Posted on 02/03/2022 7:32:29 AM PST by Heartlander
Conservative leadership today lacks strong men of courage who will, using solid first principles, face down the radical left. In other words, conservatism today has been emasculated. There is no better word for it.
In a recent interview with Glenn Beck, Tucker Carlson described the present Republican leadership:
They’re weak. There’s something in them that’s weak, and they’ve decided… ‘The other side is ascended. The left is winning. I’m not gonna push any buttons that might infuriate them.’ They’re just not lionhearted.
Carlson further lamented that these men will not stand firmly on even the most basic ideas, such as an uncompromising defense of free speech, per the First Amendment. Tellingly, he adds, “The only ones who will do it are women.”
This epidemic of weak men did not start with the virus or the electoral coup. The right’s craven capitulation to the left accelerated dramatically as right-wing men lost their nerve directly to left-wing women demanding power. “[Conservative men] won’t say anything that would get them in trouble with the ladies,” The Masculinist founder Aaron Renn concluded in a podcast entitled “The Decline of the Gentleman.”
Consequently, women, mostly from the left, now dominate journalism, education, entertainment, civil-service posts, unions, churches, critical sectors of law and business, and nearly everywhere else—including at home.
In fact, so completely has feminization colonized the right that feminists are even given a platform, in ostensibly conservative forums, to attack transgender extremism in the name of women’s rights. Conservatives are thus reduced to taking sides in the sexual left’s internal squabbles, rather than setting forth any real guiding principles by which transgenderism might be condemned.
It’s no secret that exceptional women have often stepped up to the plate when men are too frightened. That was Margaret Thatcher’s reason for taking charge of the British Conservative Party. It was what convinced Phyllis Schlafly to take the lead in opposition to radical feminism. In private, the word she used to describe Republican men was “cowards.” Neither Thatcher nor Schlafly considered the male timidity they encountered normal.
If the mainstream conservative movement does not provide a vigorous, masculine opposition to the totalitarian left, others will fill the void. As chaos increasingly reigns, various forms of hyper-masculinity will emerge. Gangs already provide de facto order in large swaths of inner cities, where the welfare state first eliminated fathers. Who knows what militias are organizing underground to take on the left and power elite itself, if feeble Republicans refuse? And now, with American weakness spreading chaos globally, what might sectors of the military be planning if they decide that they alone are able to restore order?
Abroad, manliness is a prominent theme of radical religious-political movements like Islamism and Hindutva. “They want to skin us from our manhood,” Osama bin Laden often said of the West. And the Taliban is only one example of how exclusively male religious militias provide a clear sense of order in parts of the Global South. In these so-called less-developed places, the men are admired by their women—as well as by some of ours, like the Dutch Catholic girl, Sterlina Petalo, who joined jihadists in order to marry a “real man.”
The feminization of society has changed all of us in subtle ways. Most immediately, it has rendered us susceptible to mass hysteria over the COVID pandemic that we have experienced over the last two years. Hysteria, any politically incorrect doctor will tell you, is a specifically feminine complaint. But hysteria is not limited to women these day. On the contrary, women seem to be among the most level-headed and skeptical of the overblown virus fear-mongering. My point is, that the reign of feminine characteristics over societal norms has encouraged men to adopt feminine values and to forego masculine ones.
We can see this even when conservatives write about masculinity itself, as they do quite a lot nowadays, mostly to condemn its absence in others. John Kekes’ May 2021 article in the New Criterion on “The Ideal of a Gentleman,” and David French’s December spat with Newsweek columnist Josh Hammer in the pages of The Atlantic over the definition of masculinity and toughness are recent examples.
But conservative lamentations about lost masculinity tend to lack, well, muscle, as Renn pointed out in his Masculinist article “The End of the Gentleman.” Common conservative complaints about masculinity epitomize groveling and ingratiation, Renn wrote, giving as an example a PragerU video by National Review writer Jim Geraghty imploring men to act more like the father character Ward Cleaver from the 1950s television show Leave It to Beaver.
