I’m from North Carolina. No West Coast echo chamber here. Lemme splain.

The first thing we have to do is acknowledge this: Republicans are racist, sexist and homophobic. Their god has told them over and over again that black people are evil, women are inferior and gays deserve to die. The people who disagree with them on that are their enemy, that they are currently fighting and winning a holy war against.

“The Left” are their enemy. Back during the Obama administration, The Left would self-describe with the term “woke.” So The Right started using this as a slur for The Left. Being okay with black people is woke. Being okay with gays is woke. Being okay with trans is a whole new flavor of woke. These same kinds of people tend to also be into environmentalism and such. That is also woke, of their enemy. Hence giant pickup trucks and performative fuel wasting.

“But these people you’re talking about tend to like old Star Trek, and it’s been progressive since the 1960’s!” Yeah they mostly don’t see that. Because in both TOS and TNG, a white man is in charge, even if there are women and blacks on the crew. Old Trek tends to devolve into feats of military badassery or at the very least brinksmanship. Picard had a habit of out-badassing Romulans over the telephone. What about DS9? Didn’t watch it; stars a black man. Don’t like that show. What about Voyager? Watched a few episodes when Jeri Ryan joined the cast, didn’t get into it. Enterprise? Wasn’t on any channels I could get at the time.

Meanwhile, there has been a decline in Star Trek’s maturity level. TNG was a very mature show, and not in the Game of Thrones “They get their tits out” sense of the word. TNG is a show about high functioning grownups. I’ve heard it called “competency porn.” There’s an episode where Data is acting Captain of the ship, with Worf as his acting FO. Worf acts impatient with Data, and Data asks to speak with him in the ready room, and delivers a reprimand. He speaks in a stern but not raised voice. There is no shouting. Worf accepts his reprimand, comes to agree with Data’s way of thinking. Data dismisses him, and then checks in on a personal note, regretting if having to reprimand him has damaged their friendship, and Worf replies that he acknowledges he was out of line and that he’d like to remain friends. They behave like the kind of professional adults that should be in command of a warship.

That started slipping in the later shows, ENT went kind of sophomoric with all the attempts at sex appeal. JJ Abrams made a couple movies, during one Uhura tells Kirk during a critical shuttle flight to wait so that she could have a lover’s spat with Spock. On Discovery, they gossiped and backtalked like high schoolers, and then there’s a gag on Starfleet Academy where a cadet sheepishly admits to having swallowed her combadge. Apparently she put it in her mouth like a teething toddler.

Funny thing about the right wing, a lot of them have served in the military, or if they haven’t, they fetishize it. Old Trek was made by WWII veterans; Roddenberry flew B-17s for the USAAF and Doohan stormed Juno Beach on D-Day. Starfleet is a space navy, one that has gone more and less military over time but it’s still a military setting. Another aspect that makes Trek interesting and palatable to the right. Military service and especially combat makes one a “real man.”

There is no shortage of Hollywood types doing interviews listing off all the various “progressive” messages they intend to shoehorn into their works, Alex Kurtzman is among them. The thing is…they’re not delivering a message. Old Trek delivered messages. New Trek virtue signals. In the same way The Right tunes their trucks to run rich, “rolling coal” to performatively waste fuel, to be seen doing something The Enemy doesn’t like, New Trek (and indeed most of what Hollywood has done over the last decade) have been full of performative faggotry. “The cast is mostly female, trans and brown and practically all of them are gay except for one token white dude whose job it is to be always wrong.” The Left likes it because they think The Right won’t.

I want you to think about this: The Left is depicting themselves in these shows, yeah? By making all the characters brown and gay and retarded? No seriously, the more “Progressive messaging” and “representation” they cram into these shows, the characters get dumber and more childish. They’re depicting themselves as stupid pathetic children. Which makes it very easy for The Right to demonize them as dumbass manbabies who never grew up and shouldn’t be in charge of anything important.

Explain to me why they’re doing that.