8chan served with search warrant [pdf]
From what I can tell, &#x27;polite&#x27; and &#x27;respectable&#x27; culture (a.k.a the dominant culture) in America is center-left if not minimally progressive. At least, this is the case for social issues.<p>In the 90&#x27;s, the dominant counterculture was some version of leftism. On the fringes, there was vitriol and anger towards the &#x27;polite&#x27; and publicly &#x27;respectable&#x27; dominant culture of the time - some version of evangelical and catholic right-wing ideology. Atheism was still edgy. Raging against an undefinable machine had artistic meaning.<p>We can throw in as many other causal factors as we want in an attempt to explain the current socio-political state of the country, but we can&#x27;t really deny that it looks as if the new counterculture exists somewhere on the right.<p>----<p>I remember the days when John Stewart was edgy. Now, you&#x27;d be hard pressed to find a mainstream comedian, who focuses on politics (Colbert, Noah, etc.), that isn&#x27;t clearly center-left. The coastal, cosmopolitan, affluent, center-left culture is practically a monolithic gate keeper of what is and isn&#x27;t &#x27;respectable&#x27;.