In order for left-wing ideologues to continue advancing their ideological belief system, a system built upon intentional fraud, they must pretend not to know things. This truism is the inherent core of their hypocrisy.
For the past several years the ultra-progressive left have been selling a ridiculous narrative that multiple genders exist. Within that multi-gender worldview, men can get to compete in women’s sports and also get pregnant. They even changed the language of mother and father to “birthing person”. Wokeism and cultural Marxism are deployed against anyone who does not accept this assertion in society. When you challenge the progressive orthodoxy with intellectual argument, the response is always an emotional attack in defense of their unsustainable position. A case study in this exact outcome happened today during Jen Psaki’s press briefing.
The White House spokesperson accidentally (and very forcefully) took the public position today, that only two genders exist. WATCH:
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Other revelations today include:
“My body my choice,” except forced vaccinations against you are okay.
Also, “my health status is dependent on your medical condition,” so, it’s okay to slap the cheeseburger out of your vaccinated hand – right?
Fear is at the core of modern liberalism, and love/trust is at the core of conservatism. Modern liberalism, most commonly evolved to leftism, is about control. Conservatism is about self-empowerment.
Control is a reaction to fear. Think in terms or politics and society – the fear behind liberalism is the fear that someone might withhold things (opportunities, money, whatever) from me, fear that if you live your life in a way I dislike that it might affect my life, fear that if you get that job, there will be nothing left for me. Fear that if you make tons of money, it’s means there’s less money out there for me. So people who believe in leftist ideologies seek control as a means of trying to create guarantees and safeguards against those circumstances they fear.
Modern “liberals”, leftists, try to control the world and people to enable their comfort and happiness. Which, as we know, is an endless quest. Trying to control others does nothing in the way of making oneself happy. By extension, voting in this mindset so that government can try to control others will also – shocking – not lead to a happier, more comfortable life.
The conservative (and moderate, independent, but for the sake of expediency, the conservative), on the other hand, relies on himself to meet his own needs. And the trade off of being free to live his life as he wishes is also understanding that he has to make peace with how you live yours. By extension, aware that he wants to be able to hold onto this liberty and freedom forever, the conservative votes accordingly, so that everyone can remain free and in charge of his or her own life.
But here’s the crucial difference, perhaps, particularly where misery on the left stems: The conservative does not worry, so to speak, about you. The conservative knows that you were born with the same access to self-love, self-empowerment, self-determination and self-reliance that we all were, no matter the circumstances into which you were born. (Think about the millions of people this country has allowed to crawl up from poverty into prosperity – the conservative KNOWS this is possible.) And the conservative believes that if you want prosperity, or a good job, or a good education, you can make it happen – but you have to work hard.
The conservative hopes and intends that the free markets bring you all of the affordable and positive opportunities and resources that you need. The conservative also knows that on the other side of that hard work is great reward – material and, more importantly, emotional, spiritual and mental.
The conservative understands that not only is it a waste of time to try to control you, it’s actually impossible. Humans were born to be free. And if we put a roadblock in front of you, you’ll find another way around it. So, we see attempts at control as a waste of resources, energy and time at best, and at worst, creating detrimental results that serve to hinder people’s upward mobility or teach dependence. We see much more efficiency, as well as endless opportunity, in leaving you to your own devices. And we want the same in return.
This is where modern democrats mis-view conservatives as heartless. But really, the conservative believes that there is one and one path only to sustainable success and independence – and that is self-empowerment. All other avenues – welfare, affirmative action, housing loans you can’t actually afford – ultimately risk doing a disservice to people as they teach dependence on special circumstances, the govt, or arbitrary assistance (that can disappear tomorrow). And the real danger – they will ALWAYS backfire, and leave the recipient in equally or more dire circumstances. Any false improvement will always expire.
The conservative believes in abundance. The liberal believes in scarcity.
The conservative believes man is born free and will be who he is, no matter what arbitrary limitations or rules are put on him. The leftist believes man is perfectible, and by extension, believes a society at large is perfectible, and command and control is justified in the quest to a “perfect” utopian society. (Sounds familiar!)
