"We don't want them bringing their Big City ways around here."
This was a joke us small-town GenXr's used to tell back in the 90's. It was our way of mocking the redneck-culture, steeped in ignorance and xenophobic to anything that didn't fit their extremely narrow-minded view of the world. In many ways, all the talk you hear about Patriarchy is a result of people rebelling against Conservative Christianity.
Something I was thinking about the other day at work. You see, back when I was younger, I got into Liberal politics because of the Labor movements in the 60's. I hated employers treatment of their employees, and little that I've seen over the decades has changed that feeling. And there is a particular brand of Labor movement that intrigued me. Something that can best be described as Mountain Feminism. There are a number of bluegrass artists from back in the 60's, Hazel Dickens chief among them, that were influential in the Labor reforms in coal mining towns, even affecting regulations happening up into the late 80's. And I'm totally for that in every way.
You see, while the men were mining, the ladies back home were writing to congress and trying to get things changed. It took forever, but it did work. These women were NOT crazy-ass California nutbags, they were very thoroughly "God, Guns and Family" types. I'm from the Appalachian area myself, and my mother literally grew up in a log cabin built in the 1700's.
But there are a few things which happened back in the 70's that people don't talk about. Once the word concerning southern poverty got out, alot of those California liberals showed up to "Save the Day." And they brought their post-modern feminist ideals with them. They were there to teach people about sanitation and literacy and basically bring these people into the modern world. And that was kind of necessary, because the mining companies very purposely took advantage of people's low education levels. The exploitation bordered on slave labor in some cases.
But feminists gonna Feminize, and the college students were arrogant and "sophisticated" and demeaning and immediately went about telling all the women and children that God wasn't real, that their husbands were raping them, basically that they were being exploited by their husbands and fathers. Many of these mining and logging towns, which were barely being held together by bonds of family and tradition, were utterly destroyed by the introduction of Feminism. It was an unmitigated disaster. While I'm all in favor of freeing people from corporate exploitation, the emotional cost to these families was horrendous.
And I think that something similar is happening today. I still live in the South. As part of my Redpilling, I quit my corporate job, left the snazzy downtown area of the local big city (not gonna dox myself) and moved out to the country side to work at a retail store. I lost alot of income, but I've adapted my needs to where I ended up having more disposable cash once all was said and done. The Trail of Tears is literally outside my front door. Out here in the woods, with coyotes and bald eagles for neighbors, I finally feel safe again. And part of why I didn't feel safe is because that city was being flooded by people from California and New York. They were escaping the consequences of decades worth of liberal policies.
It occurred to me that the reasoning behind "We don't want them bringing their Big City ways around here." is because people who live in big post-industrial hellholes such as New York, San Francisco and Chicago, grew up and were acclimatized in a wholly alien environment compared to those living out in the country. Their methods of dealing with life's challenges are completely different, and often completely ignorant, of the day to day realities of life in the country. And as I can personally attest, they are arrogant. They are demeaning. One time I was telling a story at a party about a girl who freaked out that I was going to hike three miles home on a hot summer day after my car gave out, and they laughed at ME. It was eye-opening in a way, because I had studied and basically dedicated a large portion of my life to "sophisticating" myself, and they looked at me AS A REDNECK. Who do you think introduced Patriarchy Theory to my sleepy college town back in 96'? Who do you think starred in post-modern theatre productions involving Pagan Feminism, when these lousy fucks were literally in diapers? (Yes, guys, I have much to answer for.)
These are rich people who have never ventured outside of an urbanized area in their lives... and they are all, fully and completely, Intersectional Feminists. And they are all super-active on Twitter and Facebook, encouraging BLM riots while sitting in their gentrified housing complexes. They don't know how to change a tire, but they are certainly quite opinionated about the people who do.
And it struck me the other day, that a huge part of what we are seeing on the news, about Critical Race Theory and Trans-sexuality and post-modernist thinking. It's coming from the cities up north and out west. Gay and trans people form about 2% of the population, but to look at the media, you would think they are crawling out of the walls all across America... They aren't. These feminists are trying to moralize to the entire world about situations that only exist in big cities. They are projecting the problems that exist in post-industrial hellholes onto the entirety of the planet. And legislating on those problems.
Maybe cat-calling was a big problem in Vancouver, but the only time I've ever seen it in my entire life was by a guy with a northern accent. Southern natives consider it undignified.
I guess I've practically written an Introductory Post for myself at this point, but my premise remains the same. A huge part of this Culture War is being foisted upon America by an extremely small part of the population, with an extremely loud voice... They seem to dominate the political and media landscape, but they are so disconnected from the "reality mass" of America as to be wholly delusional. A sizeable part of the people who voted for Trump in 2016 were "fuck you" votes against Hillary Clinton by progressives who were upset about the primaries. And even with every single one of those progressives voting for Biden, Donald Trump gained 12 million voters in 2020. Some were liberal defectors, but an awful goddamn lot of them were people who had never voted before in their lives.
So take heart, guys. If someone as ludicrously Blue-pilled as me can see the light, absolutely anyone can. GenX bought the Feminist line back in the 90's, and even supported it, but a great many of us sure as hell don't approve of what's happening now. I'm 46, and the game has just started.