Old Man Rants

Tipper Gore is no one's idea of a radical liberal and that other lady was the wife of a full on Reagan Republican.  The PMRC was an inherently conservative and very middle class movement.  

I don't see the whole "trigger warning" thing as being all that comparable, in part because trigger warnings are just that: warnings, and ones that are unlikely to have any real adverse effect on the professors who do or don't use them.  If anything I feel like the people coming out against trigger warnings are more like the PMRC people in that they're attacking something less out of any legitimate practical concern and more out of a general disgust with the younger generation.

Racism and Bernie Sanders is how Donald Trump got elected.

A little of column A, a little of column B.

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I've seen the term "regressive left" being thrown around a lot in political discussions online lately.  People are so hung up on being politically correct that they're sacrificing traditional liberal ideas.  The mental gymnastics that people are capable of are intriguing and horrifying at the same time.

Like I said before, a lot of people have had it with the 'PC/trigger warning' mindset and that's much more broad than it sounds, it isn't relegated just to college campuses or hipster communes in Los Angeles or San Francisco. Proponents think 'being PC' means being respectful of opinions or sensitivities and if you're 'anti-PC' you're just looking for an excuse to be an asshole however nowadays that's not really the definition of PC. To most people, being PC doesn't mean not saying the N-word. They believe being PC, nowadays, means telling white people their opinions don't matter when it comes to racial politics, it means telling men they can't have any say on women's issues, it means you need to pony up and admit to your 'white privilege' and 'white guilt' and acknowledge that any amount of success you've had at any point in your life is solely due to your skin color. You are somehow responsible for atrocities committed in centuries past and if you argue against it then at the minimum you must admit that you benefit from said atrocities, meaning you're racist. Unfortunately that's the ball that many on the left have picked up and started to run with. You really think you're going to get voters on your side by telling them 'well first off, you have to acknowledge you're a piece of shit because you're white and no, that's not racist. In fact you can't be racist if you aren't white.' You think the average working-class American is going to get behind that? Like they're going to say 'yeah you're right, I've never worked a day in my life, it's all because of my skin color!'

There are several reasons why Trump won and Hillary lost and I don't think it's because people are in love with Trump because they aren't. But one big reason is that many people are tired of being told that they're the problem just because they exist. Now does that mean we just ignore the KKK rallies going on and the supposed influx of racial hate crimes? Absolutely not, but what it means is that the racial politics that the left has been banking on for the past decade has backfired and the guilt that they thought would pressure voters into turning out for them is having the opposite effect. What's even more unfortunate is that many on the left, rather than ask why the American people kicked them to the curb this past election and giving the House, Senate and Presidency to the Republicans just 4 years after reelecting a wildly popular Democrat as President, are doubling down and saying 'it's all racism, it's all sexism, it has nothing to do with us, our message or our methods and everything to do with white supremacist voters.' That's only going to make you lose more than you already have the past 6 years.

Young and impassioned people are going to be young and impassioned people, there's only so much you can do about that. Maybe Hilary could have had a few more Sistah Soldier moments but then she would have had a bunch of Bernie-or-Busters calling her a sellout.

Yeah, but they were dumb like that during Bush vs. Gore and it backfired big time vis-a-vie Ralph Nadar.  Don't mistake any of this to suggest I'm not mad at the way the left has been behaving recently, because I am, I'm furious.  But I'm not mad at the ones who decided to bring up issues like white privilege and institutional racism because both of those things are very real and both need to be talked about.  I'm angry at the goddamn "Bernie or Bust"/Jill Stein dumbasses who spent more energy trashing their own candidate than they did helping us win the damn thing.

At final tally Bush "won" Florida by 537 votes.  Nader got 97,488.  If that motherfucker hadn't been siphoning votes for no good reason Gore would have clearly won and Jeb wouldn't have been able to do shit.  

Ummm... you don't need to make assumptions based on voting type, the age of Donald Trump supporters is quite well documented

I don't know that more people in college would cut down on youthful debauchery, quite the opposite in fact.  

As for the rest of that stuff... yeah so "family values" is total dog whistle bullshit.  Christians don't give a damn if families are together and prosperous, it really just means they want the whole world to play along with their sheltering nonsense and for no one to pop their little bubble by living in ways that pop their 50s sitcom delusions.

They also aren't going to be satisfied with sex education or birth control to reduce unwanted pregnancies and thus abortions either because the abortions themselves aren't what Christians really care about so much as they want to control people and punish them for their fornications (because fornication is definitely not a "family value").  Or at least that's probably how it started, then it became such a fixture of the culture war that at this point they're probably just fighting it for the sake of fighting it.

Anyway, if Christians are happy to vote for Donald "Grab 'em by the pussies" Trump in order to stay ahead in the culture war I'm pretty sure they're far beyond actually living up to the morals they claim to stand for.

Well, I mean, Democrats and the KKK were also on the same side back then.  Sacrificing the redneck voters have made the Dems better and probably made the GOP worse.  

Not sure I'm following your logic on the Sundays thing.  Pretty much the only people working on Sundays are people with service and retail jobs, which is kind of necessary because the people with normal jobs have time to go shopping on weekends and there need to be people to serve them.  If a bunch of high paying M-F jobs were created there would still be a need for people to work those retail jobs.  Also, if Christians really cared if people are distracted from church on Sundays I'm pretty sure they would have shut down the NFL a long time ago.