Here’s where I want to repeat a really important point: call and write your Reps. If you want to make change, log off social media and email/call your elected reps and candidates. Especially if you live in a blue or purple district, even if you aren’t a registered Dem. They need to hear from you.
Nowadays, we all spend a lot of time on social media, including this site. But writing directly to politicians is still extremely important, more important than what we post here. Politicians absolutely do keep track of how opinions are trending among voters who bother to contact them directly. They know that those voters are paying attention, and are the most likely to vote, volunteer, and donate.
The author of this piece asks why so many Dem pols still support the most extreme TRA positions. It’s partly because orgs like the ACLU are closely tied to Dems, communicate with them and help raise funds for them. They have not heard as much from parents like us. That is starting to change, but it needs to change more. Politicians need to hear from us.
So take a minute to log off here, call or email your state and federal representatives and let them hear your voice. Don’t do it just once. Make a point to keep contacting them fairly regularly. Get your like-minded friends to do it. This is what starts to change politicians’ minds.
I will never again vote for any candidate that supports this ideology. The future depends on women and children. The future does not exist without women and children.
I haven't been a registered Democrat for 20 years, I'm Unaffiliated. Still, I am a dedicated Enlightenment Liberal -- in the Liberal tradition of John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR, and JFK. Trumpism is an existential threat to our Republic; Trump's megalomania and usurpation of the Constitution will destroy this country's freedom and liberty if not stopped.
I will reluctantly vote for any Democrat or traditional conservative Republican that opposes MAGA, the stakes are that high for the survival of our democracy. That being said, as the opposition party, I certainly urge Democrats to take the bold moves necessary for them to claim the broad political center. That can only happen, though, if they reject Postmodern Theory, 'woke', and the divisive and nonsensical ideology of 'queer' and transgenderism. Democrats must reclaim the Enlightenment liberal values of reason, evidence-based reality, civil discourse, universal human rights, and science -- ironically values that the climate-change-denying, anti-vaccination, and anti-science MAGAs have also rejected.
Democrats will have to redefine their obsession with the "marginalized" that has become exclusively oriented towards the 'queer' and understand that working/middle class Americans who struggle with health care costs, the price of the Trump Tariff Tax, and still ongoing inflation have made them "marginalized", also.
Unfortunately the corporate powers and the mega-wealthy have captured the elites of the Democratic Party (and the Republican Party, too) and they won't be letting go if they can help. So, ultimately I am rather pessimistic.
As I understand it, the Dems decided, and apparently are still deciding, they need trans money to compete with the much bigger money behind the Republicans. Also, Obama was the first trans president; the first to take the trans money in exchange for removing women's right to single-sex protections and provisions and promoting trans (males) as 'women' into positions of power, as well as pushing the diagnosing and medicalising of 'gender dysphoria' onto children. A member of the super rich Pritzker (?) trans family supported him way back in his race for the Senate, pretty surely to keep Hillary and her feminism out of the Oval Office, for their part. For Obama's part he presumably made the deal, hoping to be an inspiration to black Americans and better race relations more broadly, then later to set up a public health system. These backers didn't tell him, presumably, that what they really and ultimately want is for a man to be crowned 'the first woman president', and 'the first woman' to do this, that and the other. Their narcissism and resentment of women combined know no bounds. I reckon the Dems' only chance to get out from under this deal with the devil is to get, if not Kara Dansky, the woman with the most proven integrity on this issue and insight into the Dems' demise and how to turn it around, to step up for the top job, then George Clooney or some other trusted and charismatic man (and similar wife), with maybe Kamala as veep, so that she can begin to redeem herself while being part of the Dems taking public responsibility for the mistake they made and their betrayal of women especially by pushing trans ideology. They must state there will be no more Dem support for the medicalising or social transitioning of children confused about their sex, or for letting males compete in female sports or use female spaces, etc. They need to admit to their members it was a serious error of political judgement to believe trans was some kind of innate identity that needed protecting, or to support the experimental science around transitioning, when it was and is essentially a male fetish and/or delusion that is better not celebrated or supported in the public sphere and is very dangerous to children and vulnerable women especially. They must apologise to womankind and to all parents and children caught in this living nightmare that crosses over into the current epidemic of young-adult child estrangement, a related, rapidly growing problem in the States that is being spread like wildfire on trans-friendly social media. They might even secure Musk money if they did something like that. They would definitely secure the vote and gratitude of many, many women and mothers - and fathers too - who do not want to vote Republican !!!! but who can't support a trans-allied party. The honesty alone would take people's breath away. Politics has become insanely dirty this century. I would imagine if they did this, support would also come from Terfs across the world. If only political pigs might fly...
