At the recent COP28 in Dubai, when King Charles had finished trampling over centuries of royal tradition by banging on about climate change yet again, the assembled elites adjourned for lunch. Joining them were staffers engaged in drawing up a report which recommended that the West dramatically reduce its meat consumption. Diners were presented with myriad choices;
“..."juicy beef," "slabs of succulent meat," smoked wagyu burgers, Philly cheesesteaks and "melt-in-your-mouth BBQ" in addition to African street BBQ...”(1)
Tricky. All those options sound top-notch. Then, at the conclusion of the jamboree, they all piled into their private jets. Charles, Foreign Secretary Cameron and feckless Prime Minister Sunak had one each.(2) It seems that the carbon footprint of a private jet is disproportionately high, nine times that of a commercial flight.(3) During the previous conference (and there were only 50,000 attendees at COP27, as against 70,000 this time around), there were 315 private flights, generating 1.1 kilotonnes of CO2 (a kilotonne is a million tonnes).(4) Mind you, during Biden's trip to Europe to attend COP26, the US entourage alone managed to generate twice that amount.(5)
The next opportunity for our elites to pontificate wasn't long in coming. Blofeld's January WEF shebang, a much more exclusive gathering, is a favorite date in the calendar. As usual, the brothels were maxxed out and the cocktail party canapés were up to their normal high standard; lobster, wagyu beef, crab and “flecks” of caviar.(6)
Figure 1
Once again, local airports were festooned with Gulfstreams. The last time a calculation was made (2022), 1,040 private planes flew in and out of local airports during the conference.(7) Unfortunately, Al Gore couldn't make it this year. Perhaps he was spending time at his home in Tennessee, the one that “guzzles more electricity in one year than the average American family uses in 21 years.”(8) Elon Musk was also elsewhere; perhaps aboard his own jet, upon which he took 171 flights in 2022 alone.(9) John Kerry (aka Lurch) Biden's now ex-climate czar and a man who famously took a private jet to Iceland to accept an environmental award,(10) was enjoying his last hurrah.
The US military jettisons more CO2 into the atmosphere than 140 countries around the world.(11) The Qatar World Cup produced 3.6 kilotonnes of carbon emissions.(12) The French are 'hopeful' that they can halve emissions at the forthcoming Paris Olympics to 1.5 kilotonnes and, with the usual creative accounting, perhaps they will.(13) 'Offsetting' is the new game. Of course, they could always 'offset' without having the Games in the first place if they were serious; but they're not. Just as Biden, Kerry, Musk et al aren't serious. They can't be. If they were, they'd be doing everything they could to ameliorate climate change.
But 'climate change' is a fairly obvious Trojan Horse; there are plenty of other imperatives and the WEF serves as a useful barometer – we get to see what the next tactic is going to be. Sure enough, this year we were treated to much bloviating on the subject of mis- and dis-information, with side dishes that included Disease X and personal carbon footprints.(14)(15) The not-so-gradual slide towards narrative control married to controlling behavior was obvious.
Not so obvious, sometimes, is what the progressive elites are trying to achieve with other parts of their agenda, most of which is somewhere on the 'woke' spectrum. Who are the targets? Why trans rights, for instance? Why anti-racism or DEI or any of their other obsessions? Is there a plan, or are they simply indulging their vindictive streak again?
They've been all-in on the trans 'issue' from the get-go. In fact, it wasn't even a thing until they created it and it's still not a thing among most age groups; it's mostly Gen Z, a few Millennials and some male grifters from Gen X and the Boomers who want to ensure that they end up in a female prison. Between 2014 and 2021, the number of young adults identifying as transgender quadrupled.(16) Activists would have us believe that this was because people were suddenly able to unburden themselves because of a newly tolerant society.
