Have you noticed it also?
There doesn't seem to be the degree of "pride" that there has been in the previous few months of June.
Then Trump's first term ended. And the real freak show that was the Biden years began.
Thankfully, most of the American people got fatigued by pretty much everything wacko liberal. Enough to toss leftism out on its keister. Right now the only vestige of power that it still has are in the out-of-control federal judges who are imperiling rule of law, sheerly out of a lust to "get Trump" by any means possible.
I was expecting that this June would witness a resurgence of "pride". A counter-revolution to the "Make America Great Again" movement that propelled Trump to a second term in the White House. The leftists were going to rally around the cause of LGBT again, regather their forces, throw in the reserves...
...but so far, nothing.
Oh, there have been a few adherents of LGBT ideology who have stuck with it. A few nights ago I watched A Face in the Crowd, the 1957 movie that was Andy Griffith's first role. By the end of the film Griffith's character, the "demagogue in denim" Lonesome Rhodes, has been destroyed by his own ego. Mel Miller (played by Walter Matthau) tells Rhodes that he'll get another show, "but it won't be the same." There will be a few people who will still watch him after he's ruined his seemingly invincible hold on the public. But those will eventually disappear too. And then there will be no one.
That's what the LGBT cause reminds me of. Lonesome Rhodes. Screaming in the night for some slight measure of legitimacy and respect.
I'll dare say that the days of LGBT's hold on the business world are over with. Those active in the movement have had their time. They've been weighted in the balances of corporate esteem and found wanting. The court of public opinion is no longer in their favor. No matter how much gay-friendly beer and "trans swimwear" they might boast of selling.
If only the LGBT extremists had kept low all this time. They may not have become so reviled by the majority of the American people.
Especially by many of those who do identify as gay and lesbian.
Because it wasn't so long ago the LGBT community wanted to be left alone. They wanted to live in quiet with others.
A lot of homosexuals and lesbians still prefer quiet. I believe that there should be no grievance to be had with them, at all. They respect my right to my beliefs and I respect their privacy. There is a line that should never be crossed and so long as it isn't there can be peace.
But those aren't the ones involved with "LGBT Pride".
First the LGBT fringe was quiet.
Then they asked for "tolerance" and "acceptance".
Then they insisted that they be "loved" no matter what they were doing to destroy themselves.
And now it is "Pride" that DEMANDS SUBSERVIENCE. It has come to be that we must all fall in line and surrender to the cause of LGBT or suffer "consequences" (they love to use that word). That is what Pride has morphed into.
The "LGBT Pride" movement is not and never has been about peaceful "live and let live". It has always been about coercion. It is about forcing people against their conscience. It is "capitulate to us or ELSE". It is "obey or BE DESTROYED!"
The extremist LGBT movement is like most other things leftist. A dark iron fist beneath a tattered velvet glove. They are bullies hiding behind a rainbow flag (or purple and lavender flag, or whatever).
Too many of the LGBT extremists also want to pervert our children. It's the only way they are going to perpetuate themselves, by making the most innocent among us like them. They're the ones often called "the groomers". And they are for all intents and purposes irredeemably evil.
There is nothing virtuous or noble to be "proud" about in homosexuality and its associated lifestyles. It is a thing of destruction: of others, of culture, and inevitably of one's healthy mind and body.
But that is the choice of homosexuals and lesbians and bisexuals. Don't get me started on transgenderism: as much an affront to nature and society as there is ever apt to be.
If someone wants to partake of a lifestyle that invites disease, madness and death, then there is little I could do to persuade them otherwise. But do NOT assume that I or any other conscionable human being must be compliant and give our consent and blessing to such behavior.
Now, can there truly be "peaceful co-existence" between most people and those of the radical LGBT agenda? It's very doubtful. The LGBT zealots have to earn our respect. And they aren't doing that.
Thugs and bullies never do.
But if this year is any indication, "LGBT Pride" is fast losing its luster. The velvet glove is now shreds of remnant. Extreme liberalism has been revealed for all to see as the brute power-at-all-costs that it really is, and people are wiser now. If this past autumn's elections were any indication (and in a historic first, President Trump's approval ratings at this point in his term are higher than that of any other president at similar times) the LGBT movement no longer has any legitimacy. It is being buoyed pretty much by left-leaning media: another institution that is losing its power. When CNN's audience is numbered in the hundreds of thousands while Joe Rogan's podcast gets an audience in the tens of millions, there has been a drastic shift away from the mainstream press's hold on the American people.
So if you are seeing "Pride" on display this month, and detest the wickedness that it stands for, take heart. These are the last days of that movement as it has been defined in the past few decades. At least until - hopefully a long time in the future - another leftist regime is installed and the LGBT extremists - who a lot of homosexuals want nothing to do with - come out of hiding once again.
