(06-06-2016, 03:26 PM)Anthony Wrote: What everybody - at least, almost everybody - doesn't get is that cultural conservatism is being redefined: No longer does it mean wanting to crack down on fornication, promiscuity, homosexuality etc.; instead it now means - or is very soon about to mean - preserving the Anglo-American character of the culture, by restricting, totally banning, or even reversing immigration, and demanding total assimilation from those immigrants who are permitted to come here, or to stay.
Toward this end, look for the "Trumpites" to push for the passage of a law making English the sole official language of the United States. Good legal arguments can be offered either way as to whether such a bill, passed by Congress and signed by a President Trump, would pass constitutional muster - but the judicial branch, ultimately a SCOTUS that includes at least one Trump appointee, will decide that issue; and if the decision goes against the "Trumpites," they will no doubt proceed with a constitutional amendment.
Against this backdrop, the Transgender Wars will be the last battle of its kind - to be decided, rather obviously, in favor of the gender-benders.
Tough. The assimilation has gone the other way, too. I'm not giving up my lasagna, teriyaki seasoning, fajitas, bagels, or hamburgers (the latter are a German introduction).
What is wrong with some Scandinavian-American kid swinging a stick in an effort to break a pinata? What is wrong with me listening heavily to German and Austrian classical music? What is wrong with an appreciation of Russian literature?
"Official English"? We never needed it. Indeed one of the best ways to hide status as an illegal immigrant is to speak unexceptionable English. (So many Americans speak bad English that they are practically handicapped in getting along in America -- and they are born and raised in this country and may even have ancestors who came over in colonial times. No, they are not Hispanics living in California, Colorado, New Mexico, or Florida. They aren't Cajuns in Louisiana, either.
I can't imagine anyone choosing to be transgender. Gays and lesbians usually know what they are and don't have a problem with identity -- only with acceptance by the last dolts who judge them for homosexuality.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.