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What the Youngkin Win Means

 In the waning days of the election, as Terry McAuliffe slipped in the polls into the mid and low 40s and Glenn Youngkin rose into the mid-50s, Terry McAuliffe’s campaign message was: Virginia public school students are now 50% non-white while Virginia public school teachers are 80% white. And only electing Terry McAuliffe will fix this, the greatest problem in Virginia today.

There are a number of funny things about this desperate last minute messaging.

One wonders if Terry McAuliffe knows who these non-white Virginia students are. If you visit Virginia schools you will discover some schools with nary an African-American student. I’ve taught as a substitute in about two dozen public schools throughout Falls Church and Arlington County (adjacent to Fairfax and Loudoun Counties which are so much in the news now). At Hoffman-Boston Elementary, a school near the Pentagon that was historically an African American school before desegregation, I had a 3rd grade class with one student each from Chechnya, Saudia Arabia, the Dominican Republic, and China, and four from Mongolia. (There is a Mongolian immigrant community in south Arlington.) At Arlington Science Focus, a magnet school near the upscale Cherrydale neighborhood, the student body is majority non-white, with many Asian, north African, and middle Eastern students, often immigrants. In Falls Church schools I would sometimes look out over a recess playground and realize that the second biggest demographic group, after white kids, were Sikhs.

What race of teacher would best “represent” in those classes?

A second funny thing about McAullife’s desperate message is something rarely discussed: 50% of public school students are boys. What percentage of public school teachers are male? Why not a commitment to increase the number of males teaching in schools? What problems are caused by boys and girls only experiencing women as authority figures for 12 years?

A third, and perhaps the funniest thing about McAuliffe’s sudden concern is: who has been running things for the past few decades? Virginia has had only Democrats elected to any statewide offices since 2009. Several of the white Democrats running Virginia have been discovered to have worn black face and Klan robes, as a joke of course, in college, and the main black Democrat serving state wide in Virginia, Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax, has been credibly accused of sexual assault by two (African American) women. Terry McAuliffe has ALREADY been a governor of Virginia. Among all these racial hijinks, when did McAuliffe, or any other Virginia Democrat, propose say, student loans or grants at historically black colleges for students to get education degrees (and maybe for STEM students to take an education minor or get a Master’s in teaching math), loans or grants that would be forgiven if they spent some time teaching in Virginia public schools?

But the fourth, and most deadly serious thing about McAuliffe’s Hail Mary, is that the Democrats finally realized that the issue they are losing on is education. But what they are really losing on is the issue of children.

For the past 2 years Democrats have been imposing fascism on the country much more rapidly than they have ever been able to do in peace time before, because of Covid. They’ve closed churches and businesses and schools, forced people to wear a silly mask that does little to prevent transmission, have coordinated with big tech monopolies to censor news, have ordered people to give up their bodily autonomy not if they want to visit someone in a hospital or nursing home but if they want to keep their job or insurance. They have changed or overlooked voter integrity laws so that they can print, mail out, and then collect and fraudulently fill out ballots, especially in any swing district. After destroying the economy with lockdowns they hope to make Americans dependent on government for income so that they will always vote for the party of government (in case they can’t import enough foreigners to displace American citizens to ensure their hold on power).

Too many Americans just sat there and took this.

But then Democrats came for their children.

It’s almost as if those shadowy QAnon people the Democrats attacked as being the core of Trump’s supporters, people who were supposed to believe in a Satanic pedophile cabal controlling the government, had been right. Especially since the owner of Richard Epstein’s sex jet was a major McAuliffe donor.

Now it’s not the first time. Democrats have been having their way with interns for some time, but interns are usually at least young women in their early twenties. Instead, Democrats decided they would teach pre-teen children new lessons: that America is evil, that they should hate themselves or their classmates because of their race. They also let parents hear this, since they decided to make education virtual during Covid, as part of the hoax that Covid required shutting down schools as well as the market economy (even though kids don’t get or transmit Covid). As parents began to pay more attention, they discovered that besides “critical race theory” neo-Marxist agitprop kids were being exposed to pornographic and pedophilic images and literature. And then we learned that there were rapes in the schools, rapes being covered up by school boards, because punishing the rapist and discussing how the rapist gained access to young girls would endanger Democrat social engineering, in this case so called “transgender” policies.

