Following up on yesterday’s post, restoring sanity to our society is the only way to avoid the collapse that the Left is busily hastening. And as far as I can see the only strategy for accomplishing this is direct action. So far, the only examples are those actions being taken by a few red state legislatures and governors who have begun to pass laws to prevent the worst of the corruption from damaging their children. Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida has been especially busy preventing schools from exposing young children to sexual indoctrination about things like homosexuality and transgenderism. But he hasn’t been alone. Other states, especially in the south have been active in setting up a framework of laws to prevent the progressives from establishing their propaganda in the schools and the social welfare institutions.
And in the colleges DeSantis has also taken the lead in rooting out the pernicious DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) programs that replace merit with quota and affirmative action criteria. In fact, he has mandated that the whole Florida State University eliminate both the policy and the hierarchy of DEI. Hopefully that leads to a great number of people in this discipline becoming unemployed and hopefully unemployable.
But much more needs to be done to begin to roll back the damage that has been done. From my point of view the quickest way of dealing with the problem is for the states to provide vouchers with which, parents can pay for alternatives to the public schools for their children’s education. This way the present generation can get in front of the problem.
So, what is this saying about the path forward? What needs to happen is these states and their citizens have to work together to provide parents with pathways to raise their children to be normal people. This will not save everyone. Parents are going to have to wake up to what’s going on. They have to be aware of what the public schools are like. They have to educate themselves about what alternatives exist for their children’s education. And they have to start paying attention to who runs their communities and states. None of this is an automatic solution to the problems. It’s a beginning.
What it should be is a starting point for further action. Beyond the schools are the other community resources. The hollowed-out churches need to be replaced. How that is done I don’t know. But it has to be done somehow. Our communities are ghosts. There is no actual community. All of the institutions, the Town Hall, the Library, the Churches are run by leftists and we let them take over. We were all too busy.
Now the rest of this is wish fulfillment. Will these red states stand up to the inevitable encroachment from the federal government when they attempt to counteract these red state initiatives? That’s the gazillion dollar question. So far nothing has done more than slightly dent any of the progressive incursions that the Left has initiated against our lives. But maybe there has finally been a reaction to something so horrific that it will stick. Transgendering children may be that thing. And if the people rallying around to oppose this atrocity play their cards right maybe a lasting and effective campaign can be initiated.
The Scandinavian countries and the UK have reversed course on pediatric transgender treatment. The claims that “affirming” therapies produced better outcomes for children are false. At best the studies are inconclusive and newer evidence points to the dangers of hormonal and surgical interventions. As more and more studies are done, I’m sure what will come out is that these therapies are valueless and actually demonstrably harmful to the long term physical and mental well-being of these children.
Some direct action is finally being taken by politicians and regular people to protect their families from the most dangerous policies of the Left. What is needed now is leadership to grow these individual efforts into a coalition that can build a large consensus and then take it forward to provide more protection for families and hopefully build communities around these families.