The conservative tends to be more faithful – and not necessarily in God, but in the ability of the individual to find great strength in himself (or from his God) to get what he needs and to be successful. Therefore, the conservative has an outlet for his fear and disappointment – trust and faith in something bigger.
The leftist believes the system must be perfected in order to enable success. Therefore, disappointment is channeled as anger and blame at the system. Voids are left to be filled by faith in the govt, which they surely then want to come in and “fix” things.
And therein lies the roots of love and fear respectively. For the conservative, when life presents great struggles, he knows he has the power to surmount them. Happiness stems from internal strength and perseverance. For the modern leftist, when life presents great struggles, the system failed, therefore they were at the mercy of a faulty system, and they believe that only when the system is fixed can their life improve. Happiness is built on systemic contingencies, which they will then seek to control or expect someone else to.
One blames himself. The other blames anyone and everyone but himself.
And there it is. There’s where the meanness comes from. The leftist ideology causes that person to cast anger at the world when things go wrong or appear “unfair.” He constantly chooses only to see the “injustices” – and that makes for a very miserable, mean, blame-casting existence.
One last point that we have seen over and over and over with many (not all) of our leftist friends: Extreme stinginess and cheapness.
In our conservative community growing up, we were always taught that you give when people are in need – make donations to the Red Cross when there’s an earthquake, donate to charity when you can afford it, etc. Even if it’s just $50 here and there – it’s the right thing to do. Conservatives see this as the responsibility that comes with gaining from the capitalistic system; if you happen to benefit greatly from the system, it’s your duty to give back.
The liberal, on the other hand, does not seem to share this same viewpoint, at least not in my experience. And perhaps I think this is linked to believing in scarcity, and that your dollar comes at the cost of mine. So it seems that liberals, on some level of consciousness, feel guilty about not being voluntarily charitable. Therefore, to write off their guilt, they outsource their “generosity” to the government by voting for wealth re-distributive policies. Thus, the liberal cheats himself of the joy and addictiveness of direct generosity. (Not to mention – re distributive policies ALWAYS end up dis-empowering those who they’re meant to help.)
However each of us got here, it’s probably a fact that we have the turmoil of those storms in common, perhaps some unease that we could share and always, we also find fresh ground to cover from day to day. We’re developing valuable relationships as we trust one another in our community in the woods. The chatting in the branches encourages, strengthens and equips for some serious walking.
We think the Treehouse is a good armory for those who doing long distance walking for the sake of our nation. We hope you’ll think so, too. Find yourself a good branch….or just pull up a rock to the campfire.
Liberals that I know believe that charity through govt agencies will be more ‘fairly’ distributed even though they do not trust the govt in nearly any other way.
A perfect example of holding two contradictory thoughts and believing both to be true.
I’m sorry but I’m so going to use that. ” . . . slap the cheeseburger out of your vaccinated hand.”
Ha!! Priceless
There are three genders which is a grammatical term. There are feminine, neutral, and masculine. There are two sexes, mal and female.
Yep, that’s what I was taught in English class 3 genders and at home, by observation, and in gym class, 2 sexes.
Cold and condescending. She is blind to goodness and does not know what it is.
From “On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis,” by Lou Markos,
Markos goes on to expound on one of the profoundest truths of all of Tolkien’s works:
https://barnabaspiper.com/2012/11/satan-sauron-and-the-blindness-of-evil.html
Thank you Jazzbofie.
Great analysis
Excellent and so true, based on my many long years of experience and observation.
She can’t defend Biden so she attacks a reporter with an irrelevant point that men can’t get pregnant?
She is a moron and the fact she still hasn’t been fired is another testament to the incompetence of this fraud of an administration.
She is really ugly in closeup pics. Ugly to the bone.
Only a fool would be a spokesperson for an “administration” that Cheated its way into office.
There’s only two genders, not 3, not 4, and not 52.
What a woke joke.
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There are THREE “genders” — masculine, feminine, and neuter.
People don’t have “genders”. They have SEXes.
Ah, more words of wisdom from Presidential spokestrans Wicky Wacky Jen Psaki, the psecond pstupidest member of the Faux Biden commiseration.
