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Democrats Win by Convincing People Reality Does Not Exist
A fascinating Rasmussen poll was cited by Powerline today (emphasis mine):
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 71% of American Adults agree with the statement that “there are two genders, male and female,” including 57% who Strongly Agree.
So a little more than half of American adults strongly agree that there are two genders – men and women. I wonder what that poll would have looked like five years ago? What about ten or fifteen years ago? Those American adults would have had blank looks on their faces, and would not have understood the question.
It’s absolutely amazing how fast leftists can convince the population that reality does not exist. It’s just astonishing.
Remember that the 43% of American adults who aren’t sure how many genders there are — remember that those people vote.
Perhaps there are some flaws to democratic elections.
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I need to know way more about how the poll was conducted. It almost certainly wasn’t limited to phone calls to land lines, and cell phone numbers aren’t public domain information like landline numbers are.
Was it an online poll? Response rates for online polls skew way towards the young and the hip.
Even given that there are two-thirds to three-fourths of the population that say (correctly) that there are only two sexes (genders, whatever), isn’t it amazing that Democrats are all in with the 92-gender model? You’d think they’d see this poll and say “Nope, we have to stop pandering to the El-Jibbity Jihad.”
But Democrats know that culture is downstream from politics.
They depend on those constituencies for donations and tech support.
I think it’s important to note that the number of genders isn’t what one would normally consider an issue of left or right political ideology. At least not before last week.
And the definition of gender has been (again, at least before last week): 1., a grammatical rule for certain languages, and 2., a synonym for sex.
So yes, this whole topic, which has consumed the media so completely, does not exist.
What, then, is going on?
Here is the Wikipedia entry on the Orwell “1984” phrase: 2 + 2 = 5 I think it is relevant.
“When people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy them.”
– Thomas Sowell –
I still believe the current transgender weirdness is a Marxist exercise in seeing what absurdities the (D)/Leftist mind warpers can cram into the gullible voters skulls under the premise if we can convince these lemmings to follow along with this transgender nonsense, then we should have no problem getting them to march right off the cliff on anything.
Although COVID tyranny in all its forms kind of already proved that.
Close…
A few things missing:
So this should really be a separate post, but I’ll run it up the flagpole here.
It’s pretty clear to me that:
Note that every financial incentive is in place. China has a ton of cash, participants make money by assisting China, the US sustains significant is damage socially, financially, and physically, and it’s much easier and cheaper for China than traditional approaches.
We’ve already identified a similar situation with George Soros funding District Attorneys who refuse to arrest criminals for the purposes of increasing crime. ‘Same deal.
So you’ll see lots of examples of unreal things going on; climate change, white supremacy, systemic racism, covid issues, election results, thoroughly unqualified people in office, gay military, etc.
I am sure the leaders of the Left in collusion with the CCP are crying in their non-alcoholic beer that our nation’s citizenry is so-o transphobic!
I always answer polls when I must to Democrat answers. The Democrats hive is a dangerous group and almost always attacks it enemies or those they do not like. I learned that from the 80s and 90s when I saw local political class would go as small as not pick up trash from GOP areas or voters on a weekly bases. Government always has limited resources and to the Democrats it is best to have government money to go to Democrat resources and ignore others.
This underscores how important federalism and subsidiarity are and what place those concepts should have in our strategy. They should be the overriding goals.
We need to escalate the devolution of power back to the states. If that means burning some big rotten pieces down first (metaphorically speaking), then so be it. Dept of Ed., FBI, DHS, all appear to be prime candidates for demolition that no one would miss. Move other pieces to the interior. Salt the earth in pursuit of the corrupt. Organize, boycott, march. The hour is later than most of us think. These poll results look like a dead canary to me. Time to get moving.
In defense of the little-old-lady, Puritanical editors of yesteryear, the reason it caught on to use gender to mean “male or female” or “feminine or masculine” instead of the other word was because the other word has two meanings, “male or female” or, you know, the thing couples do in private, and gender could convey the meaning of male or female without mentioning the thing couples do in their private moments. :) :)
Sadly, those old editors introduced confusion rather than clarity. And it was not a wise choice. But I understand them. :) :) In the 1970s, the media was coarsening, and this was the stand they made in polite copy. :) :)
I think if it were an anonymous paper ballot it would be closer to 99% that believes in two genders. Most of the people promoting this nonsense don’t actually believe, but they won’t admit that out loud.
What matters is that young people either identify with LGBTQ or become ‘allies’ of same. Because conservatives/Christians are enemies and you wouldn’t want to be associated with enemies.
The schools are training future voters.
Exactly. The progressives have been very successful at not just promoting their viewpoint, but convincing everyone that to disagree with them is an unforgivable transgression. People know full well what they are supposed to believe if they are good people, and if they don’t really believe it, they will pretend otherwise (and probably will even feel guilty about it).
You might as well ask people whether they think racism is bad. Even people who have racist beliefs generally aren’t going to admit it.
Nit: It should be two “sexes.”
I wonder if the word “normalcy” also applies . . .
The Orwell thing is part of it, but the primary motive here is to create a new minority which will become a Democratic constituency. Transexuality is being popularized so that many more people, primarily children, will claim that “identity” than otherwise would…far more. It’s also a way of attacking normal people, who are scandalized by the idea. In other words, it’s a means of demonizing half the population hopefully and gaining a political advantage by doing so.
The horrible part is what this is doing to children. The idea that there is a sizeable group of “transgender youth” is ridiculous, but it confuses prepubescent children and leads many of them to think they are transsexuals. That’s just fine for the goals of the Democratic Party. But it’s so evil…screwing up kids for your political gain. The people who are doing this deserve to literally go to hell, where, over long ages, they will will be slowly digested in the rancid gastric juices of Satan’s bowels.
Actually, that’s 29%, who either aren’t sure or who disagree with the binary.
But what’s interesting is the 14% difference between the 71% who agree that it’s male/female and the 57% who strongly agree.
If it’s a binary (believe/don’t believe) then what’s the difference between “agree” and “strongly agree”?
Fear of repercussions if they dare agree strongly?
Really? Wrt responses to a right leaning, anonymous poll? What else could it be?
It should have been a True/False question.
I wonder if they even have true/false questions on exams anymore. “Well, in my truth, that is correct. . . .”
The ‘believe’ vs ‘strongly believe’ options give us some more information. I’m just trying to figure out what that is.
This quickly came about becoming nullifying Truthful language rather than respecting people who are struggling with their sexuality. The underlying ideology is that is everyone agrees that a person who has an XY chromosome is woman. Then the XY chromosome person becomes a woman. This is why they avoid chromosomal arguments. They want feelings to be more important than facts so they can exert control over you without regard to Truth.
I would not be surprised if they said that chromosomes are socially constructed for their next thing.
But then again maybe I am giving them too much credit. Maybe they are too dumb to know about chromosomes and they just have feelings.
It is not just the stupidity but the delegation of moral authority to perverts and grifters. It is a transphobic sin to not want disturbed men in nuns’ habits cavorting at Dodger Stadium or a freakshow on a beer can but it is OK to hate/denigrate Christianity, Israel, patriotism or a normal, healthy childhood.
Only nouns have “gender”. People have sex.
If they’re lucky.
No, everyone doesn’t. That’s the whole problem.
Time to queue up that Winston Churchill quote.
“In the morning I’ll be sober but you’ll still be ugly.”?
Might also be technical people who know that there are incredibly rare androgynes born with both sex parts present, or less technical people who have heard about it.
There are 2.05 sexes. For what it is worth.
And what it is worth is next to nothing.