It is HARDER to be an optimist and it’s easier and cooler to say, “I deal with REALITY and by saying these dark things I’m simply being REALISTIC...”.
Such retorts prove very seductive to a conservative audience because a large fraction of them have become conservative specifically in reaction to being asked to believe something patently UNrealistic, or to live in some utterly unrealistic way (”The earth has a fever and the oceans are boiling...”).
So embracing pessimism risks appearing to be the antidote.
BUT IT IS NOT.
Chanting shibboleths of declinism is especially a good way to lose YOUNG PEOPLE, and a perverseley large fraction of freepers view losing young people as CONFIRMATION they’re on the right, conservative track..!
And that is why the left need simply promise drugs, non-judgementalism and some unclean form of sex, and then they’ve hooked them, totally without resorting to logic and evidence.
IT IS HARDER TO KEEP SOLDIERING ON but it is the proper path and it is what Ronald Reagan would tell us to do.
He wouldn’t even think about it.
Dark things!?!?!? You are too dramatic!! ROFLOL!!!