New Poll Debunks Myth Of Inevitable Left-Wing Cultural Change
By: JusticeTristan (The Federalist)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
A new Gallup poll out Thursday reveals a shift toward social conservatism not seen in more than a decade.
According to Gallup's annual Values and Beliefs survey conducted May 1-24, social conservatism is entering a renaissance in the United States. With an 8-point jump in the last two years, 38 percent of respondents identified as "very conservative/conservative" on social issues, the highest level since 2012. Just 29 percent claimed to be "very liberal/liberal."
GALLUP POLL: Social Conservatism in U.S. Highest in About a Decade
— 38% say they are conservative on social issues, highest since 2012
— 44% say they are economically conservative, also highest since 2012https://t.co/Z3YEEzGkaypic.twitter.com/NHWOHM03ol
— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) June 8, 2023
"The increase in conservative identification on social issues over the past two years is seen among nearly all political and demographic subgroups," Gallup reported. "The survey comes at a time when many states are considering policies regarding transgender matters, abortion, crime, drug use and the teaching of gender and sexuality in schools."
It also comes at a time when leftists have, respectfully, lost their minds. The glorification of transgender interventions for children and the guarantee of abortion-on-demand have become hallmarks of the left-wing cultural agenda that alienates Americans.
A new poll out from Summit.org with McLaughlin and Associates in October found that 75 percent, or 3 in 4 Americans, agreed the transgender movement has "gone too far." This year's pride month included a clothing line designed by a literal satanist and pro-trans apparel for children. If the polls are in doubt, take a look at Target's stock in free fall.
Meanwhile, laws passed by Republican legislatures to protect children from the permanent procedures promoted by radical trans activists have provoked left-wing insurrections and other demonstrations at state Capitols across the country, including Tennessee, Montana, Kansas, Kentucky, Florida, Oklahoma, and Missouri.
A more recent poll from The Washington Post published just last month forced the paper to concede that a vast majority of Americans are with Republicans on transgender issues.
"Most Americans support anti-trans policies favored by GOP, poll shows," read the headline.
"Most Americans don't believe it's even possible to be a gender that differs from that assigned at birth," the Post reported. "A 57 percent majority of adults said a person's gender is determined from the start, with 43 percent saying it can differ."
Americans definitely don't endorse the complete erasure of sex through the admission of men in women's sports. More than 6 in 10 adults told The Washington Post they do not want biological men in women's leagues.
On abortion, an overwhelming majority of Americans are turned off by the left's demand to remove any and all restrictions, which is quite a departure from the Clinton-era "safe, legal, and rare" mantra. As Beth Whitehead wrote in these pages, 72 percent of registered voters surveyed in a Harvard-Harris poll last summer "supported abortion restrictions at least as strict as a ban on abortions after 15 weeks, like the Mississippi law at issue in Dobbs ."
A Knights of Columbus and Marist Poll out last year also found 71 percent of Americans want abortion heavily restricted.
POLL: 71% of Americans support some restrictions on abortion (illegal after 1st trimester; only in cases of rape/incest; only to save life of mother; not allowed under any circumstances). 93% of Rs, 70% of independents, & nearly half of Dems support these. https://t.co/cAfYQqD5xzpic.twitter.com/5tf0ZKYace
— John Daniel Davidson (@johnddavidson) January 21, 2022
Gallup's results published Thursday illustrate how culture, just like politics, is a pendulum. Remember that abortion bans were illegal in all 50 states until last summer, when the conservative Supreme Court majority finally overturned the 1973 decision of Roe v. Wade. Tides turn. Public opinion changes.
An op-ed published in USA Today this week called on corporations to endorse radical transgenderism and proclaimed "businesses that practice real Pride Month allyship will be on the right side of history." But will they? The growing population of sterile detransitioners suggests otherwise.
Tags
Who is online
634 visitors
Too little, Too late.
and to think the leftists here are always claiming how out of touch with America conservatives are!
Guess we know now how wrong they have been!
Wow. And I thought Donald Trump was unofficially crazy. But now I see that there is a contagion throughout conservatives. Evidently, conservatives NEED somebody to rundown in order to reason they are helping the nation. What a pathetic, messed-up, reason for which to live.
Sigh! The struggle continues. . . .
it always does for some folk.
real or imagined, some folks just struggle when confronted with a different thought.
