Progressive Puritanismtl is the reason why Trump got elected both times.

Neither Hillary nor Kamala were progressive enough so a large enough portion of people just didn’t vote.

Meanwhile, so Republicans always vote.

You just can’t help yourself.

Thank you for demonstrating the point in the most predictable way possible.

You see this readily on Lemmy.

I can be like, “I’m definitely pro-access to hormone treatments in most circumstances for adults, but I still think having transitioning a person’s sex is a big decision, should be made cautiously, and can have lasting psychological effects.” And I’ll get 100+ down votes.

I don’t think so. What I’m lamenting is that our society is so far removed from having actual community that people can’t even imagine what life was like back then when parents wouldn’t give any thought to kicking their 9 year old kids out of the house to go run around their cities because the parents knew that everyone in town knew who their kids were and everyone looked after each other, and especially the kids.

That really was normal for most of human history.

But I do find it funny how Lemmy people will one jerk down vote anything that causes them any minor about it cognitive dissidence.

Never stopped.

Just gonna leave this here…

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=is+being+religious+associated+with+getting+happier&l=1

We are probably going to disagree on cellphone access being better for the kids.

In 1913, 700 miles was practically across the country. That was further away than most adults traveled from their birth town in their lives.

Yes, the store thing was just an example. The point is that before the 1970-80s basically ALL kids were “free-range”. In the 80s a PSA would come on tv that asked the parents if they knew where their kids were, and often than answer was ‘no’. (That’s literally the moment when parents started being shamed for not being helicopter parents.)

It’s just an uncomfortable fact.

Parents used to buy postage and literally mail their kids across the country.

And people didn’t think that was weird.

You think that started in the 70s?

Yes. Definitely (though of course the actual specific time when such things started changes based on location, rural areas were slower than suburban).

Consider this: How old were your kids when you allowed them to go to a store by themselves for the first time?

How old were you when you were allowed to go to a store by yourself for the first time?

Ask your grandma how old she was. (Call your grandma anyway, she would love to hear from you.)

I honestly don’t believe that Dr. Spock would recognize today’s parenting expectations as anything other than absurdity. Which it is.

No where did he say that children should not be allowed to go to a store by themselves, or that kids should be expected to have a minimum of 16 hours of college credits before they turn 18.

When he was writing, he would not have been able to imagine the way “parenting” would evolve by the end of the century.

Not really, no. The modern concept of a parent is really recent invention. Parents 70 years ago did not have expectations and responsibility that parents have today.

Your great grandparents would absolutely think the job of parenting today is absurd to the point of just being comedy.

Honestly, as terrible as Trump is, I’m not sure I want JD to take his place.

That’s a fair criticism.

Their propaganda has actually generally sucked pretty bad this war. They had the opportunity to make the US and Israel (and particularly Trump and Bebe) into a global pariah. They could have started showing videos of schools and other graphic terrible images of people the US has murdered and things they have destroyed. They could have turned the whole world against the US and Israel, just like Biden and Zelinski were able to turn the would world against Russia.

But instead they dug in, started bombing everyone else around them, and made everyone remember why they are hated in the first place.

It’s a website that doesn’t require a user to report their age.