Democratic demogoguery on demigod delusions

The social shaming of conservatives by liberals gave rise to Trump. People are sick of not being able to talk freely and Trump freely says what he is thinking. Even if it is moronic, many are impressed that he is being truthful to how he actually thinks, rather than using the common ‘double talk’ of politicians and other leaders. I am especially annoyed the left is getting rude and angry to single-issue voters on traditionally knee-jerk rhetoric. I am unimpressed with left-wing demagoguery demanding people agree that an individual wanting to be a gender they are biologically not, can make them that gender they aren’t biologically if they demand to be the gender they wish really hard they were. I am also frustrated the left is treating abortion like a black and white issue rather than our original point of it having a line that eventually is crossed in development. The arguments my friends on the pseudo-intellectual left are giving ignore debate for anger and I don’t tote the current progressive dogma or agree with everything hook, line and sinker

There is an element of pure authoritarianism that is arising from some of those on the left that seems to discourage free thought and critical thinking. I am increasingly seeing the left as pseudo-intellectuals who no longer want to discuss boundaries in political ideology. For example, the left simply asserts itself now as pro-choice without having the intellectual rigor to admit that there comes a point before birth to where is it unethical beyond one’s personal choice to abort the birth of a child, and thus there is a need for some legal constraints and ramifications for violation thereof. Certainly, I would argue that immediately before a child is naturally born would be an extreme example of an unacceptable point in development for it to be ethical for society to allow a healthy baby to be aborted under no special circumstances. Roe vs Wade determined that such vitality would be that point, but would be more logical to look at the neurological points of development related to brain activity based on regions. Democrats are unwilling to even face up to the complexities of such a discussion and it is no longer uncommon for them to refer to the fetus as a parasite with no rights prior to being born. We have become about as extreme as those opposed to the day after pill. The problem with all the social issues I am seeing currently prevailing is that there are complex solutions and nuances to the issues, and I am currently feeling a lot of outrage lashed out at me when I point out  the problems that arise from situations I am expected to adopt an ideological position on as someone from the left.

Besides the greys of abortion I do not feel we want to address anymore, I do not agree that thousands of people immigrating into a caravan should be able to force there way into the US. They are getting asylum offers from Mexico and the US is not honor bound to except every damn refuge in the world when there are other countries not in crisis willing to take them. Assuming every refugee in the world may take up resident in the US would displace people like my wife legally immigrating, but without refugee status. It really is kind of bullshit to displace people immigrating legally with people completely skirting proper procedure. It has caused a problem to where if my wife misses a minor issue in immigration that she can now be displaced, but a refugee with other countries offering residence gets to not follow policy and procedure to a radically greater degree. We do have a limit on how many foreigners our country can absorb every year, and I do not think they should all go to refugees attempting to illegally cross the border from countries not in crisis that are willing to accept them. There is no inalienable right to be an American if one is persecuted. We should except some refugees, but there comes a point when we are detracting from the ability of people to legally immigrate that have people already here that love them and can support them in their arrival, because refugees now think they have a right to immigrate to America, instead of accepting residence elsewhere from a country better able to absorb them. I’m simply sick of people self-identifying as liberal assuming that they must take an extremist ideological position if it is on the left without intellectually vetting their position. It’s just cognitively lazy and enabling Trump to flourish.

Beyond abortion and immigration, the entire transgender debate has turned into hostility from the left where people are outraged at even the suggestion that one can’t simply demand to be treated as the opposite gender of what they biologically simply are. They start pointing out really weird and extremely uncommon gray areas and don’t want to even discuss the idea that sometimes it is about as wrong to gender appropriate as it is to racially appropriate. I as a guy have not lived a woman’s life and at 42 can’t immediately start identifying with women and expect they be forced to identify with me. It’s honestly pseudo-intellectual to jump onto really rare genetic mutations that don’t apply to most transgenders and it’s insulting when my female friend now insisting she is male tries to chime in on the circumcision debate to belittle an issue she was not affected by and could not be affected by, because she wants to now think of herself as a man and use her new bullshit sense of masculinity to trivialize men who object to having their genitals mutilated without their consent. In the same way, a male is not a woman in physique just because they started taking hormones later in life. That male is stronger than most true women and did not grow up with the same level of fear of victimization. I’m fine with gay marriage as a progressive, but just because I am progressive, I wish people wouldn’t get shitty with me and rude just because I draw a line at gender appropriation and forcing society to accept a delusional level of self-defining one’s biological status.

I’ve watched my fellow progressives writhe at the passing of Kavanaugh into the Supreme Court. I am generally in agreement, even. I think he doesn’t have the intellectual capacity, personal integrity, or moral compass to be a judge as an individual, but the sudden need of liberals to demand everyone believe every accusation of rape goes against my personal experience that I’ve had three close friends falsely accused of rape, one classmate falsely accused of armed robbery, one friend falsely accused of murder and even myself have accusations that I was plotting a mass office shooting spring out of the same mass hysteria that got an ancestor of mine burned at the stake in colonial days as a witch. I have a huge problem with the fact that I can’t look at Kavanaugh and say ‘no’ publically and yet see and condemn almost every liberal in my facebook suddenly meme’ing false accusations are beyond rare and people never pile up on somebody innocent out of their own damn eccentricities.

