False history accrues as it’s dangerous to oppose real power.

According to a narrative that’s currently popular in the mainstream media and the more lowbrow end of academia, the recent surge in popularity of the American nationalist right was caused by the radicalization of nerds. Dweeby white manchildren, so the story goes, retreated into video games, the science fiction fandom, and anonymous online forums like 4chan, and formed misogynistic, resentment-fueled subcultures within them. These neckbearded neo-Nazis gradually coalesced into the ‘alt-right,’ an internet hate machine that contributed greatly to Toupee Hitler’s otherwise inexplicable rise.

Very few people understand that what’s happening in the world right now is one of the major re-alignments that occur every 40-60 years or so, and that we’re long overdue for. It probably should’ve happened coincident with the Great Recession but we weaseled out of it. Now its time is due; it is and will be a worldwide transformation. It’s not just the US undergoing major changes as a result of the near-collapse of neoliberalism and its entire mode of operation.

Certainly none of the American left has a clue about any of this — obsessed as they are by Russia-gate and Trump — and are farcically useless, though still alas better than their competition on the right.

Ignore the last half of that article. I have little idea what it’s going on about or why. But the first half is relevant to our current situation, and accurate.