Has The Left Gone Too Far Left To U-Turn?

November 5, 2024, left many Americas shocked to witness the United States turn red with a landslide victory for Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States. I was among the shocked. Immediately people began to speculate how such a qualified Democratic candidate for president could have lost to a convicted felon. No matter the answer, it was not enough to soothe those who desperately wanted to keep Donald Trump out of the White House.

Now that I have recovered from the defeat, I am able to add my two cents to the question, "How could Trump have won?" I have two suggestions. One, America was not ready for a woman president and two, the Left has gone too far in their willingness to APPEASE everyone. When you try to satisfy everyone, you end up satisfying no one. 

Today I heard a preacher on TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network) say, "President Trump may be flawed, but he has publicly declared there are only two sexes: male and female. He is willing to state the truth and biblical fact." You know what? The preacher was right on both accounts.

It is a fact of SCIENCE. There is only MALE and FEMALE. A person is either born with an XX or XY chromosome identifying them as male or female. The Bible, which is the guidebook for Christians says as much. The Bible verse that says God created humans, male and female is in Genesis 1:27, which reads, "So God created man in his own image. in the image of God, he created him, male and female created he them." Even in the plant and animal kingdom there is male and female. The two sexes were created for REPRODUCTION. Each contributing to the outcome of an offspring. 

This seems to be a simple concept, fact. But it isn't. There are many people who say they do not FEEL like the gender they were biologically assigned and should not have to live within the constraints of their XX or XY chromosomes. The Left recognizes these individual's feelings and supports their right in choosing whether they identify as male or female including their right to physically change their gender identity. Christians believe you cannot change what God has created.

Even in nature it seems gender assignment has exception. Animals with both male and female reproductive organs are called HERMAPHRODITES or BISEXUAL animals. Hermaphrodites can be simultaneous or sequential in their sex., such as earthworms, slugs, snails, Clown Fish, and Parrot Fish. 

Some animals can change their sex, including frogs and cardinals. For example, some European frogs have a race where most tadpoles develop into females, but about half eventually change into males.

Plants such as watermelon, hibiscus, papaya, and mustard are also hermaphrodites.

If you really want an exception to the rule of gender assignment and roles you have to look no further 

than the Seahorse. Yes, male seahorses get pregnant and give birth to their young. This is a unique adaptation in the animal kingdom. 

1. Male and female seahorses perform a courtship dance
2. The female deposits her eggs into the male's brood pouch
3. The male fertilizes the eggs
4. The male incubates the eggs in his pouch
5. After a gestation period, the male gives birth by rhythmically contracting his abdominal muscles

Even in nature, male and female is not a hard and fast rule.

To have a CIVALIZED society, the society has to agree on the rules and laws that govern them and right now society is not agreeing on changing the DEFINITION of male and female. When society cannot agree on the rules and laws of self-governess there is confusion and chaos. The Right is fearful of the rules being taught to children. How can children be told there is no rule or law in determining gender? Adhering to such causes confusion and chaos and I tend to agree. There should be a hard and fast rule in determining gender for reproductive and medical reasons. A man should not be able to declare himself a woman when DNA says differently.

That being said, no one can CHOOSE how a person is to live their lives. I cannot enforce a biological male live as a biological male no more than I can be told not live as a Christian. I do not get to make those choices for others. This is where the sympathy of the Left lies. The Left is not willing to negate individual rights, and this is where society says they draw the line. It has become a question of chaos versus rights. It becomes chaotic when people, no matter their reason, select which gender to identify as. 

Selecting gender assignment goes beyond just being addressed as male or female. The person choosing their gender assignment expect all of the rights that go along with the chosen gender. Access to such things as restrooms and sports are not to be withheld. Access to such things validates their selected gender. Even though I am saying selected gender, I realize it is a deeper issue for those who feel as though they were assigned the wrong gender at birth. I also admit if you are not the person going through this it is hard to understand and sympathize with but the Left tries. 

The Right says they have the Bible and science on their side regarding this issue and the Left only has the strong feelings of individuals. Which is correct? Sooner or later a definitive answer must prevail, or confusion and chaos will reign. As I said, to be a civilized society, rules and laws must be agreed upon. I'm afraid to say, the Left is going to lose on this issue BECAUSE the BIBLE and SCIENCE are strong on this subject even if nature itself shows there are exceptions to rules.

