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Seems like a run of the mill liberal whose information about "the left" comes from far right talking points:
Like, what the fuck is this shit?
The discussion about "family values" might seem like this if you only listen to what conservatives are claiming about what "the left" wants.
Yes, this is a common thing Conservatives do in America. They take traits they don't like about the opposition, make up absurd caricatures that dial up all those traits to 11, then rail at the caricature like it's reality, pulling the rest of the country rightward with them.
It's how we get to immigrants in Springfield eating the dogs. It's how we get to kids who identify as cats using litter boxes in school instead of toilets. And it's how we get to liberals wanting to "abolish the family" simply by recognizing that gender may be a social construct and have fluidity. In the Conservative Cinematic Universe, all these things are happening, and are key plot drivers to what happens next.
Exactly this. The right lives with a made up fantasy enemy to rail against.
CGP Grey did a great video going over the psychology of this phenomenon.
https://youtu.be/rE3j_RHkqJc
That was written by someone who has lost touch with reality.
The "left" is not attacking family values ... capitalism is. The minimum wage was supposed to slide up and curb poverty, but that was one of the first things to go in the late 1960s .... a little bribery by corporations and they decided it did not need to automatically adjust up with inflation.
This is what is killing family values. People can afford the "trad" family.
Fun fact: all babies are nonbinary. They're not old enough to have a gender identity yet. They're agender.