I think you're overestimating the impact of the party's trans positions on the average Democratic voter. Average people don't have the extensive knowledge or personal experience most here do! They haven't read the stories here. And they certainly won't be basing their votes on this one issue.
Voters don't know about the influence of trans-glorifying social media, and inappropriate gender identity propaganda now being taught in schools, that gives children the idea they are trans -- children who have never before felt any gender dysphoria.
They don't know about instant-affirmation policies, or that many kids declare a trans identity because of past sexual abuse or assault, feelings of social isolation, or just normal discomfort with the rapid body changes of puberty (just to name SOME of the reasons).
They don't know how trans youth are encouraged to cut off their own families and told their non-affirming parents aren't "safe" and don't love them. They don't realize how cult-like the trans community is, and how many young people's lives spiral downwards after beginning wrong-sex hormones.
The trans activists have done a much better job of influencing views than have the gender-critical -- not surprising, because the activist lobby got a head start and is VERY well funded.
The "men in women's sports" issue does have somewhat broader agreement because everyone knows male and female bodies have different athletic abilities. But when it comes to affirmation and treatments for kids who declare a trans identity, THIS is what the average Democratic voter believes:
• Republicans' opposition to gender-affirming care is solely religion-based.
• Puberty blockers have been proven safe and have no side effects. Trans kids will probably commit suicide if they are denied blockers and forced to go through a puberty they don't "identify with".
• Trans children are born that way, just as gay children are. Outside influences play no role. It's cruel to question this when a child says they are trans; and any parents or therapists doing so are evil.
• Medical interventions (hormones and surgeries) are never given to minors, or happen only after extensive exploration and counseling.
• All therapists and doctors support medicalizing trans kids, and there is solid scientific evidence for doing so.
• Trans kids have felt a mismatch between gender and biological sex from a very early age, identifying with the opposite gender all their lives.
• The number of kids who are transgender hasn't changed. It only seems there are more trans kids today than in the past in western societies because it has become more culturally accepted.
• Only a tiny percentage of minors identify as trans.
• Having a DSD means the same as being trans/is what causes trans/is proof that trans is biological/means that the person will also be gender-confused.
• There are hardly any detransitioners, and the persons who do abandon a trans identity do so because of societal pressure and not because they realize they were only acting out of influence in thinking they were trans.
I have absolutely zero confidence that any Democratic politician will be brave enough to break from the stupid and evil narrative they're pushing with trans. They have had plenty of opportunity. Seth Moulton tried to speak on the issue of girls' sports and he was bullied back into submission.
They are weak and cowardly. I regret voting for them for nearly my entire adult life. The only good thing to come out of my daughter being trans-identified is that my eyes were opened to how drastically the party has transformed itself into something unrecognizable.
After the house of cards falls, THEN and only then will these sniveling cowards come out and pretend like they never really supported it after all. Same with all of the news outlets who pushed this crap because "science." They'll all be rushing to act like they're the first and most virtuous to object to the mutilation of our children.
Very good article. It's quite instructive in an alarming sort of way how the Dem-Media Party (as I call it) has not backed off the madness of the Gender Cult even though it's become crystal clear that the Party's position on the subject is a serious political liability.
