Douglas Murray: Reflections on the Revolution in America
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- Опубліковано 10 лис 2021
- Douglas begins speaking at the 10:00 mark.
Douglas Murray is a best-selling author, an award-winning political commentator, and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute. He has written books on neoconservatism, terrorism and national security, freedom of speech, and the rise of woke culture and identity politics. His upcoming book, The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason, explores why in recent history it has become acceptable to discuss the flaws and crimes of Western culture, but celebrating the West’s contributions is condemned as hate speech.
Recorded on November 10, 2021, in St. Louis, Missouri
It has been a pleasure witnessing Douglas Murray over the years evolve into an ever more perceptive and thoughtful cultural analyst.
He's a gift to the world. 🎁
Ahh The sarcasm... dry humor.. frankness.. and everything else that one gets to experience when listening to a well spoken Englishmen who has retained those pricelessly unique elements of classic British parlance that has been fine tuned over centuries. 'Most enjoyable'
The audience did miss quite a few of his witty jokes.
Douglas Murray has such a clear and concise line of thought. And the courage and resolve to speak up - something we must all learn to do.
Let’s put the lunatics back in the asylum and the clowns back in the circus. We know what’s right just need the bottle to do it.
Wow Douglas is aging like fine wine!
Murray could come to America and teach a great deal of our history
The Brilliant, charming and deadly Mr Douglas Murray 💪
James Bond for the Intellectual :)
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Please. The fawing is over the top.
Isn’t he wonderful? 👍
Excellent summary!
@@thefootballgeek2345 Says the leftie who can see their boat sailing into the distance.
This man is exceptional in distilling what he has seen around the world and most recently, here in the US. I was struck by his closing statements about our great country and our role (and responsibility) in the world -- If we get this wrong the world will be in trouble, if we get it right the world will be OK....
In my experience it's been that way since WWII, but perhaps never so critical as right now.
I am increasingly grateful that we have Douglas Murray in the public discourse at this critical juncture in American and world history.
I am from Denmark. I know most of America has been told this place is great, that its already "free of restrictions". First of all they are now coming back, secondly the amount of unrestrained POWER that the government now have over us, pending a simple majority vote in parliament, is staggering. Third of all - our government has already broken our Constitutional law (yes, we have one) in several instances and are also regarded as incredibly authoritarian. A whole new subculture of anti-governmental podcasts have sprung up as a result.
So how? Tyranny of the majority. Here is what I mean: A full third of our entire nation is employed by the state, yes you read that right, secondly there is the very large and growing part of the population that is old, unemployed or disabled or something and therefor dependent on the government in many ways, even to live in many cases. They are incentivized accordingly. The fact that it is also the old and weak, dependent on the government and subsidized by the government are also the people most afraid of the virus is just its own amazing problem - its almost perfect for central power: A population in fear, with such a large voter-base that are that directly dependent on the government to exist ...economically or otherwise - that much fear can suddenly mean: "The ends justify the means" and it has already happened in a few cases...like the mink case (you can google that, so you are free of me giving you a biased article - make your own judgement) - 2 wolves and 1 sheep vote about whats for dinner tonight.
If America does not work itself out, I have nowhere to run to and they are already having talks in terms of "Oh look how fashionable Austria is being"...I think the adoption-rate is low but the idea was still floated and they already shown they are willing to go very far, they have already shown they will act with force against its own population and take control over peoples lives - they operate increasingly on this idea. This is a hellish place for individual rights. Granted at this point our own society has started questioning things too but...well its all wrong. I have so many things I could tell you about this place. Please wake America up, please. We need you.
@@ScandinavianHeretic Thank you for taking the time to explain what's happening in your country. Hoping momentum is shifting here in the states. We need you, too.
@DAVID JANIEC THERE IS NO PERHAPS ABOUT WHAT YOU SAID. IT HAS NEVER BEEN SO CRITICAL
While the world does benefit from having the United States of America in it, it sure will not be saved by it as the US is one of the biggest if not THE biggest contributor to the worlds problems. Perhaps just fix yourselves and stop interfering where you have no business being.
yeah i agree, europe (including the UK) is in a very strange place right now
Douglas Murray is a national treasure. 🏴🇬🇧
That bit right at the very end, about education. Such a lovely thing to hear that bristle in Douglas Murray's voice.
