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What Normal People Want
Townhall.com ^ | February 13, 2017 | Katie Kieffer

Posted on 02/13/2017 5:45:44 AM PST by Kaslin

Less than 1% of American adults identify as transgender and most Americans support President Trump’s recent immigration order—but you would think (from how much we publicly discuss refugees and sexual identity) that most Americans are LGBT open border activists.

Most Americans are very ordinary (a.k.a. sane) people who couldn’t care less whether Bruce Jenner adopted the name “Caitlyn” and identifies as transgender. The average American is also a generous and welcoming person who supports our country’s “melting pot” heritage. (There’s a reason why Budweiser’s 2017 Super Bowl “Born The Hard Way” commercial about its German founder’s immigration to the U.S. was a huge hit.)

But, let’s face it. You and I are tiring of incessant chatter about how America “discriminates” against Muslims; women; children and homosexuals. Because we know these allegations are untrue. It’s as though those making the allegations never heard of the Middle East. Where wanton death and torture often haunts women, children and homosexuals.

Donald Trump was inaugurated as America’s 45th President less than one month ago. Every day since has been a protest. Whether it’s two people pouting outside Trump Hotel in Las Vegas or thousands stomping outside the White House—someone’s whining. Already, thousands of protesters are gearing up for a climate change alarmism street march scheduled for April 22 (Earth Day).

You and I want our normal life back. We want to drive home from work without getting snarled in traffic blocked by Black Lives Matter. We want to watch a football game or a Hollywood awards ceremony without being mocked by a millionaire entertainer who knows nothing about politics. We want to take a flight and grab our luggage without tripping over Muslim men kneeling in prayer toward Mecca.

“I have no problem if they want to protest … but I just missed my flight,” 22-year-old Rebekah Bergeron vented to the Los Angeles Times last month after protesters blocked her path at LAX.

Like Rebekah, you respect the First Amendment. But as a taxpayer who underwrites public transportation and infrastructure, you don’t feel the need to subsidize someone else’s desire to crash your life.

Since 1975, the U.S. has benevolently admitted 3.3 million refugees—80,000 of whom entered in 2016 alone. Our visitation and entry system, however, is due for reform. Even 25-year U.S. State Department veterans are telling the Chicago Tribune that Trump’s immigration order could have gone further: “Despite claims of enhanced vetting, the reality is that it is virtually impossible to vet an individual who has no type of an official record, particularly in countries compromised by terrorism.”

Normal, sane Americans simply don’t want to underwrite refugees or immigrants from compromised countries until we can be assured they will be properly vetted.

Normal People Have Amazing Adventures

In our eagerness to be an extraordinary country that “loves” everyone—especially minorities and immigrants— we’ve forgotten that every amazing adventure is rooted in normalcy.

Lord of the Rings is a great example. Author J. R.R. Tolkien was able to craft a popular tale about a hobbit’s extraordinary adventures because his protagonist is a normal individual with no special powers. Tolkien’s hero’s ordinary roots create a powerful contrast that allows his journey to feel so magical.

The great English writer G. K. Chesterton explains the necessary juxtaposition of normalcy and oddity best in his book Orthodoxy:

“The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventures that are startling; they startle him because he is normal. ...You can make a story out of a hero among dragons; but not out of a dragon among dragons. The fairy tale discusses what a sane man will do in a mad world. The sober realistic novel of to-day discusses what an essential lunatic will do in a dull world.”

WHAT does this have to do with transgender bathrooms and refugees restrictions?

Quite a lot, actually.

Normal Pride

Normal people need to start coming out. By that, I mean holding your chin up and being proud of the fact that you’re a normal, nice person and most of your neighbors (albeit secretly) actually agree with your political views. Here are a few powerful examples.

When the U.S. Navy tried to be hip by eliminating all traditional sailor titles ending in “man” such as “corpsman,” “boatswain’s mate” and “chief yeoman”—thousands of sailors expressed outrage. Apparently—even though the Pentagon now allows women to partake in combat roles—the average sailor holds tradition more sacred than modernity. The Navy recanted.

After black entertainers like 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand in respect during the national anthem and pop star Beyoncé staged a pre-Super Bowl music video telling cops “Stop Shooting Us!”—a Quinnipiac poll found the majority (54%) of Americans opposed anthem protests, and the 68% of blacks and 88% of whites approved of how “police in your community are doing their job.”

