Liberalism has become a zombie movie. You never know who will get infected with the woke mindvirus and turn on you. Image by Grae Dickason from Pixabay I understand why so many rational people find themselves drifting to the right. Or maybe, should I say, persistently pushed. I met up with a liberal single guy this summer. He slipped into the conversation, “I’m very supportive of LGBTQ,” I think to see how I’d react. “Live and let live,” I think I said. Didn’t seem like the right time to observe Skrmetti got it right. His comment gnawed at me. Even if we saw eye to eye on my squarely normie view of ‘trans rights’, how do I know he won’t flake on me eventually? How do I know he won’t go woke? Is it something in the avocado toast? What if he comes to believe I’m a fascist for believing drag shows are for adults , not children? What if he becomes an intolerant illiberal? What if he gets bitten by a transwoman??? Who can I trust anymore? Liberal friendships are fragile; loyalty has become conditional—subject to ‘high’ standards of performative ideological purity. No matter how much one liberal might agree with another, one might be found unworthy of friendship because he pish-poshes reparations. Or thinks #MeToo has jumped the shark. Conversation with liberals is like tiptoeing through a mine field; you never know what will set them off. How do I know they won’t succumb to the lure of belonging to a group that love bombs you with affirmation and makes you feel specialer-than-thou by uniting against a common enemy—people who don’t capitulate? So many of my friends, people I’ve known for years or even decades, slip away into the night, their Purity Balls becoming ever-more-exclusive to rational thought or dissent. One was someone close who didn’t just defriend me on Facebook, but blocked me. We hadn’t exchanged a single harsh word. But she got married and we lost touch, and all she knew me by was my Facebook posts, and I’ll bet she didn’t like my take-no-shit feminism. Hers was fairly ossified , whose commitment to feminist activism was texting ‘Happy International Women’s Day’. People become disposable; you can toss them and not think too deeply about how little you value genuine human relationships; how devotion to a narrative is more important to you than that she was one of your bridesmaids who put up with your Bridezilla crap for months or that she’s been your best friend since second grade. Lifelong loyalty becomes a used napkin you leave for the waiter to pick up. To be honest, I deserved a few blowoffs. My mouth runneth over, along with my ego. Sometimes I am possessed by my former know-it-all 21-year-old. I own that. I am absolutely an arrogant asshole sometimes, even as I’ve worked on that for years. I reconnected with one ex-friend by not being an asshole anymore. There are a few others I have to find emails for. The ones who struck first, with whom I never exchanged harsh words, I bid, as Pagans say, Go in perfect love and perfect trust. After all, it takes an ideological arrogant asshole to defriend one. A few came as a relief. They ended tiresome late-night phone calls regurgitating self-aggrandizing social justice mind dumps. Wokies are in love with the sound of their own voice. I cherish the peace and quiet. Research agrees: Liberals are more intolerant Consistent research, the most recent coming from the Skeptic Research Center , supports my experience of the intolerant left and liberals’ greater willingness to defriend and defamily. It’s most prominent among Zoomers and Millennials but liberals in all age groups admit they’re more likely to cut people off for their political views than those in other political groups. It’s not just me; the anecdotes proliferate online. A Democratic operative who worked closely with the biggest progressive stars speaks of her shunning after announcing on TikTok that she was breaking ranks and voting for Trump, and went viral. A former Pro-Palestine activist speaks of longtime friends who blocked her when she left the movement. And, leaning into the whole women-are-bigger-political-bitches-than-men angle, you’re less likely to get blocked or deplatformed by your male conservative opponents than by women on your own side. They can’t trust liberals either. They’re vicious when you break rank. Which is not to say that conservatives always open welcoming arms to political deviators. The SRC found the stronger one’s views, either side, the more likely one is to cut the cord, and the ‘very conservative’ were more likely to wave bye-bye than more mainstream liberals or conservatives. Millennial conservatives were more likely to go no-contact than moderates on either side. But overall, ‘very liberal’ towered over all the other groups in the intolerance