Put on your tinfoil hat, anons.
A few months ago, while browsing /pol/, I came across a political cartoon. I can't find it for the life of me right now, but it went something like this: a chess game between the US and the USSR. The US won the game, but the USSR managed to get a piece, make a move if you will, on the US' brain, saying: "checkmate."
The picture has been stuck in the back of my head since then. What if it's not far from the truth?
The Soviet Union made its last thump in the 90s. And the first widespread case of political correctness came out of the 90s, targeting the disenfranchised and those looking for validation. Soon it grew into obscurity, left to grow and inject itself into modern feminism, a "positive" word in people's language.
We can't really deny that our enemies are largely Marxist. They're largely overeducated people with no grasp of the real world, but who want to pursue Marxism, and the only way to do so is through force. i.e. Communists. Because the only way Marxism actually works is by forcing people to participate in the system and pull their weight.
We are dealing with the same type of people we were dealing with fifty years ago. People who want to use force to enact their doomed socioeconomic political system. People who do not want criticism and will rain hell on dissenters. People who want to hijack education and feed the masses what THEY want people to think.
Are we dealing with the remnants of the Cold War? Are these people the final gift from the Soviet Union? Has it come upon our shoulders to stomp the tumor before it grows?
I'm beginning to think that this battle is far far far far more than just ethics in journalism or shitting up tumblurrets. The center to left media has been hijacked by ideologues pushing the same agenda, and it's not like the state can do much about it even if they knew something was off: the media is protected by the state's own guidelines. These people have hijacked most of modern higher education. They're producing our scientists, engineers, and most importantly, they're producing dead weight who will have nothing but contempt for the Capitalist system, or so they think, that failed them: no useful skills, a useless degree, and $100k of inescapable, ever-growing debt. They're not only pumping out new recruits, they're essentially sabotaging our competitiveness in the world stage, whether they know it or not.
Am I just being tinfoily here or could there be a connection?