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I was raised in a small rural redneck town in Central Florida where most people live in trailers… including myself as a teenager. And I was always the lone liberal swimming in a sea of red. About 25% or more of the people in my hometown have the Rebel flag somewhere in or on their house. And so, my experiences with Conservatives is that they’re equally unachored and that there’s just as much moral decay in their homes. Things I’ve witnessed from Conservative people when I was a teen… - Flossing teeth with the metal from cigarette packs so that they’ll have dental problems and the dentist will prescribe opiates - A family of 3 living in a single wife trailer with 4 pit bulls - Three 10 year old neighbor boys smoking a gravity bong right out in public - Several drug overdoses from misusing prescription medication - Lots of adults in their 30s in relationships with teens who were my age So, my personal experience with Conservatives is that they had more moralizations but fewer moral standards for themselves.

@mr_engineer Almost 100% right. ^ The only thing I disagree with is the need to repress our secondary energy. Our goal is to drop our repressions and realize our wholeness by not holding too tightly to identities associated with Masculine or Feminine. But otherwise, this is right on the money.

What I’m saying is that these things would all affect teens equally across gender and political preference lines. So, it doesn’t account for more liberal girls to have the highest depression rates, because they probably consume Tik Tok at similar rates to boys and conservatives.

But why the difference in political affiliation and gender. Those would certainly be true for most teens.

I’m not blaming boys. They are the victims of this type of rhetoric because it exacerbates their natural anxieties and creates false solutions to their problems that actually hurt them more. And it’s unfortunately very common. But I thought you said Liberal girls and Conservative boys were dealing with higher depression rates. So, that’s the interpretation that made the most sense to me. But given that it’s Liberal girls and boys, it’s probably just being more acutely aware of global issues and feeling powerless to stop the problems from happening.

I experienced it once in an Ayahuasca ceremony. It showed me a deep unconditional love that all human beings have for one another that expresses itself as an innate desire for kinship. And to the degree that people hate one another and become misanthropic, is the degree to where that unconditionally loving nature gets twisted up and distorted through layers of ignorance, trauma, and coping mechanisms. Like human love is a perfect light at the core. But it’s reflecting itself into a dirty and broken mirror and reflecting a distorted and dulled version of that light out into the world.

White, female, liberal teens probably have a mixture of lack of in-person socializing, inescapable awareness of global issues that they feel powerless to change, feeling responsible for global issues, awareness of widespread misogyny, and being impacted by the misogyny of male peers who are the primary demographic that get swept up in Andrew Tate-like online content. And this ruins male/female dynamics because it causes guys to become really callous and mean to girls. And then the liberal girls who are more oriented toward Feminist ideals, will probably have struggles finding a decent boy to date who hasn’t been brainwashed by propaganda. Then male conservative teens are probably more depressed because they are caught up in all these Andrew Tate-like Rabbit holes. And they’re being propagandized to in a way where things that exacerbate their issues are being sold as cures to their issues. That would be my guess.

I’m not sure if she’ll win. Yet again… stranger things have happened. But even if she doesn’t, this can do wonders for moving the Overton Window in a more conscious direction.

Shame on you ?

That’s true of some of them. I think Trump himself is mostly an opportunist. But he was willing to act like a demagogue to jiggle people’s latent Fascism buttons. And this won him a great deal of support and adulation. But despite him being purely focused toward his own power, this also opened the door to self-avowed Fascists getting more of a foothold in the Overton Window. And now the government has a lot more extreme right wingers in it. When Trump campaigned on “Mexicans are rapists” it emboldened a lot of Fascists. And over the years, the presence of their talking points get more and more normalized.

@aurum This is a good video about distinguishing between a Fascist and a potential Fascist. The potential Fascist won’t be Fascistic under normal situations, but can be influenced into it through demagogues, propaganda, and the right environment. While the Fascist is the one who deliberately does the influencing of the potential Fascist.

Female attraction is not a reward. It’s not merit based… it’s feelings based. And one should not seek integrity to get a reward. Integrity is its own reward. And players aren’t rare at all.

Well… where are all the postmodernists spinning their heads then?

Why are you expecting that? Thank you for providing other links to the same study. Jeez!

The Daily Mail isn’t a very reputable publication. Can you find other articles that refer to the same study?