bar chart. Telling your friends you just defriended another ‘toxic person’ virtue signals higher status to your group, since the less -ist you are about anything, the better a human being you’re considered to be. By casually dismissing the person as a ‘right-winger’, ‘Kool-Aid drinker,’ or a ‘transphobe’, the woke progressive reassures the group her moral purity is never sullied by differing views. Stick within your safe little bubble, as a recent conversation with a progressive I had did. She told herself a pretty little lie about a ‘stolen’ election that didn’t go her way from a fake news site. She didn’t ask herself whether she was reacting with the same denial as Donald Trump’s followers in 2020. We’ve all lost our social skills over the past mobile-driven decade. Zoomers have almost none, tallying their likes vs negative comments with the calculated efficiency of a CPA. We’ve become angrier, but some of us are working on it. One woke friend I almost defriended when he screamed abuse at me a few years ago apologized sincerely when I finally told him why I wasn’t comfortable with one-on-one get-togethers. He must have done some self-reflection, as he’s not screamed since, when we’ve disagreed on something. On Halloween, we stood together on a dance floor swaying back and forth to the band with our arms around each other. I felt close to him. There’s hope for those who genuinely value friendship over tribal moral contempt. Why aren’t there more of them? Can’t we develop a vaccine for illiberalism? No Tyrants! (Except our own) I’ve written about my multiple takedowns and bans by ‘woke progressive’ blogging platforms and social media. They don’t like it when you don’t bend the knee. I met a woman at Toronto’s No Tyrants rally with a T-shirt that read “NO BOOK BANS!” I said, “Great shirt, I hate them too. I’m curious, are you against all book bans or only some ?” Of course , she approved of book bans if they ‘harmed’ people. “But who decides who’s being harmed?” I asked. This is the gotcha with wokies. Like their comrades-in-arms on the right, they think they’re the arbiters. She proudly informed me she supports all of Canada’s hate speech laws. “They’re censorship,” I pointed out. “You can get in big trouble just for stating scientifically that transwomen are men.” And her mouth took off. I eventually walked away from her verbal diarrhea , but she came up to me a few minutes later. She asked, sincerely, “Why are you even here?” waving her arm around the crowd as though she couldn’t imagine what I might have in common with these people. “Why are you here?” I asked. “Since you’re authoritarian yourself!” Bad answer. In retrospect I should have challenged her (typical) authoritarian blind spot by saying: “For the same reason you are: I hate Trump’s authoritarianism. I’m quite certain we agree on that. Where we disagree is whether all authoritarianism is bad, or just some. And frankly, someone who wears an anti-book-ban shirt while supporting book bans and speech suppression is an authoritarian hypocrite.” Clearly, she thought everyone at the protest was just like her. But I know something she doesn’t: Not all conservatives are Trump-loving sycophants. The MAGAs can’t agree on him. Plenty of his voters experience buyer’s regret. His historically low poll numbers indicate he’s less popular than $9 a pound coffee. I’d bet there were several conservatives present that day. But they often feel they can’t speak up, as their side has never been particularly tolerant of internal criticism, either. And God help them if the book ban dictators find out they’re there. Who can I still trust? I love my liberal peeps. I’m not a closet Republican slouching towards Candace Owens, and don’t believe I’ll lose my liberal views if I hang out more with conservatives. Rather, I might get a word in edgewise. People who lean left like me are the Silent Majority. I know I’ve found a comrade in arms when we both question wokeness, after proceeding cautiously, like two strange cats, testing the other to see how much heresy she can handle before she leaps for attack. They’re the keepers: They can handle differences of opinion and believe diversity is only skin-deep. They don’t lecture like the No Tyrants lady. They haven’t adopted hypocrisy as a virtue. They haven’t abandoned compassion as so many liberals have, and which the Republican Party abandoned decades ago. They don’t get huffy when you condemn all antisemites and fascism fans, rather than just the other side’s. Their skepticism, critical thinking skills, and ability to ask hard questions aloud provide natural immunity to the zombie’s bite. I’m not worried about turning Republican. I’m worried that when enough liberals embrace illiberalism, they will