I say "instructive" because it leads to a conclusion that many of us came to a long time ago: it's not that the Dem-Mediacrats won't change but rather they they can't...no more than a rattlesnake can decide not to be poisonous. The snake is what it is. And after long years of a Frankenstein mutation produced by a toxic ideology that goes beyond transgenderism, the Dem-Media Party also is what it is.
I wish I could share the writer's confidence that all this will doom the Dem-Mediacrats from an electoral standpoint but I don't think that's going to happen...though of course it should. The problem is what I call the Clueless Masses who are morally untethered, extremely manipulable, and incapable of seeing beyond the end of their collective noses.
These are the people who decide elections, and here's the scariest part: it's not that they're bad people. It's just that they're, well, clueless...and have long since been conditioned by popular culture to believe that everyone gets his own truth. That's a recipe for moral disarmament...and it's a mindset that has brought us to the place where we as a nation find ourselves.
A lot of gender critical Democrats implore their fellow party members to "wake up" to the evils of gender ideology. This verbiage implies that the Democratic Party they once knew still exists, and if only it could be awakened by gender critical messengers it would be restored to its old self. I see this hope as the denial stage of grief, in which survivors can't yet face the reality that their loved ones are truly dead. The Democrats in Congress are not just asleep, they know what gender ideology is and they are voting for what it does.
Republicans are also refusing to wake up. They hitched their wagon to Trump, and he now defines their party. Republicans once valued fiscal responsibility, support for US allies, a fair judicial system and free speech, but that's no longer true. Now the illiberal left and right have taken over. I hope there's a way out of this mess.
Three years from now Trump will be out of office. My hope is the democratic party will be gone by then. Because the party that supports trans has to end along with all other institutions that promote trans.
Federal spending as well as consolidation of power in the federal government has increased with every administration, regardless of party. Support for free speech has more recently declined with the American population generally, and a substantial percentage of younger people devalue the right to free speech, a free press, and freedom of association. Many younger people idealize socialism while denying the inherent authoritarianism that accompanies it.
I agree with these points & have been disgusted by the level of enmeshing between Hollywood & politics. But I fear that the real reasons they won’t back down are far darker & deeper.
Genspect today ran a piece on the Virginia contest for Governor and the role of trans politics. If the Republican wins this race maybe the Democrats will wake up.
The Democratic candidate is a good person but wears the party blinders regarding trans.
In general lately I've seen political analysts become willing to acknowledge that the Democratic Party is controlled by special interests who push a radical agenda to which "ordinary" voters do not subscribe. But they've not found a solution to it, because the organized influencers are organized via money & therefore are paid professionals whose jobs are to influence media and pressure politicians whereas "ordinary" voters don't have the resources to mount professional pressure campaigns and other tactics for wooing the party.
This article is right, trans is tearing apart the Democratic Party just like it tears apart families.
Celebrity trans parents may have some sway with D politicians, (and then there's the antifa threat if we're going to be honest here) but don't forget those sweet Big Pharma campaign checks. Pritzker money got Obama into the White House.
Yes, the huge profits of pharmaceuticals, and medical business (doctors, hospitals) is the base of the fortress of corruption in our society. The trans pandemic is just one of the jewels in their vast treasure of oppression. Other aspects are the pandemics of cancer, heart disease and strokes, dementia, drug addiction, mental illness.
What astonishes me is how many intelligent and educated people believe in this garbage. It takes a few seconds of unrestrained logic to figure out that “trans” began less than 20 years ago and that “gender ideology” is as real as angels and unicorns.
Harris didn’t even have to come out in opposition; stridently appending “but leave the kids alone!” would have been enough.
Leftists do not back away from any of their insane positions. Their arrogance and inability to practice humility has kinda served them in many ways-- it gave them the confidence to just bulldoze over every American and democratic principle that might have challenged their ideology or "actvism," and since objectivity apparently doesn't exist to them at all, and because conformity ("the collective") is their primary vehicle, they literally do not hand the cognitive or social ability to self-reflect honestly.
