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Watching the modern left scramble for attention has become a national sideshow, and nobody should pretend this is harmless. A recent uproar came after a TikToker staged an over-the-top performance that plays like a caricature of womanhood, a spectacle designed to provoke applause from a sympathetic online audience rather than to elevate any meaningful conversation. The stunt was not art or activism; it was manufactured theater aimed at monetizing identity and normalizing the absurd.
Conservative commentators were right to call out the grotesque theater for what it is: an attention economy feeding on cultural confusion. The influencer’s video — full of costume, exaggerated poses, and cringe-friendly lines about being the “hottest” they’ll ever be — proves the point that leftist identity politics rewards performance over substance. When women’s dignity and the distinctions that protect them are reduced to a cheap punchline for clicks, it’s time for people of principle to speak up and call the circus out.
Meanwhile a once-respected cultural role — the poet as conscience of a people — has been hijacked by the political class and used as another megaphone for partisan theater. Amanda Gorman’s recent appearance at the Democratic National Convention drew cheers from the crowd but also scorn from critics who saw the poem as politicized sloganeering rather than true poetry, a moment that underscored how the left now weaponizes culture for rallies instead of enriching it. The performance illustrated a sad trade-off: sentiment and slogans replacing craft and seriousness in the name of activism.
This is not mere taste-policing; it’s about standards and the survival of a culture that recognizes excellence, truth, and the dignity of the human person. When elites traffic in performative acts and hollow rhetoric, they hollow out institutions — from art to education to family life — until all that’s left is a noisy marketplace of grievance and spectacle. Conservatives must refuse to applaud the degradation and instead demand that art, public speech, and even social media return to higher purposes than clicks and theatrical virtue signaling.
Hardworking Americans don’t want to be lectured or gaslit by celebrities pretending outrage or ingenuity; they want honest culture that supports strong families, clear standards, and common sense. The remedy is simple: push back in our communities, reward creators who build rather than tear down, and teach the next generation to value craft over attention. If we reclaim our culture, we’ll not only stop the cringe — we’ll restore pride, purpose, and respect to the public square.
