J. D. Vance is weird. He is weird because he probably believes that a “normal” family is a man and a woman with their own children. He’s also weird because he doesn’t believe in aborting growing human beings, or that an XY chromosomed child isn’t asking to be a girl just because he looks at a Barbie doll.
Vance is also weird because he probably doesn’t believe that XY chromosomed humans should be allowed to beat up on XX chromosomed humans just because they say they are XX chromosomed.
His weirdness is further manifest in his belief that people shouldn’t lie about their military record. Non-weird people lie all the time, of course, especially if it keeps weird people like J. D. Vance from getting elected.
J. D. Vance is also weird because he believes in this place called “America,” that has something called “borders” and “citizen’s rights,” and isn’t the stomping grounds for every terrorist or scumbag in the world who wants to come here and get free health care, education, driver’s licenses, and voting rights paid for by the “weird” citizens of that horribly nationalistic space of geography. He’s even a white dude who isn’t voting Harris/Walz.
I’ll even bet that weird J. D. Vance doesn’t think that tampons belong in boys’ bathrooms at schools, and that education is for teaching children something useful (like reading, writing, math, and history) and not for indoctrinating them in social justice and instructing them inhow to play with their own genitals and read pornography.
Vance is weird, isn’t he.
What am I getting at here? The all-important question, of course, comes down to what is “normal” and what is “weird.” Every society in human history, no matter whatclan, time, or locale, has always accepted some forms of behavior as “normal” and others as “weird” (the previous common word was “perverted”). Indeed, those norms differed somewhat from tribe to tribe, but one will find some behaviors condemned by all societies, all through history, except the most utterly barbaric and degenerate. For example, murder, rape (of one’s own members), looting,incest, and a few others are nearly everywhere censured as “weird,” or better, “wrong,” within every human culture. This is universal throughout history. It’s called “being created in the image of God.”
In America, with its original Judeo-Christian based moral code, “normal” and “perverted” were usually very clearly defined. There were, even in early America, “weird” people who didn’t conform to “normal” standards, but they were typically shunned and considered outcasts; the very idea of “normal” implies something else is “weird” (or “perverted”), and Americans, until recent times, knew what “normality” and “perversity” were. And we still speak today of “normal” people. But what do we mean? How do we distinguish between “normal” and “weird”? Where’s the line? Suddenly, J. D. Vance, in every way “normal” 100 years ago, is considered “weird” by Leftists. What’s going on?
It’s critical to understand Leftist, Marxian amorality. To Marxists, there actually is nothing enduringly “normal.” “Normality” changes. That is exactly what Marx taught, and the Left is following that philosophy religiously.
Contrary to Judeo-Christian beliefs, Marxian “morality” is not based upon eternal truths. Everything is transient. Everything is judged by “historical necessity” within its own “stage of history.” Thus, “normality” changes as “historical necessity” changes.
According to Marx and Engels, the great basic thought of the “dialectic” is that “the world is not to be comprehended as a complex of ready-made things, but as a complex of processes.” Everything is a process, evolving, changing, including humanity and morality. There are no “final” solutions, nothing fixed, absolute, eternally true, right, or wrong. No eternal God exists to judge and explainwhat is “normal” or “perverted.” “Each stage [of history] is necessary and therefore justified by the time and conditions to which it owes its origin.” When new, higher conditions develop, the old things lose their validity and justification. Nothing is “eternally” normal. “For it [dialectical philosophy] nothing is final, absolute, sacred.” Historical justification is thus the only justification for determining “normal” or “weird,” “right” or “wrong.”
Engels wrote that even slavery and incest (and capitalism) were considered to be historically justified—“normal”—at given stages of history. But as “processes” change, “normality” changes.
This is all based on the Darwinian evolutionary theory (which Marx saw as the “scientific” basis for his “scientific socialism”). Darwin argued, and the Left has swallowed it completely, that everything is always evolving, changing, in flux, there is nothing that is final or absolute. Thus, “normality” is always “evolving,” never final. Man, a million years ago, was a knuckle-dragging, hairy, ape-like creature. What was “normal” back then? Today, humanityis what it is, having “evolved,” and remember, always in the “process” of “evolving.” It never stops. What was ”normal” a million years ago surely isn’t “normal” today. And what will man be a million years from now? No one knows for sure because, by definition, naturalistic evolution is random and directionless. Thus surely, what is “normal” today won’t be “normal” to whatever “humanity” is a million years from now. So, how can we claim America’s traditional Judeo-Christian standards of morality are “normal”? That may have been ok—“historically necessary”—in the 19th or 20th centuries, but, due to a different “stage of history,” always evolving, it’s J. D. Vance who is “weird” now, not normal.
So, putting tampons in boys’ bathrooms and having XY chomosomed humans beating up XX chromosomed humans isn’t “weird” at all to people who believe in Marxian ethics and morality. It’s only weird to J. D. Vance and his ilk who are stuck in a previous “stage of history,” as Adam Smith and capitalism were.
“Normality” changes, and is now whatever the Left says it is.
That’s Marxism, folks. That’s the Left. That’s the Democratic Party. That’s Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
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