eventually realize how much they have in common with the other side and realize The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Right now, we normies outnumber both the far right and the far left, but if they unite against us that could change drastically. Remember, Hitler sent intellectuals and freethinkers to his concentration camps, especially in Poland. We see that same pattern repeat itself over and over in totalitarian regimes whether they’re fascist or communist. We question authority and challenge corruption, we stand up for groups marginalized by the ruling party. We weaken their control. They respond with persecution, pogroms, incarceration, torture, and execution, often public, often cruel, to serve as a stern example to others. Progressives and liberals think they’re ‘not like that’ yet many embrace antisemitism, the world’s oldest hate crime, which sounds terrifyingly far-right. Yes, I fear ‘progressives’ could turn on all of us. Yes, I think they might one day re-embrace concentration camps. And they’ll start with us, the moderates and freethinkers, so there is no one left to defend their ultimate scapegoats. We are the resistance, which Hitler understood. Once you eliminate us, you can do as you please. No, I don’t trust liberals anymore. And this is why. Did you like this post? Do you want to see more? I lean left of center, but not so far my brains fall out. Subscribe to my Substack newsletter  Grow Some Labia  so you never miss a damn thing! There are also Substack  and Spotify  podcasts of more recent articles!

"The Great Feminization" illustrates why women shouldn't run everything, either. What we need now is a Great Social Integration, led by us Normies. Photo by August de Richelieu on Pexels My friend Sam called me a few weeks ago. “You know Roberta So-and-So, right?” he asked. Yes, I told him, we’re connected on Facebook, but I haven’t talked to her in years. Sam wanted to vent. It seems our Ontario premier in all his buttheaded glory wanted to end rent control and Roberta, ever the progressive activist, posted that the working class should launch a day-long strike. Sam agreed completely with her dislike for the housing proposal, but pointed out that a strike simply wasn’t feasible for many working class people—like immigrants who would lose their status if they didn’t work. Or dog walkers—doggies gotta exercise and poo, even during hurricanes. Or au pairs—children, same thing. Or people who depend on whatever peanuts they’re paid and couldn’t afford a self-imposed day off. Or to get fired. Roberta didn’t like the challenge. She got a little snippy with him. Sam invited me to review the exchange. He’d kept it polite but called out her rudeness as well as her illogic. She accused him of ‘mansplaining’ to the ‘silly little girl’. I’ve known Sam for about fifteen years or more and he’s a good debater. He quotes facts and sources and can be sarcastic sometimes but he’s no mansplainer, ever. “Did you point out how she’s speaking from a position of privilege?” I giggled. The housing proposal (now tabled) would adversely affect Roberta, a self-employed artist, and her partner, an actor, but they can both arrange their schedules to include a strike. When I returned to the thread to make sure I was attributing Roberta’s words accurately, I found all the comments removed. Roberta had played the pouty child and whined ‘misogyny’ at someone who merely observed her lack of situation consideration in a public forum—then erased the evidence. Her immature reaction was oh-so-woke: Getting mad, playing the victim, and shutting down the conversation. All hail the Matriarchy? Just earlier that day I’d read Helen Andrews’s viral essay for Compact, The Great Feminization. She argues that women’s success in breaking several glass ceilings are the cause of wokeness, that it’s the result of female social and relational dynamics subsuming formerly male cultures. She notes that once sex parity occurs in a culture, the imbalance flips. The men leave, she speculates, because they don’t like a dominant culture that treats them as the enemy and complains to HR if they make a rude joke or state a controversial opinion. Men will talk over each other, bust on each other, and self-promote in a way that women aren’t socialized to do. Women, she says, introduce themselves and then proceed with the business at hand, guided by the female dynamics of consensus and cooperation. It’s not that either style is bad, they’re different, and both exist for good reasons. You don’t bring an olive branch to a knife fight, for example, and you do, in fact, catch more flies with honey than vinegar. Andrews doesn’t believe women are simply outperforming men to explain the new lopsided F2M disparity; she