Ammo Grrrll is just asking questions: MUTUAL VALUES – Can a Culture Survive Without Them? She writes:
Last week we discussed morality and manners as two kinds of glue that hold a culture together. Today, we will discuss Mutual Values as a third “tie that binds.”
When we look at the results of the fabulous Trump reelection we see that the values that carried the day were shared by multiple traditional voting blocs. Trump voters included black, white, Hispanic, the old (except for protesting old lefties, singing off-key and still rockin’ the mostly-bald, grey ponytail look), the young (in surprising and encouraging numbers), women (the ones who aren’t bat guano crazy), and men (Yay! men, wonderful men! Who threw off the shackles of half a century of being called Toxic).
The Middle and Working Classes were heavily represented. They included sane individuals who were sick and tired of having to zig and zag with every new cultish fad – “what are your pronouns?” – “did you make a Land Acknowledgement?” – “the Diversity Trainer will have a make-up session for the surprisingly large number of you who had the flu and called in sick for the last session.”
They were also exhausted from decades of pulling the wagon filled with numerous categories of freeloaders. One time I was in a little clothing store in Palm Springs when a youngish able-bodied woman came in showing samples of expensive earrings she had for sale. In conversation, the proprietor of the store learned that this woman was on Disability because of “social anxiety” and yet here she was, smiling and confident, peddling her consignment wares. At that time Disability could run as much as $2,000 a month. Nice little side gig.
I would say the Mutually-Held MAGA Values of the WINNERS were these:
1. A nation is not a nation without secure borders.
2. This nation has a right to say who comes into our country, even legally.
3. Crime not only destroys victims and property, but it also quickly ruins the criminal who, when unpunished, is taught that he is entitled to take from others. Which he will do again. And again. Lather, rinse, repeat.
4. Summer is hot. That does not mean there is Climate Change; and IF there IS Climate Change, it is not caused by my gas stove or Air Conditioner. (I live in Arizona. You will get my Air Conditioners when you pry all 3 of the massive things from my cold, dead hands!)
5. Only U.S. citizens are entitled to vote – not illegals, the dead, or bots. One person, one vote with I.D. ensured. Hey, racists – black people know where and how to get an I.D.!!
6. There are two sexes, male and female.
7. Many millions of Americans did not go to college; why on Earth should they pay for the outlandish Student Loan Debts MacKenzie and Kaden accumulated earning worthless degrees?
There were more reasons to vote for Trump in the 2024 election, including the Cost of Living. But in the end it came down to the terrifying prospect of the most in-your-face DEI hire in history — a silly, vapid woman who was even less articulate than Biden — being elected President of the United States. The more she tossed her famous word salads, the more the Electorate decided to go with The Beef.
What was most wonderful about the MAGA campaign embracing the above values was that it virtually FORCED the Democrats to embrace the opposite. In a campaign where opinions on those values trended 80/20 in favor of the values, the leftists who dominate the current moribund Democrat Party had to support and defend policies:
AGAINST Law Enforcement, against Consequences for Law-Breaking, and IN FAVOR OF criminals themselves. Obama wanted the poor dears renamed “Justice-Involved Persons” from their actual status as “felons” “thugs” “gangstas” and “criminals.”
FOR killing unborn babies up to the day they were to be born. And, in some cases, beyond.
FOR utterly porous open borders with unvetted, unvaccinated, illiterate, in many cases, criminal invaders “caught and released” into America, especially into Red States and the hinterland.
FOR men being allowed to ruin women’s sports after a decades-long battle for Title IX.
It is a wonderful thing when your enemy is so intransigent and hates you so much that he is willing to take the losing 20 position in every 80/20 opinion poll. Those unpopular policies all were planks in the Democrat Platform. And the candidates had to WALK those planks right into shark-infested waters. Too bad, so sad.
I have great faith in the essential goodness and intelligence of the average American. (But then, Anne Frank felt the same way about humankind including Europeans, so who knows?) I believe the values that won the day in 2024 are enduring values and WE – black and white, men and women – will be as stubborn as the old protest spiritual “Just like a tree that’s standing by the water…we shall not be moved!”
If we can keep our current coalition together, we will have a bench as deep as the combined 1927 and 1961 New York Yankees going forward. While the Lefties Losing It (hat tip: Rita Panahi) will have only representatives of America-hating warring goofball tribes to choose from. Good luck finding that bipolar bisexual trans woman of color who is a “recovering” drug addict who only uses drugs once in awhile now.
Did somebody say “Hunter”? A tweak here, a sunlamp there, he’s perfect. And he already speaks The New Progressive Language composed entirely of F-bombs.
