The United States Supreme Court has, once again, created a contentious issue that will not go away in my lifetime unless it returns marriage to the states. As polling has grown more questionable and as research on “psychological studies” shows, many oft cited research studies fail the basic test of being repeatable. We have had more “intellectuals” trumpeting polls and studies as showing a changing America.
Maybe we should question the narrative. We are told if we don’t get on board with the revolution, history will leave us behind, but the parts of the world that are growing in population are not adopting the values of our one vote Supreme Court majority. Maybe, in private, away from pollsters, Americans are not sure they wish to go the way of Western Europe and abandon our traditional values.
What about the polls?
Polls did not show the “equal rights” ordinance in the large, diverse, Democratic city of Houston failing, but it is losing (at the moment) having failed to get forty percent of the vote. The result will not even be close. This is despite HERO having most of the money and much of the national establishment coming out in support of the measure. Houston voters, mostly non-white, aren’t buying the narrative that one can pick gender and bathroom.
How many people in the United States are really on board with the person who won the Olympics as Bruce Jenner being selected woman of the year? How do we know? Can one dissent in the media outside of politics? No: it will end your career to take the view of almost two-thirds of Houston voters.
Matt Bevin made the mistake of bucking the Republican establishment and supporting Kim Davis. He is now governor of Kentucky, a state that generally elects Democrats to the governor’s mansion. Conway was leading the polls by five points. Bevin was not getting national GOP money. He was a loser . . . until he won with 52% of the vote. Given a strong third party candidate, the election was not even close. The Kentucky polls were useless.
As presidential candidate Clinton doubles down on gun control to win the primaries while losing to Ben Carson in polls, how do we know she even has a prayer?
One cannot read too much in a couple of elections, but elections are at least hard data. They cannot be spun, though people will try. Bevin won. HERO lost.
Of course, the majority can be wrong. Comparisons to racism are cued up, the same comparisons made in Houston for weeks. The problem is that most on the left or those who embrace gender studies live and work in enclaves where intelligent dissent is never heard. Like Internet atheists, these folk never really grapple with the fact that most of the world’s population think their ideas lunatic or degenerate. Such folk tend to think of the “world” as Western Europe. Talk with such people very long and they will begin moral colonialist rhetoric about “backwards” India where the Supreme Court ruled in the other direction from the American court.
When a majority minority city like Houston rejects HERO, those on the left might want to think about their assumptions.
Recently I read a Houston post where I was told the “world was watching” the outcome of HERO. Nigeria? India? China? South Korea? I think they meant Western Europe. Globalism on the left too often equals Western Europe and the old colonial masters. Houston, a city of immigrants, did not buy the lie because we know what the world thinks of laws like HERO.
Western European society is failing the most basic test of being able to reproduce itself and so there is no reason to think the main allies of our self-appointed gender elites will have long term global allies. A good rule of thumb: if a group isn’t having babies, or enough babies to sustain the population, it begins walking down the road of intellectual confusion about sex.
What does it all mean? It means that before rushing to one study, aggregates of polls, or other “research” as the truth, one should step back and look at reality. Reality says HERO was crushed at the polls, Matt Bevin won, and the establishment missed the whole thing.
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