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.
“Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?”
No civilization has ever survived matriarchy.
The GOP supports open borders.
what crap...
It’s not hard.
Teach your boys right.
And your girls.
Teach the boys to act like Jarrod Barkley on The Big Valley.
Girls should adopt the attitude and the mannerisms of Jarrod’s sister Audra.
Emasculated conservative men “won’t say anything that will get them in trouble with the ladies.” The result has been for the first time in history a plethora of strange, post menopaused old ladies taking high office and achieving real, destructive power in an advanced culture. The United States now suffers the leadership of Pelosi, Harris, Sotomayor, Feinstein, Lightfoot, Collins, Murkowski, Duckworth, Waters, Duckworth and innumerable others who are ruining the American nation.
It is very simple: stop treating fathers as paychecks instead of as parents.
Fatherhood is the foundation of civilization, and empowering fathers will resurrect civilization.
Matriarchy has replaced civilization.
There are plenty of them out in the state hunting lands near my home, on the hockey rink, and at the gun club over the hill.
Males are the bad people in this culture. Particularly white and Christian. They are discriminated against in criminal and family court and ridiculed in portrayals in movies and TV . They are outnumbered at the polls. Yet again even in this article, they are the problem.
Rise up, slaves, against your masters!
That always works. Just ask Spartacus.
Traditionally, the masculine role included the virtue of courage. It is in very short supply in the public square today, even more so in the halls of government. He is correct in that the dominant culture is dedicated to compliance driven by fear. Men afraid to speak their minds and stand in defense of their beliefs are hardly men at all.
Real men may not have an interest in politics, but politics has an interest in them.
Thats the problem.
Don’t forget working on cars, in the woodshop, piddling with electronics, or playing computer games with their friends.
The western world is under a gynocracy. No wonder men do not want to procreate when the women have all the power over whether their offspring dies (or not); is raised as a “transgender” but must foot the bill for both mom and child via government.
Indentured servitude/debtor’s prison still exists within the “family” courts.
Emasculated conservatives calling for the restoration of America’s lost manhood are often the ones most responsible for destroying it.
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Real Men Missing are because the overwhelming number of self-righteous, chest-pounders pour on the minute they see anything different from their consensus thoughts and opinions.
The emasculated are the most vociferous because they are unwilling to make any personal sacrifices to change the communist direction of the US in its present state. Any suggestion they quit whining, get off their collective butts to do something significant, are met with open hostility.
Marine E. Lee Ermey and US Army Col. David Hackworth would be totally unwelcome on FR by the consensus ‘conservatives’ crowd.
I have two sons and a daughter. The oldest son hung out with me, he’s now a policeman and is an alpha completely. But he is a gentleman as I taught him how to treat women and the elderly, but he is very protective and was that way as a child. He beat up a few bullies who were tormenting other kids.
My youngest son was the baby and thus his momma tried to baby him. He is a gentleman like the older son but he comes across as soft spoken and thoughtful. When he sees something wrong he will eventually stand his ground it just takes him longer.
I made both watch me repair and fix things and work in the garage and yard and taught them both how to shoot and to stand up for themselves. And they were to respect their elders period and always protect women and children it was their duty. If they were bullied, tell the teacher one time, then take care of it yourself and if you are hit you better take your part.
I never yelled at their Mom in their presence, if we had a fight it was behind closed doors out of their earshot. My oldest son married a woman who came from a family where the mom was king of the roost and fighting and yelling was a way of life and the woman he married acted that way. He called her on the behavior and she would change for a month and revert again to the never ending screaming, eventually he said I can’t live this way and divorced her.
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