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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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That’s a come back that screams ‘good sex’.
The human being has two arms. Some people are born without arms due to birth defects. Without minimizing the rights or inherent dignity of people born with birth defects we can still say that the human species has two arms.
Well alcohol has been helping ugly people have sex since ancient Sumeria.
Alcohol doesn’t help with being an [CoC]hole, including during sex.
Moreover, ‘…drink, sir, is a great
provoker of three things…nose-painting, sleep, and
urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes;
it provokes the desire, but it takes
away the performance: therefore, much drink
may be said to be an equivocator with lechery:
it makes him, and it mars him; it sets
him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him,
and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and
not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him
in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.’
I believe there are several angles to the 29 or 44%( whatever group you look at) who now have difficulty recognizing there are two sexes.
The most important factor is that a large percentage of our population now fear being punished by the Leftist orthodoxy. They have been brainwashed and conditioned to “fall in line” to the Leftist narrative no matter what.
They have been conditioned to reject any rational inquiry that questions the Narrative.
I had dinner with a parent last night of one of daughter’s friends who works for City of Hope and a Conservative. He was very angry and distraught because now no one at his work is allowed to question the Narrative dictates that come down from on high. It is absolutely verboten with extreme consequences Hui if you even question them. Questioning is simply not allowed even if a patient’s health is put at risk.
What this instance, and I know of many others, indicates is that Corporate America, and I think particularly the Medical Establishment and the Education Establishment now rigidly enforce the Narrative with extreme prejudice with great consequences for non-compliance.
So in this Stalinist environment it is no wonder many people fear accepting reality.
Or they don’t really care that much? I always suspect that of the don’t knows – they may have an opinion but they aren’t invested enough in the issue to argue it either way.
Don’t you think that’s always been true, to some degree, and that the only thing that’s changed (or changing) is ‘the narrative’?
I think people only notice when they don’t agree with the dominant narrative – which may be happening as a new thing to many conservatives – but I’ve disagreed with the dominant narrative for a long time (just by virtue of being gay [if you permit the turn of phrase], but also due to being Muslim, being Indian) and there have always been things about the consensus that it cost one to question out loud.
Zafar, I can understand your plight and angst being a Muslim is an overwhelmingly non- Muslim country, but the enforcement of this Stalinist Narrative to the vast majority of Americans is something very new, very frustrating and very dangerous.
Edited to add:
Actually, being gay in an overwhelmingly Muslim country would be a lot more difficult!
But it’s more along the lines of which lives and narratives are automatically privileged and which ones are automatically devalued. I don’t perceive myself as an outsider in the West, it’s an internal critique.
How is it different from, say, McCarthyism?
Because there were actual Communists who wanted to destroy America. I recommend the book Witness. It is a lie that it just about persecuting free thinkers.
The only killings that Joe McCarthy’s managed during his antics in the Senate were of liquor bottles. Compare that with Stalin, with Mao … c’mon, Zafar.
But we aren’t comparing that to Stalin or Mao, we’re comparing that to the Woke Dictatorship currently Harshing the Conservative Mellow.
Zafar,
A. The McCarthy hearings were a long time ago and I don’t there is a single person who comments here who even was an adult then.
B. Since I live in Hollywood, and in the past knew people who involved substantially in the entertainment business and did tell me there were problems with Communists as Henry said.
That said the woke inquisition of today totally violates the Constitution in multiple and very serious ways and has no legal or rational basis whatsoever.
The Woke Inquisition of today is simply Stalinist intimidation, persecution and censorship of innocent citizens with the intent of overthrowing our Constitutional Republic.
What problems?
That they existed?
oh look, I agree – I don’t think persecuting people for thought crimes is a good thing. But it’s never been.
It’s the same basic impulse as McCarthyism. Which I think was bad.
True, people losing their jobs isn’t the same as killing people. Even the Nazis started smaller than that, with Jews and “the politically undesirable” being removed from civil service jobs in 1933. But everybody who refused the experimental “vaccine” got bounced from government contract jobs. “Comedian” Jimmy Kimmel thought that they should be denied medical treatment altogether. (That would seem to be a rather problematic position for those who state that medical care is a human right, no?)
Zafar is a leftist and has to pretend that flaws among Westerner Christians are as bad as anything that ever happened in the Mughal Empire or among communist nations. It is frankly tiresome.
McCarthy was probably not a good dude and I have heard that he overstretched his prosecution of Communists for political purposes which is reprehensible. That is does not make America anywhere near the equivalent of persecuting the innocent for malovalent political purposes.
Except that Communism killed 100 million people in the 20th century. Me not wanting to adhere to a crowd of idiots’ take on what constitutes gender kills no one.
But we are not in the McCarthy Era ™. We are in the Woke Era. And for anyone who’s been working in large corporations for the past 5 years or so, they are all in on it – it pervades the internal communications, policies, presentations, and language.
All I want to do is work and get the job done. Indoctrination is not equivalent to “training”, no matter how many times an overpaid load types “DEI” or “ESG” into a powerpoint deck and inserts a smiley face.
If I believe something that is true, it’s no big deal. But if I believe something that is false, then I have to strongly believe it.
I think the Marxists are perverts.
Dems also use violence to win.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/university-demands-conservative-students-pay-18000-in-security-damage-fees-after-leftists-riot-at-their-event-even-though-school-officials-allegedly-encouraged-protests