Here is my thing: I won’t judge someone for wanting to change their sex (to the extent physically possible, which is not very much), but I WILL judge them, categorically, and all day long every day, for lying to me, or to themselves. I fucking hate lies, and liars. Even if it is self deception, I WILL call it out.
The truth on this issue, though, is that this buzzsaw is already cutting through our culture. The damage will not be easily undone.
When I was in Sales, I used to compare sales proposals to trees. Trees, once they start to fall, tend to keep falling in whatever direction they initially started. It is very, very, very hard to sell to someone who is already sold on something else. Trying to do so is what gives salespeople bad names. Don’t do it. If you start right, by placing the notches on the base of the tree yourself, it will fall your way. My favorite sales book is titled “Let’s Get Real or Let’s Not Play.” Great book. Summary: qualify, qualify, qualify, then know what the fuck you are talking about, and how to get the good things you promise done correctly, on cost, and on time.
Be all that as it may, the tree is falling on universally shared notions of family, patriotism, church, etc. It would not be hard to argue it has fallen.
But things will get much worse before they get better. The falling is still going on. People are still pushing that tree over. Nothing I or anyone else like me says or does will change that process.
We all need to adapt. We need to plan for when these people realize their ideas are a catastrophic failure. When and how that may happen, I can’t say. It may very well take national collapse. I can’t say. I don’t know.
But I do know that I can only preach to people already largely in agreement with me. I can’t preach to anyone else. No one is listening. The rift widens daily, seemingly.