@DocWatts Great points ?

It helps you become more whole as a person and willing to express all elements of your authenticity. You also can’t grow yourself properly until you drop resistance to both because being resistant to the Masculine or the Feminine means you’re resisting your own nature. You stagnate the growth of both qualities if you’re in resistance to one. The Masculine flower grows from the Feminine garden. And the Feminine flower grows from the Masculine garden. And there is no monopolization here because we all have both. But archetypally and energetically emotions are generally Feminine. But if you Zoom into the Feminine… you find more Masculine and Feminine polarities. Nothing is purely Masculine or Feminine as these dual energies are the building blocks of all living and non-living systems. Think of them like a binary code that programs all elements of reality… including the human personality. So, the Masculine and Feminine principle are archetypes of how these energies have been observed across cultures and eras. But within a given Feminine archetype, the Masculine is still present and vice versa. Every iota of reality is Shiva and Shakti in the perpetual dance of intercourse. And if you resist this dance in yourself, your dynamism and growth will stagnate. So, it’s really important to work into your resistances because you leave a lot of growth and magnetism on the table.

Fascism mostly is Conservatism taken to the extreme. Some people call Conservatism “Diet Fascism” But what differentiates a Fascist from a Conservative is that Fascists have the deliberate goal of ethnic cleansing and creating ethno-states. This is the desired end goal of their attempt to recreate their Mythic Past. And most Conservatives would not like to be associated with the optics of that. And a majority would disagree with that goal as well if you asked them without any propagandistic priming. So, it’s useful for the self-identified Fascist to cloak themselves as more mainstream Conservatives to give themselves a normie touch. Or they’ll lampshade themselves as free speech warriors who are just edgy people telling edgy jokes. That way, they can normalize their talking points to a wider audience through a joke to give themselves plausible deniability. And when you call them out on it, they accuse you of being a humorless woke-scold who can’t take a joke or infringing upon their free speech. And to the majority of people who aren’t wise to Fascist tactics, it makes the one that calls them out look bad. And the Fascist can drum up more rapport with their audience by coming across as the one who supports free speech. But the Fascist does not support free speech of course. They just use that defense opportunistically. The issue with Fascism is that mainstream Conservatives (and even moderates and moderate Liberals), can unknowingly spread Fascist talking points because the Fascists hide the pill in the peanut butter pretty well. And most people don’t pick up on their dog whistles. This is why mainstream Conservativism is starting to resemble this new internet brand of Fascism more and more. But their main target right now is legalistically attacking Trans people. And if they’re successful their next target will be gay people. And if their successful their next target will be ethnic and religious minorities. And so on and so on. And they get otherwise accepting people to hate these groups by claiming that the LGBTQ community is grooming children. In my state they’re banning books. And there are lots of local officials now that are associated with the Proud Boys and other groups like that. So, Fascism has now found its way into the mainstream which make people see it as normal. And when you say, “Hey, this is Fascism.” People just roll their eyes because they don’t realize how mundane Fascism looks.

Also, I’ll post a videos below that’s super helpful for understanding Fascism… or what is called by some experts as Palingenic Ultra-Nationalism.

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It can be done alone. My first recommendation is to get some basic knowledge about depth Femininity and depth Masculinity from expert sources. Then you work directly with your resistances to one or the other. For example, when I first began this work, I had a lot of Feminine repression. And so, when I saw qualities like emotionality as a Feminine quality, there was a resistance in me. So, I sought to understand deeply what the nature of my resistance to emotionality was. And I had judgments toward others about it. And I prided myself on being fairly stoic. And I had always tried to follow all the male gender norms because I was respected more for it and I was always trying to escape the Feminine. And I associated it with lack of respectability and losing control. So, it’s about really sitting with all that discomfort around the resistance to it. Like, “Why am I afraid of being Feminine and emotional?” ”Well, because I think emotionality is an inferior quality, so that must mean that women are inferior to men and that I’m inferior.” And surrendering the ego and just diving so deeply into the individual and collective wounds around that thought. And when you take that perspective you let yourself go through the beast’s innards and eventually come out the other end. And you begin to really understand the Feminine collective wounding and how it informs your own wounding. And men suffering from collective Feminine wounding too. So, the questioning around the resistance will perhaps be different. But you may find that all roads lead to Rome.