Could "Theybie" Killing the Dems Chances This Fall?

I watched a throwaway piece on the news this weekend about how some parents -- probably two, but what the heck -- were starting to raise newborn babies as "theybies", i.e., without recognizing their gender and, as they start their lives, without treating boys as boys and girls as girls from birth.

Now, the whole notion is pretty silly on its surface -- boys are boys and girls are girls, and the very tiny percentage of people raised in such a way as to feel completely the other gender can be addressed on their own.  But the morning show that ran the little piece had a "panel" of three people Skyped in, to give their views.

One was a clinical psychologist, I recall, and the second was ... I forgot.  But the third was a
Democratic strategist", and the poor fellow was having to defend this notion -- which he did, or tried to -- and that's what got me thinking.

You see, the more the Democrats are saddled with being the left, the more they have to address the cockeyed notions that the more extreme parts of the left spout.  And it is a "feature" of the left that they continually push the envelope with more odd "ideas" constantly, and the press is unwilling to call them out when the ideas are actually stupid -- so we get more of them.

Yesterday, for example, Kamala Harris, the leftist senator from, of course, California, came up with a rosy notion that the Federal government should control rent.  The reason?  Because some people can't afford their rent, and it is too high of a percentage of some people's income.  Now, that's absurd on its face, because the Federal government not only has no right to involve itself in local commerce, and is banned from doing it by the Constitution, it has shown itself incapable of doing so with any ability at all, with Obamacare being the most recent disastrous example (add student loan programs, VA hospitals, etc.).

Oh yeah, and because rent is set by a market economy.  If the Government lowered rent to where the property owner could not afford to rent it out -- and every such property is different, mind you, which the Government would never be able to manage -- either properties would be sold and re-purposed, abandoned, or allowed to decay further, reducing availability of decent housing.

Are the media calling Sen. Harris out for stupidity?  Of course not.  She is a Democrat, like them, a far-left liberal, like them, and she is part-black, which makes her immune from criticism.

So the media ignore the weird or hopeless notions the left is coming up with, like regulating rent at the Federal level, abolishing ICE, throwing borders open, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, and "guaranteed incomes", an experiment which just crashed and burned in Finland.

And now we have "theybies", and I hope this one at least gets publicized, although I can't say for sure who is actually practicing this notion.

When I saw that the defender invited to comment was a "Democratic strategist", it struck me that that was a big issue.  As long as the left kept coming up with these hare-brained things that average Americans would reject out of hand, how are the Democrats who have to represent the left supposed to get elected?  How would "less leftist" Democrats like Joe Manchin, Heidi Heitkamp, Joe Donnelly, Claire McCaskill and Jon Tester expect in November to keep their Senate seats in states that President Trump won, unless they aggressively oppose that kind of idiocy?

The Democrats want to try to take back the House in November (they don't really have a chance in the Senate because the Senate election cycle doesn't break their way in 2018).  How are they going to do that if an aggressive Republican National Committee points out in every contested race that the Democrats are defending these policies that the voting public doesn't support?

The Democrats have a problem of their own making.  They are not shutting these notions down, and the press is not helping them by airing them as being mainstream thought, when they are not.

I'm waiting for the first "gender reveal" by one of those sets of lefty parents that actually buys into the "theybie" notion.  I'm guessing what color the balloons will be.

I'm thinking "beige."

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