Besides naming Obama, why have people adopted a political identity?

Decades of pandering to women socially, politically, and legally.

Because America has been so polarized by Marxists that politics now transcends every facet of life.

This is a good question. People often think this is about polarization. It’s actually about overloading politics. We’re asking it to provide friendship, morality, identity, purpose, meaning, etc. (jobs it was never designed to do). In the 20th century, politics expressed interests. In the 21st century, politics supplies identity. That’s not because people became worse, but because many of the social structures that used to give people belonging and meaning collapsed, and politics moved in to fill the vacuum.

Yeah, you copy them, but there's some irony when it's making fun of everyone being the same is all.

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Why now do people identify by their political affiliation now (especially online) vs who they are compared to 2000?

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In 2000, I was an independent with a Libertarian bent.
I registered as a Republican in 2008 and 2012 to vote for Ron Paul.
I never voted for Donald Trump until the 2024 election.

Why now?

The apocalyptic left-wing assault on language, biology, history and our nation.

When free speech is under attack, and you cannot say that a man is a man without getting fired or in some cases legal trouble.

When lies like 1619 are promulgated as truth.

When MLK's life's work towards a colorblind society have degraded into race based privileges.

I decided I needed to throw my lot in with the one man who could stop the tsunami that had invaded our work lives, our children's schools, and our national psyche. When you come for someones kids, they either roll over or start fighting.

I would love to go back to a happy to live and let live libertarian.

But that party is trashed, and until we can get back to the truth (not "my truth") and respect actual facts, we will never be able to unite as a nation.

So until then I've climbed aboard the U.S.S. MAGA.

Because liberals are fighting a war against NORMAL.

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The ethical challenge now isn’t “don’t be influenced” (that’s impossible), but to notice how you’re being shaped and take some responsibility for the person you’re becoming inside the stream.

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To counter that, for some of us there is a line that has been crossed.

Sometimes in life you pick a side, even knowing that your side has flaws, things you don't support, that it's leadership is problematic.

I do not see a path to agree and disagree with a side that sees human sex as a changeable thing, especially when that side wishes to push this harmful ideology into schools and cancel those who stand up for biological reality.

I see the victims, both children who are pushed into this mindset, and of truth and discourse itself.

One side must win in this battle over what is "truth".

After that I am more than happy to compromise on taxes, NGOs, Immigration, Health Care etc...

Do I believe that 80% of Democrats actually think men can become women? No.
But those who actually do are causing incredible damage to the children and discourse of our nation.

I also don't think 80% of Germans supported death camps, but there comes times when one must decide, am I willing for this to be the final hill.

And for many of us with children, there is no retreat beyond where we are now.

To quote Reagan's Time for Choosing.

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You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin - just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well it's a simple answer after all.

You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, "There is a price we will not pay." "There is a point beyond which they must not advance." And this - this is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater's "peace through strength." Winston Churchill said, "The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we're spirits - not animals." And he said, "There's something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.

We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.

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I think most people adopt the political slant of the home that they grew up in, similar to religion.

Of course as people enter adulthood and start making their own observations about the world they'll deviate slightly from that. Some people might deviate greatly from that if they didn't have a good relationship with their parents as a form of rebellion.

Then there is the tribal aspect. People want to fit into groups as a form of acceptance. As much as we talk about individuality, the tribal aspect has a strong pull to it.

There are other influences that can sway people like their occupation and the people they meet through their career in the work place. There is a reason why certain occupation groups tend to sway pretty hard in one direction as opposed to the populace at large.

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This was going to happen eventually. And Trump supported it before he was president. In fact he is the first president to support it before entering office. Obama as you may recall was against it and then "changed his mind" based on a supreme court case. (if you're willing to believe his side of the story)

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It was the democratic process, push your view (Hate is not a family value), get support, engage in the legal processes, there is something far different with the trans movement.

They call their view reality itself, that they control and everyone else must bow or be guilty of violence.
They come for the children because they prey on undeveloped minds.

The sooner the Democratic party exorcises those demons the better for them and the nation.

Not to mention the legions of now confused children who are victims of this mind rot.

No one is forcing religious institutions to endorse the marriages. Marriages at the state level are legal contracts and that's all they have ever been. There were some differences between marriages and civil unions legally. The more rational option would have just been to make them completely congruent but they opted for a different path.