Tens, if not dozens of millions of kids in the English speaking world are being ripped off of perhaps the most valuable thing they may ever possess: a good education. The kind that swings open the doors to an open mind, a greater understanding, a love of learning, a boundless curiosity and ability to value what is actually beautiful about the world. And that's hardly even a brief notion skimming the surface, compared to the depth that resides there.
They're being ripped off.
Knowing how they're ripped off is important. Knowing why they are ripped off more important still. Knowing the results of this going forward, practically priceless.
Because that third one there - provides the indictment on the entire profession that considers a thing like pigmentation, or what resides between the legs, or vague notions of navel-gazed identitarianism to be far more important than actually imparting any sort of skills required to bestow upon a scholar some semblance of perspective and actual knowledge.
This is one hell of a thing to steal from a person. It is one hell of a thing to steal from young people.
Which is why I spit on the ground before their pathetic efforts to prove to me that they actually care. They don't care. How could they possibly care? They are denying the one greatest thing that could cause the pulling back of the curtain and revealing the Wizard at work spinning out mischief.
My 'troubled' childhood was eased enormously by one simple thing: my ability to get out of myself, to get over myself, to become amazed and focused on an endless list of things that required full concentration and focus. Which causes one to forget many of the things they are unable to do anything about really, for the moment. So one gets on.
These dozens of millions are now seen as incapable of such a thing? Hell. I was an average child. A regular boy. Nothing special at all. So I don't buy this argument.
Illiteracy should have become that ten-foot high banner on every BLM protester poster. The why of it. It should have been front and center. It should have mattered. It should not have been yet again buried beneath and behind another soft parade of lousy reasons to own a "Get Out of School Free" card.
Because illiteracy is like 50, or 60, or 70 years of slow death by a brain's drowning. Thinking that this is not true, or not the case, is like being wrapped up in fishing lines or kite tails of delusion. There is no flying free, moving to that far horizon. There is just the spinning of a manipulated top. A child's toy. A failure to mature.
I could go on about this all day, and sometimes feel moved to when inspired by comments such as Mr. Murray's.
I think the fact that it is not front and center speaks volumes.
The ever brilliant Douglas Murray... and his ever thankful fans.
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Always an absolute pleasure to listen to Douglas Murray.
Douglas starts speaking at 10:10
Show me the Dougy!
The joy of watching an educated, articulate man talking complete sense.
He's a polemicist. Like all polemicists (of all political persuasions), his main aim is to make $$$$. If there's no story, he'll invent one.
@@th8257 Oh I think he's absolutely convinced of his views.
@@th8257 Exactly which of the points he makes is polemic? Or profitable?
@@th8257 You're only telling us about your own unprincipled and mercenary nature. Rather like the way liars think everyone else is a liar.
T H you are blind and deaf in your tribalism.
My brother Douglas, the truth will lead us to freedom and happiness.
From a fellow Englishman
As always, Douglas is a Powerhouse 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
You are a God-send to America in perilous times, Mr. Douglas Murray. Your four points about troubles are spot on and your suggested solution to turn the tide is both needed & desired by many. We must mind our way!
Douglas Murray. Click. Many thanks.
I'm a lifelong lefty and I adore this man for his moral clarity, his insight and his balls.
As always,Douglas the real .English Gentleman l really enjoy listening to him and his opinions.
Douglas is the voice of sanity in a world full of nonsense.
Douglas Murray is Outstanding! 🇺🇸🤝🇬🇧
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This was a real shot of hope by a hell of an intellectual
What a brilliant lecture...Douglas Murray is an intellectual giant of our times.
Thank God for Douglas Murray!! Your lucid mind and addressing the dangers of CRT in this country can't come soon enough. Perhaps in 2022 we will self correct in Nov!
I love the fact that for years Douglas thought he was "of the left"....then in the past two decades has realized that intellectual honesty, rationality, logic and respect for history and eternal truths makes him....of the right.
Yep the Right is founded in better principles but that's not hard considering the Left doesn't have any. As Ronald Reagan said, "I'd like to suggest that there is no right or left, but only an up or a down."
