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There's a reason wokeism is fastest growing religion in the world.

If they keep eating one another so publicly and randomly, they won't achieve the necessary internal stability.

Successful authoritarian movements have a clear set of rules that make you safe as a member, and only turn to internal purges once they destroyed any external opposition.

Are you saying that they haven't destroyed all (effective) external opposition?

Locally (universities), maybe.

As far as the entire USA or perhaps the entire Western world goes, no.

What is the reason?

I believe it is natural human social behaviour that is simply emerging again after a long quiet period after the dissolution of organized religion. IMO, all the horrible mob mentality and violence that used to be blamed on religion, really didn't have much to do with religion or its associated belief system.. rather it's just ugly group and social dynamics that reemerge the moment people come back together under any umbrella. Turning away from religion wasn't the achievement we estimated it to be, much of the problematic elements associated with it persist unabated.

Even non-religious people have been saying for _generations_ that mass turning away from religion without redirecting the genuine human needs it fulfills was going to be trouble.

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