We breathlessly await the wisdom she will bestow upon us tomorrow.
The psky is blue?
The grass is green?
A Nation trembles (in laughter) while we await Jenn’s next pronouncement.
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Could someone please tell me how to donate just a little to CTH. I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. I so appreciate the Treehouse; but cannot make myself put credit card info online. I’m old-fashioned. I prefer to mail a check. I’m such a private person I almost don’t exist. I have serious trust issues. But when items like this are posted that personally inspire me….Well….
You could write out a check for a prepaid card and then use that online.
One of the easiest ways to make money is to appeal to conservatives (and they know who you are) for donations to ‘conservative causes’, while expertly detailing all the conservative talking points they have culled from conservative web sites. If it’s a mailer, the request for donations will be on the last page with convenient suggestions of amounts they want you to think will prove you to be patriotic.
Ain’t gonna happen. Call me a stingy liberal if you like. I don’t trust anyone when it comes to $$.
Of course only male and female exist with birth defects appearing as negative deviations from male and female. That’s reality.
But leftards don’t like reality so…
Arthur Schwartz
@ArthurSchwartz
Is Psaki saying that men can’t get pregnant? I thought that was hate speech?
LOVE THIS POST SUNDANCE. THANK YOU. Nuff said.
“And if we put a roadblock in front of you, you’ll find another way around it. So, we see attempts at control as a waste of resources, energy and time at best, and at worst, creating detrimental results that serve to hinder people’s upward mobility or teach dependence.” Sundance
To me this view why the conservative side is always behind in the political realm. We are too busy getting on with our lives with the expectation of Freedom, and then boom we find the roadblock put out there by the leftist and are forced to react. Those unintended (unintended by the left) other way around creates the cycle for the left to try and control to a higher level. And so it goes
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Oookay… Great catch EXCEPT…
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People don’t have “genders”. People have “sexes”.
There are two “sexes” — male and female. (An extraordinarily tiny number of people are so chromosomally abnormal that which sex they are cannot be determined, but they’re not of some other kind of “sex”.)
There are three “genders” — masculine, feminine, and neuter — which are, depending upon the language, applied to various words and other things that are male-like, or female-like, or neutral. Gender is for WORDS and things — not people or most multi-celled members of the animal kingdom.
Pronouns (“he” and “she”) refer to “sex” when we are referring to people, and to an artificial or arbitrary “gender” (“masculine”, “feminine”, or “neither”) when we are referring to various things being described. In the English language, e.g., a rock is an “it”, but a ship may be referred to as a “she”. In other languages the gender conventions differ, and also, e.g. Spanish, Latin, etc., extend beyond genderizing pronouns.
Note that it is WORDS that are genderized. Not people.
People don’t have “genders”. Neither do other living beings that are sex-differentiated. They have a “sex”. And they all are referred to, when we are using pronouns, by the genderized pronoun that matches that sex. It is non-living things that variously may be assigned a pronoun that artificially “sexualizes” them as having traits of a living being of one or the other sex.
Please stop falling for the deliberately-contrived confusion (why it’s now about “transgenderism” not “transsexualism”) — or we will keep losing ground on this issue to the insanity.
“Gender” isn’t a synonym for “sex” no matter how often it’s used that way. It means something very different. The wokester propagandists know this, which is why they originally invented make-believe words like “cis-gender”. (And see, above, “transexual” versus “transgender”.)
People don’t have “genders”. A “masculine woman” is still a “she”. A “feminine man” is still a “he”. The pronoun — which is “gendered” — refers back to biological sex.
That means that you canNOT “recognize” any person’s “gender”. PERIOD.
This also means that you have the answer to “how many genders are there”. There are THREE: masculine, feminine, and neuter.
Now if someone wants to invent another language, they are perfectly free to do so. But they do not get the right to force others to speak it.
That also goes for the constant redefining of words. Language is about communication. Although language does evolve over time, when the meanings of words and the generally-understood conventions of language are deliberately muddled, when they are changed suddenly and arbitrarily, when this or that individual can just declare a word means this or that or a longstanding language convention is not how you may speak, well that just undermines the ability to communicate meaning. Sowing confusion (“war is peace”) is what this is really about.