My interactions with some Leftists who used to be my allies (trans/gender ideology and the Left's support of radical Islam was my first red pill that began the unraveling of every other of my Leftist positions and belief system) suggest they actually FEAR reviewing their positions or belief system. When I first discovered, for example, that the "Palestinians" are NOT the "peaceful indigenous local native population," and are instead radical Islamic jihadist terrorists who literally brainwash their kids the moment they're born to become radical jihadists whose sole intent is killing Jews, I went straight to my social networks to show them what I found (my dumb ass thought people would want to know they were wrong, which is something I would want to know). And I had friends who I've known for years immediately call me a "alt-right white supremacist Zionist," and block me. So I sent them the videos of these Palestinian kids being interviewed at UNRWA where the terrorist indoctrination happens, to serve as proof of what I was telling them.
They refused to watch it. They refuse to read the book about where woke ideology comes from (it's Marxism.. literally). And they seemed kinds scared. Some of that fear was fear of falling out of the hive-- they don't want to become a social reject like I did after I publicly criticize the LA riots and tried telling people enforcing immigration law is common sense, normal policy, very legal, and serves our best interests.
They know what the consequences are for disagreeing with the woke mob and since most Leftists are followers (indians, not chiefs) who are content to outsource their thinking to others (whoever made the memes, protest slogans, or uninformed rants on their social media timeline or FYP), conforming to the crowd and toeing the line is their instinct. They are pussies. And they are afraid to face the truth of the very real harm they have done to so many people, so many lives, so many families, so many institutions, so many existential pillars of democracy, American freedom, and Western civilization.
"Democrats will be repeatedly tagged as the trans party". It's not just the trans issue. The word "liberal" means "willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one's own; open to new ideas" - and I see none of that in today's democratic party. So it really is a trans-liberal (fake liberal) party.
Here’s where I want to repeat a really important point: call and write your Reps. If you want to make change, log off social media and email/call your elected reps and candidates. Especially if you live in a blue or purple district, even if you aren’t a registered Dem. They need to hear from you.
Nowadays, we all spend a lot of time on social media, including this site. But writing directly to politicians is still extremely important, more important than what we post here. Politicians absolutely do keep track of how opinions are trending among voters who bother to contact them directly. They know that those voters are paying attention, and are the most likely to vote, volunteer, and donate.
The author of this piece asks why so many Dem pols still support the most extreme TRA positions. It’s partly because orgs like the ACLU are closely tied to Dems, communicate with them and help raise funds for them. They have not heard as much from parents like us. That is starting to change, but it needs to change more. Politicians need to hear from us.
So take a minute to log off here, call or email your state and federal representatives and let them hear your voice. Don’t do it just once. Make a point to keep contacting them fairly regularly. Get your like-minded friends to do it. This is what starts to change politicians’ minds.
I will never again vote for any candidate that supports this ideology. The future depends on women and children. The future does not exist without women and children.
I haven't been a registered Democrat for 20 years, I'm Unaffiliated. Still, I am a dedicated Enlightenment Liberal -- in the Liberal tradition of John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR, and JFK. Trumpism is an existential threat to our Republic; Trump's megalomania and usurpation of the Constitution will destroy this country's freedom and liberty if not stopped.
I will reluctantly vote for any Democrat or traditional conservative Republican that opposes MAGA, the stakes are that high for the survival of our democracy. That being said, as the opposition party, I certainly urge Democrats to take the bold moves necessary for them to claim the broad political center. That can only happen, though, if they reject Postmodern Theory, 'woke', and the divisive and nonsensical ideology of 'queer' and transgenderism. Democrats must reclaim the Enlightenment liberal values of reason, evidence-based reality, civil discourse, universal human rights, and science -- ironically values that the climate-change-denying, anti-vaccination, and anti-science MAGAs have also rejected.
