For the first time in 30 years of voting, I am voting Republican. I am as shocked as you might be. But the Democratic Party has gone so insane that I find it disturbing. My feelings with the Democrats over the past three decades have gone from: loyalty; indifference; skepticism; impatience; frustration; and finally, loathing. Now I also actually fear a future with the Democrats in charge. You might even say I am Demphobic.
The truth of the matter is the Democratic Party and Democratic voters have lost their minds.
These people have actually convinced themselves that:
Human beings can change sex.
Some children know they are the opposite sex.
Children will kill themselves if we don’t give them sex changes.
Drugging and mutilating children’s healthy bodies is the loving, caring thing to do.
Each one of these statements is so outrageously farfetched and removed from reality that I can’t even believe we have to discuss it.
Democrats have lost their minds.
They call those of us who want to protect children Nazis. Really?!?! The people who want to STOP the medical experiments on children are the Nazis?? What? Huh??
Throughout my adult life, I have voted with the Democrats the majority of the time. After extreme disappointment with Obama (after voting for him twice), I began to vote third party. And let me note that I vote in local elections, spending the time to research each candidate on the issues.
I have never once voted Republican…mostly because I am an atheist and against guns, and those principles seem to be inconsistent with the bulk of the Republican platform.
But I’m a grown-up and realize you can’t agree with people on everything, so you have to decide which issues are most important to you when choosing who to elect.
And now I am being called a conservative because the most important issue to me is fighting gender ideology. I didn’t realize it was ‘conservative’ to believe in biology. What happened to ‘Believe the science’?
People are shocked that I, a gay man, would even flirt with idea of voting Republican. The Democrats’ downfall will be their assumption that they own every minority vote. Anecdotally, I have personally seen an increase in LGB people leaving the Democratic Party and running to the Republican side. For years we were ignored by Democrats. Then we were embraced (for $$$ and votes) once homosexuality gained social acceptance. Now we are being tossed in the trash in favor of ‘gender identity’.
But how can you vote Republican? What about Gay Marriage?
Democrats have already undermined same-sex marriage by pushing gender ideology into law. Biden, starting day one, started slipping ‘gender identity’ into executive orders. For example, you can now put ‘x’ on your passport instead of male or female. By denying the existence of sex, the Democrats have made same-sex marriage irrelevant. Under Democratic logic, a man can ‘identify’ as a woman and marry a man, so Obergefell v. Hodges is unnecessary. They won’t say it yet, but their next step will be to repeal Obergefell v. Hodges—the argument being that it is transphobic. The ‘Respect For Marriage’ Act? That’s all for show. The Democrats don’t care about gay marriage, because they don’t care about gay people.
The Democrats have lost their minds.
What about abortion?
What about it? The Democrats had fifty years to codify Roe v. Wade and never got around to it. Obama even ran on the promise that he would do it, and never bothered. The Democrats use abortion as a carrot-on-a-stick to get you to keep voting for them, so it’s in their best interest for abortion rights to constantly be in peril. They really don’t care.
The Democrats will always be ineffective in fighting for women’s rights because they won’t even acknowledge the definition of what a woman is. The Democrat vs. Republican argument comes down to which you feel is more important: A women’s right to end a pregnancy vs. a woman’s right to be a woman.
The Democrats have gone from ‘a woman’s right to choose' to ‘a man can choose to be a woman’.
Let me also point out that some of tomorrow’s women are the gender dysphoric young girls of today. And you won’t have to worry about those women of the future struggling with the right to get an abortion if they have already been sterilized through ‘gender-affirming care’.
The Democrats have lost their minds.
I was a HYOOOOGE Bernie Sanders supporter in 2016 and 2020, because his platform of ending income inequality and enacting Medicare For All really resonated with me. Because of this, I was labeled a ‘Bernie Bro’ and sexist for not supporting Hillary Clinton. Now, those same Hillary voters1 are defending the right for men to identify as women and invade women’s sports, bathrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms, prisons, and safe houses. They are using language like ‘birthing person’ instead of ‘mother’ because they believe that men can get pregnant.