This explanation doesn't come close to passing the smell test; the rapid increase in gender dysphoria is, instead, indicative of the onset of an adolescent social contagion. In June 2023, data from New Jersey revealed that there had been a 4000% spike in students identifying as non-binary.(17) Montgomery County, Maryland experienced a 582% increase in non-conforming gender students over a mere two year period.(18)
US polling shows that the transgender mania is truly age-limited; among adults younger than 25, 3.1% identify as trans, which compares with just 0.5% of those aged 25-29.(19) Nonetheless, about a quarter of American adults say that they have a trans friend and about one in ten know a trans person who is under 18;(20) Gen Z, once again leading the charge. That is also the generation which has a 28% LGBTQ identification, as against an adult percentage (in the US, at least) of 7.2%.(21)(22)
Interestingly, but unsurprisingly, adolescent girls are between three and four times more likely to claim to be boys than vice versa.(23) This may or may not have something to do with the fact that teenage girls are much more likely to suffer from mental illness.
Figure 2
Mental illness among LGBT teens is also, predictably, at stratospheric levels. I'm inclined to the view that some kindergarten level number crunching ought to be able to get to the bottom of the phenomenon, but no matter. For our purposes here, it's about how the trans agenda has been weaponized and who has been targeted.
Figure 3
Women are clearly in the cross-hairs. Their feminist flag-bearers, by welcoming the mentally ill into the big tent of intersectionality, have betrayed them; not for the first time, either. Now we find that long-haired men, all of whom would not cut it in male sports, turn to women's sport instead. Canada, the perfect petri dish for mainstreaming deviancy due to a culture of excessive forbearance and conformity, boasts women's college volleyball teams infested with biological males, who clearly aren't even obliged to be in shape in order to compete.
Figure 4
Of the six male players in the league, five are "not on any gender-affirming hormone therapy or have not had surgical gonad removal."(24) Apparently, there have recently been two major head injuries to female players, both cause by men spiking the ball with venom.(25) Men pretending to be women have also fought in MMA,(26)(27) and will soon be allowed to box women in the US.(28) Other pretend females have been cleaning up in cycling,(29)(30) in athletics,(31) in swimming (32) and, perhaps unsurprisingly, in weightlifting.(33)
Yet Caster Semenya, an intersex athlete from South Africa (with XY chromosomes and undescended testes), is banned from female competition.(34) Dutee Chand, an Indian sprinter, was banned because she had naturally high levels of testosterone (hyperandrogenism) and only cleared to compete again when the Court of Arbitration of Sport pronounced, ludicrously, that there was a lack of evidence to show that testosterone improved female athletic performance.(35) But biological men can compete in other women's sports, including contact sports, with no issues, despite the fact that a huge majority of the public disagrees with this stance.(36)
Other categories of women are also at risk; female prisoners, for instance. By 2021, New Jersey had adopted a policy of imprisoning according to gender, not biological sex.(37) Even so, the state was late to the party – the UK had been housing male rapists and sex offenders in female prisons since 2018, with entirely predictable results.(38) The High Court, the UK's equivalent to SCOTUS, explicitly endorsed this policy in 2021,(39) despite the fact that it was already known that 41% of male prisoners in wigs were sex offenders.(40) Apparently, according to the right-on Spectator:
“To some ‘gender-critical’ people, prisons are where the sex-gender debate becomes very real and very awkward. They are concerned that trans-inclusive policies make it possible for male sex offenders to falsely identify themselves as transwomen and gain access to the female prison estate.”(41)
One doesn't, of course, have to go to prison to be a female endangered by the trans mind virus. One could simply be a student at a school that allows 'gender fluid' males to use the girl's washroom and commit sexual assault. (42) Or be a ten year old in the female toilets in a supermarket.(43) Or be a vulnerable female at a woman's shelter.(44) Nowhere is safe if all a man has to do is say that he identifies as a female to gain access. It's not difficult to see that making male harassment of women easier is not favorite and yet that is exactly what is being supported and even mandated. By feminists.
The other targets of the trans hysteria are the sensible, of whatever sex and hue. The entire brouhaha is, straightforwardly, a psy op designed to target those amongst us who refuse to bend the knee to utter nonsense. Those with severe gender dysphoria are simply not well people. One recent study put the incidence of personality disorders among this cohort at 81.4%, with an average of three separate conditions per person; once again, it's not a surprise to learn that 57.1% are afflicted with narcissistic personality disorder.(45) The progressive Left that polices acceptance of these unfortunates seem to suffer from the same defects.
