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[–]chazzstrong 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Sex-Ed in my school, we divided boys and girls for the specifics of maintaining and puberty and all that, then were brought back together to talk about reproduction, safe sex practices and lastly to watch a video of a woman giving birth that had everyone a little green under the gills. The rest of the year was just learning about STDs, cultural norms, same-sex partners, even had a bit about body modifications like piercings around erogenous zones. And this was like mid-90s in a super-rural Conservative Missouri town whose Church was 3-times the size of our courthouse.

Nobody screamed or ranted, nobody threw a fit about what they were teaching us, and parents couldn't complain because students had to pass this class to be okayed to move on to high school. The push from Conservatives against this stuff is 100% purely due to the initial push by the progressives to FORCE it. It's the exact same with abortion. Most people were at least willing to pretend it didn't happen as long as it was a healthcare issue and had limits, but the moment they took that shit up to birth and started arguing that a fetus wasn't a sign of 'life' but a parasite? It's like they don't understand our system is a pendulum, and it ALWAYS swings back with the same force.

Our society has always been a give-and-take. I think to succeed we have to be 50 / 50, because despite claims to the contrary we are NOT a democracy and we were never set up to be one for precisely this purpose. I also find it interesting that parents are supposed to just accept their children learning about all this stupid, made-up gender bullshit because of 'representation', but I guarantee the moment someone brings up the idea of all kids participating in prayer in school it would be an absolute screech-fest.

[–]bife_de_lomo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

we are NOT a democracy

I actually think we need to be 50/50 to maintain a democracy on issues where opinion is about 50/50.

People are elected to represent all of their constituents, not just the ones who voted for them, so a winner-takes-all approach would be quite unhealthy.

Otherwise, I completely agree

[–]chazzstrong 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Man, those were the good ol days, when representatives listened to EVERYONE regardless of beliefs? These days politicians will straight-up spit in the face of half the people they supposedly represent just because they know they don't vote for them anyway. As soon as they get that 'majority' they close down all dialogue.