After transgender bathrooms became a trendy topic for talking heads, most Americans still say they don’t feel compelled to use (or build if they’re a small business owner) gender-neutral bathrooms just because 0.6% of the adult population may feel uncomfortable.

Finally, even after over a year of constant negative press for his proposed immigration policies, most Americans (55%) also approve of President Trump’s travel ban. His ban would temporarily bar the entry of citizens from Yemen, Iran, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya and Somalia (for only 90 days); refugees (for 120 days); and refugees from Syria (indefinitely).

Be Normal for the Children

If politicians can’t be sane for themselves, they should try to be sane for the children. For all the “children” who were born in America and for all those who were born elsewhere and hope—like Budweiser founder Adolphus Busch—to become American citizens (or dual citizens) someday, we need to start applauding normalcy.

Because it’s not right to pressure an eight-year-old boy (as this New Jersey Boy Scout mother did) to declare that he’s “transgender” before he’s even gone through puberty. It’s stressful enough for grade-schoolers to handle homework, sports and the drama of adolescent friendships let alone whether they truly “identify” as a “boy” or a “girl”—or something else.

And it’s not right to tell to the average Class of 2016 graduate with nearly $40,000 in student debt that instead of pressuring colleges to lower costs by eliminating unnecessary layers of administrative staff—we’re going to give non-American “dreamers” discounted college tuition. In the state of Texas alone, 24,982 illegal immigrants qualified for subsidized “dreamer” college tuition in 2015.

Because we all have dreams and the most fantastic dreams emerge from a foundation of sanity. Show your normal pride.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 02/13/2017 5:45:44 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Anyone for arranging a “Normal Pride Week” that can include a “Normal Pride Parade”?
Say, first week of August?

Fight the Balkanization!


2 posted on 02/13/2017 5:55:43 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Kaslin

There are comparisons to the Tea Party, in terms of their anger and effectiveness. Except, the Tea Party was made out to by a bunch of anti-social preppers who loved their Bibles and Guns.

These people have the support of the primary media outlets. That magnifies their protests.

Most people just want to be left alone.


3 posted on 02/13/2017 5:56:07 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Brace. Brace. Brace. Heads down. Do not look up.)
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To: Kaslin

The numbers of so-called “normal people” are obviously declining - and declining precipitously. You can’t wallow in the swamp that is American culture today without being affected by the decay.


4 posted on 02/13/2017 6:00:16 AM PST by madprof98
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To: Kaslin

The wonders of PC — “normal” is considered an inappropriate word.

My wife works with special needs kids in an integrated environment. It is considered hateful to refer to the other kids as “normal”. It is considered correct to refer to the other kids as “typical”. Of course the focus is on the “special needs” kids.

My wife knows it’s ridiculous, but the school administration thinks it’s important to note that there are no “normal” kids.

I really think the Devil is behind this whole mess because no human could possible think of evil so deep. Just explore this tiny point in a school environment:

Linguistically, what is the difference between “normal” and “typical”? I think there is none. If you tell a parent that their kid is “normal” they will not be concerned. If you tell a parent that their kid is “typical” they will not be concerned. It makes no difference.

So ... if the schools insist that most kids are “typical”, it’s no big deal, right?

But we create a society which is told to now believe that there are NO “normal” kids. No “normal” people.

And that’s the door through which transgenders and pedophiles and zoophiles walk through.

It’s the Devil’s work.


5 posted on 02/13/2017 6:02:03 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: Kaslin

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6 posted on 02/13/2017 6:07:29 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: madprof98

Well stated!


7 posted on 02/13/2017 6:11:33 AM PST by ETL (Trump admin apparently playing "good cop, bad cop" with thug Putin (see my FR Home page))
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
At our local high school a few years back, a student, in response to someone wearing a "gay pride" T-shirt, wore a "straight pride" shirt.

He was summoned to the principal's office, suspended, and sent home.

No such treatment for the gay shirt wearer.

8 posted on 02/13/2017 6:13:13 AM PST by daler
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To: ClearCase_guy

I had a friend (notice the word ‘had’) who has a PhD in Developmental Psychology. She told me that the American Association of Psychiatrists and Psychologists reclassified homosexuality as a ‘variation on normal’, back in the 70’s. I pointed out to her then, that if homosexuality was ‘normal’ then our species would likely die out. She was not amused. And now whenever I see any spokesperson from these elites, they are always gay or lesbian......I think this area of medicine has been severely compromised by those who are abnormal, but want to pretend they are the actual normal. Yes, the Left has gone wacko and sadly they are taking about 50% of Americans with them.