Dont kid yourselves thinking that it's "Morally Ok" to ever take another persons property and "redistribute" it. The only moral starting framework is voluntarism/anarchy.
This means NO RULERS, NO SLAVES. Otherwise, continue to live out of touch with NATURAL LAW which the Creator put in place here and watch the laws of Karma continually destroy this planet.
The psychopathic controllers want to keep this "Left vs Right" fight going and they only need 1 side to play into it to keep the pendulum swinging forever. Cheers.
It's better if we talk of right and wrong, "better than" this or that, if something is right or wrong that is a discussion of degrees, not perfection, but improvements on the issues or topics, and it works better if people who take a party poetic line are willing to "improve" their view or how they do things if a new better idea or improvement is presented to them, and NOT consider if the person is of the right or left and automatically dismiss it.
Most give lip service to this idea, but never can put it, apply it, in practice.
I love Douglas' quote of several years ago, that the further right the electorate vote, the further left the politicians run. From the now totalitarian regime of Australia, this has certainly been the way our democracy has been subverted, we choose between woke communist dictators on the left, and woke socialist dictators on the right.
Many of us have come to the same realization
@@pderitis we should probably date....
Douglas Murray is rarity in the 2020. A thoughtful voice that never fails to get u thinking 👍🇬🇧
Brilliant as always, especially his last point on the importance of basic education.
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I was born in 1938 - the 50’s were a great time to be alive and a teenager. The world was people, not digital.
Congratulations all of you for your nobel contribution and specially for inviting Duglas Murray.. the Modern Winston Churchill, his clear truth word it's precious for our Western World.
This is Douglas Murray, I fine so thought provoking and endearing to watch. He engages with audience the on real human level.
Such a joy to listen to such an articulated, logical, wise man!
He's fooled and seduced you. His message: CRT is bad. The left leaning media is bad. There is no racism. Your history is fine. If you lose: The world loses. If you win: the world wins. Europe has turned away. Trans people should not be in government. Being racist and xenophobic is acceptable. Maybe even encourage?
I have been very pleased to see Douglas emerge himself in the public discourse in the US. The right man, the right time and the right place!
Thanks for this great talk. Please America, get it together….
I don't think they will. Better to start isolating ourselves from these nutters. Their academic bs is already infecting other countries and cultures... Many countries will have to cut ties if this continues.
That's my city , that's my state and to hear the wondrous Douglas Murray ! It does not get much better than that ...
This giant has to be in all platforms Thanks Douglas!
I am ever thankful for the clarity and courage of Douglas Murray.
By the power vested in me, an average patriot-citizen, I designate Douglas Murray an Honorary American Patriot.
There, it's done.
I discovered Douglas about 2 yrs ago ..what a brilliant man..
Douglas Murray, treasure of the West.
Douglas Murray is one of the best thinkers out there today. He’s amazing!
So happy this is on line - only 5000 miles away so bit tricky to get too.
Another hugely engaging talk by Douglas Murray. I love how he discusses incredibly serious and worrying themes but still somehow makes us retain hope. Just the act of listening to him alone is a positive experience, even if he is proclaiming the death of western civilisation. And his anecdote about 'Jesus was a migrant' was a genuine LOL moment.
Its just a more woke western civilization all that chivalry and non wifi materials and events aren't what they once were and as cherished
Douglas Murray is not only the British treasurer. He is one of the Europe treasurer.
He's like listening to a fine symphony.
A fine symphony... with pecs.
He’s more like a James Bond of thinking to me… elegant, entertaining, and absolutely deadly!
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Murray.... Douglas Murray.
Absolutely brilliant and riveting talk by the impressive Douglas Murray.
Douglas Murray is one of my favorite commentators...very very insightful.
You, Mr Douglas, are amazing
Douglas is a treasure.
Notice how his famous optimism had slowly disappeared about 1-1,5 years ago... He's been trying to warn everyone... But honestly, none of the people in charge are listening. Including in Britain.
Excellent, as always. Thanks Douglas 💯
Damn. Gotta love Douglas Murray ❤🇬🇧
Douglas is an inspiring speaker
One of my favorite authors. His book 📕 The madness of crowds was/is my favorite. Cant wait to read his next book. Hope he is writing something good 👍
I admire the way Douglas based his arguments on facts, reason and evidence, unlike many of his opponents.
