We are developing the politics of Yogi Berra. The connection will be broken, but the connection will be secure. Everyone is clinging to what everyone has thrown away.
In California, elected officials are actively bent on promoting a culture of childhood sexualization and enforced secrecy in schools. Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing the school district to prevent it from notifying parents when their children declare their new gender identity and pronouns to school officials.
read This press release From Bonta, to understand the depravity of the argument directly from the source.
A very clear and enduring national policy is that we must protect children from the most serious threats they face. their family. Schools must protect sexual secrets about young children. Because that's a very progressive thing. California “protects the rights of transgender children” and prohibits them from communicating with parents about their children.forced to go out”
The implicit but not entirely subtle assumption underlying this state promotion of early childhood sexual secrecy is that children form the most honest and intimate relationships with officials in government-run schools; This means that you have to hide your true self. It's the statistics on steroids, stimulants, bath salts, and your children belong to the government.
Californian despise And they express deep disgust at all the subsequent policy implications.
Democrats are unusually good at separating politics from real-world consequences and tying politics firmly to status anxiety. Republicans do not oppose this strategy.
Many months have passed since then. rasmussen poll They concluded that “California voters support parental rights by overwhelming margins.” Surprisingly, few people support the premise that teachers should have a lot of sexually intimate conversations with young children and then keep it all secret. special secret From mom and dad. His 82% of all California voters support parental notification policies. This is not just a question to ask parents.
To summarize:
1) California's much-touted policies are not popular among California voters, who hate everything about them.
2) However, elected representatives have not changed their policy direction at all. Rather, they are putting all their chips in the pot and moving forward across the board in a direction that the public overwhelmingly rejects.
3) And here's the kicker. No political course correction appears to be on the horizon.
Polls strongly suggest California voters remain aligned with Democrats and Democratic elected officials with contempt for what the official is actually doing..Californians are probably Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff will be elected to the U.S. Senate this year, but if you need a word to understand just how bleak that disconnect is.
The issue of sexual childhood and school secrecy is not an isolated case. Californians are concerned about open borders, but I was shocked Because they recognize rampant homelessness, growing economic hardship and urban decline, and staunchly support Democratic incumbents who are plagued by crime and responsible for everything they hate.
The voter explains that I strongly support elected official X and despise everything he does.
You're probably thinking right now that Californians don't care because they're just getting what they voted for. They chose it, so they deserve it.
The problem was “President Joe Biden”, the hair on his legs turned blonde in the sun, the children loved to play with it, but then the corn pops appeared. California's cultural fires are just a slightly hotter version of the national grease fires. How many Texans would have voted for the federal government to roll out the welcome mat in Eagle Pass? The coast-to-coast trend is not only about ballot collection and the loss of connection between votes, but also toward meaningless voting. i am going.
cutting of what do politicians do From the question what we think about them is a cultural crisis built on a foundation of status signals.
If your experience is anything like mine, arguments with family members who support the Democratic Party quickly turn into rants about the land of trailer parks and overpasses. Trumper. Do you know which university I went to? Democrats are high-status, upper-middle class.The Republican Party is poor peopleAnd I'll probably shop at Walmart or something. for example, Let's see what advice we have Liberal commentator Matt Yglesias advised young people about identifying as Republicans. (Spoiler alert: This is a story about their dating life.)
Recalibrating our political choices on the empty foundation of consumerist status signals will be our downfall. Voting for failed politicians is low-status and locks people into failure.
Democrats are unusually good at separating politics from real-world outcomes and tying politics firmly to status anxiety. Republicans do not oppose this strategy. But the ugliness of our emerging future demands that we reestablish the link between how we vote and what happens next. We only have to look north to Canada to see what happens to a country that maintains a broken power well beyond the moment of collapse.
The path we take reflects our ability to connect cause and effect, and that path is not very good.It's time to fight family rants about Trumpers and trailer parks and force people to watch what is actually happening. Empty politics over social status is death.