In being exposed as parasites who profit off of failing public schools while having no concern for children, Democrat politicians exposed themselves as regressives not “progressives,” willing to return the America they wished to destroy to pre-modern times. Terry McAuliffe declared that parents have no right to control their children’s education. Because - parents do not own their children! Children belong to the state. The state will feed them whatever unappetizing and unwanted (and unconsumed) feed it wishes - says Michelle Obama. The state will jab your children with barely studied shots that may cause myocarditis - says Joe Biden. The state will raise your children - says Hillary Clinton, the wannabe ruler of the village. The state may not itself rape your daughter, as feudal lords did in the “right of the first night” (right du seigneur) they claimed to sample the virgin daughters of their serfs, but if their policies lead to rapes, well, that’s an acceptable cost. Like taxes.

McAuliffe’s original campaign theme was that Glenn Youngkin was Trump. (Since it came out that McAuliffe had invested the wealth he accumulated from pay for play grifting in the Carlyle Group, the hedge fund Youngkin helped manage, someone should check and see if McAuliffe also owned shares in Trump hotels.). This actually worked it seems for Gavin Newsom in his recall race in California, bit it didn’t work as well for McAuliffe. In a way it really should have.

Virginia is one of the most government dependent states in the U.S. ranking near the top of the list for employment in government and in government contracting firms. Part of this is because the Pentagon and the military bases in Norfolk, but even more is because of the overpaid federal bureaucrats, lawyers, consultants and contractors, who live off of the taxes of all Americans elsewhere, in Loudoun, Arlington and Fairfax Counties, and in Alexandria, which are among the 10 wealthiest counties in America. Democrat politicians, campaign managers and media spinners - Jen Psaki, Paul Begala, Chuck Todd, Eugene Robinson - often live in multi-million dollar homes in wealthy (and incidentally lily white) zip codes in these counties.

What Trump - and Youngkin - represent is a threat to this ruling class. This is an ancient historical pattern, that didn’t just begin with the American Revolution or the Magna Carta. European history (and there is no reason to believe this didn’t happen on other continents) is a history of taxpayers being treated like livestock by the government and ruling class, until the oppression becomes so extreme there is a revolution, like the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381. The ruling class and its deprivations - taxes, rapes, conscription - are beaten back for a century or so, until they incrementally add new regulations and taxes and must be beaten back again.

Trump was a threat to the ruling class coastal elites with his seemingly erratic statements about reducing the surveillance state (the “intelligence community”) or the military empire. And the empire - a good slice of which lives in northern Virginia - struck back.

Youngkin cannot affect these ruling class minions living off the federal deep state. But he does threaten their funders and allies in government sector unions with his talk of expanding charter schools and other forms of education choice.

The problem for the establishment Democrats is that in their pre-modern drive to return to a time when children were the property of the government and the ruling class, they have threatened the children of their own minions, the minions who have made northern Virginia first purple and now blue. The long Democrat excusing of rape and abuse of children, as long as the perp - Teddy Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Andrew Cuomo, Justin Fairfax - supports “abortion” or “transgender rights” may have done them in.

A slightly different version of this was published earlier this week at Bacon’s Rebellion.

Metro Shrugs

 Another typical DC morning: I walk to Rosslyn (the neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia just across the Key Bridge from Washington, D.C.), from my little, almost unknown, neighborhood of West End (a tiny sliver of hotels, co-ops, condos, and doctors, between Georgetown, Dupont Circle, and Foggy Bottom) for some McDonald’s coffee and then to wait for a bus up the hill of Wilson Boulevard to the next Arlington neighborhood, Courthouse.

A 20-something foreigner asks me how to get to the Pentagon (at 6 am?). I tell him it isn’t the bus I am waiting for, but he can ask the driver when it arrives, he should know which one.

