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WELL, IT’S THE TRUTH:
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JOEL KOTKIN: Mean Girls Rising: Democrats are increasingly beholden to leftist radicals in their midst.
nce the putative party of the people, the Democrats are increasingly the party of political “Mean Girls.” Epitomized by the congressional “Squad,” radicalized women are driving the party ever further to the leftist fringe on issues such as embracing Hamas, apocalyptic climate policies, mass illegal immigration, and transgenderism.
Party organs including the New Republic and the New York Times hail these activists as the “future of the Democratic Party.” Unlike traditional Democrats who won over small business owners, members of industrial unions, and aspiring middle class minorities, the Mean Girls have broken with the New Deal tradition that united the party. Rather than appealing to the aspirations of families, in the new configuration it’s all about “the personal is political,” with lifestyle and sexual orientation as defining issues.
Conservatives of course have their off-key women like Laura Bobert and Marjorie Taylor Greem, but few consider them intellectual leaders or particularly feminist. In contrast, Irving Kristol a half century ago noted the “feminization of the Democratic Party,” a process accelerated by the decline in family formation, marriage, and child-rearing. Some outlets like Salon see the rise of women and the gender gap as providing the keys to obtaining unlimited progressive power. Although married women tend to vote Republican, albeit by a smaller margin than men, single women prefer the Democrats by a whopping 37 point margin, even as young men are shifting somewhat to the Right.
The American Enterprise Institute’s Sam Abrams notes that politically engaged women, particularly those at elite colleges, increasingly stand at the tip of the progressive spear. They are far more likely to support cancel culture than their male counterparts. Overall, the Left’s political Mean Girls follow an agenda shaped largely by feminists and gay activists.
As George Orwell foresaw: “It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.”
OPPOSITION TO FOSSIL FUELS IS OPPOSITION TO OUR CIVILIZATION; ‘SUSTAINABLE ENERGY’, LIKE COLD FUSION, IS STILL A PIPE DREAM: The climate scaremongers: Thank heavens for fossil fuels.
THEY ADDRESSING WHERE THE POLLUTION MOSTLY ISN’T RATHER THAN WHERE IT MOSTLY IS BECAUSE THE REAL CAUSE IS A DESIRE FOR TOTALITARIANISM: Pollution and an air of confusion.
THEY KEEP TRYING THE SAME PLAY OVER AND OVER: WHO and Media Collude to Dial Up “Bird Flu” Fears to Maximum Level.
Will they ever understand it was, in The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress term “Funny only once.”
REALLY? I NEVER SUSPECTED! I WAS TOLD THEY WERE SCIENCING AND I NEEDED TO SHUT UP: ‘Faked figures’ that drove the world’s reaction to covid.
A SHORT SUMMARY OF THE LEGAL OPINION THIS POST DISCUSSES WOULD USE THE LETTERS W, T AND F: Fourth Circuit judges open girls’ sports to boys.
READ AND WEEP. LITERALLY: An American Education Timeline.
WHO HAD TWO PEOPLE SETTING THEMSELVES ON FIRE FOR MONTHS INTO 2024 ON THE BINGO CARD? BREAKING: Man Self-Immolates Outside Trump Trial in Manhattan.
AMAZON CREATED A SORT OF FAKE COMPANY TO SHIP PRODUCTS VIA COMPETITORS TO SEE HOW THEY DO THINGS: Inside Amazon’s Secret Operation to Gather Intel on Rivals.
TBF most large companies do this.
IT CAME OUT IN 2021, BUT WATCH IT: The dark origins of Communism.
THEY WILL NOT LEAVE YOU ALONE. THEY WILL LEAVE YOU NO SPACE TO RELAX OR PLAY: In the Grim Darkness of 2024, There is Only War.
THIS AND THAT. THE ONLY THING I DISAGREE WITH IS THE HOMELESS REHABILITATING HOUSES. THEY’RE NOT HOMELESS DUE TO A LACK OF HOUSES: Full Court Press.
A GOVERNMENT SPONSORED AGENCY IS CENSORING JOURNALISM: Inside the disinformation industry.
TELL ME AGAIN HOW PEACE-LOVING OUR COUSINS ARE, AND HOW FEMALES AREN’T COMBATIVE: Cincinnati Zoo’s Gladys the gorilla undergoes surgery after breaking arm in fight.
NOW OUT FROM HAMPTON SIDES: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook.
His Ghost Soldiers was a work of nonfiction that read like a thriller novel.
(Bumped).
HEADS SHOULD, BUT LIKELY WON’T ROLL: Northwestern University Dean of Students Attends Protest Targeting Campus Jewish Community Center. Let’s just pause to take this in for a moment. Northwestern University is already under federal investigation for violating Jewish students’ civil rights. And so the Dean of Students, Mona Dugo… decides to attend a rally protesting, and let’s be honest, trying to intimidate, the campus Hillel (Jewish student group). She later claimed that she wanted to make sure the protestors right to protest was protected, as if roving mobs of Jewish students have been the problem on campus. Who is she kidding? If she isn’t relieved of her administrative responsibilities, and soon, Northwestern will richly deserve the hostile environment lawsuit it loses.
OPEN THREAD: Thank God It’s Friday.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China to leverage growing commercial space sector to launch megaconstellations.
VITAMIN D UPDATE: Could Vitamin D Be The Secret to Slowing Human Aging?
2024 JURISPRUDENCE: Left Freaks After SCOTUS Rules 9-0 That Reverse Discrimination Is Good Cause for Lawsuit. “The left should be celebrating a lawsuit extending employees’ right to sue over discrimination based on skin color or sex. Instead, they’re alarmed. Because this will limit their ability to discriminate against whites and men.”
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: When Earth’s Magnetic Shield Faltered: Cosmic Ray Invasion 41,000 Years Ago.
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