Welcome to the party, pals! I’ve been a support-the-man-not-the-party independent since 1998, when I saw the GOP of Gingrich and Lott revert to the illogic of politics-as-usual just four years after their Revolution.

That was the year I voted for a Democrat candidate for IL governor: Glenn Poshard, an old-school Dem who was pro-life and pro-2A from highly-unionized downstate coal country … over GOP Chicago Machine pol George Ryan, who after his term in office was convicted of corruption,

That was also the last time I voted for a Dem, which speaks to just how awful their positions are relative to the GOP. But it took me another decade to perceive the problem behind the problems: the entrenchment of thinking I refer to as social technocracy, that pushes all of us, regardless of politics, to sell ourselves short and instead look to that “little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital” to remove risk from our lives and solve problems FOR us, as though they are omniscient and infallible.

The more we ask government to do FOR us … even things that sound good and benign and anything but radical … the more power we give government to do TO us. And even those who call themselves “conservative” are susceptible to this, bitterly clinging to their pet tax deductions, student-loan guarantees, Federal funding for THEIR public schools and roads and “community development” instead of persuading their neighbors to ask some fundamental questions:

> Is this the proper way to get this done?
> What are we giving up by doing this?
> What strings are attached, that can be used later to jerk us around?

… the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate…

This explains why the Dems persistently pursue lunacies surrounding sexuality. By jamming abortion-on-demand, celebration of the LGBTQ lifestyles, and kids “transitioning” down our throats, all as “normal” – and branding anyone who objects with the “hater” label – they believe they can humiliate them, Christians in particular, to the point of impotent irrelevance.

After all, “if it’s legal, it’s moral”, y’know.

A primal fear of Progressives is that someone will possess the credibility to have others listen, when that someone proceeds to harsh Progressives’ mellow about their irresponsible choices in life. That is their motivation to humiliate dissenters, pursued with a fundamentalist zeal that makes fire-and-brimstone Baptists look like loose-topped libertines out for beads at Mardi Gras.

Dementia Patient Says It’s Wrong for States to Ban Puberty Blockers and Sex Reassignment Surgery For Children

I’ve figured out Joe’s bargain with the WH staff: He says what they tell him to say, and they let him keep sniffing kids.

In the short term, yes, it hurts them. In the long term they think they can pound us down by calling us names like transphobes. The left has long used the mentally disordered as cudgels against us. Think Greta Thunberg. By her own admission she has Asperger’s Syndrome. Basically she’s a high functioning Autistic being exploited by the “climate catastrophe” con artists. Attack the con-artists, and they’ll claim you’re attacking a poor defenseless developmentally disabled Swedish teenager.

As Greta Thunberg herself would put it, “How dare you!” No matter how demonstrably false she is on the facts we have to go along with her demands or we’re just mean. Or, so say her exploiters.

So the powers that be crawl into a corner like scared rabbits, begging not to be called mean names. Screw the general population who will be forced to freeze in the dark as the European power grid collapses. But at least European “leaders” won’t be vilified by a hostile press and can jet off to climate conferences in Can Cun where they can feast on prime rib, pork loin, caviar, and New Zealand farm-raised “sustainable” salmon (actual menu from a “climate conference; it’s good to be a member of the nomenklatura).

You, peasant, must eat bugs and reduce your carbon footprint by never venturing from your village using any conveyance that might produce carbon emissions.

So why wouldn’t they exploit people with gender identity disorder to force you to comply with the left’s demand that reality is whatever they say it is from one day to the next? Fauci didn’t lie when one day he said the healthy don’t need to wear masks. Of course he later admitted he did lie since he believed you needed to be lied to. Then you needed to be masked. Then doubled masked. Each day when he said another thing that contradicted the thing he said the day before, each day it was the truth. The Current Truth. Just like Billy can come to school today and announce he’s no longer he but she’s Barbara. And we all must believe it. And the girls have to become involuntary strippers and shower with “her.” That’s the Current Truth and you best believe it with all your heart. And when Barbara’s female penis does what a female penis naturally does, since Barbara is an avowed Lesbian,
“How dare they,” the girls force to shower with “her,” question any of the Current Truth and be traumatized.

And when Barbara decides it is more advantageous to be Billy again, like the convicts who decide they are transwomen while in prison but, you know what? Now that they’re getting out they’re actually cis-gender men, “How dare you!” question that any of it was a lie. Transphobe! Your cult leaders demand you believe the Current Truth with all your heart. And not remember today what the Current Truth was yesterday. Because it’s no longer the Current Truth. And today’s Current Truth isn’t necessarily tomorrow’s Current Truth, comrade.

This is how cults operate. Coercive persuasion. A.K.A. brainwashing or mind control. Using force to change how someone feels and thinks.

(Especially when such destruction can be framed, and sold, as “empowerment”, “liberty”, “self-actualization”, “freedom from stultifying repression”, “basic morality”, “anti-Deplorable”, “HUMANITY itself”…”the right thing to do”??)

I mean, are you a SEMI-FASCIST?
Really now….

My speculation: a bully gains the most power from oppressing the most innocent over the most trivial or contrived “offense.” And the more success a bully enjoys, the less connected to reality the bully becomes, and the more grandiose his or her plans and demands.

They are high on their own supply. Best to let them fail; and applaud politely when they do.

Correction: “applaud politely” should be “cheer wildly.”

In other times and places, it was these sorts of folks that shoved children into gas chambers or worked to death gulag prisoners.
All of course, for the “benefit” of society.
It’s amazing what people will do – actually anything at all – when they believe they are doing the right thing.

It is just as astonishing to see that almost half of democrats believe that children should obtain this drastic surgery, literally at any age.
This alone should be a warning to every thinking individual, for it demonstrates that many demokrats have no boundaries in what they believe and what they would do if they obtained absolute power.
They will do anything and everything; there will be no limitations.

The people you’re describing with these potted Strauss-Howe terms would be around 60. I haven’t noticed people of that age pushing contemporary music in worship services. In my experience, people pushing contemporary music are the people on the payroll (or, at least, volunteers with official titles); the rest of the congregation just puts up with it. As for Munchausen mommies, median age as we speak is around 43, or a half generation younger.

I see a lot of the same type of people pushing the trans thing on kids. I don’t know what it is, but I suspect that there is something about the cohort of younger Boomers and older Gen Xers that drives them into the arms of these fads. Sadly, by the time the whole trans thing blows up, I suspect that most of these folks will be very elderly or no longer with us to appreciate their mistakes.

This isn’t a trans issue. This is fundamental basic rights and consistency in laws.