The bus arrives and a homeless looking psychiatric case with a 5 ft long staff gets off, screaming at the bus driver and calling him "boy." They were both African American, so no one called the police to report a hate crime.

The crazy (?) old man then stares at me, now in my seat, and eventually at a fat sleeping guy, telling us we are his witnesses. I try not to engage, but wonder if I should do something to get him to go. There are 20 people on the bus, almost all “working class people of color” who are going to be late to their early shift jobs. They are being held hostage by this man who may well be de-institutionalized.

Finally he becomes articulate. Apparently back in DC on Pennsylvania Avenue Afro-Gandolf had asked the bus driver if the bus went up Wisconsin Avenue to the Russian Embassy (which is in D.C., not Virginia), and he'd heard "yes."

Now I felt for the crazy wizard, or would have if he weren't making us all late. I've had a few drivers drive past me when I'd been waiting forever. I once had one grasp his genitals through his pants suggestively and leer at me as I boarded (not the ride I was looking for.)

Finally senior psycho decided to fully get off the bus so it could leave, a nanosecond before a tall and athletic looking young Asian guy with a man bun (!) - who knew there were male models on a 6 am bus - came forward to push him out.

Things like this happen in the DC area fairly frequently. I remember once being in the Potomac Avenue metro on the outskirts of Capitol Hill, where a young and tripping man waiting on the platform screamed about how white people were devils and should be exterminated.

One year I was at the Bethesda NIH metro stop, waiting for a bus that terminated at Montgomery Mall, and another skinny short older African American man (it's DC so a high percentage of deinstitutionalized or of any other category are black) kept trying to talk to me (he had a lame joke he wanted to tell) and to a young attractive black woman. Finally the bus came. I stood back to let the woman (I'm southern originally) and the nut get on first.

The nut put his hand in a brown paper bag and said to the young woman as she boarded "If you won't talk to me maybe you will talk to my gun." She instantly put her hand in her purse and said, "Well you get your gun and I will get out my gun and we will see who is faster."

I was afraid the driver, who saw all of this, would pull away, leaving me with the nut and his (alleged) gun. But instead gunslinger backed down and went away and I boarded and got home. I felt a little ashamed, like I should have grabbed him.

On the bus the young woman sat by a friend and they started talking. It was obvious from their accents they were originally from an African country. It became clear she was offended that this man thought he could talk to her just because they were the same color, though likely of different “classes,” and levels of sanity.

Of course the Metro system is famously problem ridden. This month the system had to sideline 60% of its rolling stock, its newest trains, when one derailed under Arlington National Cemetery. For years it has been catching on fire, with passengers sometimes suffering smoke inhalation (one died of it). Passengers experience service interruptions, occasionally find human excrement on seats, are violently assaulted on platforms, and experience groping especially when trains or buses are crowded. A few months ago I heard a chorus of women behind me scream “That’s nasty!” only to look up in time to see a woman (who I actually knew) get off the bus just as a young man stuck his cell phone under her skirt and snapped a picture. He was very practiced. She never knew it had happened.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit System (WMATA) is one of 6 mass transit systems (along with Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Philadelphia) that receive 17% of the Highway Trust Funds from the gas taxes paid by people in Houston, San Diego, Richmond, Baltimore and less urban areas in the rest of the country. (Taxpayers think these gas taxes are paying for their local streets or at least for interstate highways.) It’s part of our mainly coastal Panem Capitol, though WMATA is mainly for their servants and not for the actual ruling class.

But it’s also “public” or government property, which is often taken to mean anyone can use it for any purpose, with the only exceptions seeming to be parents who want to exercise control over public schools or Trump supporters who want to protest on Capitol Hill. But you can sleep, pee, poop, or scream in the bus or subway, for a good long while, before anyone does anything about it.

The result - litter, muggers, sexual assaults, rats. The things one finds in public streets and alleys, and for that matter we now know in “public” schools. And sometimes among “public” police. But which you don’t find as much at private spaces like shopping malls or parking garages.