That being said, a whole group of people cannot be dismissed. What they are feeling and living cannot be invalidated. But they cannot expect scientific facts to be thrown out either. It is a curtesy and decency to address people in the way they want to be addressed. In a professional setting it can be against the law to address a person in an unprofessional way. It is simple to EXPLAIN to our children the diversity of people and lifestyles they will encounter in the world that will not be familiar or accepted. It is our duty as parents to explain the world to our children even when it makes us uncomfortable. Heck, I had to explain to my children what it means to be Black in our society. Not a comfortable conversation at all. It is beyond reason that with millions of people in the world they will ALL be LIKE us. The Bible teaches people are different in their beliefs. NO SURPRISE for the Christian. The Bible also gives the Christian instructions on how to live and interact in such a world.

The Christian is to live in and proclaim the truth of God and Jesus. Seed planters. Spreaders of the Good News, but ONLY a Christian has to adhere to the guidelines of the Bible. Trying to force the non-Christian to live biblically is WRONG. The Bible is for Christians. Guidelines, rules, laws the Christian has agreed to adhere to. There will be confusion and chaos if biblical principles are IMPOSED on non-Christians.

Trump is winning and will continue to win addressing the concerns of the Christian and it isn't on its face a bad thing. When individual rights are trampled it becomes a bad thing. It becomes un-Christian. The Left is going to have to make some serious decisions. It is a hard position to be in. Cruelty to others can be the outcome of making the wrong decision. American history has shown what happens when individual rights are taken away. It seems a simple task for society as a whole to agree on gender assignment. But here we are. You can't please everyone all of the time.

January 30, 2025, The Trump administration is ordering federal agencies to bar transgender workers from single-sex facilities that match their gender identity by Friday and fire any employees working on “gender ideology,” part of a sweeping new directive meant to comply with an executive order that the government recognize only two sexes. 

President Donald Trump signed an executive order prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in female sports. The measure, called the “No Men in Women's Sports Executive Order,” is the fourth executive order targeting transgender people he has signed since he took office Jan. 20.

“The radical left has waged an all-out campaign to erase the very concept of biological sex and replace it with a militant transgender ideology,” Trump said from a podium at the White House, with dozens of women and girls standing behind him. “With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over.”

Taylor Swift's Super Bowl 2024

     

    People are calling for women with influence to back President Biden for re-election November 2024. All eyes are focused and waiting for Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Beyounce, and TAYLOR SWIFT to make commercials endorsing Joe Biden. Why Taylor Swift? Because of her followers, the Swifties. There are hundreds of thousands of loyal Swifties who will do whatever the singer lead them to do. 

    Even people who are not Taylor Swift fans have been drawn into that circle of fans due to Swift's public love affair with the Chiefs football player Travis Kelce who is headed to the Super Bowl in 2024. Her presence at each of her boyfriend's football games has upset male sports fans. They do not like the lovey-dovey stuff injected into their manly-man hit-em-hard time that was once all testosterone time. Tayor and Kelce are making football SWEET. It didn't help much when his brother, Jason Kelce (Philedelphia Eagles) gave him a long hug, too long for some, after his team won their spot in the Super Bowl matchup.

 No matter where we go, no matter what we do, it seems things are always polarized and eventually insist a person choose the Democrat side or Republican side. And if things continue on in the pick-a-side polarization, religion will creep up as the finale battleground. Hopefully, after the Super Bowl, Taylor Swift hate will subside and we will not be a part of her romance/relationship any longer.

    During her time in the spotlight, her image was used using AI (Artificial Intelligence) in nude and other unflattering images online. The images were so 'real' looking, people believed they were actually photos of her. She asked/demanded the edited images be removed from the forums. 

    When a woman, stands up against a male dominated feild, she faces attacks questioning her 'femaleness." Michelle Obama is constantly being called a man and Talylor Swift is being portrayed as making Travis Kelce feminine. If she can make a 6'5" tight end into a little girl, then she must be a threat, I guess to others right?