credits, instead, affirmative action and DEI; ‘the thumb on the scale’. Andrews’s connection between wokeness and female psychology isn’t new; it emerged in non-woke forums for the last couple of years. I disagree with her that female dominance is the reason why wokeness arose, although she’s correct that it maps in the same direction. I think it’s one, rather than the reason. She has a point about the ‘thumb on the scale’; DEI panders to increasingly deteriorating ‘marginalization’ and has introduced real doubt about certain suspiciously woke-candidate public figures, but there’s no question women are also rising because of genuine competence, motivation and ability. It’s hard to blame DEI when men don’t enroll in university as much as they once had, or come to class as much, or drop out more often. Women graduate with impressive degrees and run businesses because many men have ceded the glass ceiling to play video games and and worship Nick Fuentes. Women are also running the show at college campus protests, which, love them or hate them, are early hands-on lessons in leadership, which will carry into the world beyond. I certainly understand why men wouldn’t want to attend classes with hostile chickie-boos who collectively shout down anyone without a pre-approved progressive opinion, but men have been falling aside also of their own accord. No snowflakes, please! Andrews’s article is one piece of the complex puzzle surrounding the rise of wokeness, rather than, as she assumes, the sole explanation. Especially as we watch the rise of the clearly male-dominated woke right . The connection between wokeness and the now-obvious female characteristics—gossip, ostracism, inclusivity, non-offense, and a Nazi-like devotion to agreeableness—is so glaring I’m surprised I never noticed it myself. I, who was subjected to so much female toxicity in school. On then-Twitter, it was hard to know who you were actually engaging with in a faceless anonymous world. The LGBTQ gang blurred the lines further and you never knew which cyberbullies were male or female between the ears, where it really counts. Now it seems clear, biological women have been leading that Charge of the Indict Brigade. Other writers have argued similarly. The serious chill on free speech, the authoritarian desire to coerce agreement, the obsession with inclusion for anyone except conscientious objectors, the love affair with hurting rivals via ostracism—that’s eighth-grade girly crap, inside and out. Can I borrow your sparkly unicorn lip gloss? We normies don’t want to see a matriarchy replace the patriarchy. I’d much rather explore how we can now dial it back a bit and make it safe for men and their style, too. What could we accomplish if we weren’t so busy fighting over ‘sex parity’ in a way that would sound stupid if we suggested ‘eye color parity’? A failed experiment I explored how men and women can combine the best of their strengths earlier this year in Better DEI Will Teach Women How To Handle Conflict With Male Employees. I argued that women aren’t taught properly how to handle conflict like adults, and that if a woman has a problem with a male colleague, she needs to bring it up with him first, rather than drag HR or the U.S. Supreme Court into it. If thousands of years of patriarchy is a bad idea, so, clearly, is the emerging Matriarchy. I already feel oppressed by woke progressive women and their panting male lapdogs, and it’s only been fifteen years so far. I absolutely, positively, cannot abide another 11,985 years of this bitchy high school shit. What can we do to teach males and females to treat each other as respected colleagues rather than chromosome-based enemies? I’ve found various exercises that can be incorporated into the workplace, activist groups, academia, and elsewhere to foster better communication methods and reduce interpretive friction. Like taking a workplace statement, “The project deadline needs to be moved up,” and take feedback on what participants think was said. Was the person frustrated? Blaming? Withholding information? Another exercise forces people to shift from blaming and accusing language to focus on why something needs to change, without, I hope, putting too much emphasis on feelings, of which there’s already too much. (Thanks, ladies. Not.) Another confronts the assumption that one’s preferred style on how to handle a particular decision—a restaurant or a picnic in the park for the annual company summer social?