Educated...? Let's say "college-attending."
A poll finds that college-educated left-wing women, or AWFLs, are the group most eager to sever connections with friends or families due to their cultic "political" beliefs.
You. Don't. Say.
New polling data shows what you may already suspect: your experience of losing friends since the 2024 election of Donald Trump is absolutely real -- if very divided depending on your political tribe.
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According to Cygnal's latest national survey of 1,500 likely voters (conducted May 6-8, with a 3 percent MOE), more than half of voters (53 percent) say "it's at least somewhat common that their friends and neighbors have ended a friendship because of Donald Trump and the 2024 election" while "39 percent say not that common or not at all common."
The ideological breakdown isn't close. Democrats and voters who backed Kamala Harris in 2024 are far more likely to say friends and neighbors have ended a friendship over the election, with self-identified liberals saying they have a hard time co-existing and playing nice with someone who voted differently than they did by 30 points, a 2:1 margin (61 percent common compared to 31 percent not common). On the other side, conservatives are much more even-keeled -- 49 percent say lost friendships over 2024 are common, but 45 percent saying it's not common.
If you wanted to drill down to the biggest dividing factor here, it's the portion of the coalition made up of college-educated women -- a cohort that now dominates the politics of the Democratic coalition. In their circles, they say differences of political opinion have led to broken friendships with friends and neighbors at a more than 40-point rate -- 67 percent to 24 percent.
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It's the allyship that matters most, you see -- not friendship.
If you're wondering where all of this radical left-wing authoritarian cultishness is coming from: It's coming from stupid left-wing women.
I think women serve as the cultural and moral forces in society. When most women believe in wise things, society is orderly and prosperous.
When most women believe in sick, demented things -- or, actually, when a privileged minority of women who exert an outsized influence on morals and culture -- society degenerates.
Obviously our society has been degenerating for a long time.
Jordan Peterson explains that they've conducted surveys to determine if there is a left-wing fascist impulse -- there is, obviously -- and if so, what factors lead someone to embrace left-wing fascist attitudes.
The answers, based on actual social science surveys, are these:
- Female gender
- Feminine temperament. Note that some women may have a more masculine temperament and some men have a more feminine one.
- Low verbal IQ
That last one, he postulates, is critical for breeding this cultish left-wing fascist worldview, because you have to be sort of stupid to believe that all of your failures are due to a Conspiracy So Vast of men and white people working together to keep you from getting a raise and getting a husband.
He also says that the "dark tetrad" of psychopathic traits -- manipulation, psychopathy, narcissism, and sadism -- maps so neatly over the left-wing authoritarian type that the two are essentially undistinguishable.