    If the strong influential women I named at the beginning of this blog decide to step up and be vocal regarding their choice for President 2024, then you better believe, they will face scathing commentary on every aspect of their womanhood or lack thereof. 

    One woman whose story I admire is Joan of Arc. No, women being vocal in the political arena does not put them in the same league as Joan of Arc, but how and why she was eventually killed shows what a female leader or 'game changer' may encounter. The decision for a woman to LEAD is no small undertaking and sacrifice. Hillary Clinton can tell you a little about that.

    Being a TCM (Turner Classic Movie) fan, I spent this past Sunday night snuggled on my favorite couch to watch two versions of Joan of Arc. The first was a 1927 silent black and white version and the second was a foreign French version, also in black and white from 1937, I believe. Each movie had the English dialogue streaming on the bottom of the screen.

1920's Joan

I have seen many versions of Joan of Arc, but never one of the two listed above. These two versions were produced using only original court transcripts and interviews found by the people of that time.

Joan was tried by the Catholic Church with the English having a vested interest in the outcome of her trial due to the fact she was helping the king of France, their enemy at the time.

Joan broke all of the rules. She wore men clothing, led men into battle, wore armor, cut her hair, and worst of all; she believed she could bypass the church i.e. bishops and pope and speak directly with God and even the saints and angels (Michael). To the church this belief made her a heretic, and the church was going to excommunicate her if she did not recant that she was working under the counsel of God. God only spoke to the male clergy. She had gone too far and stepped into domains which were only for men. She was inprisoned and would not be released until she said she could not speak to nor hear from God.

    While in prison it was determined that her clothes may have been giving her stoic resolve, so they tried to get her to put on a dress, which she refused to do. Then it was determined since she vowed her virginity to God, she was receiving her strength from that. In the 1937 movie Joan told a priest that the guards had tried to rape her on three different occasions. Communion was paraded before her as a bargaining tool to get her to recant. Every form of coersion and threats were employed on Joan to get her to say she had lied about religous claims.

    After being tried just feet from the galleys (gallows), she recanted, but within hours changed her mind and said she was weakened by the fear of death but could not make God a liar and said her recanting was the true lie.

    Joan was burned at the stake with the church and governmental officials looking on. As soon as the flames began, you could see the doubt cross the faces of the men. They had to wonder, who would go to their death proclaiming to be a servant of God if they were not. This was the action, in like manner, of Jesus and later the apostles.

    I thought about all of the people who want to lead or be an online influencer. When glory, fame, fortune, and honor are the results it is easy to want to lead, but when ridicule, torture, and death are the result, no hand will go up to be chosen. Why would a beloved musician even consider continually showing up to watch her boyfriend play football when it stirred up so much hate and negativity towards her? Why would she publically support a presidential candidate when she knows it will cause people to hate her or have negative comments about her? Why would she put herself in a place to be publically ridiculed and demeaned? 

    Leaders are born and show up in places and ways we least expect and we never saw coming. Great leaders always pay a heavy price whether we are aware of it or not. If we were to read the biography of people we consider great, there will be pages filled with pain and often times uncertainty and pure defeat of the spirit at times.

    Joan of Arc was a woman who led but she was also a woman who followed God. The church saw her as a threat with her nonsense of hearing and talking to God on her own. Years would pass and what the church feared at that time would still come to pass, the Protestant movement. Protestants believed everyone should be able to read the Bible for themselves and pray to God on their own.

    Everybody is looking for a hero. We love heros. Sometimes, we have to look at our ownselves and ask ourselves are we a leader or a follower? Do we understand the price we ask others to pay for what we aren't able to step up and do, whether in politics or religion. So, now I must ask myself do I know when to lead and do I know when to follow? Joan's life ended at the age of 19 in a tragic blaze of fire and smoke. She stood behind her beliefs and cause to the end. All I can say is, I can understand why men would follow her into battle and at the same time view her as a threat because men would follow her into battle.

    Taylor Swift have her Swifties. And for a minute now, all eyes have been on Taulor Swift. What's next for her after the Super Bowl because she will be there and cameras are going to try to catch her every reaction during the game. How angry will football fans be at the air time given to Taylor Swift?