The point of all this, stretching back to the beginnings of the war on sexual identity in the 60s, is dehumanization. It's a concerted political effort to rewrite human nature, to destroy the natural bond between men and women so they don't form families independent of the State.
The Left has always understood that you have to destroy something before you can rebuild it. This applies to human nature too. The quest to create New Soviet Man, a more hive-minded human more useful to collectivist, begins with demolishing the old understanding of human nature.
This particular element of human nature, our sexuality, also ties into the Left's conviction that humanity is a virus and population growth is evil - especially among the hated Middle Class, which under racialized Marxism has been redefined as the "white Middle Class."
A HUGE amount of leftist thought is devoted to the principle that childbirth is evil, unborn babies are parasitic clumps of cells, the Earth is overpopulated, the titanic carbon footprint of the First World middle class is killing the planet, motherhood is slavery, etc.
You can't miss the pattern when you see it all listed in one place like that: the Left bitterly hates the traditional model of young men and women coming together in marriage at a relatively early age and raising large families, which happens to be vital to demographic health.
For decades now, the Left has been at war with every aspect of culture and biology that would lead young men and women to be fruitful and multiply. Everything from the sexualization of young children to the endless attacks on masculinity and femininity serve this end.
Sexualizing young children destroys the allure of young adult romance, the rush of discovery and bloom of passion that can lead young men and women into marriage, with good cultural guidance. It also takes young girls out of the equation by giving them to older men.
And this remorseless attack on masculinity and femininity - THE dominant obsession of left-wing culture today, as they assault "gender roles" from every possible angle - is creating generations of young people who just don't mate the way healthy culture and demographics require.
That's where all of this is headed. That's the real target of all this heavy artillery, everything from trans fascism to obsessions with "toxic masculinity," bullying women away from feminine roles, and replacing lingerie models with feminist scolds. The target is youth.
You see, all that masculine and feminine gender-role stuff the Left is teaching us to hate and reprogram has a tendency to bring young men and women together with great gusto. They chase each other, and they don't just "hook up" in a healthy culture - they CONNECT.
And when they make that connection, they tend to do the one thing that is absolutely, mathematically, biologically necessary for healthy demographic growth and social stability: they start having children young, and many have more than two.
In every imaginable way, we are being reprogrammed to avoid that tendency, to devalue that connection - to strip it of cultural, moral, and religious significance, to program young people with alternative, and much less fruitful, senses of their sexuality. It's total war on lust.
The great thing about healthy cultures is they acknowledge human nature, including young men and women lusting for each other, and channel it into healthy avenues. They create vibrant social power grids that run off that vast energy.
Unhealthy societies do nothing to guide that energy. Totalitarian societies destroy it, because young people coming together and forming stable, independent, prosperous families is the last thing they want. /end
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The thing about the Ashli Babbitt case is that we just spent the past year, and much of the previous decade, establishing that cops are not automatically justified in using lethal force against someone committing a crime - not even if they resist arrest or attack the cops.
There is a vast disconnect between the white-hot debate over police use of force in 2020, and post-Ferguson, and shrugging off Babbitt's death with "eh, she was involved in a riot, clean shoot, we don't even have to know who shot her or exactly why."
Before Jan. 6, we left off our Great National Debate on the use of force with the Abolish the Police Party insisting it scarcely matters what a suspect was doing when the police used force against them. The biography of the suspect and records of the cops are more important.
DNC Media's Pyongyang-style obsession with painting Biden as defeating Putin is some of the worst garbage reporting yet. Putin mopped the floor with Biden, and everyone on Earth outside of U.S. newsrooms knows it. Putin was ENJOYING HIMSELF. It was a romp.
Our media is trying to get its bunks rocking by fantasizing about Biden giving Putin a firm handshake. The enduring moments of this meeting, the things that will be noted and remembered around the world, are Biden in retreat, submissive and confused, backing down from his hype.
Biden helplessly pleading with Putin not to cyberattack vital infrastructure targets. Biden nodding dumbly when asked if he trusts Putin, after all that bluster about putting the "killer" in his place. Putin getting pipeline and arms concessions while the U.S. gets nothing.
Three factors behind a genuine political revolution in the making:
1. Rising inflation, middle class realizing it's under attack
2. Wuhan lab leak story shows people how relentlessly they were lied to in 2020
3. Grassroots pushback against Critical Race Theory insanity
If the GOP gets smart (big if!) they'll work those factors into a winning midterm and 2024 campaigns. They need to run a tight, coordinated offense. Don't just grouse about inflation and disappointing unemployment reports - talk about the Dems' deliberate War on the Middle Class.
Middle class life isn't just about consumerism, about having a car or a nice smartphone. It's about political and economic FREEDOM, and how they are inextricably entwined. It's about owning capital, owning your future, not depending on government handouts.
Heads-up for NeverTrumpers: the Left's new tactic of all-out "Resistance" would be applied with equal zeal against your Romney-style Gentleman Loser candidates, in the unlikely event any of them should reach the White House. They think it worked, so they'll do it again.
Have no illusions that Democrats would be willing to reach across the aisle and work with some milquetoast moderate GOP-E placeholder president who agrees in advance to retreat on every issue the Left thinks is important and swears off fighting in the Culture Wars.
The new tactic of Resistance will be invoked against ANY GOP president. The weaponized bureaucracy will be turned against them, just as it was with Trump. Their election will be declared "illegitimate" by the same Dems who currently shriek that questioning elections is treason.
Great @MarkSteynOnline column about how conservatives who win elections just end up keeping the seats warm until society-destroying left-wingers take power again:
Let me take a stab at explaining the persistence of this sad phenomenon...
@MarkSteynOnline As Steyn likes to put it: "When Republicans win, they're in office; when Democrats win, they're in power."
A big difference between the two is having the infrastructure to exercise power. You won the election, you've got juice, but you need transmission lines and transformers.
@MarkSteynOnline In addition to their other problems - timidity in the face of media assaults, prioritizing deliverable political goods to big donors over keeping promises to voters, disdain for their base that grows once they're in D.C. - Republicans lack the infrastructure for power.
Marxist-influenced political movements have a predilection toward election-rigging and ballot-box stuffing because they think "false consciousness" makes elections a joke anyway. They don't hesitate to cheat a system they view as inherently corrupt in the service of Justice.
This is one of the things that makes Marxism so durable - it gives adherents a moral framework for breaking the rules, subverting society, and winning at all costs. A key element is the belief that people are bought or brainwashed by the corrupt order, tricked into voting for it.
Since capitalism instills people with "false consciousness" - tricks them into thinking they're happy and free, programs them to irrationally fight against socialists who only want to help them - their votes aren't really honest, so stealing the vote is not really a crime.