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Tuesday, March 28. 2023Tuesday morning linksOur pal Stuart Schneiderman has opened at Substack Scholars say U.S. treatment of youth gender dysphoria not evidence-based Liberal College Professor Placed on Leave for Suggesting it’s OK to Murder Conservative Speakers EU Members Clash Over Nuclear Energy's Role In Climate Policy Black Lives Matter Activists Executed A Shocking $83 Billion Shakedown Of American Corporations Trump’s bizarre behavior a gift to the left just as public opinion was turning on Bragg Trackbacks
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America Pulls Back from Values That Once Defined It, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds
If this poll is remotely accurate then I fear we are finished as a nation. QUOTE: Patriotism, religious faith, having children and other priorities that helped define the national character for generations are receding in importance to Americans, a new Wall Street Journal-NORC poll finds. The survey, conducted with NORC at the University of Chicago, a nonpartisan research organization, also finds the country sharply divided by political party over social trends such as the push for racial diversity in businesses and the use of gender-neutral pronouns. Some 38% of respondents said patriotism was very important to them, and 39% said religion was very important. That was down sharply from when the Journal first asked the question in 1998, when 70% deemed patriotism to be very important, and 62% said so of religion. The share of Americans who say that having children, involvement in their community and hard work are very important values has also fallen. Tolerance for others, deemed very important by 80% of Americans as recently as four years ago, has fallen to 58% since then. The only priority the Journal tested that has grown in importance in the past quarter-century is money, which was cited as very important by 43% in the new survey, up from 31% in 1998. Aside from money, all age groups, including seniors, attached far less importance to these priorities and values than when pollsters asked about them in 1998 and 2019. But younger Americans in particular place low importance on these values, many of which were central to the lives of their parents. Some 23% of adults under age 30 said in the new survey that patriotism was very important to them personally, compared with 59% of seniors ages 65 or older. Some 31% of younger respondents said that religion was very important to them, compared with 55% among seniors. Only 23% of adults under age 30 said that having children was very important. . . . To Janet Boyer, a former Pentecostal minister who lives in Cumberland Township in Southwestern Pennsylvania’s coal country, patriotism has taken on a political sheen and is no longer important to her. “For me, patriotism has turned into right-wing nationalism,’’ said Ms. Boyer, who backed President Biden in 2020. . .. The survey found sharp differences by political party on social issues that have gained prominence. It asked whether society had gone far enough—or had gone too far—when it comes to businesses taking steps to promote racial and ethnic diversity. Just over half of Republicans said society had gone too far, compared with 7% of Democrats. Some 61% of Democrats said diversity efforts hadn’t gone far enough, compared with 14% of Republicans. Behind the paywall https://www.wsj.com/articles/americans-pull-back-from-values-that-once-defined-u-s-wsj-norc-poll-finds-df8534cd Here is a free link.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/americans-pull-back-from-values-that-once-defined-u-s-wsj-norc-poll-finds-df8534cd?st=ycikeovua8e9w60&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink The pendulum swings but never without limit. The pendulum has begun to change direction, but it does so slowly. One indicator is the recently discovered "Trad Wife" movement. And also notice that all the current promotion of various sexual dysfunctions are being severely challenged along with the pet political programs of the academy and uniparty. Also the MSM is bleeding because no one is buying their falling sky promotions and they even tried to get on the government subsidy program.