It’s pretty clear what the solution is. Parents are beginning to homeschool, to re-enroll their children in private and parochial schools, and to demand charter schools. Citizens are going to have to take moves to decentralize and privatize all the other government properties. Streets, sidewalks, police forces, and other goods and services currently managed by government bureaucrats need to be turned over to voluntary institutions - downtown business districts, neighborhood associations, for profit companies and non-profit organizations - that are only funded if people want to support them and that are subject to open and free competition from alternatives.

It will take a while to get there since our ruling political class and their media spinners have never even heard of such a thing, though economists have discussed the benefits for decades. In almost any jurisdiction you choose, you can find local politicians in the pay of the current transportation industry corporations that win all the government contracts for our failing government monopoly services. But I hope we may be in a revolutionary moment where we could see a lot of this swept away.

A slightly different version of this piece was published earlier this week at SpliceToday.

Are Gays Amoral?

Recent events - first, the rape of a 13 year old girl by a male student wearing a skirt, in a wealthy DC suburb, where the male student was protected by the Loudoun County (Virginia) school board's transgender policies, second, the head of the Human Rights Campaign (a major gay lobby) helping cover up Governor Andrew Cuomo's history of sexual harassment    - raise the question of whether the LGBT movement has become amoral.

We used to think just being gay was immoral.  Just thinking about gay people involved what philosopher (and left-liberal feminist) Martha Nussbaum called an "ick" factor.  Odd in a way, since the anatomical concatenations available to two men or to two women are virtually all available to and used by heterosexual couples (with some recherche exceptions).

Of course some schools of natural law theory might press harder, and suggest that many people's icky feelings were not over particular acts which gay and straight people both perform, but over something else:  giving up procreation, giving up gender-specific roles in sexual coupling, giving up having children that are produced with the one you love.

Modern medicine has overcome the first of these objections:  lesbians could always easily become pregnant and have children, but now gay men, from Bravo host Andy Cohen on down, can have biological children as well, at least those gay men with enough disposable income.

The third objection, being unable to have a child that is the genetic fusion of yourself and your spouse, is a serious downside.  Though I know at least one gay male couple who have two children, each with a different one of the two fathers, but both from the same mother, so that the children are biological half-siblings, and everyone in the household is biologically related to at least one, if not two, members of the family.  One suspects biotechnology is going to provide a solution here as well.

The middle objection - that men in gay couples must at least sometimes be unmanly and women in gay couples must be unwomanly - is probably the objection that makes people feel the "ick."  It's probably why people - even “CIS gender” gay people - feel uncomfortable with transgender and nonbinary and gender fluid people.  (And Merrick Garland.). Whether this is a ... fruitful ... line of inquiry is questionable.  There are heterosexual couples who seem to reverse roles about who is more aggressive and who more passive, both in bed and out.  And if as most gay people believe, they were born that way, opposing their legal equality or social respectability because of what then would be rightly seen as a birth defect, would be cruel and itself a moral failing. Even if, as with many defects and deformities, one feels an “ick.”

But this is not what is involved in the gay amorality we are seeing in the public square today.

Neither is the now regular stream of famous gay people who are exposed for major moral failings.  Ellen Degeneres is ending her famous talk show in part from being accused of being a mean and racially bigoted employer who allowed her immediate underlings to sexually harass her lower staff.   Rosie O'Donnell seems to have a problem with drink and is unable to keep a wife, despite being fabulously wealthy.  CNN anchor Don Lemon is charged with groping a man in a bar.  Actor Kevin Spacey comes out as gay to deflect from charges that he sexually assaulted an underage actor.  Actor Jussie Smollette lies about being the victim of a hate crime to further his career.  Director Bryan Singer leaves a long and lucrative association with the Marvel X-Men franchise because of accusations of sexual harassment of actors and underage males.  Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who like Vice President Kamala Harris, ran a somewhat fraudulent Presidential campaign just to get a job in the Biden administration, then disappeared furtively into paternity leave exactly at the moment of a national crisis the oversight for which his Department is responsible.  (I leave aside as ancient history Congressman Barney Frank's fixing parking tickets for the johns of his prostitute lover.)