—or whether meetings are best held in person or on zoom—to force participants to understand others’ differing approaches and to consider ideas that aren’t necessarily their own. Others focus on collaborative problem-solving, and handling conflicts, like two demands for an employee for the same time. The exercises don’t address male and female work or communication styles specifically, but still challenge certain gender-related habits and styles, and to temper one’s inclinations that don’t foster greater collaboration (like the notion that one’s opinion is superior or that we always need to arrive at a group consensus, which often actually means others aren’t satisfied but assent just to get the hell out of the meeting). I think it’s good to push women to stand up for themselves more, say, with salary negotiations. It’s good to expect men to consider others’ feelings, to contemplate the impact of a given action on others. We can debate and discuss, but sometimes, consensus rather than arbitrary rule is the best way. It’s good that men take risks; it’s good that women point out how many people might get hurt if a particularly risky plan goes awry. The Great Feminization screams for a course correction. Its companion wokeness, as one writer argues, poisons at a very young age. With it now on the chopping block, powerful men and women can change imbalanced policies and force recalibration of existing toxic workplace styles to offer more adult conflict management and resolution. I hope one day to see the HR ‘profession’ eliminated entirely. Or simply devoted to finding the best corporate insurance plan. With DEI largely purged from decent society (yes, thank you, Donald Trump), the world may one day become safe again for grownups. What This Country Needs Is An Enema—And It’s Getting One Men needed First Wave feminism to recognize how difficult paternalism and mindless sexism was for the other half. Today complacent entitled women need a similar bottom blaze. If we’re strong enough and genuinely good enough to make partner or lead a project team to build something new, we’re strong enough to conquer our own humophobia , and understand the difference between mean-spirited jokes and humor that builds camaraderie by making it okay for all of us to laugh. Helen Andrews made some good points, although some are a little weak (feminization won’t destroy Western civilization), and a few of her critics haven’t effectively rebutted her either. As the future’s female leaders leave the cossetted campus environment and encounter the Real World, it will be critically important that we un-teach the negative and counterproductive thought patterns and beliefs they learned at school, and remake them with a new workplace style more inclusive than they would have tolerated back at Harvard U. We’re the Normies. We’re the true progessives, seeking human, not gendered, progress. United we stand. Did you like this post? Do you want to see more? I lean left of center, but not so far my brains fall out. Subscribe to my Substack newsletter  Grow Some Labia  so you never miss a damn thing! There are also Substack  and Spotify  podcasts of more recent articles!

Because we can't wrest democracy back from only one side. We have to kill all the cancer. Image by Alejandro Lizardo  on Public Domain Pictures Democracy is no longer ‘precarious’ in the Ignited States of Trumpistan, but swirling down a golden toilet. One might argue that rather than critiquing the excesses of liberalism, I should instead turn my attentions to Messolooni, currently heaping up a veritable guerra lampo   of gross abuses of power. But the left’s own excesses are what’s also brought us to this place—we, the other arm of the ambidextrous authoritarian monster. “This is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause,” comments Senator Padmé Amidala in Revenge of the Sith. I’m clearly no MAGA Trumpanzee; I love liberty, and I continue prodding my fellow liberals and my not-so-fellow illiberals on their own lack of commitment to it, to the great annoyance of those who still wish to pretend they had nothing to do with this fine kettle of fish. Those applauding now are the far right. Those applauding until January 20th were the far left. We, and they too, are more like them than we know. And now that our side is out of government power, we have to take inventory of our failings, as they say in AA, and make amends, because we can’t fix them  without restoring our own abandoned moral credibility. Who are ‘them’? Too many progressives, liberals, and social justice junkies don’t understand who ‘they’, the problem Americans, are. They’re neither ‘the left’ nor ‘the right’, neither Democrat nor Republican, neither red nor blue: They are, as I’ve discussed before, liberty lovers vs authoritarians. I criticize not just the woke illiberals, but the ‘nice’ liberals, the ‘good’ liberals, and the true progressives unfortunately clinging to clearly flawed policies and values, ‘buggy whips’ they should have abandoned decades ago. If