Want to Save America? Don’t Act Like a Conservative – by Abigail Shrier – The Truth Fairy

Consider the scene: The HHS deletes the word mother and the Republican response is to muse aloud about this as if the HHS has done nothing more than referred to cookies as biscuits. It s a clip worth watching because it exemplifies decades of Republican failure in culture wars that have seen Leftists wipe the floor with them.

The deletion of mother is just one more reflection of the government s adoption of Gender Ideology, which insists sex is irrelevant (and sex-based rights, dispensable): you are what you say you are. It marks one vital front in an aggressive campaign to peel back all of the legal protections for women that took generations to establish.

So, yes, mothers might be offended too but that is hardly the point, and if this is the best Republicans can muster, they deserve to be trounced over and over. The way forward is not to enter a victimhood contest with intersectional Leftists ( We re offended too! ), because the victimhood contest is a degrading distraction and one all non-Woke are destined to lose. But it s also disingenuous: because the mothers who are pulling the freight train of America s next generation are not victims and society doesn t see them as such.

They are too busy raising a family to enter victimhood contests with overgrown children. What women need what we deserve is a forthright defense of our rights, everywhere they are threatened. Dear Members of Congress: Mothers are not birthing people, and to call us that is a disgrace. To refuse to call us mothers is an abomination, too. Sex-based rights are not yours to give away.

And if Republicans can t say that, they should pack up their things; at least they won t be in the way. The last thing America needs right now is more wallpaper over cracks. Time to toss out the Aw Shucks Conservatism of navy blazers and boat shoes, the sort that believes matching jammies on Christmas suffices to save a country on the brink. That approach may have excelled when churches and civil society were strong and conservatives needed only to get married, raise a family, and perform the simple heroism of showing up. Today, it s a loser.

Its mistake is not in any of the hand-written niceties it revels in, which make life orderly, cozy even lovely. Its mistake is that it treats Leftist ideologues like quirky out-of-town guests arriving for brunch. It assumes we all want the same things and are equally devoted to the perpetuation of bedrock American commitments: free speech, free exercise of faith, equal protection, rule of law.

But the Woke are not zany guests. They are home-invasion robbers. The structure they intend to leave behind will contain but a handful of the cultural artifacts they encountered. Bringing down statues of Abe Lincoln, books by Dr. Seuss and schools named for the country s founders? That s just their casing the joint. The large-scale heist hasn t even started.

via abigailshrier.substack.com

I obviously agree with Abigail. I awakened from my dogmatic slumber to realize it’s about eight minutes till midnight and everything’s about to turn a pumpkin and nasty rats. But let’s keep the blue blazers and boat shoes. And what’s wrong with matching jammies?