Todd Damon: Purity spiral theory on display

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Published: 06-30-2025 11:29 AM

Victim culture and the “woke” purity spiral that has swept the nation and helped to destabilize communities is running out of gas. The vast majority of Americans can’t distance themselves fast enough. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, a purity spiral is a theory where increasingly extreme views and behaviors are rewarded, while nuance and dissenting opinions are punished. This moral feeding frenzy along with horrible policy ideas united Americans against this radical craziness.

Let’s take a look at the “No Kings” protest. Except for the confusing and inconsistent massaging, this well-funded, top down movement held in cities and towns across our great nation on June 14 did everything right. They dumped their corporate signage, as they were told. They successfully leveraged the media into doing their heavy lifting. Still (98.53%) of all Americans decided they had better things to do! This left a meager 1.46% of the population to its silliness.

Do we really need large consulting firms explaining to us how Donald Trump was elected?

Todd Damon

Greenfield

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