Always a pleasure to listen to the clear thoughts of Douglas Murray. All best to you in Missouri who are standing up against the crazy.
"Not a great fan of whinging," says Douglas Murray. My favorite British word used by my favorite British public intellectual.
Never thought I'd see Douglas Murray in my hometown!
Great talk! Love Douglas Murray and putting the world to rights!
I love Douglas Murray!
I am writing from France. Murray is one of my favorite Authors these days. But I savor the irony. I am in France because I was was deported from the US, after spending 5 years in prison. I last lived in a Missouri prison. In fact I was arrested in St Charles county, not far from where the Show-Me institute is. I don't know that deportation was strictly necessary (I had lived in the US for 50 years), thinking that 5 years of prison was payment enough for my debt to society. But I am not grousing. I've even subscribed to the Show-Me institute!
So sorry you had to spend your time indoors in prison in the beautiful state of Missouri. It is incomprehensible to me how some get deported, while others inflicting violence do not. Immigration is highly politicized now. Unless you tick a box, or have advocates in high places, the interpretation of the law by bureaucrats is very “woke”.
He is superb as usual.
Thank you for having this kind and well informed man Mr. Murray on this program. Kind regards. Mehran from San Diego
Doug is a great man. May his brilliance and insight live a very long time..... him too.
He is not brilliant at all. He is a well meaning man, earning a fair deal out of speaking engagements but who lacks the honesty to say what really needs to be done to reverse this because he benefits from it.
He is charlatan and shill for the state of Israel.
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You're obsessed... go drink a beer or something.
@@Telcontar1962 I've read most of his books, he certainly doesn't hold back on the truth.
Maybe he feels it impolite to go too hard in someone else's country.
He certainly doesn't with the UK, or Europe for that matter.
@@jamescook4402 Lol!
Love Douglas Murray. This man is a genius.
A wonderful talk. The magic lantern metaphor is excellent
That look he gives around 58:00! "If you live in the 50s, you have to live through the 40s..." Indeed!
Excellent talk…
I just learned about this guy, he's brilliant.
Love this dear Gay man.... total exemplary of what should represent LGBTQ interest and proper conduct as a human being. And I am speaking as a gay man myself.
Oh my God who cares if you're gay?!?! NOBODY! Nobody wants to know that shit but you guys are always telling everyone "as a gay man...".
We've lost confidence in ourselves, both on the left and the right. It's time we start working to restore a sense of confidence in our social discourse and our civic lives.
Bravo, Bravo - The great orator Christopher Hitchens would be proud of you Sir.
Yeah, I think it is fair to say that he took the mantle.
@@Doutsoldome not quite yet comrades- Professor Murray is inching closer and closer towards the throne.
@@johnnysprocketz Give him a year or so!
Wonderful !
It’s so sad when we can’t laugh at ourselves. The comedians are in trouble .
"Beware of those who can't tolerate the fool for they are tyrants. And that's how you can tell who the tyrants are!"
Jordan Peterson.
What a treasure Douglas Murray is!
Douglas Murray is one of the greatest intellects of today and yet he is not considered as such
Douglas is a great speaker
Sublime truth garnished with unassailable facts. Always a feast, delivered by a master! False prophets shake at the mention of his name.😁
I just love listening to him. He so eloquently, addresses the current problems here in America. I
Is there any mechanism by which Murray could be President? What a legend.
He's ours!! You will have to make do with Harry and Meghan!
Hands off ! He’s going to be our PM in Britain first :)
Fun Fact: his grandfather was a schoolmaster, on the Isle of Harris, in the Hebrides. One of his pupils was a certain Mary Anne Macleod - Donald J Trump's mother!
@@baltasarnoreno5973 Brutal!
@@baltasarnoreno5973 love it ! 😂
God he is brilliant
Douglas is a great writer but also a great comediant , i had a great laugh
It's always a pure pleasure to hear Douglas say sensible things about insane behaviors
Loved Madness of Crowds.❤️
The man's a prodigy.
He is such a great speaker!