“National Review writer Jim Geraghty … wants men to act more like Ward Cleaver,” Renn observed. “But he’d never dream of telling women to act like June Cleaver.” No, better to be safe.
In the West, proof that the henhouse is guarded not so much by foxes as by bearded hens is seen when conservative bullies—ironically under the very guise of restoring manhood—use their platforms to attack and marginalize braver men who have no public voice with which to defend themselves.
For years, so-called conservatives have accepted and even supported feminist policies, the express purpose of which is nothing less than to enfeeble and degrade America’s men on an enormous scale. This is done especially by destroying men’s home life and authority over their children, but elsewhere too: by patently false accusations of domestic violence and rape; by family courts that confiscate children from legally innocent fathers, whose authority has been undermined and terminated before their property is plundered and their persons incarcerated without trial; by politicians and celebrities who, even after being falsely accused themselves, mouth obsequious mea culpas and shrink from denouncing the entire charade in principle, and from defending other men.
Even men’s rights advocates, who nearly alone speak out against all this (and are viciously maligned for it by conservatives), are not immune from weakness. Some end up focusing solely, for example, on male domestic violence victims while neglecting more serious matters. Such as how the false accusation assembly line debases standards of justice, undermines paternal authority, and deprives children of fathers.
So hideous has mechanized feminization become that young boys are being indoctrinated to believe they are girls and to undergo castration and other forms of physical mutilation on orders from feminist judges. In Texas, Jeffrey Younger, the father of one such victimized boy, risked prison for defying a judge’s censorship order to tell the world about his custody battle over his son. Younger’s case is not an isolated one. Court-ordered child abuse has long been another tool for neutering males.
American conservative men are now harvesting the fruits of our passivity. The country itself faces a crisis demanding extraordinary male strength and courage if it is to be overcome. America is led by a puppet president dangerously incapacitated by a cocktail of senility, wokeism, and illegitimacy. The line of succession for the presidency offers two ideologically radical women of proven mental instability. Feeble yes-persons dominate the Congress, civil service, judiciary, media, universities, and churches. Meanwhile chaos threatens not only America but the world.
Are there any remedies? We can wring our hands and bemoan; we can rationalize inaction with cliches, blaming “the culture.” Or we can grasp the nettle and demand long-overdue changes that strike directly at the problem and cost nothing, except fortitude.
From a policy standpoint, the necessary measures are straightforward. Just two fundamental ones—one in domestic policy, one in defense/foreign policy—and others will follow logically. Morally, they are unexceptionable and must be nonnegotiable. Constitutionally, they are not only feasible but imperative. Economically, they will cost nothing and save trillions. Politically…
Politically is another matter. But the very act of drawing a line and refusing to tolerate the intolerable is precisely the crucible we need to catalyze men into re-learning how to take charge. A basic principle of manhood is that a time comes to stop talking and to act. Those with vested interests in defending the indefensible must be marginalized, immediately. Men must do this themselves, not wait for media messiahs, and they can do it legally and nonviolently. They must calmly but firmly push aside Republican dandies and summon the resolve to stand up to troublemakers and hit them where it hurts:
1. Domestic policy: Marriage must be an enforceable legal contract, conferring parental rights and authority, and the devious oxymoron of “no-fault” divorce forever expunged from the law. Men must know that if they marry and keep their vows within specified terms, they have reasonable rights and authority over their children, which the state must enforce.2. Defense policy: Reinstate compulsory military service for all men of a determined age. Basic republican principles that inspired the American Revolution extolled “manliness” and denounced the “effeminacy” and “foppery” associated with European royal courts. A cornerstone principle was the citizen-in-arms: bearing arms in defense of home and country confers citizenship rights. A citizen army also has no bureaucratic incentive to create wars. Military discipline would help nip adolescent rebelliousness, and it would de-feminize the military.
