What they want is for everyone to shut up and follow the leader. The Leftist leader, whoever it is. The leader will be manipulated behind the scenes by the truly powerful elite. The rest of us are supposed to be so afraid to speak up that we just silently follow the leader.
The cancel culture is used to generate fear. People are canceled in order to generate fear in the rest of us. Once canceled, you might as well be dead. You can never be forgiven or restored. This is the basis of the fear.
Today, there are certain issues that are used to determine who gets canceled. Tomorrow there will be other issues. The objective is not to improve society or establish justice or any of the other baloney that we are hearing. The objective is to silence all opposition and establish absolute obedience. Not to create a better world, but to solidify the base of power and eliminate all opposition.
Absolute power supported by terror.
Absolute power supported by terror = 1984