As IF Times

link: https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/14/democrat-men-are-trying-to-fake-masculinity-and-its-painful-to-watch/

Months after the Democratic loss at the US polls last November, some factions of the Democratic Party are engaging themselves with some introspection as to why they lost so badly among a particular demographic.  That demographic was men.

Apparently, across all states, their analysis revealed that males turned away from the party in droves, instead opting to vote for the Republicans.  Why that’s such a mystery to them is a mystery to most rational people.  With the passage of time but especially after the Obama years, the fringe elements of the Party elbowed their way in to becoming the main drivers of the Democrats’ policies.

They were eager to attract as many voters to the Party as possible and thus anyone with a pulse was not only welcomed into their fold, but also all of their sundry causes were also embraced.  But the underlying draw wasn’t the platform of inclusion; it was in fact the appeal of casting blame on someone else for the perceived inequities of their lives. It became the party of shrill nags and professional moaners.

Thus, every aggrieved demographic found open arms with the Democrats as they glomped onto anyone who could pull a lever for them in the voting booth.  This worked quite efficiently when that demographic was mainly women, a natural constituency of blame casters, but it become more problematic as all the various fruits and nuts started setting the agenda.

Like the ubiquitous TV ads one sees in the US, the recruiting line for the Democrats became, “if you’ve been aggrieved or perceive to have been aggrieved by anyone, call us, we’re there for you’.  Thus, in addition to the main demographic of women, now sexually confused people, minorities of every stripe, fat people, eco-nazis, the perpetually offended, the chronically poor, the limousine liberal entertainers and the never satisfied, all jumped into the Democratic bed.

All of these groups have the same common enemy; Males, or more specifically, white males.  Apparently, every problem that plagued society had as its root, male oppression.  Gradually, then suddenly, public and corporate policies against men were institutionalized and men came to be willfully excluded from numerous aspects of society. Toxic masculinity became a thing. Well, finally, over the past decade, men began to notice.  Even in the most masculine of realms, the military. It was excruciating to observe the Marines become the Maureens. Not just Democrats, but men across the political landscape. Accordingly, men abandoned the Democratic narrative and cast their lot with the Republicans.

Apparently seeing their mistake, the Democrats have begun a shift in trying to attract males again by attempting to field more masculine standard bearers for their party. Hiring David Hogg as the Democratic vice chair is not really a step in the right direction since a Rosie O’Donnell exudes more masculinity than does Hogg.  They tried to butch up Tim Walz with Carhartt gear in full hunting mode. This was like Pee Wee Herman doing bench presses with 10 pound weights. Maleness is authenticity.  It is not contrived just for when the cameras are rolling. Maleness is about doing what’s needed to be done, not about casting blame to others for shortcomings. They’ve demonized male sports and male interests.  But mainly, they’ve tried to meddle with every part of our  lives.  Men hate that.

There is no one in the Democratic Party that evokes maleness.  Gavin Newsome is as oily as a time share salesman and the only manly thing about JB Pritzker is the size of his shadow.

They have marginalized mainstream Americans by championing all the fringe views of a small minority and insisting that they are normal.  Men are mostly tolerant with those in their lives, but once the Rubicon is crossed on sanity and fairness, you’ve lost them.

link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Milgram

Why do people in societies behave the way that they do? If you consider the myriad of choices that people must make on any given day, from the trivial to the consequential, it’s logical to assume that most will act in ways that would be most self-serving. That seems logical….but real life experience shows that this is not necessarily the case.

The societies I am referring to aren’t those run by notional despots with all kinds of surveillance and controls on their populace.  We can understand the motives of people in those states.  No, what’s more puzzling is the behavior of people in what are accepted as ‘free’ societies, ones in which citizens are supposed to expect some level of self-determination over their lives.  Aren’t people allowed to freely vote for their rulers here?

A quick survey will reveal that these types of societies are rapidly disappearing. Where once you could say categorically that ‘western’ nations were the ones with explicit freedoms, this is certainly not the case anymore. In Europe, both the UK and France have implemented strict prohibitions on what can be said both in public and online and in the case of the UK, even to thoughts! These kinds of restrictions were once thought to be characteristics of autocratic regimes such as China, Russia or North Korea.  In those surveillance states, citizens are spied upon, their speech is limited and the concept of personal rights is non-existent.

However this form of citizen behavior control has made its way into the toolkits of most heretofore free Western nations.  Canada is the most recent example of this erosion of freedoms.

Recently, the Canadians held an election after a prolonged period in which the previous ruler had destroyed virtually all the sacrosanct Canadian traditions of freedom and ethical behavior on the part of government. Finally, the nation could end their 10 year nightmare.  This nightmare included a collapse of virtually every metric of national performance, the skyrocketing of debt, the explosion of illegal immigrants, housing crises in every city, the proliferation of criminal activity and the crushing of personal freedoms.

But, thanks to the relentless and effective gas-lighting campaign by all media outlets (taxpayer supported) a large part of the population apparently voted to keep the same guys in office; the equivalent of ‘please sir, may I have another’.

Even casting aside the rumors of election manipulation, this kind of behavior is not organic.  It is planned.

Politicians and media may be un-liked by the majority of the population, but they are not guileless. At the very core of their being, they know what a very insightful psychologist named Stanley Milgram discovered over 50 years ago in a series of perhaps surprising studies on human behavior, especially in the field of obedience behavior.  He found that if a subject can be convinced that harmful actions on his part are not his fault, then he will continue to perform such actions and separate himself emotionally from those actions just because an authority figure instructs him to do so.  Thus, even as electric shocks applied to control subjects caused obvious distress, the subjects continued to apply them when instructed to do so.

His experiments were driven by an examination of the treatment of Jews by Germans during the Second World War, but what he discovered was that this behavior was not confined to Germans.  It had implications for all populations.

We saw this implemented on a large scale very recently with the massive Covid-19 psyop in the 2020-2023 period.  Doctors and other professionals continued to press on with harmful vaccinations because of the enormous pressure from peers and ‘authorities’.  What chance did the average citizen have of refuting the tidal wave of mandates?

In the case of the recent Canadian elections, naïve people were convinced that US President Trump imposed a more serious existential threat to the nation than 10 years of an inept Liberal government.  With the aid of virtually all media outlets, the story was effectively sold to a large part of the voters.  The knowledge derived from Stanley Milgram worked as it always has and the same government that had been applying electric shocks to the populace was returned to power.

We can expect to see more of this kind of incongruent behavior as time goes on because those in positions of influence are quite aware of Milgram’s work…even as the public is not.  Policies and laws don’t need to have any merit or make any sense, they just need to be sold. When you observe populations acting against their own existence, someone is harnessing Milgram.