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« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2021, 02:24:41 PM » |
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« Edited: August 07, 2021, 02:44:05 PM by Anaphoric-Statism »
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Yay, I started a trend
If by "woke" you mean the political system is acknowledging and trying to remedy social inequalities, rather than any meaning imagined by those who use it as a pejorative, the answer starts more in the 1960s. The civil rights movement moved along as fast as realistically possible, IMO, and actually got expedited with political capitol gained through Kennedy's assassination. The first order of business is to stop the counterculture from transforming into the insular 1970s New Age movement as we know it, because that scared Christians straight and fueled the Evangelical religious revival. Keep the counterculture together and focused on political battles rather than "human potential". Less attempts to separate from society, as with the communes, and more protests trying to change it. Nixon can be elected if he gets taken down by Watergate, but avoid a successful Reagan presidency or something like it by having efforts to rejuvenate the New Deal Coalition succeed. Maybe Reagan gets elected in 1976 and starts some failed anti-drug crusades in Latin America that have him and his ideas discredited by 1980. As with the original prohibition, people realize that tougher policing won't solve the crime wave, and other solutions are pursued. AIDS is discovered earlier and contained, and gay marriage starts getting legalized state-by-state throughout the 1980s before a Supreme Court case over states not recognizing other states' marriage licenses legalizes it nationwide. Have the Equal Rights Amendment pass. Make intersectionality a tenant of the 1990s' third-wave feminism rather than the 2010s' fourth. Avoid 9/11 and the rollbacks that fueled. The US should then be in good enough shape to accept trans and non-binary people in the 2010s- maybe even the late 2000s- without much trouble.
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