The License and the Entry Ticket

Let’s put some things together.

One.

California is experiencing a manufactured crisis over the “outing” of K-12 students by their schools, by which people like Scott Wiener mean that school boards are proposing that teachers shouldn’t secretly have sexual discussions with children. You can always trust 53 year-old men who think children should keep sex a secret from their parents:

Many underlying premises here, all unspoken but not really veiled a whole lot. Home is very dangerous. Parents are a dark and malevolent force in the lives of children. Your most intimate and open relationships are with government, which nurtures you. If your government nurturers, who know your true self, communicate with your parents, who endanger you and don’t know who you really are, then you’ve been betrayed and put at risk. You should keep parents out of your one true relationship of trust and full honesty, your relationship with officials in government-run schools. Reminder:

Scott Wiener, who wants the state to hide the sexual identity of children from their parents, wants 12 year-olds to get their birth control and abortions and STD meds without parents finding out. This is our special secret, just between you and the California legislature — there’s no need to tell mommy and daddy, who might not like the special things we do together. Home and families and parents and the parent-child relationship are sites of danger, pathological and frightening, but government is shelter and nourishment.

Two.

Now, you’ll find a remarkable amount of this on social media:

And if you start to dig into the timeline of people who post Covid-hysteria-relationship-ending messages to find out who thinks like this, you’ll find a few very common traits, like this:

And this:

And a whole lot of this:

Coupled with delight at seeing people spit on women:

You already know, of course, that the dude who publicly calls women cunts and celebrates mobs spitting on women is passionately opposed to misogyny:

So this whole universe of woke performance is relentlessly punitive — it punishes people, ejecting the partner who won’t comply and constantly demeaning strangers on the Internet — and it’s rooted in unmanaged childhood trauma. It’s the politics of an enraged, wounded forever-child: “I wish I would have been aborted.” His left-focused tolerance manifests as “Fuck you, cunt.” This is not an accident. Personal trauma is the entry ticket to woke politics, and woke politics gives you license to vent rage, endlessly abusing and degrading the intolerant. I’m spitting in your face because I’m such a kind person, you cunt.

Go back up to what Scott Wiener is telling you. He’s trying to normalize the childhood trauma that’s real but rare, teaching through policy that family is dangerous and parents are harmful. He’s trying to grow the broken childhood, to make it a normal experience. Don’t talk to your parents — it’s very dangerous! Have a lot of sex when you’re a 12 year-old, but hide it from your family. Get your “domestic violence-related care” without parental knowledge or consent, getting beaten by your middle-school lovers but being healed outside the home. So:

1. Scott Wiener is trying to legislate widespread childhood trauma into being. His message to teens and tweens is to be sexually active, to fear their parents, and to be alienated from their homes and families.

2. Childhood trauma causes a lifetime of rage and need, which manifests in an unquenchable thirst for control — for “safety” — that precisely matches woke politics. Broken children turn to their benefactor, the government that wants to make them safe with loving measures of surveillance and discipline.

Again:

Describe the adult politics of a 12 year-old who gets secret abortions and “mental healthcare” on the presumptive exclusion of home and family as threats. For mask and vaccine mandates as an adult, or against?

Read this extraordinary list of pending legislation in California, e.g.:

The state is working to break families, full stop.

Three.

And so, finally, we have a growing politics of anxiety and malice, producing a metastasizing sense of debilitation….

….coupled with a constantly expressed, near-eliminationist yearning for the punishment of the enemy:

Our political discourse is increasingly not politics — it’s increasingly an expression of personal psychodrama and the manifestation of empty fear. The medicine for this sickness is to watch Scott Wiener and then do the opposite. A stabilizing politics is a politics of family, parenting, and community, in the absence of trauma and coercion. Be a domestic extremist, and raise some children. Notice how much the California legislature, say for example, doesn’t want you to. Act on what they’re telling you.