By Rod DREHER
As the Biden administration weighs the insane option of arming Ukrainian insurgents to wage civil war in a country on the border of Russia — think about how the US would feel if Russians armed pro-Moscow contras in Mexico — the US military continues making strides in winning the culture war against conservatives and normies in its ranks.
The US Air Force has now authorized, but not required, the disclosure of personal pronouns in the signature block of official correspondence. Here’s a link to the full memo. This, of course, is a trial balloon. Give permission for this for internal communications, and after people get used to it, make it mandatory for all communications.
The memo designates three pronouns — he/him, she/hers, and they/them — but of course this bigotry will not long be tolerated. Give it a year or two, and zirs will have their way. At least this practice will prepare senior officers for their post-retirement life working for Raytheon, McDonnell Douglas, and other woke defense contractors. I guess you can drop bombs by drones on innocent Third World people with a clean conscience, as long as you use people’s preferred pronouns.
This might seem like a small thing, but it’s a condensed symbol of the US military’s capitulation to wokeness, including the madness of gender ideology. We are losing awareness of the gender binary, one of the most fundamental principles of life on earth. We are tearing our society apart, and the US military is joining the attack by institutionalizing the lie that maleness and femaleness are arbitrary categories that have nothing to do with biology.
Of course this insanity is spreading wide in our society, but the fact that it is now taken up by the armed forces is a sign of how deeply entrenched this ideology is.
What about sailors, soldiers, and airmen who refuse to live by these lies? Who refuse to say that a biological male who presents as a female is truly a woman? Too bad for them, I guess. Our military has no use for bigots like that.
What is this regime that rules us? The governmental part of the regime commits our country to ruinous wars of choice, and now it’s speculating, via a leak to the CIA’s favorite Washington journalist, about starting a proxy war with Russia on Russia’s border. It is ruining the US military. The non-governmental part of the regime is forcing a racist and gender-crazy ideology on everybody else, and nobody in the Republican Party troubles themselves to commit to stopping it.
What has captured our country and its people? What madness? What demoralization?
Live Not By Lies — now, more than ever. We might not be able to turn back the insanity — though God knows we should try, and hope that the GOP stops lying prostrate before Big Business and the Pentagon — but whatever comes, we have to be prepared to live through this soft totalitarianism until reality finally intervenes, and it collapses of its own stupidity.