This parade of moral turpitude by America's homosexual celebrities is interesting in that each failing seems to involve a gender inflected failure:  the lesbians are mean, when women are supposed to be nice, and the men are cowardly and furtive, when men are supposed to be brave.  It is also interesting that after the #MeToo movement (and other popular culture campaigns) we are all now expected to view heterosexual men (especially white heterosexual men) as suspect, because of Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, Anthony Weiner, and Richard Epstein.  (And Teddy Kennedy and Bill Clinton.)  But we can't have stereotypes of mean lesbians or cowardly gay men, no matter how many children are abused by the gay woman in control of American schools, Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers. (If Randi Weingarten is the witch who eats Hansel and Gretel, Pete Buttigieg is about to be the Grinch who stole Christmas.)

This pattern of celebrity immorality is also not what I am asking a question about, but it does get closer.  You can now make all the jokes you want about male lechery and bad behavior.  But you can't joke about us gays.  Comedian Dave Chappelle responded to some gay activists criticizing the black community for not rushing to support victim Jussie Smollete, by observing that black people were supporting him "with our silence," because he was so obviously lying.  Chappelle added that if he were Smollette's father, he would have "broken a doll house over his head."

For making jokes about the un-manliness of Smollette's dishonesty and attention-seeking, Chappelle is now a prime target of gay activists.  In Chapelle's new and great (but often misinterpreted) comedy special, The Closer, Chappelle observes that black people are shocked and awed by the progress of the gay community in America.  Gays have leap frogged over African Americans, moving from being held in contempt in the 1950s as mentally ill, immoral, national security risks, and a threat to children, to now being the group that above all one dare not criticize, or make the butt of a joke, in public.  Even if you happen to be black or are America's greatest stand up comic.

Earlier this year there was a piece in the Washington Blade, Washington. D.C.'s oldest gay newspaper, revealing a curious disregard by gaydom for another oppressed group that started the movements for civil rights for people in marginalized communities.  In a review of  a biography of Billie Jean King, the Blade's regular arts and book reviewer, writes "King, a feminist and lesbian, is believed to be the first woman athlete activist."  Thus overlooking Wilma Rudolph, the black woman who won Olympic medals in the early 1960s and insisted that her hometown of Clarksville, Tennessee desegregate the homecoming parade it wanted to throw in her honor.  And then went on to lead lunch counter sit ins, start a foundation, and meet with President Kennedy.  Over a decade before Billy Jean King.

This solipsism is part and parcel of official gay activism's disregard for women and racial minorities, whose movements for civil rights were the template for the gay activism that has been so successful.  Of course, gay activists do not think they are anti-woman or anti-black.  After all they support Democrats in every election!  Recent events suggest gays - or more precisely what Chris Barron, the founder of the defunct conservative gay Republican group GoProud called the GayTM - have become entitled, solipsistic, callous, thoughtless, and believe they not only can no longer be joked about, but don't have to answer any questions about their failures or the failures of policies they push. Policies they push that are often little more than grist for the gay lobbies’ fundraising mills.

Though the official gay movement, the gay PR team for the ruling political class, decided some time ago to throw women under the bus by agreeing to adopt the transgender demand to destroy the women’s sports that Billie Jean King (and Martina Navratilova and others) built, by allowing biological men to compete in them, recently political class gays have been caught in hiding sexual assaults against women.

Alphonso David, the head of the largest gay lobby, the Human Rights Campaign, was fired for helping Governor Cuomo strategize about how to cover up his history of sexual harassment.  But not pro-actively - neither the New York Democrats nor the HRC Board of Directors took action against Cuomo or David when they were covering up sexual harassment, but only when the story became too public to hide.

A 13 year old girl is raped by a biological male student wearing a skirt in Loudoun County, Virginia.  The transgender student is then discovered to be a serial rapist, who has been protected by the local school board, eager to enact transgender inclusive policies, by being moved from school to school after accusations, rather than being suspended and immediately charged with a crime.  When the father of the victim tries to speak at a school board meeting, he is beaten, stripped (maybe unintentionally), handcuffed, and arrested.

