{"id":15706,"date":"2024-10-30T17:13:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T21:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/?p=14513"},"modified":"2024-12-04T21:00:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T02:00:43","slug":"birds-bees-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/birds-bees-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds &#038; Bees &#038; Ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The election (or <em>elections<\/em> for the pedantic political observers) will soon be upon us, subsuming our national attention, pricking our collective spleen. But no matter the outcome&mdash;our first madam president, the second non-consecutive serving chief executive, a united Congress, a bifurcated legislative body fighting bloody over ever punctuation mark in every bill including the renaming of post offices&mdash;the so-called \u201cDiscourse\u201d will be chirping with one term: the r-word.<\/p>\n<p>No, no, no, not the short-bus slur that, if we\u2019re working blue, accurately describes most public office aspirants.<\/p>\n<p>The word to which I\u2019m referring is one <a href=\"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/where-the-bros-at\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I\u2019m guilty of overuse<\/a>: realignment. This presidential contest, the third featuring populist class-traitor Donald Trump and a brainless avatar to flexible, cosmopolitan liberalism, further twists and turns our bisected politics. In some ways, the dogma-shattering 2016 race is epochs away from the current conjuncture.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the salad days of Donald v. Hillary, we had only one novelty to contend with: a billionaire reality-TV show host bloodily bludgeoning the GOP\u2019s paste-up image as the party of collar-and-tie professionals, with pressed Oxford shirts, shined Cole Haans, and tight comb overs. Clinton was the left\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/this-isnt-even-my-final-form-final-boss-forms\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">final form<\/a>: experienced, disciplined, drilled in shibboleth dropping and timed smiles, a synecdoche in liberal identity.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats weren\u2019t foresighted enough to see how much red their party was bleeding until non-degreed, uncredentialed roughnecks said to hell with welfarism and actually walked into poll booths, in soiled dungarees and oil-stained work shirts, for the first time in their adult life to vote for the loudmouth from <em>The Apprentice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s changed in eight years, besides \u201cScranton Joe\u201d Biden brandishing enough blue-collar credentials to gut Trump in the throes of a socially debilitating pandemic? On the Democratic side, nary much. The party may not be emphasizing its rainbow-ness as much as in bleak Summer of Floyd days, but it\u2019s reliant on the notion of progress being coterminous with the ascendency of an androgynous, dun skin-mix humanoid to the presidency. In Joe Biden\u2019s pitch for his party\u2019s nomination, it was the assurance of a black female Veep. (Who managed to break the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/kamala-harris-approval-rating-2024-problem-1853029\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opaque glass ceiling<\/a> of achieving the lowest VP approval ratings ever recorded. Can you say, \u201c<em>Nooooo Kweeen<\/em>\u201d?)<\/p>\n<p>Democrats continue to cultivate professional strivers who long to own half-million-dollar condos and push MacBooks in prams. Contrariwise, Republicans increasingly rely on downmarket, low-propensity citizens who probably don\u2019t realize elections occur outside the presidential ball. The parties have seen a class upsot, with credential bearers moving blue and hourly grunts seeing red. But that great bedeviler of human relations pokes holes in the <a href=\"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/the-carville-canard\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pure economic understanding<\/a> of elections: the primordial chromosomal variance. Deliverism is out; sexual dichotomy is in. We\u2019re not in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZitoSalena\/status\/1845891796414484586\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cbrat\u201d election<\/a> so much as the Carrie Bradshaw ballot brawl. Boy versus girl, dog versus cat, brain versus brawn. L&#8217;Oreal Paris peach-scented split-end healing conditioner versus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/funny\/comments\/fezb60\/new_man_shampoo\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barbasol 5-in-1 shampoo\/conditioner\/soap\/motor oil\/steak marinade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t have to take this columnist\u2019s humble but loquacious word for it. Listen to former president Obama, who assembled a circle of Pittsburgh \u201cbruthas\u201d only to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/election-2024\/2024\/10\/12\/obama-young-black-men-pittsburgh-lecture-kamala-trump\/stories\/202410120061\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">harangue them over insufficient Harris <em>hussahs<\/em><\/a>. (Which was a brilliant tactic&mdash;for Trump. Men, regardless of race, truly enjoy being superciliously reminded they don\u2019t appreciate women enough.) Vice-presidential nominee, Minnesota governor, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/us-news\/tim-walzs-shotgun-struggles-during-pheasant-hunt-spark-hilarious-memes-comparison-with-elmer-fudd-101728821403353.