"The personal is the political"

"The personal is the political"

That concept meant originally that your basic needs like education, housing, can only be met via political action.

 

It has devolved to mean that if you make an off handed comment about your feelings to a liberal, she will evaluate your comment in light of its political application.

 

Brookline Massachusetts, 1970’s and 80’s, public schools, we were being groomed to be activists, and we did not even know it.

 

It is the fact that we did not even know that we were being groomed, and the way this assumption affected relationships, that bothers me. 

It was indoctrination, of introducing basic assumptions without letting on what was happening.

 

What is good about the Abrahamic religions is that they fess up what they are about in the conversion process. A convert or a newcomer to Judaism, Christianity or Islam must state the basic tenets of the religion they are converting to.

 

Secular liberal humanism gains traction through indoctrination, not admitting what it is all about.

 

No one said, in Runkle school or in Brookline High, that the education we were getting is in order for you to think in an activist bent, become future activists, and interact with others according to their politics.

 

State a stray thought to a liberal, they bring it to its political application. It ruins relationships, and they do not even see it.

 

Here is one, “I think sexuality is flexible, and that people can be influenced to be gay or straight.”

This is just something I noticed among my acquaintance in high school and college.

 

Your stray thought will be pounced upon in order to warn how this thought will be applied politically, a modern liberal’s answer will be, “but you have to support gay marriage!” “or “you have to support gay adoption!”

 

You were just observing the world, but if you are next to a modern liberal, that stray thought will be pounced upon regarding its political application.

 

You cannot share thoughts, you can hardly breathe, near the modern liberal. And it ruins relationships.

You can only be the one who pounces, the activist,  convinced that you will always be the victor, the activist on the right side of the fence.

But if you start thinking differently from the modern trends, and make a stray comment, you will find yourself suddenly marginalized.

If you want to be an activist, to even use your interpersonal interactions as a platform, you better assume that you will be on the right side of the political fence, or bend and sway with every trend that blows, switch horses. An example of this is allowing "trans-women" to compete against biological women in sports. That is an obvious blow to womankind, but leading feminists are not condemning it, because they just conveniently switched horses, got onto the right side of the social trends.

You trusted them, and then you discovered that Gloria Steinam and the like - were just trendy, that is all.