SJW's and the Temperance Movement

The ongoing freakout of "the left" in the wake of a populist revival in the United States and western Europe is reminiscent of the temperance movement in the United States in many ways.

When Trump was elected, the people who voted for Hillary Clinton, a corporate whore, influence peddler and warmonger, were easily persuaded they were morally superior to the people who voted for Trump. The MSM and NGOs fed that fantasy on a daily basis on social media, and their cult went into a parallel universe. In their mind, the people who weren't in the cult were evil. It's hard to believe this freakout has lasted as long as it has, and who knows what turn it will take if Trump is re-elected, which seems very likely at this point.

Prohibition was a very long freakout (1920-1933) by comparison, and was preceded by a decades long agitation against alcohol consumption. The SJW's are the heirs of the temperance movement. The formula of using the government to interfere in the minutia of people's lives to force them to be "good" in the mundane terms of busybody moralizers is the identical.

The terms of the moralizers change from season to season and decade to decade. There's no underlying principle that drives them, so while today's moralizer clucks her tongue at transphobes, if you transported that person to 1870 she might be clucking at homosexuals and sodomy and railing against drink.