, by a leftwing history teacher. This becomes especially odd when one considers that in college, and to a lesser extent in high school, it becomes much easier to keep parents in the dark about what their kids are learning; this is something that is clearly not the case for entertainment aimed at small children. Why not just keep things subtle, like they largely did in the 1990s, and then hit the kids with leftism in high school and college? The Left’s fanaticism on pushing this certainly appears to have created an unnecessary backlash and energized the Right to push back.

The Right must understand just how committed the Left is to their long-term goals. By going as far and as hard as they have, they have created a rightwing backlash that I never thought I would see. I never would have imagined that it would be a Republican who would stand up to Disney in Florida; to what extent Disney was opposed in Florida, it typically came from Democrats who did not like that a private corporation had been allowed to set up its own fiefdom in Central Florida. Regardless, by pushing an extreme leftwing agenda as thoroughly as they did, the backlash is exactly what happened. And judging by the election returns from November, the people of Florida wholeheartedly agreed with Governor Ron DeSantis on this issue. In what was an otherwise underwhelming night for the GOP, DeSantis won in a landslide, transforming Florida into a Deep Red state, something I never imagined a decade ago.

But the Left is willing to take that risk, because they know that if they can survive this rightwing repercussion, they are in a great position to break the back of the Authentic Right for the foreseeable future. To understand what is going on here, we must recognize who forms the backbone of authentic rightwing populist movements. These movements are largely comprised of people from rural backgrounds who move to major cities for work and, in turn, are horrified by the degeneracy and cultural decline, seeing it correctly as an afront to the traditional values of both their country and faith. Both the Legion of the Archangel Michael (The Iron Guard) of Romania and the mass supporters of the Iranian Islamic Revolution fit this archetype. And so does the Dissident Right, as the typical member of the Dissident Right originates from a rural/small town background and was (still is) shocked at the Left’s behavior after: 1) relocating to a metropolitan area for work, 2) attending college, 3) encountering the Left online and realizing just how unhinged they are, and 4) some combination of all of these. Growing up, I was always a pretty tolerant “live and let live” sort of guy until I realized just how thoroughly the Left hated me. During the initial rise of the Dissident Right, sociologists were often perplexed over just how common at least some college education was on the Dissident Right, as they had worked under the assumption that “racism” was the product of a lack in education. In reality, this apparent paradox is easy to figure out, leftwing excesses have radicalized a generation to the Right.

By pushing their agenda so completely, the Left is revealing just how committed they are to long-term victory. They understand that if they can withstand this reactionary backlash, as they did in the 1980s, they will be in a winning position where the threat of a rightwing response has been effectively neutralized. In essence, the younger generations, even those from rural and conservative backgrounds, will no longer form the backbone of authentic rightwing populist movements because no matter how far the Left sinks, all of this will be “normalized.” The Left’s positions will be what they have seen on television since they were small children; thus, creating a situation whereby the Left can do whatever they please. That is what is at stake, and why the Right cannot flippantly dismiss this as “just a kid’s show” for the far more pressing issue of making sure Bill Gates gets a tax cut; the Left is thinking long-term here and the Right must do the same.

For as long as there have been leftwing overreaches, the Left has always had to fear the possibility of the Right’s response, some successful (like the Iranian Revolution or the Spanish Civil War) and some failures (like Conservatism, Inc.). But by taking the risk they are now, by targeting children at a much younger age, the Left has a path to break out of this cycle. The Right must be committed to stopping them.

The post More Than Child’s Play appeared first on Identity Dixie.