Yes I’ve neglected this blog a bit. Perhaps more than ever before. But I have been very busy, and overall been pretty happy with my life. I enjoy the company of my friends, the love my wife and child, a child who is now technically an adult. Things are good. And truthfully as tumultuous as the world still is, I feel it’s a hell of a lot better in 2023 then it was in 2020.
Last night I pounded out a response to a friend of a friend on Facebook who was pulling the old lefty gaslighting playbook. “What culture war? What are you talking about? Please explain…” I posted my answer after midnight and then eventually deleted it. I really don’t need to get involved in a long discussion with people I don’t know. But I really did enjoy my response, so once again I will paste it here.
It’s interesting that you are making the same exact mistake that Disney made. And I don’t know you, so I can’t read your heart and discern if you are willfully ignoring what is right in front of you or if genuinely have some sort of Pollyanna-esque gauze over your brain that prevents you from seeing the obvious. In either case, you and many on the left, much like Disney, have a lot to work on to get to where we need to go.
It is not acceptable to dismiss middle America, aka the majority of the country, from classic left of center liberals to those of us well to the right of center as loony. We are not deplorables, we are not fringe, we are not a cult, we are not any of the many slurs you and left wing pundits and politicians throw around casually. In truth, I was being overly diplomatic when I said “half of the country” - Americans who believe the following are not half the country, we are a rather solid majority.
The phrase “all lives matter” is not racist in the least. Our country was founded in 1776, not 1619. Our nation was not built on racism, nor is systemic racism present today. Absolutely we have had our problems with race, and some of those problems do still exist. But this idea that we are rotten from the beginning and currently rotten to the core, it’s just nonsense. The majority of Americans do not believe it or accept it.
The United States from the outset, did more to end slavery around the world more than any other country. The cartoonish politicians who stump for “reparations“ are the actual racists here. First, because their condescension greatly diminishes black people and second because, as we just saw with Gavin Newsom, when the rubber meets the road they lie through their teeth to avoid making good on any of their ridiculous promises. They lie because in the end they know most Americans oppose what they are saying, that black people are incapable of succeeding on their own and need special help.
And of course the race grifters, from black marxists like Ibram X Kendi to self-loathing white idiots like Robin DiAngelo, are eagerly lined up to take money from stupid affluent white people, who are even more eager to swallow the lie that a meritocracy where superficial immutable characteristics don’t matter is not only unobtainable but a bad thing.
Gender theory, the idea of gender fluidity, is decadent nonsense. The far left obsession with pronouns is the biggest red flag you could have to indicate prosperity and a dearth of real problems in society.
And of course there is the more sinister “gender affirming care” for children, that includes experimental and not at all reversible puberty blockers that in many cases render teens permanently sterile and unable to achieve orgasms. The butchery that takes place against kids is even more of a horror show. Lopping off breasts or sawing off penises of prepubescents does nothing to curb the suicide ideation rate of gender dysmorphic children. All Scandinavian countries that pioneered this “healthcare” have reversed course and have adopted “watchful waiting” as the preferred treatment for minors.
That this madness is all rooted in a public school system which now openly advocates for taking children away from their parents who refused to “affirm” their gender, is perhaps the most infuriating thing of all. Parents everywhere, of all political stripes, feel egregiously betrayed by educators and civic leaders who don’t see parents as the final say in how to raise their own children.
Speaking of sinister, the recent anger towards the pride movement, is not borne out of homophobia or even a disapproval of gay marriage. Most Americans now fully support marriage for gays and lesbians. I certainly did, long before it was popular and when Obama was firmly against it. The boycotts you see against Bud Light, Target and yes even Disney, are not anti-gay. They are anti-the targeting of children, in our schools and in our culture.
Target in particular has incurred wrath by selling bathing suits explicitly for children with extra room in the crotch for tucking prepubescent penises under the body. This is not in dispute, this is a real thing on real videos. And there is much much worse targeting (so to speak) of children elsewhere…
The very idea that a drag queen twerking and gyrating in front of little kids who put dollar bills in their G strings is entirely unacceptable. And yes, much like your refusal to see the culture war right in front of you, the hundreds of videos online documenting that this is happening everywhere, including red states, seem to be completely “unnoticed” by those on the far left.
The gaslighting playbook that you all use- “This isn’t a thing. OK it is a thing but it’s rare. OK this thing is happening all the time but it turns out it’s a good thing” is tiresome and at this point simply ineffective. Most Americans don’t buy this lie anymore.
Trust me, the majority of the country does see this happening all the time, and comprehends that it is unacceptable.
Clowns like Dylan Mulvaney, are not genuinely trans, they are autogynephilia perverts who put on woman face like a clown or a minstrel and get off sexually through their absurd antics. That’s where all the anger against Bud Light is coming from. Not from some antiquated redneck anti-gay stereotype.
So when you casually dismiss Americans who believe in these truths as loons or fringe, you are effectively pissing into the wind. Feel free to keep doing so and you, like Disney, can remain bewildered and befuddled by the hostility and to be completely unable to regain any faith or trust.
Or, you can use what I have written here as a helpful starter to begin to understand why so many of us are so angry with companies and our fellow Americans like you who obstinately refuse to comprehend the very obvious reasons for our fury.
