Number 6 above is a big one. Actually working hard for a day, week, month will certainly change your perspective on your life, community, and government.

They’re almost like the same nerds who get really really into a specific fantasy world (the Tolkien fan boys, the Trekkies, the Star Wars nerds, the Marvel nerds, the Pokémon nerds, the Harry Potter nerds), only instead of some sword ‘n’ sorcery sci-fi epic, their obsession is with progressive SJW Marxism. They love to speak in their fantasy language the same way the Trekkies speak Klingon and the Tolkien nerds speak Elvish. They’ve got the same kinds of conferences and costumes and performative rituals. They both create their own obsessive, internal celebrity culture. They react in extreme collective hive mind outrage when their favorite properties are encroached on. And the energy feels the same. Some SJW NPC expressing condescending shock that you cannot name all 36 genders is like a Tolkien nerd going up to a middle-aged plumber like, “Dude, you don’t know the difference between Sauron and Saruman?!? Next you’re gonna tell me Tom Bombadil is a horseman from the kingdom of Rohan snort snort snort!”

The difference is the old school nerds just obsessed over this stuff privately and left the rest of us out of it, whereas the Marxist nerds have overtaken society and the levers of power and are forcing everyone to play along with their fantasy universe.

Because they are a separatist culture