Bill Clinton, responding to a question about infidelity in 1998, said, “I have not had a sexual relationship with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky” (even if she did have one). The former president is apparently not alone among Democrats in holding these moral views: Stray cat. That's what a new study shows, anyway.
A recent study released by the Institute for Family Studies (IFS) found that “Republican husbands, especially religious husbands, are less likely to cheat on their wives than Democratic husbands,” the group writes. are.
This is not the first time that IFS has uncovered extramarital affairs between Democrats and members of Congress. In 2022, the organization surveyed women and found the same phenomenon. 2017 revealed a general rift between Democrats and Republicans. Relatedly, IFS found in 2015 that conservative counties have more stable families than Democratic counties.
Of course, is this surprising? Don't people who promote “situational values” and shades of gray place less importance on marriage vows?
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Regarding the current research, IFS writes:
Republican men are less likely to stray than other men. That may be partly because Democrats have become more accepting of sex outside of marriage in recent years when it comes to their views on cheating. This trend has been particularly pronounced among Democrats since what Matt Yglesias called the “Great Awakening” (circa 2014), when many Democrats moved hard to the cultural left.
Since this far-left turn, which included a gradual expansion of support for polyamory, a small number of Democrats, including Democratic husbands, have abandoned classic chastity norms. Just a decade ago, three-quarters of married Democratic men between the ages of 18 and 55 said it was “always wrong” to have sex with someone other than their spouse, according to the General Social Survey (GSS). I believed it. Today, only half do so. In contrast, four in five married Republican men (ages 18-55) accept the classic norm that sex outside of marriage is “always wrong,” with no signs of change over the same period. I can't see it.
Note that this reflects a broader phenomenon. In other words, the Democratic Party in general has fundamentally changed in recent years, embracing extremism, while the Republican Party's ideology has remained more constant.
In other words, contrary to mainstream media reports, the Democratic Party is the party of radicalism, not the Republican Party.
To illustrate this point, who supports bizarre agendas and ideas like open borders, DEI (officially sanctioned discrimination), “transgenderism”, and microaggressions? Where are the Republican entities comparable to these? They don't exist.
no shock
Is it any surprise, then, that the Democratic Party, currently obsessed with radicalism (and perhaps others), would become even more radically dishonest? For commentator Olivia Murray, this was no shock at all. She says of the IFS study:
Men who condone infanticide (as a matter of policy and personal attitude) because it allows them to exploit women for their own personal sexual gratification are not so concerned about respecting the marriage bed. Are you saying no?
Oh, and isn't the man who forces infanticide on the mother of his child after sex so he doesn't have to grow up to be responsible for his actions to be obsessed with trivial things like honor, duty, and devotion? ?
“Men” who think nothing of crazy crossdressers invading women's spaces, sexually violating women and girls, and forcing participants into their crazy fetish environments to protect their women. Are you not that interested in it?
…So, given the very obvious political disagreements and the values ​​each side (as a whole) espouses, was this unexpected? The Republican Party promotes and supports strong traditional families (which undoubtedly include marriage as designed by God), maturity, protection of children, and self-sacrifice.
On the other side? Democrats believe that sex is a “social construct,” that killing babies is a woman's right, and that children are sexual beings. We are completely different people.
In fact, many Democrats are descendants of advocates of sexual devolution and today are advocates of sexual devolution themselves. This, along with generally lax “moral views”, helps explain why perhaps 90% of those who engaged in sexual misconduct through the #MeToo movement were left-wing.
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But are Democrats really bad people? This proposition probably doesn't surprise author Peter Schweitzer. After all, in his 2008 article “Don't Listen to Liberals—Right-Wingers Are Actually Better People, New Study Shows,” he wrote:
There's plenty of data showing that right-wingers are happier, more charitable, less likely to commit suicide, and even hug their children better than left-wingers.
Regarding this, Schweitzer explains, “Politics influences the way we live our lives.'' But in reality, this is mistaking correlation for causation.
It is said that politics is downstream from culture. What is less understood is that a person's politics is downstream from his or her own personal culture. This itself is downstream of his spiritual, moral and philosophical foundations.
In other words, politics doesn't really influence how you live your life (although everything can). That said, the deeper realms mentioned above influence your politics and the way you live your life.
Wisdom passed down from ancient times
About this, the Greek philosopher Plato wrote about how a person becomes such a being. He emphasized the importance of early socialization, saying that children should be raised in an atmosphere of nobility and grace. This creates an “erotic” (i.e. emotional) attachment to virtue in the infant. This is the only kind that young children can develop, since they are still too young to understand virtue intellectually. However, once this attachment becomes a reality, the adolescent has a more properly formed emotional foundation. And when he reaches the age of reason, he will be more willing to accept the commands of reason because his emotions will not contradict them.
However, unfortunately, it is still easy for a child to develop an emotional attachment to vices. (After all, anything left unchecked naturally tends toward anarchy.) Today's popular culture itself is moving toward this end. And once this attachment exists, the person will become completely irrational when he reaches the age of maturity of reason.
Generally speaking, this type of person, whose soul is dark due to sin, is drawn to an equally dark ideology. For example, Marxism in Russia in 1917, Nazism in Germany in 1933, and what we today call “leftism.”
Steeped in godlessness, moral relativism/nihilism, and narcissism, the left readily embraces the creed: “If it feels good, do it.” This is a recipe for even saints to fall into error and for those who have given up vices to hell.
