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Those Who Get Used

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THE SEXUALLY CONFLICTED
ARE PAWNS IN A LARGER GAME

The Soviet Union was a huge and diverse empire. It was also the control center of the International Communist Movement.

It embraced hundreds of ethnic communities, national identities, and racial groups. It was the very essence of multiculturalism.

Yet, on great state occasions, whenever you saw party leaders reviewing those dazzling Soviet parades of goose-stepping troops and sophisticated weaponry, who was standing atop Lenin’s Tomb?

A bunch of old, fat White guys.

No diversity. No inclusion. No sharing of power.

The Communist Party preached a universal brotherhood of the downtrodden masses — “Workers of the world, unite!” — but in reality it was a closed circle of Russian supremacy.

True, Lenin had German, Swedish and Jewish ancestors, and Stalin was an ethnic Georgian. But both of those monsters built their notorious careers on Russian culture and politics. The movement they created never diverged from that identity.

This aspect of Soviet Communism must have irked a lot of folks who’d dedicated their lives to world revolution, especially those who achieved significant responsibility within their local cadres.

The highest ranks would always be closed to them. No Kirghyz Communist official would ever be Party First Secretary. No Sandinista operative. No South African ANC revolutionary. No woman.

Communists made big promises, and they inspired great dedication and sacrifice. They raised many hopes around the world. But in reality, they just used people.

In our current era of corporate fascism, which draws heavily on the Soviet playbook for tactics and procedures, many parallels are clear.

Consider the Antifa and Black Lives Matter crowd. They function as the shock troops of the New Age. Yes, they’re shielded from legal consequences of the sundry crimes they commit in the name of anti-racism. And their leaders and organizers are paid well and housed magnificently (there’s good money in radical action, apparently).

But do you think for a minute that once Klaus Schwab and George Soros and Bill Gates and the other world shakers have consolidated their Great Reset, the circle of leadership will include any of those desperate, face-pierced, pink-haired street urchins?

The glass ceiling is even more evident when it comes to transgender activists. Will Dylan Mulvaney sit on the Central Committee of the New World Order? Not likely. In his much-celebrated “girlhood,” he’ll just have to content himself with his Bud Light sponsorship and all those other lucrative corporate endorsements (not to mention Drew Barrymore’s worshipful tears.)

Here too, Soviet history provides insight.

In the 1952 Cold War classic, I Led 3 Lives, a book that chronicled his nine-year infiltration of the American Communist Party, Boston advertising executive and undercover FBI informant Herbert Philbrick notes how American Reds promoted avant-garde ideas about sex and gender.

Feminism was a favorite Marxist-Leninist teaching that pioneered use of the expression, “male chauvinism” (which by the late ’60s would enter the mainstream). Communists also encouraged homosexuality.

The object of such gender improvisation was to undermine traditional morality, and to subvert families, seen as the bastions of Judeo-Christian ethical standards and the keys to societal stability. Philbrick reports how the Communists instructed…

“If we prepare our children for their vanguard role, we must not hem them in by the narrow restrictions of conventional middle-class sex patterns of behavior.”

Yet, in the Soviet Union, no woman ever held supreme authority, no matter how staunch a Feminist. Additionally, the Russians suppressed homosexuality to the point of active persecution. Even today Vladimir Putin denies that sexual deviancy is a meaningful factor in Russian society. Rather, it’s a moral plague of the decadent West.

With several recent incidents revealing a violent turn in gender thinking — the Tennessee shooting among them — dominant social, economic and political voices are working to obscure the bloody extremes which sexual confusion can reach.

Only days after transgender “man” Audrey Hale killed six at Nashville’s Covenant School, a Christian academy she had attended, the White House was boosting “Transgender Day of Visibility,” while playing down the gender dimension of Hale’s heinous act (along with pushing gun control, of course). Local authorities imposed a lock on her purported gender “manifesto,” no doubt under pressure from on high.

Can anyone imagine that such freelance murder will be tolerated, once the golden age of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion dawns and we’re all living with crypto-currency, facial recognition, and Chinese-style social credit scores?

