Many years ago, I went out on a date with a woman who was a pretty “out” DFLer. Public employee union member, second generation DFL activist (at least), and predictably emotion-driven in her approach to all things political.
We went out 3-4 times – “dates” that almost always involved being out with quite a number of her friends, and an amazing paucity of one on one conversation.
Nonetheless, when “fish or cut bait” time came along, she said “I’m just not sure I can trust you to be kind”.
Bear in mind, nothing about me or my senses and practice of kindness, charity or anything of the sort had ever come up. But my conservatism had. Literally, the only thing she knew about me was the stereotypes she had of conservatives.
It was, if unwittingly, one of the nastiest things anyone’s ever said to me.
I thought about that when reading this New York Magazine piece about women who are abandoning relationships and marriages in a flurry of “Lifetime Network”-caliber pique and huff…
…Because Trump.
David Thompson fisks one of the interview subjects to a fine sheen – go and read it – but that was by no means all:
[the writer] goes on to share other tales of bedlamite sorrow. A woman named Samantha complains that her husband of 25 years, a fellow lefty, has “much less rage” than she does, specifically about “white privileged men,” and doesn’t wish to spend every evening equally infuriated by the existence of people whose politics differ somewhat. “Anger,” says Samantha, is her “de facto mode.” Though she’s trying to “get rid of it through therapy.”
A Brooklynite named Betsy boasts that “cultural change is like a steamroller. It flattens distinctions, and some people will get hurt,” by which she means men falsely and maliciously accused of rape, before adding, “and I’m okay with that.” Betsy and her husband are currently in counselling.
Another lady named Sarah tells us that her marriage became unsustainable “after the 2016 election, when I ramped up my political activism.” Sarah’s husband is described as “completely aligned” politically, a feminist, even, albeit one who doesn’t care to spend every waking hour raging about politics. “Talking about the Trump election,” says Sarah, “makes me more emotional than the end of my marriage.” And presumably, more emotional than the thought of her children losing the stability and reassurance of a family structure. But hey, priorities.
It’s not a new, original observation to say that progressivism is to the left what faith is to the cultural right. Far from it.
But some parts of “progressivism” are becoming downright cult-like.
SIDE NOTE to Minnesota Republicans fussing about “Sharia Law”: Progressivism will destroy this nation long, long before anything else will.
Perhaps will be perceived as being out of line, but the ironic thing about this post and the final comment, the side note, is that this is the exact perspective from which Anders Breivik operated. Not saying anything about our host, especially because he is not armed and actually fears weapons.
There are many levels of #winning here.
When we are young, most men are willing to overlook a leftist woman’s idiocy if she’s hot and the sex is good. As we get older, and start thinking about marriage, the political ideologies become more important. Smart conservative men won’t marry a woman who considers the lives of their progeny a matter of her choice.
But many leftist skaanks have been willing to hook up with conservative men who make money, or have the potential to make money. I encourage them to channel their inchoate hate towards making themselves available only to soy eating leftist twaats.
Not only do they lose the ability to infect the children that avoid a trip to Dr. Mengele’s family planning boutique, the chance they will ever have the opportunity to make a thumbs up or down decision on their lives drops drastically.
So he’ll yeah. If leftist skaanks don’t want to go lesbo, go soy.
“But some parts of “progressivism” are becoming downright cult-like.”
let me fix that for ya
“But some parts of “progressivism” have long since become downright cult-like.
When Clinton and Obama were in the White House, Liberals expected me to suck it up and move on with life.
Now that Trump is in the White House, Liberals are outraged that I expect them to suck it up and move on with life.
Hypocrisy is annoying
Joe – if it wasn’t for double standards, some people would have no standards at all.
TJ
this need attention from every US Senator:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/38?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22concealed+carry+reciprocity+act%22%5D%7D
It was, if unwittingly, one of the nastiest things anyone’s ever said to me.
I was told by a recent ex Mitch on Facebook (before she, mercifully, unfriended and blocked me) that I deserved to get unfriended by all my Clinton supporting and leftist classmates I graduated with because of all the “evil and hateful stuff” I post on my Facebook page. Shes married now (in a open marriage, at 22. Yes insert joke here) and she told me she feels like she dodged a bullet with me. The last thing I told her before she blocked me is that not to worry, the feeling is 100% mutual.
When we are young, most men are willing to overlook a leftist woman’s idiocy if she’s hot and the sex is good.
Rasies hand, half a dozen instantces at least. Plus their lack of morals and decency means we are in bed by date 3 at the worst. Sometimes after the first date, but of course at that point in my life I wasnt exactly thinking with the head that was on my shoulders…
As we get older, and start thinking about marriage, the political ideologies become more important.
Oh, yes indeed.
Smart conservative men won’t marry a woman who considers the lives of their progeny a matter of her choice.
I wont date a girl if she doesnt want at least 3 kids, and I make that clear early on. Surprisingly this is less of a turn off than you would think.
But many leftist skaanks have been willing to hook up with conservative men who make money, or have the potential to make money. I encourage them to channel their inchoate hate towards making themselves available only to soy eating leftist twaats.
I am officially done with leftist women unless its a one night stand, which Im not really even interested in anymore.
