Here we have an ideology that is routinely shielded from scrutiny. Its critics, silenced. Those sympathetic to its critics, silenced also. Rarely do its most staunch supporters practice apologetics, advocacy for the causes it promotes is virtually nonexistent. The primary reason a person would elect to become liberal is to avoid having to suffer the things that non-liberals are subject to.

Despite having a grip on mainstream entertainment and most news outlets, and effectively running the internet with YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Reddit all demonstrating proudly their preferences for liberal causes, liberalism's power is not absolute. People have simply chosen to withdraw from public discourse and instead, they vote. Clearly, despite a monopoly on academia and most forums of intellectual discourse, there is still healthy opposition to liberalism.

Seeing this and knowing that older people tend to become more conservative with age, as their families grow and develop, and seeing as how the bulk of the baby boomers generation is aging and will eventually pass on, amidst other trends, I simply ask the question...

How much longer will the radical social change that started in the 60's continue to last, considering that it seems to have reached its peak during the Obama administration?

That downvote makes a very convincing argument. Anyone else care to weigh in?

As an obvious follow up or spin off to the existing recently closed thread on Trump/"Trumpism", it's a bit too soon to recap essentially the same discussion.

For the record, all reputation actions will be purged from both that topic and this one, and we are investigating removing voting from our off topic forum (having it turned off was a feature our forum software provider removed in an update, not an intentional decision).