Rectifying other evils traceable to male weakness and matriarchal rule would follow logically. No civilization has ever survived matriarchy.
In the end, the left’s ascendancy has little to do with the left and everything to do with the right. The left did, and keeps doing, what it always does. It was the right, and especially the men of the right, that fled the field of battle. We have no choice now but to turn around and fight.
Traditionally, the masculine role included the virtue of courage.
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And personal sacrifice.
“Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?”
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gone with their cattle to the slaughter house.
While the GOP leadership wants to distance themselves from Trump who they got to lead? Mitt Romney, the turtle McConnell, squishy John Thune? It is time the GOP got rid of the swamp wallowing RINOs. Look to the state governors and fire brand women in the party as the new leaders.
“Marine E. Lee Ermey and US Army Col. David Hackworth”
They would have been kicked out of today’s military.
Because feminazis want vengeance for their perceived treatment at the hands of men for thousands of years.
Hackworth was nearly courtmartialed in the old Army. He resigned after airing his grievances with the conduct of the war in Vietnam. He found a lot of rot at the top in his day, too.
Thandie Newton sure attacke Sean Penn over this topic and his recent public stance
Firebrand women
Lol the irony of your sentiment....I mean really.....given the subject here
Not one of these women is capable of running for president and only a couple approximate typical freeper culture war views
MGT
But she’s off the reservation at times....
There are admittedly some decent GOPe women but I don’t see any capable of enduring what Sarah Palin did and prevailing
Please don’t tell me but what about Candace Owens ....she’s great but she’s an activist pundit not a politician and is wholly untested
I see this here over and over
The next bright shiney object ...and if it fits woke concerns just a bit even better
Colin Powell
Michael Steele
Tim Scott
Condi Rice
Carli Fiorina
Nikki Haley
Kristi Noem ....who I like but who’s not capable ...
Allen West......whom I also like but not gonna happen
Identity picks jus to name a few that were beloved here at times .....none worthy
Right now only folks worth a damn at that level are Trump or DeSantis
Sounds perfect ....in that order
This is bigger than us, male or female. We are up against “principalities and powers” in heavenly places. Satan immediately forged a rift between the original man and the woman, he knew where to strike. Mere human strength can’t defeat evil beings. Turn to the Lord first, everything else follows and may have nothing to do with conventional “warfare”.
I love this guy....
Chronicles
“Or we can grasp the nettle and demand long-overdue changes that strike directly at the problem and cost nothing, except fortitude.”
Demanding change won’t work when women make up more than 50% of the electorate, and have also mostly surpassed men in every institution of power in society. They have no interest in accommodating us.
No, I think change will only come when men force women to understand that if they continue to pursue feminism, then we will let society collapse, and will not protect women from the consequences of that collapse. Perhaps then they will be forced to the negotiating table and we can dictate terms from a position of strength.
One of the most prescient articles I’ve seen in a while
One who is trolling this very thread
It’s alwazys rah rah the Republican Party....the cure for all ills
It’s not either or
It about how soft white men have become and it’s very very true
You know it’s bad when boomer while males are deeme masculine in comparison
I had a strange period of dating two years ago and at age 62 I had women who were considerably younger ...one to two generations ...tell me older men had much more “zeal” than guys their age who preferred video games and super hero vicarious entertainment etc to intimacy
I’m soeakkmg of whites ......from I see run of the mill black men are less infected
That sounds accurate from my observations too.
One who is trolling this very thread It’s alwazys rah rah the Republican Party....the cure for all ills
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never mention the GOP or Republicans - and neither is a cure for anything - and the topic has nothing to do with political affiliation, rather personal sacrifice and virtue.
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I think the idea is that American men are supposed to band together and defy our corrupt government. If we don't, i the future Islamic or CCP men will most assuredly do it for us - with no thought for the tender sensibilities of Leftist feminists.
Many conservatives pushed for Colin Powell and Michael Steele
to be big deals in the Republican Party due solely to identity group considerations.
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