Democrats will have to redefine their obsession with the "marginalized" that has become exclusively oriented towards the 'queer' and understand that working/middle class Americans who struggle with health care costs, the price of the Trump Tariff Tax, and still ongoing inflation have made them "marginalized", also.
Unfortunately the corporate powers and the mega-wealthy have captured the elites of the Democratic Party (and the Republican Party, too) and they won't be letting go if they can help. So, ultimately I am rather pessimistic.
As I understand it, the Dems decided, and apparently are still deciding, they need trans money to compete with the much bigger money behind the Republicans. Also, Obama was the first trans president; the first to take the trans money in exchange for removing women's right to single-sex protections and provisions and promoting trans (males) as 'women' into positions of power, as well as pushing the diagnosing and medicalising of 'gender dysphoria' onto children. A member of the super rich Pritzker (?) trans family supported him way back in his race for the Senate, pretty surely to keep Hillary and her feminism out of the Oval Office, for their part. For Obama's part he presumably made the deal, hoping to be an inspiration to black Americans and better race relations more broadly, then later to set up a public health system. These backers didn't tell him, presumably, that what they really and ultimately want is for a man to be crowned 'the first woman president', and 'the first woman' to do this, that and the other. Their narcissism and resentment of women combined know no bounds. I reckon the Dems' only chance to get out from under this deal with the devil is to get, if not Kara Dansky, the woman with the most proven integrity on this issue and insight into the Dems' demise and how to turn it around, to step up for the top job, then George Clooney or some other trusted and charismatic man (and similar wife), with maybe Kamala as veep, so that she can begin to redeem herself while being part of the Dems taking public responsibility for the mistake they made and their betrayal of women especially by pushing trans ideology. They must state there will be no more Dem support for the medicalising or social transitioning of children confused about their sex, or for letting males compete in female sports or use female spaces, etc. They need to admit to their members it was a serious error of political judgement to believe trans was some kind of innate identity that needed protecting, or to support the experimental science around transitioning, when it was and is essentially a male fetish and/or delusion that is better not celebrated or supported in the public sphere and is very dangerous to children and vulnerable women especially. They must apologise to womankind and to all parents and children caught in this living nightmare that crosses over into the current epidemic of young-adult child estrangement, a related, rapidly growing problem in the States that is being spread like wildfire on trans-friendly social media. They might even secure Musk money if they did something like that. They would definitely secure the vote and gratitude of many, many women and mothers - and fathers too - who do not want to vote Republican !!!! but who can't support a trans-allied party. The honesty alone would take people's breath away. Politics has become insanely dirty this century. I would imagine if they did this, support would also come from Terfs across the world. If only political pigs might fly...
I think you're overestimating the impact of the party's trans positions on the average Democratic voter. Average people don't have the extensive knowledge or personal experience most here do! They haven't read the stories here. And they certainly won't be basing their votes on this one issue.
Voters don't know about the influence of trans-glorifying social media, and inappropriate gender identity propaganda now being taught in schools, that gives children the idea they are trans -- children who have never before felt any gender dysphoria.
They don't know about instant-affirmation policies, or that many kids declare a trans identity because of past sexual abuse or assault, feelings of social isolation, or just normal discomfort with the rapid body changes of puberty (just to name SOME of the reasons).
They don't know how trans youth are encouraged to cut off their own families and told their non-affirming parents aren't "safe" and don't love them. They don't realize how cult-like the trans community is, and how many young people's lives spiral downwards after beginning wrong-sex hormones.
The trans activists have done a much better job of influencing views than have the gender-critical -- not surprising, because the activist lobby got a head start and is VERY well funded.
The "men in women's sports" issue does have somewhat broader agreement because everyone knows male and female bodies have different athletic abilities. But when it comes to affirmation and treatments for kids who declare a trans identity, THIS is what the average Democratic voter believes:
• Republicans' opposition to gender-affirming care is solely religion-based.
• Puberty blockers have been proven safe and have no side effects. Trans kids will probably commit suicide if they are denied blockers and forced to go through a puberty they don't "identify with".