Some of the confusion originated with the adjective usage of “gender”. For example, “gender studies” — how gender, or genderization of various THINGS — social customs and mores, clothing, employment etc. — affects men and women. “Women’s studies” include and/or sometimes have been called “gender studies”. Neither refer to “sex studies” — something that might belong in the university biology department.”Gender-neutral” law. Defines a THING. Law.
Similarly, “gender discrimination”, “gender-discriminatory law” and the like refer to LAWs. Things. The terms describe THINGS — actions, laws, policies. Those actions, laws, and policies are not discriminating against a “GENDER”. The action, law, or policy is what is “gendered” and because of that the action, law, or policy effects “SEX discrimination”, i.e. discrimination against one or the other SEX.
The constant discourse, both in the law and media for several decades now. have caused some confusion with the sloppy language.
In addition, and this is in no small part the fault of some lawyers, judges, and academics, there is this almost Victorianish reluctance to use the word “sex” and substitute “gender” as some kind of polite euphemism, even when it’s inappropriate. The words do not mean the same thing. Maybe this is partly attributable to the concurrent rise of sexsexsex porn XXX etc. in the media.
People don’t have “genders”. A person’s APPEARANCE (which is a thing) may be stereotyped, realistically or artificially “gendered” or “genderized” as “masculine” or “feminine” or male, “male-like” or female “female-like”. But the pronoun referring to the person still refers to the person’s actual sex.
If an official or a form stupidly asks for your “gender”, cross it out and substitute “sex”.
About that. “Biological sex” is at best redundant if not an outright ridiculous phrase. “Biological” as opposed to what? No adjective is necessary. This redundancy has come into usage by people who sort of know but aren’t completely clear about how to articulate why “gender” is not a synonym for “sex”.
Excellent Sundance! Just Excellent!
“so, it’s okay to slap the cheeseburger out of your vaccinated hand – right?”
Or that cigarette — talk about blowing Covid all over the place.
Or that cocktail.
Etc.
Wait, what? now men can’t have babies?? WTF?
Is this transgender, LGBTQ ideology going to be crammed down the throats and force-fed to our new Taliban refugees? (also the hoards flowing over the border) Will they be indoctrinated with WOKE thought? Will they new arrivals (men) be given feminine hygiene supplies???? How about mandatory masking and social distancing and mandatory Covid vaccinations!!! Will they be required to show a vaccine passport in order to receive their new EBT card or buy a falafel? I don’t think so. I also heard they were designated as a protected class, so more new hate crime charges coming
I don’t see why all people can have the same rights. For example, if I want the rights black people have in Affirmative Action, should I not be allowed to identify as a black victim so that I can get the money. If men are saying they are women, then what is to stop me from saying my white skin is black so that I can get some of those gimme’s. Of course this can get pretty crazy, I read that in Kentucky some of the kids were identifying as cats and hissing and showing their claws to other students.
Who was the reporter that challenged Paski? He missed a golden opportunity for sure!
The TriggerMen have a great song about this topic…
Sold her soul to the devil… Just like the rest of them.
It would figure that the only time Jen Psaki gets critical questions, from the so called news media, is when she actually tries to tell what she thinks might be the truth. This is the most ridiculous White House Press Secretary that I have ever seen. She even knows she is ridiculous and she mocks the media because she knows that they have to support her employer at all cost.
Conservatives are also the best environmental stewards of our earth. Tell me about one liberal system that actually helps save wildlife or forests or waters. In the end they destroy these things.
Forest management. Liberals do nothing except drive spikes in trees, conservatives plant trees and clean out the decay before it rots and releases it’s carbon.
Wildlife management. Liberals don’t hunt, fish, or contribute to preserving. Conservatives buy licenses which contribute to the management and preserving of wildlife. Hunting and fishing is managing.
Water. Liberals piss in our water, conservatives pay fees for boating and access to waterways which goes to “conservation.”
Garbage. liberals drop their shit everywhere. Conservatives clean up after themselves. And that includes showering.