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The Democrats Are Now The Moral Majority - in the worst possible way

One of the most fascinating things in the last few decades of U.S. politics is the total reversal of the sex-positive vs sex-negative positions of the two main parties.

In the 80s and 90s the Republicans were the party of Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority. The sex-phobic Puritan idiots were all in the GOP.

The sex-positive enjoy life and don't suppress healthy natural desires party was the Democrats.

In the 90s the Rs tried desperately to beat Bill Clinton over the head with his sex scandals, and while some voters were disgusted by his dalliance with Lewinsky, overall he kinda made it so sex scandals don't matter.

Now as we enter 2025 the opposite is true. Seems like every R in tarnation has half a dozen sex scandals and the Dems just won't shut up about them, and those Rs just keep winning elections. Maybe establishing a new slut-shaming left-wing Moral Majority wasn't a good idea.

In the 90s the Rs talked about prudish moral rectitude non-stop, but they all had their own mistresses, and foibles even more scandalous.

Now the Ds won't stop yammering righteous indignation about how Rs are morally bankrupt because they're much too horny and pay sex-workers, and so on.

The script has flipped.

The 2024 election was very close. Several relatively small things, done differently, would have made it a Democratic victory.

Dems lost, in part, because they have become the party of hectoring prudes.

"Heather, what? are you implying that Dems have been shaming voters for being too lustful and sinful?" you ask.

Yes. and it has a lot to do with the infantilization of young adults.

The vast majority of people have romantic/sexual relationships with people close to their own age. The median partner preference for women is her own age plus ~5 years, and for men his own age minus ~5 years.

If you're a 20 year old man, looking for a partner, it's really quite likely that large numbers of women your age are going out with someone who's 25.

Naturally you'd be dating someone who is 5 years younger, that is 15, but that's now taboo.

It is so taboo in fact that none of these brand new 20 year old eligible voters will say that the stigma around and the literal criminalization of their natural desires makes them vote for the Republicans.

They'll describe it in some other way. They'll obfuscate. They'll use dumb slang that means nothing. or they'll invent some nonsense about the border or the price of eggs.

Was the 2024 election result backlash against #MeToo? In part, for sure. but it's bigger than that. #MeToo expanded and morphed into #TheHystera, a worldview that makes pretty much all sex some kind of sexual assault if not rape.

How many times has our friend, the 20 year old male newly eligible voter, heard that Matt Gaetz is a child rapist? What did Gaetz do to earn that title? He had sex with a prostitute who hadn't yet turned 18.

How many 20 year old men don't want to have sex with a 17 year old? Should they be ashamed of those desires? Should they seek professional help because they are pedos and a danger to society?

The vast majority of those men know that their desires are natural and harmless. So activist Democrats calling them rapists and perverts for finding women 3 years younger than them arousing, must be really fucking annoying.

Republicans, by boldly overlooking large quantities of sexual misconduct committed by many of their most prominent members, show horny 20 year old male voters that it's ok. The GOP understands and tolerates them.

The Dems on the other hand call them predators and try to incarcerate them.

Remember that there is zero evidence that teens having sex is harmful.

There is zero evidence that age-gap sex is harmful.

Shaming people for harmless desires is an awful thing to do.

Because of the taboo all of this remains unspoken. but most of us know it's true. and even more people would see that it's true if they calmed down and looked at it objectively for a moment.

#TheHysteria that makes people see sex predators everywhere causes Democrats' to lose elections, which results in dangerously stupid clowns controlling every branch of our government.

It's time to admit that John Walsh and Chris Hansen were wrong and did tremendous damage to our society.

It's time to embrace young adults as capable strong individuals. It's time to stop infantilizing, demeaning, and disempowering them.

Some Democrats ask "Why do young men listen to vile bat-shit crazy morons like Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate? What can we do to offer those boys a different vision of masculinity?"

First, stop calling them boys. It's demeaning.

Second, you can't get the right answer because you're asking the wrong question.

The right question is "How have we screwed up so badly that fucking idiots like Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate look good by comparison?"

Dear Democrats, you shamed them for having normal natural healthy sexual desires. You called them predators, pedos, rapists, wannabe rapists, and toxic.

There is a way out.

Treat young people with respect. Stop telling them their brains don't work because they're under 25.

Stop calling them children when they obviously aren't.

Stop pushing the rules of consent to absurd lengths.

Repeal the idiotic notions that sex is rape if one person has more power, one person had a few drinks, both people had a few drinks, one person is older, etc.

I've been a dedicated progressive Democrat all my life. I've seen us win. I've seen us lose. but lately we've been losing to the lowest form of pond scum imaginable, and it makes me wonder how we managed to fuck up so badly.

It's not just the one thing. Our leaders have done just about everything wrong. but the alienation of young men because #TheHysteria interprets their healthy erotic desires as evil toxic and predatory has not helped the Democratic Party with that demographic.

In short, stop being sex-phobic Puritan idiots.