To listen to the reliably histrionic activists (another disorder that features prominently within the trans community), 'misgendering' someone is tantamount to a 'hate crime', yet another concept that has been foisted upon us illegitimately. The British Labour Party, under Sir Keir Something, plans to introduce legislation to bring in “tougher sentences for those who commit hate crimes targeted at someone’s sexual identity, transgender identity or disability”.(46) Leftists in Colorado are trying to compel schools to use a student's self-identified name by introducing a bill which “deems a school’s refusal to use a student’s preferred name a form of discrimination.”(47)
The problem isn't so much that there is a substantial collection of neurotic Leftists who believe ridiculous constructs; they've always existed but, previously, ignoring them wasn't an issue. In fact, normal, sensible people would, for the most part, not even have been exposed to the preoccupations of the Loony Left. The problem is that they are now not only mainstream, but are also insistent that nobody is allowed to reject their idiocy; only their opinion is valid. It therefore follows that the ignorant who fail to understand this dynamic, must be punished because, as I have asserted many times previously, Leftists are Leftists because politics is downstream from character.
So comedians, playwrights and authors are cancelled,(48) the Chairwoman of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission is attacked for doing her job (which is, in the New Normal world, now “anti-trans”),(49) an Open University professor with “gender-critical beliefs” is hounded out of her job by the vindictive and the weak (50) and a lesbian Newcastle United fan is banned from attending games until 2026 (by a combination of the Premier League and the club itself) for the crime of posting the opinion that transgender women are not women on social media.(51) Investigators even thought it appropriate to covertly follow her when she was walking her dog.
The madness has metastasized rapidly. One of Sir Keir's low-wattage MPs recently stood up in Parliament and asked if the law could be altered “to allow transgender people who are deceased to be legally remembered by the gender they lived by.”(52) And parents are also very much prey in this ideological battle. In Pennsylvania, teachers are now being given training on how to 'transition' children from kindergarten age upwards;(53) many schools also encourage 'preferred pronouns', without the parents' knowledge.(54) It's not just a problem in the US – gender identity ideology is also taught in British schools, resulting in another outbreak of trans contagion with 10% of 16-18 year olds either having already changed identity or desirous of doing so.(55)
Parents' fundamental rights are also being stripped away. A New York family court removed a father's right to stop his ex-partner from 'transitioning' his son with female hormones after a seven year legal battle – the boy was only one when the mother decided he was a girl instead.(56) Fathers seem to be particularly vulnerable to ex-wife's machinations with regard to a child's gender identity; courts in at least ten states have encountered such issues in custody battles.(57) But it is the state itself that is the biggest threat.
Judges in Arizona stripped both parents of custody when they refused to accept that their 15 year old daughter was a boy.(58) Montana's Child and Family Services (CFS) effectively kidnapped a 14 year old girl who wished to be referred to as Leo, even though the state itself has no such policy. The CFS maneuvered around that small road block by transferring the child out-of-state and then officially removed her from the family's care because they were “unable or refusing to provide medical care”.(59) They claim that a parent refusing to allow their child to get pumped full of the opposite sex's hormones is child abuse, a now familiar inversion of language; as is the term 'gender-affirming care'.(60)
At the most fundamental level, the state (certainly in the US and, seemingly, increasingly in the UK) is not only enforcing an orthodoxy that is perverse and counterfactual – using the Leftists that infest education, the judiciary and the media to push a psychologically damaged minority's particular obsession – but is further seeking dominion over the young and, in so doing, attempting to destroy what's left of the nuclear family, a structure that has the potential to resist governmental overreach. As a by-product, it is also chemically castrating men and rendering women infertile.