Audrey Hale and her psychological struggles are being exploited in the same way the Soviets exploited social conflicts, labor unrest, and liberation movements in various countries around the world. Where “Western Imperialism” was once the focus of discontent, now it’s gender dysphoria.

I should note that there are people for whom the conviction that they’re living in the wrong body is overwhelming and unextinguishable. Numerous psychological explanations have been offered for this phenomenon, but it is real. Such people experience ongoing emotional distress.

Some rare individuals who possess the requisite physical characteristics, and who work hard to adapt their voices and mannerisms, may be able to pass as the opposite sex. If they’re lucky, the world won’t notice the anomalies in their personal circumstances. They can live quiet lives, and avoid being used.

These are the opposite of drag queens whose personalities combine a warped eroticism with hatred of women, and a driving need to be on public display. Those characters give themselves willingly — enthusiastically — to being used.

The queens are having a ball just now. As far as they’re concerned, let the good times roll! But what are their prospects, come ze revolution? I don’t think their future is very bright at all.

Many people have genuine sympathy for the sexually conflicted. They wish that everyone might be free to live happily in their own way. And they try to be accepting, even of those whose attitudes and behavior make them extremely uncomfortable. Many agnostics and atheists tend to fall into this category, as do libertarians, and even a fair number of Christians.

They’re the good-hearted folks whose Facebook pages feature memes insisting that sexual variety is just an aspect of life. Nothing to worry about. No threat to families or children. We’ve seen it all before, and it hasn’t hurt anybody.

Some of the graphics they post may be their own creative expressions of supposed open-mindedness. But I think most of these memes are the products of highly focused, highly motivated activist groups.

Cleverly conceived, psychologically crafted, and widely distributed, they’re works of Soviet-style propaganda for the social networking age. They get linked and reposted again and again, giving broad and repeated exposure to the message of live-and-let-live.

Perhaps the good-hearted folks who post them are the ones being used most cynically.

Are you among them?

Today the effort to destabilize society goes on, although that work is now being handled primarily by government agencies and, as the Bud Light gambit shows, by our great corporations. Secretive 1950s Communist cells are a thing of the past.

None of the many subversive projects underway is more cruel, or cuts closer to the heart of human nature, than promoting sexual conflict and gender ambiguity.

Meanwhile, all the many sad, confused, suffering Audrey Hales of the world sit stewing in their personal grievances, plotting how to lash out at an America in which they believe then can never fit.

When opportunity presents itself, they too will get used.

 

Update

This article also appears in the online journal, American Thinker, under the title “How the Left Uses Transgenders”…

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/04/how_the_left_uses_tansgenders.html

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Even “The Flintstones” have been recruited into meme campaigns to prove the harmless nature of gender diversity…

And then there’s this snide swipe at Christianity…

 

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Leave it to the Babylon Bee to provide the appropriate comment on “Transgender Day of Visibility”…

But then, visibility isn’t really enough for gender activists, so they set their “Trans Day of Vengeance” for April 1.

Of course, anybody who’s ever planned an event knows how unexpected developments can impinge upon your carefully worked out arrangements. Three days after the Nashville shooting, organizers dismissed any thought of a connection with Audrey Hale’s bloody spree, and insisted the event would go ahead. After all, the word “vengeance” in the title merely referred to…

“fighting back with vehemence. We are fighting against false narratives, criminalization, and eradication of our existence.”

It didn’t take long for plans to change. After a storm of criticism, the event was cancelled due to concerns about “safety.”

From Newsweek…

https://www.newsweek.com/trans-day-vengeance-canceled-threats-washington-dc-1791705

 

Kyle Shideler, Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterroism at the Center for Security Policy, demonstrates how transgenderism plays into the growing trend toward violent extremism…

“bearing arms can be used by self-appointed ‘community defense’ groups to enforce the ‘political demands of people of color, women, immigrants, queers, and poor people….’

“Today the adoption of a transgender identity breaks norms not merely in a symbolic way … but allows the radical to adopt a physical identity which is consistent with the Left’s political hierarchy of oppressed classes.”

