
…lization, or capitulation, but simple realism. There seem to be no detours, if history is prologue. Our new normal is the fruition of seeds planted in the 1970s, and what took 40 years to build may not be undone in my lifetime. I have spent my entire life living alongside the dominionist foot soldiers and white culture warriors that have played a vital role in this wildly successful coup at which we find ourselves staring slack-jawed. They will not go quietly from what they have spent decades working and praying for, what many of them believe their souls are dependent upon. Impeachment would bandage the bleeding but do nothing to address the infection. And while this year’s elections are heartening, the GOP’s profoundly tyrannical ram-through of their tax bill — a move that should be political suicide — proves that Republicans are not worried about facing their constituents next year. We are not dealing with people who expect to face free and fair elections.
When you argue that a women’s strike is elitist because not all women are free to dissent, you’re not mad at the organizers, friend. You’re mad at Capitalism. Capitalism is why not all women are free to strike today and so it’s against capitalism women strike.
The irony here, of course, is the radical idea of sexual-difference-as-illusion is meant to solve the deplorables’ problem. It was created to liberate those who are oppressed by the concept of sexual difference by dispelling it as a cloud of pure ideas. But to these powerless men, it’s as if the left were addressing their issue by saying in an Orwellian manner, “There’s no such thing as your problem! Problem solved!”