Yes they were culturally irrelevant in the 80s which is why the Left had to reinvent itself in the 90s under Clinton who pandered hard to an apolitical Gen X after suffering humiliating election losses to Reagan and Bush I.
Also I hate to break this to you but the Left didn't take over education. Academia's always been a hotbed for Leftist ideology and was ground zero for the Hippie culture of the 60s and 70s.
Point is these things come in cycles just like the New Left fell out of the cultural mainstream to make way for the Moral Majority so too will Woke Culture.
They went absent through the 80's because actions were going on behind the scenes of society. that doesn't make them irrelevant, just absent in their actions or not transparent which are two different things.
Yes, but there are magnitudes of leftist ideology. I know plenty of "leftist." Who do not believe this country should sell out the tax payers at a tune of 120 billion (approx) to illegals, or genocide White people. There are multiple groups of every political wing, this extreme version is not normal. They have carried over, it's like comparing cults. Many small time cults had no influence. They literally vanished after a few months to a few years. Then you get cults like Scientology, who not only gained influence, but have been documented as literally infiltrating our government. Just because we don't hear anything similar from them currently, doesn't mean in a vacuum they aren't currently occurring, and even if they did, you wouldn't know about it until far later if it ever gets found out.
And also when you mention hippies like I said, some teacher spouting hug the trees, is not equivalent to the same thing as a group wanting America to be flooded with illegals, and a hatred for a particular race.
Yes, I understand most people think it is merely a social zeitgeist or what have you, I don't agree with that analysis, because each of these new cycles is creating a more escalated (in extremism) group. In a sense, Communist started out as "just a random political party" too. They didn't become extreme or cause issues for societies (historical issues) in a day. It took years, and parties like the communist also vanished to the public eye in historical over view, but there's a difference, between some random extreme party that showed up once and disappeared and the communist who show up cause major issues, vanish from societies view, and then reappear causing more trouble, or the likes of Anitfa joining these groups which were literally a group of communist who were as violent as the Nazi's in 1930's Germany. (The group even waves the same flag as that group just slightly altered, it's not a coincidence they dawn the lable and act the same)
Like I said when you see the evidence, that these aren't just hippies hugging trees, and are joined with far more extreme groups who have subverted cultures in the past, I merely warn this belief that they'll just vanish or that this is momentary zeitgeist hasn't been proven yet more than expected based on a false premise of these groups.
In other words, a social cyle in society of right wing and left wing gaining power, is not the same as a symbolic analogy communist and corporatist or even fascist switching power through a society. One is quite normal, the other is a dire warning or something to be weary of in a society. You may disagree and think it's merely a momentary lapse, but I heavily disagree with what we've witnessed from this group over time and re-emerging over and over again. I believe people are underestimating them, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.
