Hey Republicans! The Sexual Revolution is Over, and You Lost (and continue to lose)!
Republicans keep losing nationwide elections because they keep refighting elections in the 1970’s and 1980’s. It is natural that conservatives would fight a sexual revolution. But they lost.
Sex is not bad. Sex is natural. Variations in people are not bad. Variations are natural. This is the prevailing view in the United States. Every time that you sound like the pastor from the movie Footloose; then you lose any ability to make a case about taxes, the size of government, defense or corruption. If you reject people by rejecting core parts of who they are sexually, then they will not vote for you. Once voters realize that you want to legislate them out of existence, they do not need to hear any more to make the affirmative decision to vote you out of existence as leaders. This is part of the genesis of the “low information voter”.
You cannot shame people into voting for you. That drives them away. Drives. Them. Away!
Sex, acceptance and affirmation are all more important than money as long as people have enough to provide for their needs. Most voters will pay higher taxes to keep the government out of their bedrooms and relationships. (Please see Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs) If a majority of people were starving, it would be different.
Sexual freedom has a cost, but sexual oppression has a higher one in most voters’ minds.
Conservative commentators like @SeanHannity and @OReillyFactor long have wondered why people “irrationally” vote for liberals. It is the same reason that people vote for Trump. When one party rejects them at a level that the voters consider to be fundamental, then they vote for the other party or person without regard to policies because rejection is more powerful that position papers.
When Republicans campaign in favor of families with children only, voters hear a rejection of the single and the childless. When Republicans campaign affirming a traditional definition of marriage only, then voters hear a rejection of everyone who does not marry one opposite-sex person and stay with that person for life. Voters hear a rejection of everyone who has had sex outside of marriage, who have had a divorce(s), or who live together. This is at least two-thirds of the population.
Once voters came to accept themselves with regard to sex, sexual orientation and relationship patterns; they stopped tolerating the same kind of rejection from their elected officials. The turn came no later than the 1990’s. Shame no longer works when people are no longer ashamed of who they are.
If Republican candidates like @TedCruz continue to signal that they are judging others from high atop their religious perches, then they will lose national elections even if their tax plans are far superior. And @TedCruz has a superior tax plan.
It is time for the Republican Party to consistently signal that they are no longer fighting a war that ended twenty years ago. It is time for them to signal that they are accepting and affirming of the voters’ right to choose their own path when it comes to sex and relationships without interference from the government.
Tired of losing? Stop fighting a war that you have already lost.
After I wrote the original piece: @realDonaldJTrump commented on the bathroom issue with Transgender individuals. He is not fighting the last war. He picked up significant votes with his, “I don’t think there have been many problems with this” approach. It causes me no small amount of pain to admit that Trump is right where @TedCruz is wrong on this issue when Cruz would be a much better nominee when it comes to the things that a President actually does.
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