You Still Hold The Same Beliefs Thirty Or Forty Years Ago—Why? Conservatives are much less united behind the Trumpocalypse than the left realizes; the Republican Party has been bleeding the disenchanted  for years. As I see from The Bulwark  articles I get, written by conservative disenchanteds, their gloomy assessments of Trump almost entirely mirror mine and my fellow liberals. Many moderates and disenchanteds don’t speak up because the guerra lampo of hate and danger from our respective authoritarian masters is brutal, online and off. But we are their heretics, their hidden ticking liberty bombs. We agitate for what they don’t dare, by doing and saying what they dare not. We get to know and befriend moderates of whichever side isn’t ours, and develop a respect for their opinions, and are more inclined to listen to them when they say something we disagree with. It’s what’s been missing from the national conversation for decades. We don’t listen; we don’t share a beer with people who don’t go to our church, raise their kids the same way, own guns, vote for who we voted for, or have a distaste for abortion. I critique my own tribe more than the other, even as I feel like all  of us liberty-lovers need to circle the wagons. I take on liberals because too many won’t listen to anyone they fashcast  as ‘right-wing’. You don’t subscribe to Holy Trans Dogma? You don’t think Israel is pure evil? You dare to criticize the less-than-angelic George Floyd? Defriend. I speak to the liberals who haven’t yet given their brains over to the social justice cult. Thanks for sticking around! If you think our side could never do what Trump is doing now, I offer Exhibit A: Venezuela, headed by the now-late Hugo Chavez, who dismantled democracy, one brick at a time. Going after political enemies? Check. Shutting down oppositional broadcasters? Check. Watching the swiftness with which the guardrails are broken; knowing the motherfucker in power doesn’t give a rat’s patoot about you or your problems; politicizing everything, blurring the lines between state, government and society to make it all about him. Check. Check. Check. Check. Chavez wasn’t a right-winger, as many might assume, but a credentialed left-winger: A socialist, a nationalizer of key industries, proponent of welfare programs to eradicate poverty and inequality. You know who loved him? The working class and the marginalized. Sound familiar, mis amigos liberales? It’s the Authoritarians, silly. We purple liberty lovers unite to fight against the Pol Potbellies and Pinheadchets who now battle for control of America. It’s great to see citizens fighting back against the brutal masked ICE Gestapo, while knowing those same ‘warriors’ may well be the far-left authoritarians who simply want their power back. Who, if they’re taking notes, will bring us Woke Trump one day and perpetuate, rather than end, the current horror. Yes, I DO believe our side is every bit as authoritarian as theirs. It just hasn’t matured and emerged from its chrysalis like Sil in Species . Yet. And the little blockheads shall lead them What I never imagined is that my fellow liberals would turn ‘progressive’ into a dirty word, smelling of bad milk and broccoli in the garbage. My increasingly-estranging compatriots embraced a cancel culture censorship for public statements that were often offensive, ill-considered, or downright stupid, but not illegal. Our Regressive Left is what’s compelled us to lose our minds over opinions, but turn away and whistle in the dark when a black man kills a white woman for no reason or the wrong President brings about a ceasefire we’ve been demanding for two years. Lackadaisical liberalism and true progressivism found itself hijacked by our dumbasses—the Regressive Left, who devolved into the ‘woke’ with too much unchecked, unquestioned ‘tolerance’ and ‘inclusivity’ and a serious distaste for open inquiry. They opened the door to our very worst elements the same way Republican small-tentism  led to Trump’s MAGAtry. Both sides’ regressives are motivated by the same nihilism, all-purpose bigotry, itch to manage, fear of critical thinking, the desire to tear it all down, and to remake society to fit their own twisted utopia, by violence if necessary. Authoritarians must control everything, especially education, because freethinkers and intellectuals wonk it all up by asking too many questions . Regressives possess their own built-in seeds of social destruction, showering the faithful with a wide chrysanthemum of stupidity: Christian fundamentalism on the right, encompassing the most dogmatic and bass-ackwards elements of religiosity, and the left’s fetishization of moral weakness and group identity, leading to much the same sort of hate and