You guys are missing my point. It's not just about changing policy, which has been happening for a while. It's that the left, especially the far left, has learned that it can control the narrative by silencing their opponents institutionally. This isn't a battle of ideas, but, instead suppression of ideas enforced by a media dominated by the left, an entertainment industry dominated by the left, and academic industry dominated by the left, a tech industry dominated by the left, and massive corporations that are increasingly becoming dominated by the left. This last group is concerning to me, because businesses are adapting to give them a competitive advantage, and the influence from the left is too great to ignore. Businesses that have made the switch ideologically are benefitting, not from the consumers, but from other institutional powers. To make this worse, the progressive use of race, sex, and gender has become tied to the destruction of capitalism, and the businesses that are adopting progressive policies are positioning themselves to be considered for monopolies if the system were to change. So, when I say they are using culture, I am not saying they are changing hearts and minds, but instead creating taboos that they use to silence their ideological opponents for the sake of ushering in their preferred form of governance.

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