The Democrats have lost their minds.
In the USA, we supposedly have a ‘democracy’ but we all know that is a farce. We have a representative government and third parties never stand a chance. We only get two choices to represent us—like sex, our political system is binary. For this reason, I have always been told that I need to vote the lesser of two evils. So I am following that advice. Giving puberty blockers, hormones, and ‘sex change’ surgeries to confused children is the most evil thing I have witnessed in my lifetime. I am now a single-issue voter. I don’t care about any other issue. I will do anything to put an end to the madness of the Democratic Party. They must be stopped.
Not all, but most of them, it seems.
NOTE: I just updated this post to remove a paragraph that was included twice in my haste to publish this morning. (I had tickets to a matinee of 'Till' and had to leave the house to make it on time! BTW the movie was very well done, and upsetting of course. And it also gave me an idea that people need to SEE photos of 'gender-affirming care' to understand what we are really talking about. I may post something along that line, with a graphic warning.) Thanks to a reader for alerting me of the error!
(Gary, the post below came to me as if in a nightmare. It is meant as a show of support for your brilliant article. But I don't want to hijack your Substack. If you feel that it's inappropriate or detracts from the seriousness of your message, please, just delete it. I won't be offended!)
RULES FOR DEMOCRATS
RULE ONE: Consume only DEMOCRAT NEWS. And only interact with those who also consume only DEMOCRAT NEWS. This way, you'll never find yourself in the insufferable position of having to hear facts and logic that you disagree with. Speech is violence. Consume DEMOCRAT NEWS every day to learn the New Spin, i.e., how to think about new events and topics. Tomorrow the New Spin is likely to change, so be ready to forget yesterday’s New Spin and memorize the new New Spin as soon as it's released.
RULE TWO: While watching TV, if you mistakenly see Tucker Carlson's face while searching for DEMOCRAT NEWS, close your eyes tight, scream, and run away. Call the Shabbos Goy* or a neighbor to come over and change the channel for you.
*this is a Jewish joke. I'm allowed, because I'm Jewish.
RULE THREE: Remember that as a DEMOCRAT you have an important role to play as savior of the world's Victims. Examples of Victims are: trans people of color, trans women, trans men, trans children, trans fetuses, poor trans people, trans trans people, trans people who work for Amazon, gay trans people, trans pedophiles, trans surgeons. You yourself are not a Victim. You are privileged, and you know you are because you feel guilty. If you don't feel guilty, start by working on feeling guilty about the fact that you don’t feel guilty. And then, to assuage your guilt, be ready to call out, harass, fire, ostracize, or perform a citizen’s arrest on ALL PERSONS who disagree with you about who the Victims are, or who have no opinion. Silence is violence.
RULE FOUR: Create a list of Things To Fear, and reread it throughout the day to practice feeling the appropriate fear in case you encounter it in real life.
(N.B. Update your list with one new fear a day. This keeps the Thought Police away.)
THINGS TO FEAR STARTER KIT:
Trump
People who wear red hats
Republicans
Capitalists
Dr. Seuss
People who won the election
Uterus havers who are good at sports
Black conservatives
Latinx conservatives
Andy Ngo
Parents who think they have the right to decide what their children learn in school
That bitch who wrote Harry Potter
Butch lesbians who date butch lesbians
People who won't wear a mask at the beach
Detransitioners
Your uncle who won't get the fourteenth booster
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Women who won't call other women "she" just because they have penises
Tulsi Gabbard
Racists (i.e., all of the above).
COVID
Statues of Jefferson, Lincoln and Washington
January 6
The Scientific Method
Evolution
Substack
Twitter 2.0
Free speech
Monkey Pox
NOTE: THE RULES FOR DEMOCRATS ARE UPDATED EVERY FOUR HOURS. SET YOUR PHONE TO RECEIVE NOTIFICATIONS.