The game is about stepping on people to feel some version of control and being alive. Until recently, I never knew how important it is for some people to NEED other people as their foot stool even to the point of throwing off principled positions and driving themselves unofficially crazy!
Oh, the INSANITY:
We actually have so-called, freedom lovers who love the game of suppression and demonization of otherwise innocent people-groups while chanting, "Freedom!" every chance they can get to utter the word! That is a type of insanity. Praising themselves for hurting people not for anything they have done-simply because they exist.
This is some sick $hit!
Most of the LGBQ people I know, have known, and associated with in my rather long life don't feel like they are being systemically oppressed, demonized, or suppressed. Most of them lead fairly normal and unextraordinary lives. And most of them don't subscribe this notion of confused gender identity as some kind of national crisis. They correctly describe it as an emotional and mental condition.
The Democrat party is destroying itself by aiding and abetting this nonsensical insanity.
We seem to have a class of perpetual victims that get worked up over EVERYTHING.
Will this pity party ever end?
Pray tell: why don't you explain clearly what you mean about LGBTQ being an emotional and mental condition? Start there, please.
Being Gay, lesbian, or bi is normal. People are born wired that way. I was referring to the current obsession of the left with gender identity and its ramifications.
Okay, what gender identity and its ramifications do you mean—exactly?
Probably referring to the current news events surrounding transgenders. Perhaps you've even seen some stories on it.
Greg can answer the question, exactly. Kindly, step aside.
I answered your question.
Okay, now kindly step aside. Greg. . . .go ahead, please.
absolutely nothing is preventing him from answering🙄
Back in the 70s and before, our mentally ill citizens were safely house in mental institutions where they could get proper care.
The one thing I did not agree with Reagan with was that he signed the omnibus act of 1981 where mental institutions were abolished.
Look where we are now. Since then we have been having to deal with most leftists on the outside.
Such a downward slide.
Well in that case some conservatives are insular and ignorant. Because innocent people functioning in society and paying their taxes are entitled to freedom, liberty, and the same "give and take" in society conservatives claim for themselves.
Being here trying to be glib to call people "mentally ill" simply because they can't fit into a mode of life conservatives find attractive and life-long for themselves makes you all a narrow-minded group of people. Now then, where should we "house" meddlesome conservatives who can't agree and compromise with other innocent members of society.
Not so long as they can make money off it.
your argument about paying taxes and being entitled to liberty and freedom shouts like you don't believe those are things they have already, but we both know that isn't so.
Never said there should be some conservatives as seen as the same.
The subject of the seed deals with the left wing.
Of course. It strikes me some conservatives are people who in the words of Gore Vidal, "Look for issues. . . as something to get people overexcited about." Thus, it is no surprise that a conservative would not not look at his or her own nakedness of conscious rebuke, but point fingers 'across' the fence at liberals (and minorities).
Really Snuffy? I don't work in politics. Never have. If you have 'receipts' I would like to look at them.
So it seems.
He gloated.
That is not what the poll says. It says:
POLL: 71% of Americans support some restrictions on abortion (illegal after 1st trimester; only in cases of rape/incest; only to save life of mother.
Actually, it was the overturning of Roe, that stopped the red wave of the last election.
"They" know these things for they can read and think like the rest of us (when it suits them). However, it's the "contagion" mentioned in my comment 2.
Safe, legal and rare they once promised.
Your pithy comment is not helpful. Profess something already: Have you ever and do you now support safe, legal, and rare abortions? It's a simple question.
I do. And where have democrats gone on the issue? Those were their words in the begining.
Do you want to know where democrats are now on it? Gordy has the artice :
Your party in large part wants to stop the practice of abortion entirely. I don't know how you abide such a policy in states and at the federal level.
That's what the media has been selling. Most Republicans want reasonable restrictions and most democrats want what Gordy has been advocating, which is abortion on demand right up until the time of birth. Republicans can't seem to get the message out.
Funny. Because conservatives sure are getting the O weeks and 6 weeks version out well on media platforms. May be they should try harder. In the mean-time, you all are ruining people's lives with the confusion. BTW, there is irony in republicans wanting more childbirths, when conservatives are such a clear and present danger to minority (including LGBTQ) children with your policies.
That is, don't conservatives have enough groups in this nation to abuse with erasure of their presence in proper society?