Since the accused rapist was given increased access to female students by the school system's transgender policies, and since the school officials seemed to have been covering the crimes up, perhaps in their minds to prevent criticism of these transgender policies, one might think the local LGBT activists would be out in front denouncing the rape and criticizing the presumably faulty implementation of the transgender policies they advocate.

Local suburban Virginia LGBT groups routinely email anyone on their mailing lists asking that they show up at local school board meetings wearing purple, carrying rainbow flags, and speaking on behalf of policies allowing transgender students to pick their bathrooms and locker rooms, regardless of anatomy.  As I was writing this I received an email from the gay activists in neighboring Fairfax County:  

"Friends,

If you are able, sign up to speak to the school board this week: either

1) in support of LGBTQIA+ stakeholders in our schools; or 2) in support of preserving accurate history teaching in face of  false claims of “CRT” in our schools; 3) in support of inclusive schools for all; or 4) any other topic.

Deadline for registering is Tuesday 10-19-21 at 7 p.m.

https://www.fcps.edu/school-board/citizen-participation …”

The email went on to give the address of the school board meeting and tips on parking. But no mention of the rape in Loudoun County schools.

I wondered when and how local gay activists would address this rape and its cover up.

I posted a link to investigative reporter Luke Rosiak's piece breaking the story in the Loudoun/Fairfax gay Facebook group.  I received an immediate reply from a member of the group:  "The Daily Wire is not a credible news source."

Curious about whether any local gay movement spokespeople were going to address the issue, I contacted one of the few sane reporters at one of the two DC area gay news publications (both of which are mainly run by Democrats whose partisanship veers into delusion, with one even having a former Bella Abzug staffer as its chief political columnist).  

This sane journalist emailed me back:

"Bruce,

I'm working on this story now. Thanks for sending this commentary piece from the [Washington] Examiner.

The one thing it omits is that the Loudoun County Sheriff's department has arrested the teenager who committed the sexual assaults and filed multiple rape related charges against him. But due to the secrecy requirements for juvenile offenders, I and other press people have had a difficult time trying to confirm what is happening. 

The few gay activists I talked to, who do not wanted to be identified, say the Loudoun school officials should have said the student who committed the sexual assault should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, but that this was an extremely rare case. They say after years of pro-transgender laws in cities and states across the country, this type of thing simply does not happen. They appear to be saying all trans kids should not be blamed for the action of one kid any more than all conservative political activists should not be blamed for the action of one conservative activist who is a rapist."

Of course, what we don’t know is how many other “woke” school boards are covering up cases of sexual assault as Loudoun County did. The LGBT activists (and their “straight allies”) behind the policy of letting males enter women’s locker and bath rooms hide and the media don’t question them because they are a “protected class,” like rioters and looters who are protected from criticism because of their race - even as they burn down small businesses owned by people who are also racial minorities.

This story took days to appear (and I worried that the author might forget that you can't say "him").  No gay activists from Loudoun County have commented publicly.  But the group Equality Loudoun did hold a picnic this past Sunday in Vienna, Virginia. No elected officials have commented on the story either, now has anyone at the Department of Justice, nor have the Democrats running for office in Virginia. (The Republican candidates for Governor and for Attorney General did speak out about it after a few days of coverage.). The National Association of School Boards, the group that wrote a letter to President Biden about the domestic terrorist soccer moms threatening school board members is also silent - apparently whatever best practices they have for their members does not include urging them not to cover up rapes.

As this story was breaking I was filling out an online survey, the Pride Study, for a California non-profit run by gay people that collects data on gay people.  The questions in the survey are somewhat tendentious - it is clear that what the researchers think is important to know about is how much sex you have with how many people, which forms of prophylaxis you are informed about and employ if any, and how safe you feel in your family and community or at work with being public about your sexual orientation or gender identity.  The survey also asks about your experiences with sexual harassment and assault.  But only as a victim, not a perpetrator,  The survey nicely asks you for suggestions and questions at the end.  So I asked if, since they were asking questions about sexual harassment and assault, why not ask those surveyed about being the aggressor as well as the victim.  I was not  particularly thinking of transgender people or of schools when I suggested this question, but more of occasions like house parties with overly inebriated gay adult men where the less inebriated might become a little too handsy with the more inebriated, or other same sex situations that might more easily allow for same sex sexual harassment.  I received this response from a Pride Study director:

"Hi Bruce,

Thanks for your question and your long-term participation in The PRIDE Study.