This makes me chuckle, because this explains why a couple of my conservative friends that use the traditional dating websites, are noticing that more women are putting “no conservatives need apply” in their profiles.
IDE NOTE to Minnesota Republicans fussing about “Sharia Law”: Progressivism will destroy this nation long, long before anything else will.
Here’s a good basic analgy. That is like worry about a overflowing sink ruining your house while the house is on fire burning down. Get your priorities straight people, you might even be able to use it to help put out the fire oddly
This makes me chuckle, because this explains why a couple of my conservative friends that use the traditional dating websites, are noticing that more women are putting “no conservatives need apply” in their profiles.
Frankly I see that as a favor.
“Anger,” says Samantha, is her “de facto mode.” Though she’s trying to “get rid of it through therapy.”
I can think of a much… better, cheaper, easier, and frankly more fun way to get rid of that anger honey.
Mitch, if she didn’t even get to know you well enough to penetrate the fog of stereotypes, I say you dodged a bullet. And really, if it were me back on the dating market, I think that uncritical acceptance of the Democratic Party platform–funding for Planned Parenthood, gun control, single payer health care, etc..–would be something of a deal killer, because it would interact with a certain number of choices I’ve made in my own life.
MBerg wrote: “SIDE NOTE to Minnesota Republicans fussing about “Sharia Law”: Progressivism will destroy this nation long, long before anything else will.”
But sharia is progressivism. The goal of today’s progressives is to eliminate the concept of equality under the law.
The two most important enemies of pregressivism are equality under the law and freedom of religion, and the progressives know it. They oppose the first because it allows Americans to view one another as coequals in the American project rather than as rivals for state-granted privilege. They oppose the second because religion offers an alternative — and higher — source of moral teaching than the state.
The reason progressives want to eliminate the second amendment is because they want the right to own a weapon to be a state granted privilege, not a God given right. Clearly they don’t care about the victims of gun violence in American cities. Progressives could dramatically decrease gun violence by joining with conservatives and cracking down, hard, on illegal firearm possession and use of a firearm in a crime. But progressives won’t do this because it will fill the jails with too many young Blacks & Hispanics, and insufficent middle-aged white guys. In their eyes, every gang-banger convicted of a felony is one fewer Democrat vote. Progressives hate the Bill of rights for the reason that they should love it — the Bill of rights prevents the state from imposing arbitrary and capricious laws on the People.
Here is something unusual: a lefty academic with introspection explains Trump hatred:
Why are so many of us feeling deep distress each day, sometimes over what seem like relatively trivial or incidental information (like Trump pushing aside heads of state?) Because Trump is sacrilege.
Trump is the Piss Christ of liberals and leftists. His every breath is a bb-gun shot through a cathedral window, bacon on the doorstep of a mosque, the explosion of an ancient Buddha statue. He offends against the notion that merit and hard work will be rewarded. Against the idea that leadership and knowledge are necessary partners. Against deep assumptions about the dignity of self-control. Against a feeling that leaders should at least pretend to be more dedicated to their institutions and missions than themselves. Against the feeling that consequential decisions should be performed as consequential. Against the feeling that a man should be ashamed of sexual predation and assault if caught on tape exalting it. Against the sense that anyone who writes or speaks in the public sphere is both responsible for what they’ve said and should have to reconcile what they’ve said in the past with what they’re doing in the present. These are emotional commitments before they are things we would defend as substantive, reasoned propositions. They’re interwoven into how many of us inhabit social class and working life, but sometimes spill over both class and work to connect us with unlike people who nevertheless have similar expectations about leaders and public figures.
http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2017/05/26/trump-as-desecration/
Still it is hard to take this explanation seriously coming from people who supported Bill Clinton’s sexual predation and Hillary’s mendaciousness. And as for the requirement that leadership be matched with knowledge, it was the Trump haters who believed that they are the natural leaders of society, and abysmally failed to predict Hillary’s loss to Trump. They have no special knowledge.
What liberals believe Trump is defiling is not platitudes about common decency. They believe that he is defiling the great liberal project itself, the idea that an honorable and educated elite are gently and selflessly shepherding an often reluctant humanity to the sunny uplands of history.
If you don’t believe in the holiness of the great liberal project (which even many conservatives believe in), you don’t believe Trump is defiling anything, and you don’t hate him.
“Defilement” is not a rational concept, it is a mythical or religious concept. No amount of reason or evidence will convince a Trump hater that he or she is wrong.
From the original piece in the Net York mag:
“says Stephanie Coontz, a professor of family studies at Evergreen State College…”
Mic drop.
and they are just too damn smart to relate to us plebes. Just ask them…e
https://spectator.org/democrats-are-just-too-darned-smart/
“Defilement” is not a rational concept, it is a mythical or religious concept. No amount of reason or evidence will convince a Trump hater
, or gun control activist,
or climate change advocate,
or vegan,
or #MeToo activist,
that he or she is wrong.
Great find MP. Also hard to take this kind of explaination…
“Against the idea that leadership and knowledge are necessary partners. Against deep assumptions about the dignity of self-control”
… from a proponent of a political party that lives and breathes the rejection of self control and dignity.