9 posted on 02/13/2017 6:18:24 AM PST by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Kaslin
There’s a reason why Budweiser’s 2017 Super Bowl “Born The Hard Way” commercial about its German founder’s immigration to the U.S. was a huge hit.

The immigrants who founded Bud were legal immigrants, which makes all the difference. Conflating illegal invaders with legal immigrants is like pretending there is no difference between rape and consensual sex.

10 posted on 02/13/2017 6:21:01 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Kaslin
Great article ... thank you for posting it. Like other "normal" Americans, I have been wondering how the so called 'rights' of small minorities now trump ours. The following article address that question.

Minority rule is what is needed to turn the USA into the Socialist USA. It’s tyranny.

Minority group rights are very important but they are being exploited by the left to extinguish the alleged white majority rule aka white supremacy and white privilege. The identity politics being played by Democrats is part of a dangerous game and one used successfully by the worst statist nations in the world throughout history.

How the Minority Rule the Majority in the USA

11 posted on 02/13/2017 6:25:09 AM PST by NYer (Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
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To: originalbuckeye

I would agree that Psychology is a field which has made (in my opinion) very little progress over the past few decades. It has largely become an affirmation of perversion and the chemical treatment of almost everybody.

The real notion of “counseling” and helping people to handle their own thoughts and emotions in a more productive — more normal — manner seems to have gone out the window.

At some point, the Marxism, the PC and the homosexuality will be expunged from certain fields and their will be a Renaissance of science with great advancement.

For non-medical areas: I think it’s difficult to actually write History these days. The conclusions and the way of viewing the past has already been established: we know what is “correct”. But at some point, people will look with fresh eyes and start to really see what has happened to western civilization over the past 300 years or so. It will change things but it won’t happen in my lifetime.


12 posted on 02/13/2017 6:26:07 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: Kaslin

We are dealing with a left on its way out.


13 posted on 02/13/2017 6:35:54 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Pollster1

Plus when the founder of Bud came to this country, it was still growing nation.


14 posted on 02/13/2017 6:38:38 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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15 posted on 02/13/2017 6:44:21 AM PST by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Kaslin
I think, basically, normal people just want to be left alone to live their lives, that old mundane pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. But the left of today conducts itself so that one will be made to care, through obedience backed by the law in some cases, and mob action in others. So they won't leave us alone!
16 posted on 02/13/2017 7:09:22 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: ClearCase_guy
Linguistically, what is the difference between “normal” and “typical”? I think there is none

To be normal is to adhere to a norm, meaning a set of either ethical or aesthetic standards, the following of which ensures, if not a higher moral or aesthetic ground, at least the avoidance of a lower moral or aesthetic ground. The antonym of "normal" is "deviant," meaning to deviate from the desirable norm.

By contrast, to be "typical" is to be an example of a type, which confers no moral or aesthetic superiority: one type can be as good as any other type, so that to be "typical" is simply to be conforming to the type. It also implies that one can move among types, identifying with one type one day, another type the next, without experiencing any moral or aesthetic decline. The antonym of typical is atypical, which simply means not of the type, without any moral or aesthetic judgment attached.

Herein lies the difference between the concepts of being "normal" and being "typical": you get to define what is acceptable and what is unacceptable, what is the type you want to be and what is the type you don't want to be. It makes us to be like gods, knowing good and evil--to be more precise, to think that we are like gods, deciding for ourselves what is good and evil. And that is precisely where Satan likes us to be.

17 posted on 02/13/2017 7:12:21 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Maybe it’s time for signs in our yards....”We’re NORMAL Americans”...or “NORMAL Americans live here.”


18 posted on 02/13/2017 7:13:38 AM PST by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: originalbuckeye

Homosexuality is normal, it has been around for eons even in the animal kingdom. That doesn’t mean it causes anything amazing and no, I wouldn’t wish it on my child. However, I have close friends with kids who have announced, parents of my daughter’s friends who have announced, my nephew has announced....There is a big continuum of “normal”.


19 posted on 02/13/2017 7:22:26 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Can we look at things through some prism other than religion please.


20 posted on 02/13/2017 7:23:29 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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