People who were once called transvestites are now accorded 'transgender' status, a descriptor that is devoid of logic. Gender had never previously been a term applied to humans in this context:
“Transgenderism, like transhumanism, is in conflict with human nature, and in particular, it denies dimorphism, the binary reality of the human species, which is divided into two complementary sexes, equal but not interchangeable. The sexes are, in humans, absolute, not relative, as absolute and asymmetric as are protons and electrons in the atom. Transsexualism denies this reality...”(61)
Even before the modern explosion of transgenderism, 74% of trans men didn't want to fully 'transition'.(62) A UK 2016 study found that only 2.6% of the transgender community was undergoing any kind of treatment; the remaining 97.2% simply self-identify, but make no body modifications.(63) So, the male portion of that group are actually transvestites. Another study found that 37% of the transgender population identified as bisexual or “queer”;(64) the only surprising aspect of that study was that it was only 37%. It is known that young boys with gender identity dysphoria are more likely to be homosexuals after puberty, not transgender.(65) English data also shows that adolescent females with the same condition were overwhelmingly lesbian or bisexual; only 9% were heterosexual.(66)
Indeed, the entire ideology of 'genderism' is of recent vintage – in the 1980s, a group of intellectuals decided that gender was a social construct designed to do the usual; keep minorities down and empower white men. They believed that;
“...if a man could become a woman, and a woman could become a man, then the entire construction of “creation” could be toppled. These intellectuals also see the new “trans movement” as the foundation of their progressive Marxist movement.”(67)
So, same old, same old; another branch of the march through the institutions. Another fantasy constructed out of whole cloth. And another bunch of mentally unwell individuals to be exploited, so that a collective political vision that attacks the fundamental concept of identity could be advanced.(68) There's nothing accidental about it.
The state, or those who own the state, have taken a niche concern that afflicted a tiny proportion of adults and turned it into a juggernaut of 'gender=affirming care' for minors, who are encouraged to make life-changing choices when they are pubescent or even pre-pubescent. They can't drunk, can't vote, can't have sex, but they can 'transition'? They can start taking cross-hormones, when there are inadequate data on the long term effects of doing so? Teenage females, with testosterone levels that are 6%-8% of their male counterparts,(69) are now going to be 'transitioned?' They will inevitably become reliant upon the state (for life), not their parents. And that's just the way the state likes it. More control. The state doesn't care about individual outcomes. The state emotionally blackmails parents instead and is making a habit of kidnapping the children of the few who resist the indoctrination.(70)
Something similar is happening with the LGB element of the alphabet soup that is now all pervasive. Apparently, we are under instruction to embrace the kind of diversity that, were it to be universal, would result in the extinction of the human race within a single generation:
“Try this thought experiment. The habitable world is reduced to two desert islands. One island is given to 100 married couples; the other is divided in two, with one half going to 50 gay couples and one half going to 50 lesbian couples. A century later, which island will be a cemetery, and which a growing human habitation?”(71)
We are obliged to celebrate lesbians and gays and set aside the inconvenient fact that there is considerable evidence supporting the contention that gayness is a choice.(72) And then we are to forget that the L and the G wouldn't even exist without straight parents. And then try not to connect the dots which, were we to be unable to resist that temptation, would lead us to the inevitable conclusion that gay people had directly benefited from heterosexuality and then (if the data are correct) chosen not to do their bit in siring a future generation.
Of course, that's merely an opinion (albeit one based on the available evidence rather than a flight of fancy) and one that I would consider myself entitled to hold, should I wish to. I have no particular desire to celebrate what is, in my estimation, an evolutionary dead end. And sure – each to their own, live and let live and so forth. But an entire month dedicated to Pride parades, with the latest iteration of the rainbow flag adorning everything from the White House to children's T-shirts? Not interested, and I'm willing to bet a substantial sum on the proposition that I am far from alone – not because I'm a bigot, but because (firstly) I don't see anything that I'll go out of my way to celebrate and, secondly, I don't like having my opinions regulated.
Yet that isn't where we are, is it? Instead, the gay community wants to really let us know that they are proud of themselves. Why someone's entire self-identity revolves around their sexual preferences is moot. Why they should be any more proud of themselves than a heterosexual is, similarly, not explored. Why there is no Straight Month is also not a topic for polite society. My comments would no doubt be lambasted as homophobic, as would my previous observations about the trans community.