Hang tough, the dissonance will get louder and keep the Triggly Puffs in motion but their apex is behind them. VDH: The Baleful Cargo of Woke Diversity Worship
QUOTE: This fixation with constructing identities is one of the great pathologies of our woke era. When we obsess in neo-Confederate style on race, ethnicity, or religion as the defining element of who we are, and we do this to leverage political advantage, then we set off a chain-reaction of Yugoslavian- or Lebanese-style tribalism. Like nuclear proliferation, once one group goes tribal, then all others will strain to find their own deterrent tribal identity. . . . Yet the tribal problem is not just an epidemic of false identities and fraudulent victims. Entire areas of social and political reality are now set off and exempt from rational discussion. . . . Anytime perceived merit, or something close to merit, was not the standard, a society either imploded or became impoverished and calcified. The racial, one-drop categories of the Old South or the Third Reich, or the colorized spectrum of the old apartheid South Africa, or the racial chauvinism of the new tribal South Africa, or the commissar system of the Soviet Union, or the religious intolerance of fundamentalist Islam, or the familial gangs and clannish tyranny of prewar Sicily ensured that all were dysfunctional societies, and often much worse than that. Opportunity was instead guaranteed, and excellence defined, by something other than demonstrable talent and achievement. There will be no exceptions granted to the United States from these rules of history. . . . So, we are headed, dangerously so, into an historically ugly, hateful, and volatile place—all the more so because we lie that it is utopian when it is pre-civilizational and reactionary. https://amgreatness.com/2023/01/02/the-baleful-cargo-of-woke-diversity-worship/ It's interesting that the EU is debating the future of nuclear power when it takes a decade or more to bring a nuclear power plant on-line and we're all agreed that we are all going to be dead in 5 years.
What is the difference between a man who says, “In my mind, I’m really a woman” and a man who says, “In my mind, I’m really Napoleon Buonaparte”?
U.S. treatment of youth gender dysphoria is a calculated effort to create special interest groups that will blindly vote Democrat and they do this in spite of the damage it causes to people and our nation. It is driven by a lust for power. They are doing the same thing with African Americans and other POC groups even knowing this has lead to 100's of deadly attacks on white people. This is not your fathers Democrat party.
"IRS Agents Visited Twitter Files Journalist Matt Taibbi’s House the Day of His Congressional Testimony"
Does this leave any doubt that ll our federal institutions are politicized by the Democrats. No doubt at all. The founders worked hard to keep the federal government small. The federal courts began work almost immediately to destroy all that work. Then came the 16 amendment. Finally, a pure marxist, a spiteful evildoer came along to weaponize every 3 letter agency known to man. Thanks Obama.
Scholars say U.S. treatment of youth gender dysphoria not evidence-based
------------------ OK - now do the same due diligence for homosexuality. Which is the precedent/springboard for the trans phenomenon. And is already being used on the periphery to justify pedophilia and bestiality. We mapped the human genome years ago - and did not find genes or other biomarkers that even correlate to homosexuality in any significant way. Nobody is Born That Way. It will not be possible to roll this back without going all the way. None of these are identities - they are dysfunctional behaviors. They are learned dysfunctional behaviors taught by the dysfunctional.
For a Christian ... But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and be drowned in the depth of the sea. re Liberal College Professor Placed on Leave for Suggesting it’s OK to Murder Conservative Speakers
One reads about a college prof advocating the death of conservatives two or three times a year. It leads one to wonder if college kids are being taught that this type of thinking is not only okay, but a solution to many of our political problems? A final solution perhaps? Would it be OK for conservative speakers to advocate murdering Wayne State professors? Asking for a friend.
QUOTE: There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their trou- bles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs - partly because they want svmpathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they BOOKER T. WASHINGTON 1911do not want to lose their jobs. BLM are pikers compared to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton - The Justice Brothers (we miss you Rush) Trumps bizarre behavior ... it is quite evident that Goodwin does not have a problem with democrats in the legal system that practice wide-ranging lawfare against Trump and those who support him. It never ends and the media laps it up.
At the bottom of the free link concerning the survey:
"...The Journal-NORC survey polled 1,019 people from March 1-13, mostly online. The margin of error was plus or minus 4.1 percentage points. Differences in how the new poll and prior surveys were conducted might account for a small portion of the reported decline in importance of the American values tested. Prior surveys, conducted for the Journal and NBC News, used live interviewers to reach people by phone..." I suspect that conducting the survey digitally this time vs. person to person last time might account for far larger than "a small portion of the decline" as well as the abysmal 4.1 margin of error. A lot of the mass shooters are gay/trans/lgbqt... why is that? We don't have a gun problem we have a mental health problem. Is it a surprise that someone who would cut off their sexual oarts would kill others?
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