Scott Morefield: The Pushback Against Gender Ideology Proves Conservatives Can Win The Culture War

As a lifelong conservative, it’s tough to get out of the mentality that the arc of history seems to always flow against us. It’s a well-known fact that whatever happens in California right now, will happen elsewhere five years later. It’s depressing, demoralizing even, but it’s also true, or it’s seemed that way for as long as I’ve been alive.

Even good causes are often started by the ‘left’ Side of politics in a given age, like civil rights or early feminism, have transformed into monsters eating every semblance logic and common sense. Despite the fact that we’ve gone far beyond what the originators of those movements dreamed, there’s always “more work to do,” Grifters must keep their attention on them, and most importantly, keep their fat paychecks coming. Consequently, we’ve gone from creating a society based on equality under the law to one which elevates certain ‘preferred’ Groups are more important than others, and the group seeks to destroy the only building block that has kept civilization together for thousands upon thousands of years – The nuclear family.

How long will this continue? This will continue until humanity dies from within, and the sun swallows the earth. You probably believe this is part of the plan if you follow a particular type of Christian futurist eschatology. You can sleep easier at night if that helps you sleep better. But I’ve got news for you: Christians have been thinking the exact same thing for more than 2,000 years, so odds are you’ll die thinking that way, as will your children and grandchildren and countless succeeding generations.

As for me, I prefer to think the culture war shouldn’t just be fought out of duty, although we should certainly do what is right. It should also be fought because it is possible to win. Here. This life. Right now. Effective fighting is the only way to make the world better for our future generations. And if your theology is telling you to give up because we can’t win, you should consider ditching that theology because it is toxic and self-defeating. (But that’s a column for another day, isn’t it?)

“But but but,” “You say,” “what about that first paragraph, all that stuff about the arch of history? Don’t the failures of the past prove our point, that all is indeed lost?” Maybe, but it also ignores the ebbs and flows taking place over hundreds of years that we can’t witness personally because our lifespans are too short. It might have been more difficult for Christians in the early Roman period, when they were more concerned about being crucified than having to bake a cake that was against their convictions. Consider how many lives were lost to communism in the 20th century. Which would you prefer? Russia and much eastern Europe today are more like what we would call “real” today. ‘conservative,’ Particularly socially, it is more than Europe and the United States. This is one of the reasons the leftist establishment in America hates them so badly. They’ve been there, done that, and they aren’t particularly interested in a repeat.

Hopefully, we won’t have to go through what the people under 20th-century communist oppression went through for decades in order to turn the tide. Yes, it is possible. However, another possibility is for enough people to be influenced on a particular topic in culture wars and that our side gains ground. One domino could fall and another could follow, and so on.

One of the most striking examples of this potential is the ongoing resistance to gender ideology. Instead of bending and giving in to their insanity, conservatives and many old-school liberals and even ardent feminists like author J.K. Rowling are doubling down and refusing to budge, particularly on the most pernicious aspects like women’s sports, biological males in female prisons, and child mutilations. It’s inspiring, really. Despite leftists’ best efforts at portraying the transgender movement as the civil rights issue of our time, a majority of the population – nearly all of which are sympathetic to the ACTUAL civil rights movement – aren’t buying it. Even though they push the envelope, According to polls, the majority of respondents are satisfied with their results. They are outkicking them in coverage.

Twitter is seeing even more resistance to social media. People aren’t afraid to say that the emperor doesn’t have clothes, from Libs of TikTok and Matt Walsh to Rowling to countless other people. And it hasn’t gone unnoticed:

“People are really done with this nonsense,” Walsh Submitted in a Twitter post about a man who thinks he’s a woman named “Kaelie” who posted a video complaining about wanting to use a women’s bathroom without pushback. “I’m seeing a lot more intolerance of the trans agenda recently and it’s a great sign. A decade too late but still, finally, people are fed up. I figured we’d be able to defeat the child mutilators but I thought it would take many more years to bring down the trans agenda as a whole. Maybe I should be more optimistic. The public seems to be reaching a breaking point on this issue.”

In a world where there’s so much to be negative about of late, a little justified optimism may be the best tonic around. Don’t lose hope. It’s a battle we can win, but the only way that’ll happen is if we all keep fighting.

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