However, let's say for the sake of argument that these individuals have a choice. Let's further say that we can all agree that, in the words of MLK, we should be judging a man on the “content of his character”. If, in those circumstances, I don't find transvestites and homosexuals to be of a character that I appreciate, am I at fault? And who would have the right to say that I was at fault? I could not (and would not) make a similar claim about skin color or sex, for the obvious reasons, but if choice is involved...?
As it happens, I'm not overly bothered, either way, but I resent the implication that if I'm not all-in on men in chaps parading through the streets, twerking at children, then I am somehow homophobic. What happened to religious convictions, for example? That's a question that has, sadly, become rhetorical. Christianity (in general) and Catholicism (in particular) are under constant attack and the belief that homosexuality is a sin, a lesson that is imparted numerous times in the Bible, would now be considered to be a 'hate crime'.
A man who refuses to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple can be prosecuted, only being acquitted (by a margin of 7-2) once the case reached the highest court in the land.(73) A Catholic health-care provider can be sued for refusing to perform hysterectomies on transgender patients.(74) And John Hopkins University, in attempting to outwoke the woke, amusingly amended its definition of a lesbian - “a non-man attracted to a non-man” -(75) and was immediately accused of making the most homophobic statement of the decade. Some people – that would be Leftists – are never happy.
American Catholics have been targeted by the FBI, who view them as potential domestic terrorists because they hold pro-life views and possess “a biblical worldview of marriage and sexuality.”(76) Multiple field offices across the US coordinated an investigation into traditional Catholics, particularly those “who were interested in the Traditional Latin Mass as the group within the Church allegedly the most likely to be sympathetic to violent extremist activities”;(77) which seems somewhat unlikely. Other egregious persecutions are allowed to flourish;
“...recently in Massachusetts, the reported denial of foster care parent-applicants to access the state’s foster care program, expressly due to the fact the applicants are Catholic; the prioritized violence against Catholic pro-life centers; the arrests of people silently praying the rosary in public; the growing desecration of Catholic statues and churches, etc.”(78)
The attack is also from within; the Pope is merely the latest quisling in that regard, as the Church lurched to the political Left as long ago as the mid-sixties.(79) The same dynamic was in play in the Protestant church, also. Sunday school teachers told the children that “Jesus was an especially nice person, “like you and me”, with not a word about his divinity or relationship to God.”(80) 'Social justice' slithered into usage, masculinity was smeared, feminist ideology found a home. The traditional church, both Catholic and Protestant, is lurching towards the precipice.
Once again, attacks on Christianity are a feature, not a bug and it's really not difficult to see why. A faith which holds that “Thou shall have no other gods before me [Exodus 20:1-3]” cannot be allowed to stand in opposition to progressive ideology. A faith that gives succor to believers, that “enshrines the mother and father as the authority over the child. Only God supersedes it. No civil authority, no teacher, no school board, no politician, has the right to get between you and your parental authority...”(81) is a direct threat – one that must be met. Any belief system, whether secular or religious, which doesn't cleave to progressive ideology is ruthlessly assailed. Diverse opinions are very much not acceptable, after all.
If one examines other Leftist obsessions, it is possible to identify patterns. Access to abortion has been a hot button topic for feminists for decades and lately, thank to the overturning of Roe v Wade, the overweight, pink-haired legions are once again marauding around outside state Capitols and lobbing Molotov cocktails at pro-life centers. 'Reproductive rights' are the feminists' version of the trans community's 'gender-affirming care' – mangled language which serves to obscure. The same goes for another favorite, 'my body, my choice'. So, the father of the child-to-be has no choice at all?
If one takes a step back, the entire debate is nonsensical. The unvarnished truth is that feminists are dying in a ditch over their right to kill an unborn child. Some of them aren't overly particular about the 'unborn' part of that statement, either - in 2022, a proposed bill in California contained language that would legalize infanticide for months or even years after birth.(82) As it currently is, if we accept that a viable unborn child is a human life, abortion was the leading cause of death worldwide in 2023, for the fifth year in succession – 44.6 million lives cut short.(83) In 2021, approximately one in five American pregnancies ended in abortion.(84) That's the answer to declining birth rates, right there.