Well said on John Oliver, a very original and hilarious comedian when he was gigging around the UK and appearing on panel shows, he went to the States and was initially great there too, I'd actively look forward to Last Week Tonight appearing on YT, but bit by bit he traded clever, insightful humour for trotting out the same tired lines about the same predictable targets and his items started being obviously, deliberately biased in one very specific direction by clear omission and in some cases, being deeply disingenuous.
I'm happy to laugh at jokes that target people I support if it's clever and at least vaguely honest but when it's all one way and lacking in any honour or original wit it's just not entertaining. I guess it's mainly down to the script writers, maybe he has no editorial control at all, but his show sure sucks these days.
I gave up perhaps a year ago, I can't bear to watch it at all these days.
Oliver is gone....
I loved Oliver, I loved Colbert, I loved Chappelle back then. I still love Chappelle.
He still goes after China, which is rare in left wing 'shows'.
But I agree, he used to be alot sharper, and way less partisan.
The only Late Night show I enjoyed in the past few years was Conan.
There's also a black fella who isn't doing too bad and has some great interviews with conservatives, even though the show clearly leans left.
Similarly with Al Murray etc in the U.K.
It’s refreshing to hear so much common sense and reason!
VERY encouraging to hear a very educated Brit hit the “nail on the head”. My experience with many educated Brit’s is that of condescension NOT of praise.
Douglas Murray top bloke
Douglas's assertion that we do not have an armed constabulary is,at the moment,true,however with the ever increasing impingement on civil liberties in the UK,it is probably only a matter of time.
I'm a Brit - and it's only in the last couple of years I've truly seen the value of the right to bear arms. When the lockdowns came in - what could British men do? Absolutely nothing.
When the American Federal government tried to push its agenda onto the likes of Florida and Texas - they told Biden to go fuck himself. What can the Federal government do? Absolutely nothing. Why - partly the state system has created a devolved legal structure - but more importantly the population is armed. They're much, much harder to push around.
@@joblakelisbon So glad you can see this. I shake my head at Piers Morgan and other pundits who cannot see that the Right to Bear Arms ( self defense ) is an insurance policy. It would be like living in one of your magnificent historical buildings that are 400 years old and not having insurance: “ it’s old and has never burned down before.” The Second Amendment is like that. It is there to prevent the Gulag Archipelago or the Warsaw Ghetto. Survival is not guaranteed, but you’ll take some of them with you and there will be those government agents who will think twice about instigating violence against you. They like to go home too. Best to you ~
Brilliant, as always.
Brilliant, sorry I missed this event!
Man! I had no idea that Douglas Murray was in the area speaking! How I would like to have been there!
This was probably the best and most important speech I've listened to by Douglas Murray. Unfortunately, he's speaking to the choir. How do we get this message out to the people who need to hear it most?
Unfortunately, the people who need to hear it the most refuse to listen.
This guy is the man. Love it.
I like Murray a lot, I learned of him through Roger Scruton.
I take issue, however, with his assertion that we need to agree on a shared history. We aren't a nation but a republic and a republic formed originally by divergent cultures of the British Isles. I also will now sacrifice my heritage to appease the vast unwashed, as my ancestors were at Jamestown in the early 17th century, in the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution, and with the Confederate Army in the mid 19th century. Now I will stand with ANY American (regardless of ethnicity, skin colour, sex, sexual orientation) to support their heritage and history but I will not punch down onto my own. Nor will I allow that to occur unanswered.
I think, by 'shared history' he meant, 'agree on history and our foundational values' (meaning, we must have a common value structure, more so in the context of the history [nation] itself). One simple way to understand this is to look at the two big groups in America at the moment. One side thinks that America was found in 1776, and the other thinks it was not. It's pretty simple. America was founded in 1776, and this is a key, shared history that must be supported. At least, I assume this is what he means going by your comment (I am not at that part in the video yet, so I could be wrong).
@@TheClassicWorld America as in its status as a sovereign country was not founded in 1776, but 1781 with the ratification of the Articles of Confederation. 1776 did not establish the United States so much as the colonies that decided to cooperate issued a document of secession. The value systems that the various colonies held (how liberty and freedom are defined differed and they had been rooted in the time and types of people that settled from different cultures of the British Isles). See 'Albion's Seed', David H. Fischer.
The Declaration of Independence is a secession document not a foundational document. That is a later Straussian reinterpretation of history.
