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Immorality Separation of the People

Democrats must

hate women.

On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed legislation banning men from competing in women’s sports — a true victory for fairness, women’s rights, and common sense. 

The vote was 218-206, with all Republicans present supporting the bill and all but two Democrats opposing it. The only Democrats to support the bill were Reps. Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez. Both men represent swing districts in Texas.

What they have done is an offense to common sense. And the fact that they are doing it is only one more piece of evidence supporting the idea that the population is dividing on moral grounds.

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Separation of the People

Yep, get ready

for it. The “gap” separating the people has gotten immensely wider these last two decades. About a decade ago you saw Lefties who were no longer willing to even be friends with conservatives!

And this natural division is growing and growing. They are most often completely tribal; They have “gone native.”

The very notion of ending long friendships over political disagreements was pretty much unheard of in my social and professional circles. I’m not saying it never happened before 2016, I’m just saying that it didn’t in my life. That all changed in recent years, especially after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Apparently, the Supreme Court of the United States operates under my direction. People who I had been close to for decades stopped speaking to me. It bothered me for a long time because I cherish my close friendships. 

After two-and-a-half years of trying to mend fences that I didn’t break, I’m over it. 

… Democrats who believe that their politics make them permanent residents of the moral high ground are particularly galling. While I truly would like to get along better, I can’t muster any patience to indulge delusions like that. Political beliefs don’t make one a good person; being a good person makes one a good person. 

… That being said, or rather written, the worst of the TDS people are going to make sure that no unity candle gets lit anytime soon. The mere sight of President-elect Donald Trump becoming President Donald Trump next week is going to introduce a mutant strain of TDS into the national political “conversation.” I won’t be expecting any calls from the friends who’ve already been super not talking to me for a couple of years. 

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Separation of the People

Demographic trends

really don’t bode well for Democrats. Now I understand that these are predictions, not reports of current facts. But the truth is that you can predict where, for example, water is going to flow. It’s not 100%, but you can make a pretty good guess.

Plus:

Conservatives have long worried that voters exiting blue states would bring their voting habits with them, undermining red state success. But there is no sign that this is happening. Rather, people are consciously fleeing failing states and seeking the benefits of living in a conservative state. 

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Political philosophy Separation of the People

See, here’s the

problem: MOST Democrats in the past were center-Left. Now the country as a whole was center-Right But even so, the center-Left became the famous “Reagan Democrats.” The “gap” was not so big that they couldn’t easily jump from one side to the other. And many of us did!

But things are different now. The Democrat party has gotten more and more extreme, now functionally losing the center-Left.

I mean, Donald Trump was a Democrat! So was Ronald Reagan and Elon Musk and Tulsi Gabbard and… MANY movers and shakers in the Republican party once affiliated themselves with the Democrats.

See, center-Left back then was not so distant from the mainstream that one would even notice. Your fishing buddy might be center-Left and it just makes no never-mind! One might even “cross over” and vote for a candidate from the “other” party because that is the best thing to do! And identity did not change one bit–the “gap” wasn’t big enough to force an identity threat.

BUT, things have shifted over the past 40 years. Many of us are still center-Right. But the Democrat party as a whole has moved from being center-Left to being decidedly Left of center. And it’s a big shift.

Many who were once center-Left have now moved to Left of center and will no longer even tolerate even having a friend who is center-Right! People are settling and even moving to places that better fit with their political philosophy, thus hardening the “Lefty bubble.”

And it’s natural that there is a dividing of the people. We have seen it many times in history. Birds of a feather and all that… And we are seeing such a separation play out now.

But the important thing to understand is that the Democrat party has shifted from being center-Left to being decidedly Left of center. And for a lot of people, that is just not tolerable and they are more comfortable now in a center-Right Republican party.

And that is seen by the fact that more Americans now identify as Republicans than Democrats. This last election was R+4! And so, Donald Trump, the former Democrat, was elected for a second term. In a landslide.

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Separation of the People

Just

remember

I have always assumed that this country would get to the point where the two political factions just can no longer tolerate each other and live together.

Initially I thought that meant a dissolution of the country (very bad) and/or even a Civil war (horrors!). But I’ve changed my mind. I’ve come to the opinion that while the separation indeed takes place, it already is taking place!

Conservative people are moving to conservative areas. That results in the places they left becoming even MORE extreme in their Leftism, and the places they move to as even more Conservative.

So I think there is indeed a separation among the people. But it is a far more natural and organic process than what I had assumed.

And if this is managed with Federalism, it can work. But if the Left reverts to their true colors and tries to force everyone to do what they want by hook or by crook, all bets are off.