The collective protests and mob riots are necessary for the radical political change that often takes decades or even hundreds of years to take effect. Dismissing it as pure madness is extremely shortsighted. The question though remains if one is willing to sacrifice one's butt on the altar of an ambivalent and highly disputable idea of the so called humanity progress or just live and make the most of it. Only, I wonder if I could "make the most of it" in the Republic of Gilead. Red coats are cute but the rest sucks. Collective "madness" can have an enormous impact on all those who would happily remain bystanders and force them to take a stand by threatening the cherished individual boundaries. Then opposing the collective boils down to basic, primitive, emotions too.
This is a fucking seesaw of conditioned goldfish idiocy.
4 years ago it was the opposite. Everyone was sick of LGBT-Z46☆%, so they yearned for the 1950's and turned out in droves to elect their guy.
And I am glad you brought up the French.
Remember Sarkozy?
French journalists have called him an "hyper-président", to insist on his will to solve many important problems and his omnipresence in all domains. Some media even compared him with Napoléon Bonaparte and Louis XIV to refer to his will to control and change everything. While the popularity of the president was very high at the beginning of his mandate, it rapidly declined during the first months of his mandate, and the government faced several protests.
The French were the first on this too. I don't think it changes as much as endlessly recycles itself time and again. It's like a mobius strip.
When do we get the promised land of genuine indifference where the liberal militant queers legitimately don't care the conservative NRA redneck across the street flies a confederate flag? Is that possible?
The part where people stop getting angry at the things others think. Can the slave morality mindset of How can you not believe in ______!?" be broken?
Or are there several stages where offensive people are stood in front of a tribunal, declared obsolete, and liquidated first?