A political slogan expressing a common belief among feminists that the personal experiences of women are rooted in their political situation and gender inequality. – Encyclopedia Britannica

Nowadays I would have serious reservations about working with or even hanging out with a Democrat, because the odds are now far greater that they will bring their political beliefs to bear directly on you because of the choices you’ve made in life. The result of which could see you getting fired or “career limited” or worse.

In the 80’s Lefties told me that Reagan was going to get everybody killed in a nuclear war, after pushing them into minimum-wage jobs flipping burgers.

In the 90’s Righties told me stories of cocaine-laden planes flying into Arkansas, aided and abetted by Bill Clinton and his secret lesbian wife.

In the 00’s Lefties told me that Bush would not stop with Iraq but wage endless wars, and would likely refuse to leave office in 2008 even as he destroyed the economy.

In the 2010’s the Right talked of a false Obama who would, just as he promised, fundamentally transform America, and would also likely refuse to leave office.

Then it was Trump and Russia-collusion nonsense, economic disaster, preceded by grim warnings of banned abortions and waging wars and ending in 2020 with tales of pandemic woe and despair. Incredibly, much of that has been repeated in the last year as Trump’s chances of winning the 2024 election looked increasingly possible and then became fact.

Funnily enough the Right merely shrugged its shoulders about Biden, assuming that his decades of Senatorial, flap-jawed uselessness would continue as President. What the Right didn’t realise was that Biden would be surrounded by a cabal of Leftist fanatics who saw their chance to implement many of their ideas via the meat puppet known as “President” Biden.

This led to the paradox that it is his Administration that has come closest (so far) to smashing the United States, whether by fantastic amounts of State spending and borrowing, control of personal lives in the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021 and beyond, collapsing the Southern border, and destroying trust in public institutions by injecting into them DIE policies, the philosophy of Identity Politics and Woke attitudes in general.

Perhaps the Right should have seen this coming with Trump’s first term, when the attacks on him went far beyond what the previous five Presidents faced from their opponents.

The personal is political may have started as a feminist analysis of societal forces being reflected in the personal (male abuse of women), but it has since spread to everything else; even sports are not immune to it, as we saw with all the George Floyd kneeling in the USA.

Everything is now political; your choice of kitchen appliances, the food you eat, the house you live in, the car you drive or whether you drive one at all, your job, the industry you work in… Everything. (Of course this has had in front of it for decades now the smoke screen dating back to that 60’s Second Wave feminism of how the Left in power wouldn’t peer into your bedroom, unlike the Christian Right – although even the bedroom barrier is breaking down now).

As such the approach has morphed from being merely a Leftist explanation of personal decisions to increasing numbers of Leftists using personal coercion to effect, via politics, a change in those societal forces that are the source of oppression.

When I worked in the USA I didn’t give a damn if my co-workers were Democrat or Republican (even though, in Chicago, I could be assured that the majority of them were the former). What did it matter? Even aside from abiding by the old rule of not discussing politics or religion at work, it didn’t matter because politics and voting were another world.

But not now. Nowadays I would have serious reservations about working with or even hanging out with a Democrat, because the odds are now far greater that they will bring their political beliefs to bear directly on you because of the choices you’ve made in life. The result of which could see you getting fired or “career limited” or worse.

Trump’s first term caused much of this to burst into public view. Opposition to Trump is often more personal than political – and as a result of 77 million voters electing him to a second term, when the Left thought they had him dead and buried, this opposition, this hatred, is now directed at them and everything they’re perceived to stand for, starting with the USA itself.

This is very different from the last few decades, possibly unprecedented since the Civil War. If the USA has reached the stage where one of the two major parties, the Democrats, are making it clear that everything about US history, culture and institutions is up for deconstructionist smashing in order to gain power, then you have to wonder how the nation can continue to hold together irrespective of election results.

And dismissing this as just another of the usual partisan bunfights that have happened in the past or that this “just the media“, is harder to do now since the Democrats are merely being swept along by the forces of overwhelming Left-Wing control in academia, mass entertainment and even increasingly the worlds of sport and corporations, as well as their Democrat Operatives With Bylines. One might hope that the likes of Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer and others were merely using all these tools and that they could put them back in the closet after the Biden-Harris victory in 2020 while the real work of eliminating the SALT tax cap and other barriers to Democrat wealth aggregation were dealt with: the Clinton/Obama administrations all over again.

But given the way the Democrats are being pulled to the cultural Far Left by all this, particularly with the rise and influence of AOC and company, and now Zohran Mamdani, in many cases as actual elected Democrats, and given that they are well aware of and loudly reject the compromises of Clinton/Obama, it seems increasingly likely that there will be a great smashing of history and culture should the Democrat Party regain power over the Presidency, Senate and House.

Several years ago a GQ article profiled some of these new Communists in Britain, and as you read through this you should be struck by how similar they sound to AOC and Mamdani:

Despite his privileged background – his family recently sold a Picasso painting for £50 million – [Andrew] Murray was a Communist Party member for 40 years, during which time he was a staunch defender of the Soviet Union and expressed his solidarity with the dynastic dictatorship of North Korea. He only joined the Labour Party after Corbyn was elected leader.
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[Varoufakis wife] Danae Stratou’s magnificent house on the Greek island of Aegina, with its commanding view of the Aegean sparkling beyond the infinity swimming pool, where he outlined his belief in equality. To continue the rock’n’roll theme, Stratou, the daughter of a wealthy Greek industrialist…

FFS! Engels (“His father an owner of large textile factories“). Lenin (“a moderately prosperous middle-class family“). Guevara (“a middle-class Argentine family“), Mao (“son of a prosperous peasant“). A least Sarkar and Bastani have immigrant parents with some sense of struggle in their lives but there’s not a trace of dirt and grime under the fingernails of any of them as they airily wave around fabulous theories of Communism.

In the USA AOC – raised in the wealthy New York county of Westchester, not the Bronx – and Mamdani – the son of wealthy and influential American-Indian parents, fit the New Communist profile perfectly.

What on earth would any patriotic American possibly have in common with these people?

Even the Confederates, while holding on to slavery, crafted up a Constitution and Bill of Rights that was little different to that of the USA. In other words there was some respect and commonality between two warring sides. Certainly enough that one of the men whose visage is carved into the rock of Rushmore, could speak of them, even as they were being defeated, in terms such as: “With malice toward none; with charity for all“, and “to bind up the nation’s wounds”.

For all the endless yammering I hear about the “hate”, “division” and “coarseness” of Trump, I don’t see anything beyond a desire for total cultural victory in all realms of life among the Democrats and their Far Left frenemies and situational allies like the Islamists. The Far Left appear to be more than happy to talk about starting the nation anew from some sort of Year Zero – and the so-called mainstream Democrats sit in craven silence.

The backlash was inevitable, even if “President” Biden had governed as the moderate he claimed to be during the 2020 election. But by endorsing and embracing and extending many of the Far Left’s most bat-guano ideas, Biden and company riled up genuine moderates, too, and now they are unleashed.