I agree.
BTW, there is irony in republicans wanting more childbirths, when conservatives are such a clear and present danger to minority (including LGBTQ) children with your policies.
Really? Explain the "danger."
I will not spent time explaining which conservative policies are troublesome, mean-spirited, and outright prejudicial to minorities, women, and the LGBTQ because they are constantly gone over on this site. And the danger is real and impactful.
This is the image that appears in the Federalist article, and thus also at the top of this seed. What do we have here?
Four white men from a bygone era dumping the toxic waste of the LBTGQ icon into a sewer. This is just in case anyone doesnt get the point otherwise.
That word is a construct of the radical left.
The colors in a rainbow are a "nature" construct, and its symbolism for diverse people living together in harmony. They're all constructs. What is your point?
That interpretation is not only flat wrong, it displays an ignorance that is telling. The men in the original photo were dumping beer; rather ironic. It's an image of the 18th amendment and a reminder of the dangers of overzealous government intrusion that panders to a minority.
The image may also be a subtle reminder that Democrats will support bootleggers, crime bosses, wise guys, and lawlessness in society to get what they want. Democrats don't care about morality; Democrats care about hiding their past so they can grift off government. On issues of morality Democrats do not appeal to angels in society.
I described what is actually in the image.
No...you described your flawed and biased interpretation of the image. Most normal, moral, and decent people reject and refuse to swallow the swill that the Democrats are attempting ot force upon them
That is EXACTLY what is in the image printed by The Federalist.
An image depicting the prohibition of a state of being, making it illegal to exist!
A disposal of an entire class of humans.
[deleted]
And your description is flat wrong. If anything, the image shows the dumping of populist swill that people aren't buying. But even that would be an oversimplification.
The image (and article) was meant for a Federalist audience. Their version of pride ain't the same as woke swill that belongs in a sewer.
Dream on, that is nothing short of one spectacular lie.
Again, you are alluding to something without being plain and clear. What is this "swill" you are complaining about democrats forcing on you?
Yeah, I can see this. That is the nature of socio-political matters. We tend to bounce between extremes before stabilizing on rational ground.
While I question why Target thinks it needs a Pride Month clothing line for children, it has nothing to do with this complaining "shopper" who could simply go about her business and by-pass the Pride clothing line for youth and kids. But you can't create and issue out of other people's business (and meddlesome) if you don't go out of your way and meddle!
I presume Target is a 'liberal' corporation now because of Pride product lines?
What is truly happening here is there are people who demand that society not be inclusion, equitable/equal, or diverse. And so they intend to highlight every nuance of change that comes about rather it is harmless or just fun.
Bottomline, no thinking adult (let known the medical/science community which profoundly researches its decisions) should be allowed to 'hack' off a child's penis or remove a child's vagina without an at-length evaluation of why and consequences taking place. That is, what is the sense of urgency?
But, of course, conservative "issue people" need fodder for their political campaigns, so while they claim the trans community is a minority community; here they are making sure to blow it all out of proportion by implying that one should FEAR the transcommunity as coming after HETEROSEXUAL kids.
How come it can't be that the trans-community is offering young trans-kids a line of summer wear ?
there already were lines of clothes for both male and female children. Are clothes for transgendered different?
Maybe a bra top coupled with a crotch opening for easy peeing?
lol!
I assume that Target is trying to find niche ways to compete with the big boys like Amazon.
Could be. Or, it could be a way to attract a new stream of income for the company coming from an 'ignored' group of people who are manifesting right now. BTW, some of the clothing for toddlers seems to be 'fun' and supportive wear for symbolic purposes because kids that young are not going to state a purpose to transition (at least I hope not).
Seems like a large corporation like Target would be savvy enough to see how successful Bud Light was and not make the same mistake!
Aren’t we saying the same thing?
Could be. If you are suggesting that Amazon is supporting Pride Month and the LGBTQ community with a clothing line.
They are feeling pressure from the big guys and trying to do some Billy Money Ball in retail.
I’m not suggesting, I’m stating that Target is trying different ways to compete. Maybe they should also lose that violent name, Target.
Goes without stating (farther).
Huh?
Thank god 62 percent of people feel differently.
And also thank God that only 29% claimed to be very liberal/liberal. Of course, they are pretty shrill and garner lots of press.