bigotry as we see now with Jew hatred parity. Once the left embraced exclusionary diversity, Trumpist authoritarianism, rooted in one man’s own mad desire to seek revenge on anyone who ever crossed him, cracked like a whip against anyone to the left of J.D. Vance, boosted mightily by understandably pissed-off once-reasonable conservatives who’ve been silenced for too long. This was explored and explained beautifully in a recent Free Press article, What Shakespeare Understands About Trump’s Thirst For Revenge . The author observes that while the left watches in horror as Trump turns around their own recent ideological actions and takes them three steps further , Democratic presidents exhibit their own authoritarian streak, on occasion, although less, so far,  than Republican administrations. But. The actions are identical: Jawboning political opponents ; pressuring private companies to suppress free speech (Biden with Google/YouTube  and Facebook ); the bipartisan love affair with book bans  and compelling universities to comply with a political agenda (Obama’s extremist #MeToo-driven dictates ). Just because Democratic administrations haven’t lately been ‘just as bad’ doesn’t mean they’re not ambitious. Remember, the Democrats, formerly the ‘white man’s party’, once fought a civil wa r to preserve  slavery. Truth is, we each have our own little Dr. Evil living within. That itch to rule over others because we know what’s best , it seems, is ingrained into the human soul. Unless we consciously fight our own Little Caesar, we ask not whether authoritarianism sucks, but which we prefer. The devil you know 2025’s censorship handover is a prime example of how badly we need to clean up our own mess. It’s so, so, so hard not to roll my eyes at the liberal multitudes suddenly getting woke to censorship, now that the right is in charge of it. Our Joseph Goebbelsism is that one must be the right  kind of liberal, and most importantly, liberal enough, in order to be taken seriously. Progressives hobbled and crippled themselves by yanking the reins on diversity of opinion. Now they whine while the tables turn on them.   The ‘Peace Protesters’ Who Won’t Give Peace A Chance   - The Free Press If the left, and especially the Democrats, don’t exorcise their own authoritarian demons quickly, when they return to power, as they eventually will, they may be as bad as or worse than the Trumpocalypse. Or they might never return, because voters might decide, fuck it, the devil you know, until there are no more elections. At the moment, hand-wringing born-again democracy mavens, the ‘fat generals’ of The Resistance, can’t rally together to strategically wrest democracy back from the tinputt dictator who is destroying the country. Who will one day subjugate even his own airheaded fanboys and fangirls, cheering for their own liberation from financial security and freedom, and for their own destruction. We truly have met the enemy and he is us Liberal, conservative, and libertarian liberty lovers need each other. We who value the original vision of the Founding Fathers need to unite together to fight bi-divisional reality denial, whether it’s transmania or vaccine phobia, the Intifada or de-gunning the least violent citizens. Trump may babble like a maniac about having ended wars between countries who are at peace or flooding Los Angeles with non-existent water, and almost everything he attempts is done in the worst way imaginable, but he couldn’t have done it without our help. He’s primarily an ambassador for right-wing lunacy with a visceral rejection of all true liberals should hold dear: Reality, truth, skepticism, evidence-based policy-making and common sense . For all the talk about what a malignant psychopath Donald Trump is, it takes one to know one. They voted for him, but we  gave   Trump the power to behave much like ourselves. We can remain in denial and pretend we want to fix America’s problems, or we can just sit back and wait for ICE’s stormtroopers to claim us. We’re no longer red and blue. We’re not Republican or Democrat. We are the liberty lovers, who fight all  authoritarians, regardless of which flags they fly. It’s up to us. Did you like this post? Do you want to see more? 