Mrs. Beaver discovered power.
She discovered that emotion could be weaponized.
She discovered that devotion to narrative could be more effective than reason.
And she is not coming back to the kitchen.
It should be self-evident that not all women have been so affected, but equally obvious that many in America currently are.
As have a fair number of men. And not just the sexually confused or ambiguous ones.
What to do? And if one is more traditional in one's beliefs and values, whether male or female: how?
The nub of the matter is that politics and political loyalty has for many people - among them, a great number of women - has become the organizing center of their lives and essential to their identities.
This is not an accident, but a result.
It is the result of Progressive/collectivist ideology, born of Rousseau's philosophy, Marx's economics, Dewey's educational models, and other influences militating toward a rejection of traditional society, and its replacement with one or another form of Utopia.
Toward this end, Progressives have engaged in a "long march through the institutions" (Antonio Gramsci), tearing down the building blocks of Western culture and society by changing their essential purposes.
It begins with the most basic human organization - the family - which most definitely needed to be "re-imagined" (i.e. - destroyed) if Progressives were to succeed in tearing down the sequentially greater blocks of traditional society - communities, neighborhoods, churches, synagogues, community groups, membership organizations - all of which exist as the result of voluntary association by sovereign individuals.
The Progressive Left though, replaces voluntarism with group identity, as its organizing principle is not liberty but "equity". Not freedom, but belonging. Not property rights, but collectivism. Not reason, but feelings. And ultimately: not a right to life, but a duty of service. Service to whom? The collective. The State.
All of these efforts are at their core, a denial and rejection of human nature, and yet Progressives view such efforts as liberating. Then why, one might ask, are they so miserable?
And they are miserable, especially the women. The women who have sacrificed relationships with actual men, and children (through abortion or birth control) and friendships and so much more... for what? Power, money, control? Even if those goals are achieved, have they ever been for anyone, a lasting source of peace and contentment and joy?