Individual experiences matter in the subjectivity of existentialism as it relates to social and political reform. Sociology is not a pure science, but one of experience beyond the ivory tower of academics. The democratic aspects of our government act as social analysis beyond individual anecdotes. If an overwhelming number of people indicate similar experiences I would listen rather than trivializing the voices that seem to be just as strong in the social psychology of our nation. It’s like that for a reason, and at some point, personal experiences of false allegations aren’t individual anecdotes, but a sort of new #metoo, not to truly counter #metoo, but which does clearly indicate my friends and I are not isolated in our experiences of false criminal accusations. Watching my African American friends of an almost solidly moderate ideological persuasion sort this out has been especially interesting due to the amount of false rape accusations that have historically plagued black males by white women and insecure white men resulting in lynch mobs and now-a-days an uncomfortable amount of male convicts being cleared of rape after serving decades in prison for crimes not committed, often with police planted evidence, shitty underpaid court-assigned defense attorneys, and prosecutors hiding evidence of innocence. I mean, most white people assume Michael Jackson molested the child in the police investigation he went under, but the police dragged Michael Jackson to HQ and took numerous photographs of his genitals despite his humiliation and pleads not to, only to find he was intact when the accusation by the kid described a circumcised penis extremely more common in America. Once again, anecdotal, but at some point, there are so many people with anecdotes on a personal and emotionally strong level on being falsely accused of rape, molestation and other serious crimes, that trivializing the experiences of a large chunk of the population no longer bears fruit.

Lastly, there is the issue of liberals progressing to high levels of socialism that does border a bit on economic communism, versus the more clever approaches Elizabeth Warren points out that would make more sense by redefining the rights and responsibilities associated with all the perks of limiting one’s liability by incorporating a business entity. I can also have issues with liberals being too pushy to accept the economic reality that it is impossible to replace the insurance industry in a single piece of legislation with socialized medicine as it just realistically ruins the life of not only too many rich people, but the entire insurance industry while radically ruining the freedom of doctors after years of extra hard work in their risky academic rigor and debt accumulation. Additionally I see huge problems at the government’s VA hospitals to where the behavioral health aspects dwarf any other services, to include even a complete lack of an ER or most speciality services, to where I completely see problems with government health care as being used CURRENTLY with veterans as a means of confining and drugging up political dissidents as well as a frightening degree of forced euthanasia on elderly veterans are no longer seen as socially useful. I personally watched a Korean veteran put on anti-psychotics until he simply stopped moving and died. The VA is a pretty huge example of how government health care can be extremely dangerous when the government has a complete disregard for its people that the liberals themselves admit it rarely cares about the disenfranchised members of.

I’m more in line with Elizabeth Warren and similarly complex solutions that allows for capitalism in most sectors that simply enhances the social responsibilities of any entity that incorporates itself. This would allow for the preservation of monetary incentives to invest in society rather than encouraging mass consumption of our environmental and social resources. Bernie to myself seemed more along the line of populist democratic socialism with authoritarianism that weakens the republican (IE: not party, but representation by experts over mob rule) aspects of our country. I think much like Milton Friedman progressed towards that there are some markets that are a natural monopoly, like anything involving mass landlines and (less so) the appropriation of land for radio towers. There is a natural need for strong regulation by the representatives of an otherwise democratic-republic framed around capitalism.

A non-publicly traded company with a sole proprietary ownership that does not legally limit its liability from the public should be under radically less regulation than a publicly traded entity that limits its liability through government shields given to corporations or any other socially constructed entity under charter that gains freedoms not given to an individual. Such socially constructed entities with legal protections include not only corporations, but churches and non-profit.  On the other hand, a Catholic sole proprietor with no gain/protection from lack of incorporation should be able to decline baking a cake for a gay wedding based on religious grounds. However by accepting the benefits of being an official government entity, one would take on certain responsibilities to the public. I see society as needing capitalism that encourages an investment in the community around it, and re-investment from moderately stratified dividends that should be less stratified than they are currently. Our socio-economic state should still be stratified in a way that encourages rigor of effort, promotion of re-investment and profit distribution over individual or mass consumerism. We need freedom to form complex entities according to the needs of our society as regulated by the experts we elect. It involves heavily tweaking the existing system, but not a radical ‘revolution’ like Bernie’s rhetoric threatened. I didn’t see Hillary as having the social connections (due to political resistance AND moral compromise) to pull off what I describe. Elizabeth Warren made a mistake on the claim to Cherokee Princess ancestry, but I make mistakes too and I like her overall analysis and proposals. I’ve not been trying to give the view of the ‘liberals,’ so much as I notice trends in memes among my predominately liberal friends towards Bernie’s radical socialism, countered by far fewer friends on the right often knee jerking towards this presidential guy who follows Alex Jones and AM radio conservative populism and white nationalism, where the government is outright subsidizing and discouraging a free market in everything from steel to coal. I’ve watched progressive friends in social media be heavily influenced by trends in progressive social psychology common to both former splits in the Bernie and Hillary camps. O’Malley went unnoticed because he was boring while few Democrats bored themselves reading academic and/or rigorously complex and nuanced pieces of social analysis.

The right often has an anti-intellectual aspect to it. However, economic conservatism combined with progressively evolving changes potentially allows for complex capitalistic means for reasonable social stratification that encourages intellectual growth and progressively strengthening one’s rigor of work and adaptation. The socialist movement left unchecked by right-wing criticism can try to make everyone so equal in social treatment to where is both ignores the complexity we need as a society in an extremely pseudo-intellectual fashion that is honestly the result of our social predisposition towards widespread individual narcissism and a sense of entitlement. This results in the mentality that everyone is equal in public discourse on social media, but with a silent-but-toxic super-enlightened egoist subconscious attitude that one is superior and just more clever to pretend otherwise. The rudeness I see in online political discourse is the result of such arrogance and pseudo-intellectual peer pressure.