How is it that killing children in the womb has become almost universally acceptable? The process itself is barbaric, fetal remains are allowed to be sold and some babies survive the initial procedure and are either allowed to die or are killed outside the womb. How can a civilized Western society normalize this practice? How can such a society not recognize the fact that, in the words of Leftist icon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Roe v Wade was a decision about population control, “particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”(85)
Modern white supremacists support abortion, because “the people who are having abortions are generally very often black or Hispanic or from very poor circumstances....“the unintelligent and blacks and Hispanics . . . use abortion as birth control.”(86) Another unlikely alliance, then – we can add white racists/feminists to 'trans' men playing women's sport/feminists. Historic racist eugenicists include the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger. Astonishingly, between the years 2012 and 2016, black mothers in New York City gave birth to less babies than they aborted – 118,127 to 136,426.(87) That's because
“...nearly 80 percent of Planned Parenthood’s clinics are located within walking distance of neighborhoods occupied predominantly by black and Hispanic residents.”(88)
But access to abortion, for the Leftist, is a fundamental tenet of their ideology. No reason is unjustified; discrimination on the basis of sex, race or disability is all fine and dandy when deciding whether to kill an unborn child. In fact, being able to so discriminate is, according to pro-choicers, a necessary part of “women's health care”.(89) And nearly every single elected Democrat in the US supports the right to abort up to the moment of birth.(90)(91) And the administration supports Planned Parenthood to the tune of $670 million plus per annum,(92) at a time when the US birth rate has declined 30% in the fifteen years to 2022.(93)
Another progressive preoccupation is also gaining ground, most notably across America's northern border – 'assisted dying' or, less delicately but more accurately, state-sanctioned killing. Canada's MAiD programme (Medical Assistance in Dying), a practice that is still illegal in most countries, is flourishing.
In 2021, whilst in the process of destroying the population's rights with its 'pandemic' measures, Trudeau's government helpfully expanded the criteria under which MAiD might be administered. Now, a person having “enduring and intolerable physical or psychological suffering that cannot be alleviated under conditions the person considers acceptable”(94) could also ask the government to kill them. Potentially, if a government made life miserable enough, millions might become eligible. The issue had always been a slippery slope; it was only a matter of time before it arrived at the point where people that were “too poor to continue living with dignity” were euthanized.(95)
Lately, however, some Canadian doctors seem to have remembered that they are supposed to help nurture life, not end it, and are refusing to kill patients who are simply suffering from mental illness. One hopes that they will be similarly scrupulous when confronted with the requirement to euthanize “mature minors” without the consent of their parents,(96) or infants with “grave malformations” -(97) useless eaters all.
In just a few short years, euthanasia has become one of Canada's leading causes of death.(98) The country also now provides more organ transplants than any other country in the world.(90) And the contagion is seeping southwards. Already, ten US states have implemented 'physician-assisted suicide' and it's a racing certainty that other blue states will follow in due course.(100) Hopefully, they can avoid one of the pitfalls identified by Canadian specialist doctor/killers, which is that not enough poor and minority people are lining up to be killed; it's mostly white, well off, privileged people.(101) Not the target demographic at all.
At this juncture, it's worth reflecting on one blindingly obvious link between these woke articles of faith – they all involve what we might euphemistically refer to as population control. If they're not actively killing people off, they're sterilizing them or encouraging them to be anything other than heterosexual. While they're doing all that, they're also demanding that we not only fail to oppose, but that we actively support them in their endeavors. Structures that might offer resistance, such as the parents in a nuclear family or religious convictions, are attacked and sidelined. Individual dissent is met with harassment, name calling and cancellation.
