No, because you're importing Reddit's problems to here.
It seems to me that more likely hipster culture has appropriate nerd/geek as an external skin.Nerds/geeks have ascended.
Originally, the audience was more like today's Hacker News audience, but less focused on $$$
I don't think that's "normal." Wait a few years."normal" (young liberal) people
What racism is that?
"one quick downvote a few seconds after a post could derail any conversation" Most of them prefer it that way, however. Gives them a sense of power.
Monarchist, nationalist, communitarian, traditionalist.
Evil has always walked the earth, but it doesn't always come at the same level of quantity and quality. Things to think about, before you become a self-help section over there :)
Human resentment has always been with us. If we as a society do not fight it, we get more of it.
What's next?
As individuals, perhaps. As a nation? No -- and we all benefit from that.
The agenda of the right has always been hierarchy and Social Darwinism as means of conserving culture and values. They just can't say that since the left is so powerful these days.
Whether or not any of this is moot is another valid issue. Some say privacy is dead, and from a technological perspective, I tend to agree. People aren't going to stop using cell phones, Facebook, the internet and RFID-equipment shopping just because of well-founded paranoia.