• Trans children are born that way, just as gay children are. Outside influences play no role. It's cruel to question this when a child says they are trans; and any parents or therapists doing so are evil.
• Medical interventions (hormones and surgeries) are never given to minors, or happen only after extensive exploration and counseling.
• All therapists and doctors support medicalizing trans kids, and there is solid scientific evidence for doing so.
• Trans kids have felt a mismatch between gender and biological sex from a very early age, identifying with the opposite gender all their lives.
• The number of kids who are transgender hasn't changed. It only seems there are more trans kids today than in the past in western societies because it has become more culturally accepted.
• Only a tiny percentage of minors identify as trans.
• Having a DSD means the same as being trans/is what causes trans/is proof that trans is biological/means that the person will also be gender-confused.
• There are hardly any detransitioners, and the persons who do abandon a trans identity do so because of societal pressure and not because they realize they were only acting out of influence in thinking they were trans.
This is what we are up against.
I have absolutely zero confidence that any Democratic politician will be brave enough to break from the stupid and evil narrative they're pushing with trans. They have had plenty of opportunity. Seth Moulton tried to speak on the issue of girls' sports and he was bullied back into submission.
They are weak and cowardly. I regret voting for them for nearly my entire adult life. The only good thing to come out of my daughter being trans-identified is that my eyes were opened to how drastically the party has transformed itself into something unrecognizable.
After the house of cards falls, THEN and only then will these sniveling cowards come out and pretend like they never really supported it after all. Same with all of the news outlets who pushed this crap because "science." They'll all be rushing to act like they're the first and most virtuous to object to the mutilation of our children.
Very good article. It's quite instructive in an alarming sort of way how the Dem-Media Party (as I call it) has not backed off the madness of the Gender Cult even though it's become crystal clear that the Party's position on the subject is a serious political liability.
I say "instructive" because it leads to a conclusion that many of us came to a long time ago: it's not that the Dem-Mediacrats won't change but rather they they can't...no more than a rattlesnake can decide not to be poisonous. The snake is what it is. And after long years of a Frankenstein mutation produced by a toxic ideology that goes beyond transgenderism, the Dem-Media Party also is what it is.
I wish I could share the writer's confidence that all this will doom the Dem-Mediacrats from an electoral standpoint but I don't think that's going to happen...though of course it should. The problem is what I call the Clueless Masses who are morally untethered, extremely manipulable, and incapable of seeing beyond the end of their collective noses.
These are the people who decide elections, and here's the scariest part: it's not that they're bad people. It's just that they're, well, clueless...and have long since been conditioned by popular culture to believe that everyone gets his own truth. That's a recipe for moral disarmament...and it's a mindset that has brought us to the place where we as a nation find ourselves.
A lot of gender critical Democrats implore their fellow party members to "wake up" to the evils of gender ideology. This verbiage implies that the Democratic Party they once knew still exists, and if only it could be awakened by gender critical messengers it would be restored to its old self. I see this hope as the denial stage of grief, in which survivors can't yet face the reality that their loved ones are truly dead. The Democrats in Congress are not just asleep, they know what gender ideology is and they are voting for what it does.
Republicans are also refusing to wake up. They hitched their wagon to Trump, and he now defines their party. Republicans once valued fiscal responsibility, support for US allies, a fair judicial system and free speech, but that's no longer true. Now the illiberal left and right have taken over. I hope there's a way out of this mess.
Yes, extremism, cruelty, irrational policies, on both sides is alarming and disheartening.
Three years from now Trump will be out of office. My hope is the democratic party will be gone by then. Because the party that supports trans has to end along with all other institutions that promote trans.
Federal spending as well as consolidation of power in the federal government has increased with every administration, regardless of party. Support for free speech has more recently declined with the American population generally, and a substantial percentage of younger people devalue the right to free speech, a free press, and freedom of association. Many younger people idealize socialism while denying the inherent authoritarianism that accompanies it.
The odds of recovery are not great.