Shideler’s thoughts can be found on American Greatness…

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/05/trans-militants-and-their-supporters/

Andrea Widburg, Deputy Editor at American Thinker, examines the incoherence of modern gender theory…

“This notion of being ‘transgender’ is illusory. So-called transgenderism is merely one form of body dysphoria, a mental illness just as deluded as the anorexic girl with her bones protruding all over who claims she’s fat. If the Democrat party didn’t find so-called ’transgenderism’ politically useful, it wouldn’t be celebrated in America nor aggressively promoted in schools, at libraries, on TV, in movies, and on social media.”

Check out her reflection at…

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/the_reporting_on_the_nashville_shooting_reveals_the_incoherence_of_modern_gender_theory.html

 

British journalist and author Douglas Murray (who’s gay) is in agreement about gender incoherence. In a discussion with Australian commentator and former Prime Minister John Anderson, Murray notes how TGs are being exploited for political purposes…

 

 

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Filed Under: Ideology & Politics, Moral Choices & Actions Tagged With: Audrey Hale, Communism, Covenant School, sexually conflicted, Soviet Union, transgender

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  1. Katrina P. says

    April 11, 2023 at 10:07 pm

    From Facebook…

    Lengthy read but very very good!! 👍🏼

    Reply
  2. J.C.R. says

    April 14, 2023 at 11:48 am

    From American Thinker…

    I doubt very much that the sexually conflicted would be the least bit persecuted, reviled, or ridiculed if they just kept their private lives and their sex lives private. It is only when they start flaming, changing tradition, and demanding that everyone pay attention to them that they get into trouble and normal people start getting annoyed. Personally, I am content for anyone to destroy their own lives if that is what they want. Just don’t ask me to participate or embrace it.

    Reply
  3. Brigitte G. says

    April 14, 2023 at 11:49 am

    From American Thinker…

    Excellent exposé!

    Reply
  4. Richard L. says

    April 14, 2023 at 11:50 am

    From American Thinker…

    “Can anyone imagine that such freelance murder will be tolerated, once the golden age of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion dawns and we’re all living with crypto-currency, facial recognition, and Chinese-style social credit scores?”

    No, because depopulation is the goal. We won’t be ‘living’ with anything.

    Reply
  5. Betty B. says

    April 14, 2023 at 2:31 pm

    From American Thinker…

    The apathy and passivity of good people is no threat to satan.

    “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” Romans 12:21

    “They overcame him (satan) by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto death.” Rev. 12:11

    Maybe prayer, repentance, spreading the Gospel is the cure for evil politics, not more politics.

    Reply
  6. Ken P. says

    April 14, 2023 at 10:36 pm

    From American Thinker…

    Those at the Top stay at the Top in Communism. All the Rules they set are for the Common People. Is it any wonder the Democrats and RINO’s in the Uni-Party love Communism. While they keep the Common People completely divided, those at the Top live in the lap of Luxury and wealth. As to Transgenderism, it’s a fad where those that claim they are Alphabet+ get all the attention and societal norms don’t apply to them. They can get in everyones faces and make totally unreasonable demands and then when confronted scream bigotry and prejudice. Good example, if you cannot tell what sex you are, how do you expect everyone else to do so. Doesn’t that just sound the least bit insane Lefties? Like it’s OK for them to do them, but you aren’t allowed to do you. Did it ever dawn on you Leftist twits that at some point you were going to cross a line and people were going to tell you “Enough”. We’re done with you having special privileges at the expense of everyone else. I suppose not, but you did and you are seeing the results. In short the Alphabet + crowd are the perfect tools and useful idiots for the Communists like Biden and his crowd!

    Reply
  7. Merlin P. says

    April 14, 2023 at 10:37 pm

    From American Thinker…

    Men who pretend to be women and “drag queens” are mocking women.

    Reply
  8. Mark G. says

    April 15, 2023 at 1:30 pm

    From American Thinker…

    Good article. It’s my understanding that Hitler’s socialist party was pro-gay before they were anti-gay. It’s easy enough to imagine Obama, once power has been consolidated, cracking down on gays. Hitler and Obama, the parallels may be closer than you think.

    Reply

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