I wish you guys would get a new term so I could change my siggie. It's 7 degrees here and I would prefer something else, to be honest.
Snowflakes are remarkable, each individual but wrought from the same environment and conditions. They are ephemeral but in unison they can create awesome displays or total havoc. I like REAL snowflakes. You guys aren't that far off the mark, though, come to think of it.
How about buttercup?
Unfortunately, I don't think that the popularity of snowflake will vanish soon.
Its' etymology in popular culture goes back to
Fight Club I believe, which is sort of paradoxical really. It's more used by anarchists to describe statists that are in a condition of cognitive dissonance when they finally come to see the truth about the dying system they are living in.
Once you understand that the reason political solutions to problems never work, and the more they are tried and seem to make things worse, it is not because this party, or that party is worse than the other, it's because it is the system that is meant to be the solution, now only operates, and will ever only operate to benefit itself.
Most folks when educated to this reality, would rather be angry, lash out, or are too fragile to acknowledge this, (conservatives included.) Thus . . . snowflake.
Tell a Democrat that the Deep State killed JFK, they will lash out at you and tell you to put on a tin foil hat, IOW, they are a snowflakes. Tell a Republican that the Deep State was complicit with the terrorists in 9/11 and helped in launching a never ending faux war on terror, they will have the same reaction, they too are the snowflakes, they also are too fragile to accept reality. Google the term, "Hyper-normalization."