While proactive measures are, therefore, proving mighty successful, the poisoned fruit of the feminist movement is responsible for a present where the concepts of marriage and family are as alien as they've ever been. There are also other, biological reasons for the collapse in fertility, but the hostility of feminism towards the male of the species is central. And, of course, now completely untenable, logically. If women can be men and men can be women, where does that leave the struggle against 'the patriarchy'? But feminism has never paid any mind to logic; women must focus on their careers, postpone or abandon marriage altogether and, if they deem it necessary, throw the father of their children out, in favor of the state's care:
“But real life stood as a challenge to women fully adjusting to such an impossible formula of career and children without a husband. Substituting husbands for a government check has especially hurt low-income women. After decades of promoting the matriarchal family, especially in the inner city, neither children nor women prospered. Boys especially developed impulsive reactions to emotions, sought instantaneous gratification, held a twisted view of manhood, and an inability to self-control with no respect for any authority including their own mothers.”(102)
And then along came the late Millennials and Gen Z. Is it a particular wonder that rituals such as sologomy, the practice of marrying oneself in a formal ceremony, is now an actual thing (I suspect mostly for young women)?(103) Is it any wonder that loneliness has become an epidemic, when one realises how many of today's young women have drunk the feminist, Leftist KoolAid?
Figure 5
Those attitudes translate to these outcomes.
Figure 6
Although Leftists, both male and female, are not likely to be high on the list of desirable 'potentials'. This rogue's gallery is comprised entirely of mug shots of progressives captured during the riots of 2020.
Figure 7
It also appears that Gen Z is two generations, rather than one. In the 18-30 age group, women are now 30% more 'liberal' (aka progressive) than their male counterparts. That's just in the West; in South Korea – plus China and Tunisia – the gap is even more pronounced.
Figure 8
Perhaps this shouldn't be a surprise, as much of the progressive canon emphasizes care (albeit pathological) and, on balance, women are more agreeable than men. This might contribute to an avoidance of conflict and a tendency to comply when societal pressure is brought to bear, rather than resist. Whatever it is, that gap has taken only six years to develop. I can't believe that it's a positive development, particularly as it has coincided with the aforementioned epidemic of loneliness for that very same generation.(104) They don't seem to be having much in the way of horizontal gymnastics, either.(105)
There is also another broad grouping of Leftist idées fixe; instead of obsessing over the personal sphere, they are concerned with breaking down the macro elements of society. Anti-racism, DEI and the remaking of Western countries via immigration, whether illegal or otherwise, are all tactics that seek to undermine and weaken. DEI actively erodes competence, anti-racism is simply yet another progressive word salad that actually means reverse racism and immigration, largely from cultures that are not a good match for our own, is increasingly coming to resemble another conspiracy theory that turns out to be true – the Great Replacement.
When combined with 'defund the police' and 'criminal justice reform' - the latter simply an excuse to go easy on career criminals and ensure that they are free to cause maximum mayhem - it's a toxic brew that unsettles the normal and embeds the abnormal. For there to be a Great Reset, what is already present needs to be dismantled and, in their habitual bull-in-a-china-shop fashion, that's what the progressives are doing.
Many of them clearly are true believers. Supergluing one's hand to the tarmac to 'Just Stop Oil' has the potential to smart a little and the activists from the Summer of Love are clearly not mainstream. Adolescents confused about their sexual orientation (or their sexual choices) may be persuaded that they are transgender. Gay men who lack any other distinguishing quality may make their sexuality the centerpiece of their being and today's young men may well take more comfort from their screens than they can from increasingly 'liberal' young women, who use abortion as another form of contraception.
But the causes they espouse or the malaises with which they are afflicted did not come into existence in a vacuum. They are progressive cravings and they seek change; just not in a good way. And the people financing Antifa, Planned Parenthood, the likes of the Southern Poverty Law Center (the source of much Leftist activism) and others are not starry-eyed ideologues. They are the Soros' and J.P. Morgans of the world, the ones with the vast carbon footprints, private jets and waterfront homes. The ones whose straight kids went to private school. The ones who will never have to suffer the consequences of the havoc they wreak upon the rest of us.
In short, the obsessions that they have cultivated with their wealth and influence share certain traits that minimize procreation, compel compliance, undermine rival power structures and splinter societies, the better to rebuild them as cages. The progressive cause, such as it is, is just a ragbag collection of neuroses that, far from enabling progress, simply divide and regress. That's what makes it useful to bad actors. And the normal, the non-deviant, white people, heterosexuals, parents, procreation itself and both males and females, are all threats and are treated accordingly.