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elmer Fudd<\/a> epigone Tim Walz <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1845888380048986276\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">admitted<\/a> the gender-gap narrative is gaining traction, but kept faith in the face of a fan scrum, asserting, \u201cI refuse to admit that that&#8217;s real.\u201d On a recent MSNBC segment, amid indignant screechs and Planned Parenthood ads, \u201canalyst\u201d Mara Gay <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/1844749354940219598\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">femsplained<\/a> that \u201cmen are in crisis\u201d because they listen to Joe Rogan instead of a shrink.<\/p>\n<p>A recent <em>Free Press<\/em> report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/election-2024-boys-vs-girls-trump-kamala?r=4crwli&#038;utm_source=substack&#038;utm_medium=email\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">collated the sex-split<\/a> polling: \u201cHarris is up by 14 points among women and Trump is up by 13 points with men, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/10\/13\/us\/elections\/times-siena-poll-likely-electorate-crosstabs.html?auth=linked-google1tap\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times\/Siena survey<\/a> of likely voters this month. A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2024\/10\/10\/the-harris-trump-matchup\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research poll<\/a> found that Harris has an advantage over Trump by 9 points with women, while Trump is up 8 points with men. And an <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/amp\/Politics\/harris-trump-abc-news-ipsos-poll-convention-bounce-widens-gap-women\/story?id=113246534\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC\/Ipsos poll<\/a> from last month showed Harris up 13 points with women, while Trump was up 5 points with men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Partisan pollster Sarah Longwell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/10\/11\/how-trump-the-manosphere-and-abortion-are-driving-the-gender-gap-00183393\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suggests<\/a> Team Trump has \u201cgiven up on the idea that they can get women,\u201d which, for many of her partisan predilection, is overstated though not entirely off the mark. Trump is doing sit-down, chew-the-bull podcast convos with the <em>dude<\/em> likes of Denisovan-model Theo Von, viral toughie Logan Paul, and sports-talkers Will Compton and Taylor Lewan on something called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BussinWTB\/status\/1845911359508140479\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bussin\u2019 With the Boys<\/a>\u201d. Harris, for her parietal part, is going on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/4B9WOUCWY8qY0f9MMjOSXa\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Call Your Daddy<\/a>,\u201d a \u201csex\u201d show hosted by thirty-year-old bantam who encourages her muliebral listeners to hook up with randos while keeping her own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/3am\/us-celebrity-news\/call-daddy-host-alex-cooper-32662440\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">marriage under wraps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As poli-sci prof Darel Paul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2024\/10\/trump-versus-taylor\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">explained<\/a> it, our political divide was once characterized by the stolid father waiting out the subversive streak in his mop-headed, moony soon. Now it\u2019s a clash between that \u201csame father and his progressive daughter.\u201d Dad pays for little Susie\u2019s elite schooling, only to find out he\u2019s financed his own villain arc all along.<\/p>\n<p>That most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2024\/10\/21\/how-alarmed-should-we-be-if-trump-wins-again\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American inquiry<\/a>: who\u2019s really at fault for the gendering of politics? There are plenty of candidates: blame Taylor Swift, blame J.D. Vance, blame the patriarchy, blame Title IX, blame the Pill, blame Harvey Weinstein, blame childless cat ladies, blame the repeal of <em>Roe v. Wad<\/em>e, blame deadbeat dads.<\/p>\n<p>Just don\u2019t pin responsibility on nature, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/the-devotion-of-the-human-dad-separates-us-from-other-apes\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">intractable emotional and physical differences<\/a> in birds and bees. No Beltway hatchet PAC can craft an ad out of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The election will soon be upon us, subsuming our national attention, pricking our collective spleen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":15734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[2892,202,1653,914,1654,622],"content-type":[3493],"coauthors":[1279],"class_list":["post-15706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-2024-presidential","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-kamala-harris","tag-president","tag-voting","content-type-article"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.1 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Birds &amp; Bees &amp; Ballots<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The election will soon be upon us, subsuming our national attention, pricking our collective spleen.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/birds-bees-ballots\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Birds &amp; 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