Pity the sexually frustrated left

If we conservatives have the wit to exploit it, a new study offers ammunition to attack a critical process by which the left has recruited an ever larger share of adolescents as they grow into adults and voters.  The ruthless propagandists of the left, as shrewdly as any Madison Avenue advertising strategy, have linked their product to sex.  That is shrewd, because a major portion of adolescent energies are devoted to sex, real, planned, or imagined, and those who offer a vision of free and easy sex with no consequences have an effective path into the emerging life preferences of these adults-in-development. For roughly the last century, the cultural left has asserted that conservatives are uptight, unhappy prudes anxious to impose their antediluvian views on their betters.  Harold Ross, the legendary founding editor of The New Yorker (which virtually defined the cultural attitudes conservatives now denounce as “elitist”), alluded to this when he...(Read Full Post)