Citations
(3) https://ucl.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14324/111.444/000218.v1
(4) Ditto
(9) https://www.ips-dc.org/report-high-flyers-2023/
(10) https://news.yahoo.com/kerry-defended-taking-private-jet-171410846.html?guccounter=1
(12) https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/63466168
(13) https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/2024-olympics-how-paris-aims-to-set-new-standards/ar-AA1mix6p
(16) https://time.com/6275663/generation-z-gender-identity/
(17) https://www.upward.news/spike-in-non-binary-students/
(18) Ditto
(20) Ditto
(22) https://news.gallup.com/poll/470708/lgbt-identification-steady.aspx
(23) https://psychology.stackexchange.com/questions/23841/why-are-trans-women-more-common-than-trans-men
(24)
(25) https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1752447557274362054.html
(27) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallon_Fox
(29) https://nypost.com/2023/06/12/trans-cyclist-austin-killips-wins-nc-race-by-5-minutes/
(30) https://nypost.com/2023/12/05/news/transgender-cyclists-take-gold-and-silver-at-womens-race/
(31) https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/trans-runner-breaks-2-womens-track-field-records-new-york-college
(32) https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/17/sport/lia-thomas-ncaa-swimming/index.html
(33) https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/02/sport/laurel-hubbard-olympics-weightlifting-spt-intl/index.html
(34) https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/02/sport/laurel-hubbard-olympics-weightlifting-spt-intl/index.html
(35) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutee_Chand
(39) https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57692993
(40) https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/are-sex-offenders-exploiting-trans-rights-policies-behind-bars/
(41) Ditto
(42) https://news.yahoo.com/loudoun-county-school-district-breaks-185153597.html
(43) https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8647171/transgender-woman-sexually-assaulted-girl-morrisons/
(45) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4301205/
(47) https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1039
(48) https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/19/the-rise-and-rise-of-trans-mccarthyism/
(50) https://dailysceptic.org/2024/02/03/the-academics-who-hounded-gender-critical-professor-jo-phoenix/
(56) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13030699/gender-transition-custody-battle.html
(58) Ditto
(62) https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/5/13/17938114/transgender-people-transitioning-surgery-medical
(63) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27045261/
(64) https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-023-16654-z
(66) Ditto
(68) https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1679143593238462464
(69) https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323085#low-levels
(71) https://chroniclesmagazine.org/columns/the-voice-of-god-no-more/
(72) https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2012/12/yes_gay_is_a_choice_get_over_it.html
(73) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colorado_Civil_Rights_Commission
(76) https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/02/why_did_the_fbi_target_traditional_catholics.html
(79) https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/04/why_are_traditional_christians_under_attack.html
(80) Ditto
(81)
(83) https://www.christianpost.com/news/abortion-was-the-top-cause-of-death-worldwide-in-2023.html
(84) https://abort73.com/abortion_facts/us_abortion_statistics/
(85) https://amgreatness.com/2022/06/25/how-the-eugenics-movement-made-race-based-abortions-normal/
(86) Ditto
(87) Ditto
(88) Ditto
(89) Ditto
(90) https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/hhs-secretary-launches-stealth-attack-pregnancy-centers/
(91) https://www.axios.com/2023/10/04/birth-rate-fertility-rate-decline-data-statistics-graph-2022
(93) https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1703525533152092596
(94) https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cj-jp/ad-am/bk-di.html#s1
(95) https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1524554181515915265
(97) https://slaynews.com/news/canada-plan-euthanize-infants-gaining-support/
(98) https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/12/canada-euthanasia-disability-human-rights-mental-health/
(100) https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/dont_kill_me_canada.html
(101) https://twitter.com/cosminDZS/status/1730655053487501503
(102) https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/07/the_police_patriarchy_and_feminism.html
(104) https://www.addictioncenter.com/news/2019/08/gen-z-loneliest-generation/
(105) https://nypost.com/2023/06/01/gen-z-is-having-a-sex-recession-and-here-are-the-reasons-why/
Figure 2 https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46306241
Figure 3 Ditto
Figure 4 https://www.theblaze.com/news/5-men-womens-volleyball-game
Figure 6 https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1751195368417829213
Figure 7
Figure 8 https://archive.vn/mfE41