The drive to normalize pedophilia, dovetailing with the longstanding left-wing push to sexualize children to separate them from parents, is one of the biggest, best-funded, and most aggressive culture war offensives to date, but it was largely conducted in secret until now.
This junk didn't START during the pandemic - that's when it was DISCOVERED by parents who looked over their kids' shoulders and were horrified to discover what was on those remote-learning screens. Kids were hit with years of sexual and political indoctrination before that.
Outraged parents who formed grassroots pushback movements were stunned to discover huge batteries of political artillery were already pointed at their scrappy little bands. They realized they were belatedly joining a battle that was long in progress - nearly over, in fact.
Sexualizing children is important to the Left because it separates them from their parents. As we've finally been discovering, thanks to some courageous samizdat citizen reporting, sexual indoctrinators in schools almost invariably tell the kids NOT to talk with their parents.
That's not just to prevent outraged parents from banding together and putting a stop to this offensive garbage. It's psych warfare, deliberately alienating kids from parents, tradition, and community. Statist control is rebranded as a cool secret club kids are pressured to join.
You can understand this agenda by considering the factors that contribute to healthy society and robust growth - stable families with multiple children, which in turn requires solid marriages at relatively young ages - and reverse engineering it to get the formula for despair.
What the hard Left hates about that recipe for healthy society is that it breeds independence from the State, with wealth and tradition passed down through generations. Robust families build strong communities, diminishing State power and refuting collectivist ideologies.
As a matter of simple math and biology, populations don't grow unless a sizable number of couples have more than two kids - and that growth isn't healthy unless the parents stay together. It's tough to have three kids unless a couple starts relatively early in life.
If people do follow this much-maligned, relentlessly savaged "traditional family" program, the result tends to be families that build generational wealth - both tangible property, and assets such as family connections, which are very helpful to young people leaving the nest.
It's fascinating how much of "traditional morality" contributes to, or flows from, this simple need for young families to raise multiple children. Of course that makes sense, since those codes and customs developed over centuries of human experience.
Among those codes and customs are the way we treat children in a healthy society. We protect their innocence and prepare them for adult life by passing down traditions and wisdom. Childhood is so important precisely because it must end. It matters a great deal how and when.
The Left understands all of this, and deliberately attacks it at every point of stress. Reverse everything laid out in the previous tweets and you have exactly what's happening in schools today, including the obliteration of childhood through sexual indoctrination.
There are good reasons those healthy family traditions have been relentlessly maligned and savaged for generations now, until the very idea of "family values" was dismissed with contempt. These people knew exactly what they were doing, and it worked.
Normalizing outright pedophilia is the next logical step in the crusade to tear children away from their parents, setting them up for a grim adolescence and programming them to reject everything that could ease their transition into healthy adulthood.
In pedophiles and their enablers, we have a relatively small but highly motivated army that wants nothing more than to separate kids from their families in every possible way. They're the perfect shock troops, eager to hit the beaches and start fighting.
They're flanked by a much larger, and only slightly less motivated, phalanx of committed leftists who devoutly believe children should be sexualized by operatives of the State and ruling Party, not their parents - and it must happen EARLY, before traditional values set in.
Of course that larger movement would inevitably make room for pedophiles of various proclivities - they're natural ideological allies. At the very least, the indoctrinators will look away from the groomers and work very hard to not notice how much they enjoy their work. /end
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Politicians deliberately destroy voters' ability to measure costs against benefits. Everything they want is portrayed as pure benefit, with zero or minimal cost and no unintended consequences. We therefore lose our capacity for measured criticism of basically positive things.
This is most clearly on display in the aftermath of the pandemic. It should be possible to both appreciate the effectiveness of vaccines while still questioning how they were developed and promoted, but no, you're either 100% behind the sacred medicine or you're an "anti-vaxxer."
All through the pandemic, people who questioned the official "science" were savaged in the most merciless terms, even when the "science" changed suddenly and with little explanation. And this was just a more intense and hysterical version of our regular political environment.
Assuming real science ever climbs from the current quagmire of corrupt politics and media, future generations will be astonished at how easily our supposedly indisputable scientific consensus was swept aside for preferred political goals.
Years of lectures about ocean trash, the Great Garbage Patch, soft-drink rings strangling sea birds, plastic straws banned because activist media ran wild with a high-school kid's science project that got the data wrong... all casually tossed aside for pandemic Mask Mania.
Masks, by the way, that people like St. Fauci of the Immaculate Bat Virus Funding KNEW were ineffective. They didn't spare a second thought for the extremely predictable environmental impact of what amounted to a political stunt. No consideration of costs vs. benefits.
The corruption Musk is exposing at Twitter makes it seem more obvious in retrospect that the Internet would become an instrument of totalitarianism, much more than it would be a bold new frontier for free speech. The idealism of the early Information Age was so sadly mistaken.
The idealistic vision of Internet freedom came closest to reality during the golden age of the blog, which only lasted a decade or so. Bloggers built their own networks and found their own audiences. It was difficult to silence them. They made history a few times.
Blogging was supplanted by social media, which allowed totalitarian ideologies and political corruption to flourish because they created choke points that could be controlled by a few massive corporations and their politicized staffers.
Lots of responses to the electric vehicle thread yesterday! Didn't have time to read them all, but thanks as always to those who offered kind words, and a few observations about the other kind of feedback...
It was funny how almost everyone who said "don't be silly, no one is forcing people to buy electric cars, do without personal transportation, and live in cities" was followed by someone exclaiming "You're damn right we're going to force you to buy EVs and live in cities!"
It would be fun to put those two groups of EV apologists in a room and let them hash things out. Of course, I suspect the people who sneered "none of this is happening" would very, very quickly switch to "of course it's happening and it's good" in a room full of true believers.
Spoiler alert: the endgame of the "electric vehicle revolution" is NOT the same number of people driving around, except using EVs instead of gas-fueled cars. The endgame is sharply restricting or eliminating personal transportation for the middle and lower classes.
Hat tip to @TXOdysseus for pointing out in this thread that there aren't enough vital minerals in the entire world to "replace" the internal combustion engine with batteries. It's an empirically demonstrable fact. Those profiting from the "EV revolution" are well aware of it.
@TXOdysseus And what of the Third World? If it's physically impossible to build enough EVs to "replace" cars on a one-to-one basis, what happens to the places that need affordable internal combustion engines to develop industry? They're being consigned to eternal pre-industrial poverty.
Totalitarian ideologies are wholly incompatible with democracy, no matter how they might pretend otherwise to win a few elections. Those who believe everything should be politicized have a very different vision of representative government than the American Founders.
The whole idea behind representative government is to create a distinction between the public and private sphere - restraints on not just the power of the State, but its influence. You send representatives to Washington because it's NOT right outside your front door.
Restraining influence means there are aspects of our lives where the State has no business. It's not just a matter of restraining what the government can do, but what it should even TRY to do. That's even more important with a titanic centralized super-State like ours.