I agree with these points & have been disgusted by the level of enmeshing between Hollywood & politics. But I fear that the real reasons they won’t back down are far darker & deeper.
Genspect today ran a piece on the Virginia contest for Governor and the role of trans politics. If the Republican wins this race maybe the Democrats will wake up.
The Democratic candidate is a good person but wears the party blinders regarding trans.
In general lately I've seen political analysts become willing to acknowledge that the Democratic Party is controlled by special interests who push a radical agenda to which "ordinary" voters do not subscribe. But they've not found a solution to it, because the organized influencers are organized via money & therefore are paid professionals whose jobs are to influence media and pressure politicians whereas "ordinary" voters don't have the resources to mount professional pressure campaigns and other tactics for wooing the party.
This article is right, trans is tearing apart the Democratic Party just like it tears apart families.
Well said! This needs to be read by all voters!🙏🙏🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I wish this article could be required reading for all Democratic leaders and candidates.
Celebrity trans parents may have some sway with D politicians, (and then there's the antifa threat if we're going to be honest here) but don't forget those sweet Big Pharma campaign checks. Pritzker money got Obama into the White House.
Yes, the huge profits of pharmaceuticals, and medical business (doctors, hospitals) is the base of the fortress of corruption in our society. The trans pandemic is just one of the jewels in their vast treasure of oppression. Other aspects are the pandemics of cancer, heart disease and strokes, dementia, drug addiction, mental illness.
What astonishes me is how many intelligent and educated people believe in this garbage. It takes a few seconds of unrestrained logic to figure out that “trans” began less than 20 years ago and that “gender ideology” is as real as angels and unicorns.
Harris didn’t even have to come out in opposition; stridently appending “but leave the kids alone!” would have been enough.
Leftists do not back away from any of their insane positions. Their arrogance and inability to practice humility has kinda served them in many ways-- it gave them the confidence to just bulldoze over every American and democratic principle that might have challenged their ideology or "actvism," and since objectivity apparently doesn't exist to them at all, and because conformity ("the collective") is their primary vehicle, they literally do not hand the cognitive or social ability to self-reflect honestly.
My interactions with some Leftists who used to be my allies (trans/gender ideology and the Left's support of radical Islam was my first red pill that began the unraveling of every other of my Leftist positions and belief system) suggest they actually FEAR reviewing their positions or belief system. When I first discovered, for example, that the "Palestinians" are NOT the "peaceful indigenous local native population," and are instead radical Islamic jihadist terrorists who literally brainwash their kids the moment they're born to become radical jihadists whose sole intent is killing Jews, I went straight to my social networks to show them what I found (my dumb ass thought people would want to know they were wrong, which is something I would want to know). And I had friends who I've known for years immediately call me a "alt-right white supremacist Zionist," and block me. So I sent them the videos of these Palestinian kids being interviewed at UNRWA where the terrorist indoctrination happens, to serve as proof of what I was telling them.
They refused to watch it. They refuse to read the book about where woke ideology comes from (it's Marxism.. literally). And they seemed kinds scared. Some of that fear was fear of falling out of the hive-- they don't want to become a social reject like I did after I publicly criticize the LA riots and tried telling people enforcing immigration law is common sense, normal policy, very legal, and serves our best interests.
They know what the consequences are for disagreeing with the woke mob and since most Leftists are followers (indians, not chiefs) who are content to outsource their thinking to others (whoever made the memes, protest slogans, or uninformed rants on their social media timeline or FYP), conforming to the crowd and toeing the line is their instinct. They are pussies. And they are afraid to face the truth of the very real harm they have done to so many people, so many lives, so many families, so many institutions, so many existential pillars of democracy, American freedom, and Western civilization.
Well said.
"Democrats will be repeatedly tagged as the trans party". It's not just the trans issue. The word "liberal" means "willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one's own; open to new ideas" - and I see none of that in today's democratic party. So it really is a trans-liberal (fake liberal) party.
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