@@NicoleWilliams-pk9jr Wouldn't the Declaration be best considered as an outline of moral intent, that the Constitution expanded upon in detail how the ideals outlined were to be put into practice(law)? I'm inclined to take the Declaration at its word, because it starts out with, “We hold these truths to be self-evident..........”, a bold statement, and mostly they did, according to the archived communications. I think Jefferson was setting up an ideal that the nation would have to live up to. “All men are created equal” would force us to civil war in order to live up to that particular principle. I don't care if half the country differed on that opinion myself, because their difference was that slavery was a “good institution”. Has to be a founding document though, in my classification scheme, if it has that type of influence. Also, we do not need to forget, that the US founding was the first ever philosophical founding of a nation, and the DoI is written like a philosophical treatise in a way. I believe in their context, the founders meant for it to be just as revered as the constitution. What do you think of this?
@@phillip3495 That's very Struassian of you. No, equality before the law is the goal but equality in all aspects of life is not. Almost no if not any members of the foundation generation believed in absolute equality, even Jefferson exalted the 'natural aristocracy'. It was a document of secession and not a 'national founding' document.
There was no guarantee that the newly independent states would ratify either the Articles or the Constitution. The US is *supposed* to be a voluntary compact of states.
@@NicoleWilliams-pk9jr Well, I left out the entire declaration complete with its context for brevity. What I did type, leaves no loophole for “Actual Egalitarianism”. It states that, “All men are created equal”. What I take it to mean, is that nobody is “intrinsically” more valuable at their birth than the next. Because there are no deeds yet by which to judge. The implication is that the state should treat everyone this way. Not, like babies :}, but as equal between one another. No state favoritism. It is hard to get “equality of outcome” from reading the DoI. I mean logically impossible.
Just adding. My view on the DoI is that it is revealing as the first attempt to found a nation on scientific principles and ethics(morality). If you isolate all the essential sentences, you get a lot of politically advanced concepts concentrated in one document. The most powerful of which is the binding and shackling of the state, into the role of guardian of every individual right to life. This simple principle covers many many possible violations of rights that can occur, and makes the "bill of rights" or any specifically spelled out alternate rights, redundant. This sets colorblindness as the standard for the state's interactions with the public. The public is not a collection of "race groups" or "Economic Classes" or "particular creeds". A collection of "Individuals". The concept is nondiscriminatory in its very essence. Exactly what the state should be. Except against people initiating violence.
See, the declaration was the outline for how a constitution would be built when they got around to it. Like when you're in a hurry, and you have to take a note, but don't have time to be detailed, so you just shorthand summarize it until you can properly handle it later.
On the “right to life”, or the only right that can be derived logically from axiomatic principles and status as such is the only right that exists. Private property is a corollary of this primary right, for example.
I'm aware that after “Birth/Creation”(distinction doesn't really matter), that all people begin their divergences in value. I'm certain I did not advocate “full equality” with anything I typed.
You never go “full equality.” Hell.....early 20th century, Cambodia, Pol Pot. Went “full equality”. Went home empty-handed.” Also, killed like 1/3 of their population.
I'll entertain the notion of “Voluntary Compact of States”. They all voluntarily signed in from each state, didn't they? To Federalize or not is probably the key issue you're referring. Tell me if I'm wrong. I can talk about US founding principles for years.
Thank You, this was really lovely .. ❤️🤍💙
Good speaker, logical, precise English, good presentation, excellent grasp of the subject matter.
Makes you want to think of preconceived notions that one may have
Also shows how precious that the constitution and freedoms we have. Hopefully, it's not pearls before swine.
As a fellow Brit, Murray is an export to be proud of, always fascinating, engaging and damning with his truth
Truth, you must live in a parallel universe mate.
@@jamescook4402 What do you take issue with ? Explain yourself
Douglas Murray comes on at 10:07. Skip ahead past the introductions.
It all boils down to negligent/outsourced parenting. Trend is not our friend.
Exactly, I was listening to NPR today, they had a woman whos son was 'transgender' she openly admitted that her son "raised himself", and became female at 4 years old.
I don't disagree, but fear that the average would be parent is too deranged and incompetent to be a good parent at this point