There are an infinite number of questions we could ask LGBTQ+ people in The PRIDE Study. As part of our research plan, we engage with LGBTQ+ community members across the country to learn what health information we *need* to be collecting in our research. There are so many domains of our overall health (physical, mental, and social health) that are unstudied, and which really benefit from research. As a result, our team struggles to find the right balance of important physical, mental, and social health questions to include, without making surveys so long that too many people will not want to finish them.

When we consider adding ever more questions to our already-long surveys, we think: how would the collection of this data help support LGBTQ+ wellness, and how might the collection of this data reduce stigma against LGBTQ+ people. While your question is intellectually interesting, collecting that data would likely add to the stigmatization of LGBTQ+ people. Adding questions like that to our already-long surveys aren’t a priority for us right now.

We appreciate your continued participation in The PRIDE Study.

Best wishes,
Micah

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Micah Lubensky, PhD
(Pronouns: he, him, his)
Participant Engagement Director
The PRIDE Study

http://www.pridestudy.org/"

I wonder if the victims of sexual assault - gay or straight victims - feel “stigmatized” by the refusal to address sexual assault by this one protected class of people committing these crimes?

The message is clear: we can't ask uncomfortable questions about LGBT people or what are claimed to be pro-LGBT policies.  Indeed, when Stacy Langton - the Fairfax County mom who has been complaining about pornographic materials in the schools (and who is explicit that she is not asking fo a ban on LGBT literature, but only any literature depicting such things as sex between 4th graders) - continued to speak out at school board meetings, she received detailed threats against herself and her children by someone who clearly follows her physically and knows her daily schedule.

Gay people are no more intrinsically moral or immoral than heterosexuals, but those they allow to represent them in public are failing in a way that seems like it will boomerang politically. A few gay people - journalist Katie Herzog in a recent interview with Megyn Kelly - have come to the conclusion that gay people need new leadership.  And I would add:  new allies, party affiliations, and political affiliations.  (Perhaps Senator Krysten Sinema can be our Moses.)

The question is:  will enough people come to this conclusion before the boomerang comes back?

A slightly different version of this piece ran earlier this week at Splice Today.

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Virginia Campaign Impressions - An Embarrassment of Riches?

Back in March, I listened to Virginia conservative talk radio, from John Reid's excellent morning show in Richmond to Larry O'Connor's afternoon show in northern Virginia and D.C., and I got the impression that this Glenn Youngkin fellow was a left-"liberal" wolf in GOP sheepskin.  

Coverage focused in particular on Youngkin's past donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which beyond its far left politics is now charged variously as being a con game to enrich its founders and as (paradoxically) having discriminated against some of its own African American employees.  (Youngkin says he wasn't as political back then, and did not realize what kind of group he was supporting.  Perhaps like a younger Donald Trump hobnobbing with Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Bill and Hillary Clinton.)

Many were also not so happy with Youngkin's long career working at and running the Carlyle Group, an investment firm usually described as a Beltway bandit and part of the political class and which some described as an arms merchant or a funder of arms merchants.

Back then I thought, and no doubt hoped, these exposures had done in Mr. Glenn Youngkin.

At the first Pete Snyder event I attended, an outdoor BBQ in Fairfax County, I ran into an acquaintance who like me attended (pre-COVID) the famous D.C. Wednesday morning conservative meeting run by Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform.  I asked him about the other candidates in the race, and when I got to Youngkin he said "He's a Mitt Romney."  Given what I had heard, I accepted this as fact.

