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If you have never been to a strip club a common prop is a shower on the dance floor. The strippers climb in and get doused while dancing around and being showered with tips.

A while back one of these clubs got their shower shut down by a government enforcement agency. The complaint? The shower wasn't handicapped accessible, meaning that any strippers who were confined to wheelchairs would be unable to use it.

Here's the thing though: that story is from the 1990's. Everything we are seeing now is just a replay of the last PC wave. And if we are curious as to how this one will end we should probably examine how that one sputtered out.

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"If Biden’s child credit were to somehow be made permanent, it would change the country more than every expression of social justice politics ever made. Yet no one within that movement seems even to think in these terms."

In my more sanguine moments I think this is how the more materialist left can take advantage of the Woke moment. The right sees (accurately) that the most vocal and visible elements of the left are motivated by symbolic fights over wokeness or whatever. They also understand (accurately) that their own constituents on the right are primarily motivated by owning the libs in those largely symbolic fights. So both sides engage in the symbolic battle over meaningless bullshit like Neera Tanden's nomination and critical race theory, while a hugely important benefit for children gets slipped into the ARP with surprisingly little publicity or controversy.

What I'm saying is, it's a nice time to have Bernie as the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.

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