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"GROW A PAIR" That's what we say to men when we think they're acting weak. "Grow some balls!" So what do we say when women are acting weak? We can't very well tell them to grow some balls. Women can't, of course! Women need to 'grow some labia'! They're the parts of the vagina that would have become the scrotum for the balls had she been born a male instead (and since she didn't, what would have been her balls are her ovaries). But I doubt you came here for a female anatomy lesson. It's time for us to grow some labia and woman up, show more strength, challenge ourselves more. Time to take more charge and responsibility for our lives, and spend less time blaming 'The Patriarchy' or systemic sexism. Those things exist, for sure, but at some point we've got to recognize the buck stops with the woman in the mirror and we need to claim our power (or reclaim it if we gave it away somehow!) So it's time for women everywhere to GROW SOME LABIA! I've written a few blog posts about how we can do exactly that and reclaim our power! Feminism The differences between victim feminism, which sees women as chronically aggrieved and victimized by men and 'The Patriarchy', and power feminism, which is more focused on one's self, achieving and claiming personal power and using it for the betterment of others. Dec 21, 2024 The Transfolk Who Really Do Need Our Support The experience of 'The Bearded Lesbian' reminds us some folks really do need to transition; and how LGBTQ can fail them I began following... Dec 5, 2024 American Feminists Don't Need A 4B Movement The South Korean feminism project will be dead in the water. Like it or not, we need men, and they need us. Maybe we just need to reform... Nov 24, 2024 Emma Watson, Emma Watson, Wherefore Art Thou, Emma Watson? The foxy fauxminist has gone missing in recent years. No movies. No fauxminist outbursts. Not even any trans love tweeted. I... Nov 17, 2024 Progressive Democrats Hate Women More Than The Right. Especially Feminists. Right-wing misogyny isn't How The Left Was Lost. It was women's, the primary administrators and executors of patriarchy and misogyny. The... Oct 12, 2024 A Frenchwoman Is Dead Serious About Holding ALL Her Rapists Accountable The Gisele Pelicot case highlights just how frighteningly high is the number of 'normal' men who have a penchant for, and might be... Sep 14, 2024 Let's Have A Grownup Talk About Privilege - With Curiosity Rather Than Outrage It's real. It's worth exploring even for the UnWoke. Its purpose is to open our own eyes rather than beat up others (and ourselves) over... Feminism Substack Subscribe to my FREE SUBSTACK NEWSLETTER for all my latest on power feminism, reclaiming your power, and the ongoing culture wars. Visit Substack >> Subscribe to my FREE SUBSTACK NEWSLETTER

WELCOME TO MY WEBSITE ABOUT POWER Big Girls Don't Blame The Patriarchy Explore The Blog LABIA POWER! About Me Grow Some Labia! is written by a liberal, feminist writer and social justice critic who teaches women and others how to reclaim their power and avoid partner abuse. She also candidly critiques far-left, progressive/woke/ social justice extremism. It's a place for people who lean left or right, but not so far their brains fall out. GSL's work can be found here and on Substack, Quora. And maybe a few other places. About Me The Latest From My Labia Power! Blog 5 days ago Daniel Penny: The Hero That Wasn't "He scared the living daylights out of everybody." The woke left damns Daniel Penny for trying to save others from a clearly disturbed... Jan 4 We Have To Think About Moderating X, Bluesky And Other Social Media The anoymous psychos who call for others' assassinations are a direct threat to democracy and public safety. Threats are NOT free speech.... Jan 1 Here Comes The 'Woke Right' And It Looks A Helluva Lot Like The Woke Left Brand-new management, same as the last! But the bipartisan UnWoke have the recent accumulated observation to help call out the... Dec 25, 2024 Roman Holiday - A Christmas Story Oh no! Not another Messiah! CC0 public domain Just what we need. Another bloody Messiah. The name’s Flatulous. I’m a Roman soldier in... Dec 21, 2024 The Transfolk Who Really Do Need Our Support The experience of 'The Bearded Lesbian' reminds us some folks really do need to transition; and how LGBTQ can fail them I began following... Dec 14, 2024 Is There Any Real Joy In Learning Anymore? Can students even experience learning something intriguing or unexpected? Or are they only told what to think? "Just kill me now!"... Explore The Blog DON'T BE THE VICTIM Take back your power. NOW. It started with abused women who didn't know they could say No to abuse. It morphed into taking back your power from political bullies and haters, including 'social justice warriors'. Don't Be The Victim GROW SOME LABIA "Grow a pair!" That's what we say to men when we think they're acting weak. "Grow some balls!" So what do we say when women are acting weak? We can't very well tell them to grow some balls. Women can't, of course! Women need to 'grow some labia'! Grow Some Labia I also take on the crazies from the right and the left. Subscribe to my FREE SUBSTACK NEWSLETTER

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