 

Since then I have attended two Snyder campaign events and two Youngkin campaign events (and also a local pro-Trump Republican event where candidate Sergio de la Pena's son was in attendance).  And since then, both Snyder and Youngkin have received major conservative endorsements.  Former White House Presidential Spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders (who lived in Arlington, Virginia while working in the Trump White House, and enrolled her three children in her local public school, Jamestown Elementary) came back to Virginia to stump for Snyder.  Senator Ted Cruz has campaigned across the state with Glenn Youngkin (who earned a B.S. in engineering and an MBA from Rice University in Texas), with better television coverage than Huckabee seems to have garnered Snyder (at least from what I saw).  Cruz said he was supporting "the candidate who can win."

However, Youngkin may have captured the real feather in the cap for conservative voters.  After having never had a Facebook account until he opened one for his campaign, Youngkin was briefly suspended in the past 48 hours from Facebook, for posting a link to a Tucker Carlson clip.  If he only had time to appeal to all the Republican primary voters who have been censored on social media, this alone might clinch it for him.

Each man, interestingly, has libertarian voters at his events or on his staff.  Snyder has as a main campaign staffer a veteran of Ron Paul affiliates and libertarian leaning groups like the Americans for Prosperity.  Youngkin has a young woman who I am actually used to seeing at northern Virginia Libertarian Party happy hours.  Given how much the libertarians were bashed back in 2013 for the Robert Sarvis for Governor Campaign, when Sarvis's 5+% of the vote was thought to have "belonged" to Ken Cuccinelli such that Sarvis was said to have "elected" Terry McAuliffe, it is interesting that so many libertarians can be seen at each candidate's events.

Both men also have some resources, though vastly different amounts.  Pete Snyder seems to be the less wealthy, though in 2012 he founded an angel investment firm, Disrupter Capital, that funds start-ups, including news sites like IJ Review.  How much Youngkin is estimated more in the $250 million range, with a $17 million retirement package from the Carlyle Group alone.

Youngkin's events have more people, and are swankier, featuring open bars and free food.  His event on primary election eve featured beer and wine for adults (along with hot dogs, ice cream and nachos) but also a snowcone station for the kids.  And there were pre-teen kids,  As well as a lot of young, attractive, even hot, people under 30 and 40.  Both Snyder and Youngkin crowds feature a mix of ages and a good dose of black, Asian and Latin supporters, but the Youngkin crowds do seem to include more younger people.  Youngkin's crowds also included the only person with a nose ring (my aforementioned Libertarian Party gal), and a realtor I recognized as a semi-regular at events of the gay GOP group, Log Cabin Republicans.  (Youngkin events also feature a large security presence, huge young men with beards and tatoos, with bulging muscles in skin tight black clothes, who all look like stunt men for Liam Hemsworth.)

Perhaps most telling, other Virginia candidates for office, like Jason Miyares, who is running for Attorney General, showed up at both Youngkin events, but there were none at either Snyder event.

On issues the two men give identical lists of issues:  school choice, re-opening schools, telling teacher unions they can meet the same fate as the air traffic controllers under Reagan, re-opening the economy, free markets, voter integrity, respecting the police and the military, protecting the right to life.

But there is a difference.

Youngkin has more people at his events, and they include his wife, his pastor, his pastor's family, and his children, including a tall and gorgeous son (who seems to be working the crowd and signaling his father to stand up, speak louder, hit certain points, etc.)  Snyder's family has not attended any event I was at.    Youngkin's crowds seem slightly more diverse, mainly because they are larger.  But Youngkin also projects what (pop) psychology currently calls "the growth mindset."  He's sunny and upbeat, a happy warrior.  He speaks of investing $400,000 in school board and other local races to counter outside dark money from George Soros and others.  Pete Snyder does not project the opposite image, but he is not as sunny and upbeat.  

Snyder is stylistically less "It's morning in America!" than is Youngkin.  An acquaintance who is a Congressional staffer at the election eve Youngkin event at the Fairview Park Marriott in Fairfax County told me before the event he was leaning Snyder, but now may lean Youngkin.

 So what voters have to make up their minds about is, will Youngkin's Reaganite optimism not just be style but be followed up with Reaganite substance?

A shorter version of this article was published in the excellent Virginia politics blog, Bacon’s Rebellion.