If you've read my book Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost, you will know that I believe the human animal doesn't change very much, and no amount of wish-casting can alter reality. To take Ardern as an example, her reaction to a single case of the imaginary disease known as "Covid-19" was quintessentially female and maternal: she immediately shut down her entire country, then instituted a breathtaking regime of ruthless totalitarianism involving lockdowns and forcible "vaccinations." (She had previously displayed these same panicky instincts in the wake of the 2019 mosque shootings, when she almost instantly imposed a draconian anti-gun policy nationwide.) In other words, she acted according to stereotype, her policies not the product of calm thinking and reasoned judgment but of inflamed emotions absent any rational thought. After which she walked away from the chaos complaining of burnout.
Found here. The article argues (tongue-in-cheek?) for the repeal of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which gave women the right to vote. Yikes. (Yikes about the repeal, I mean, not yikes about giving women the right to vote.)
Also, I'm not sure that the term wish-casting is being used correctly. As a Hollywood notion, it refers to fantasizing about which actors you'd ideally want in your movie. Is the writer suggesting that the tyrannical Jacinda Ardern's accession to the levers of power in New Zealand was the result of wish-casting?
And while Ardern makes for a good example of why women shouldn't be leaders, the obvious counterexample would be Margaret Thatcher (cue booing from Labor). In my opinion, Thatcher proves that women can govern with wisdom and conviction.
Yeah, totalitarians and incompetents come in both sexes. Who is worse, Governor Whitmer or California's Newsome? But the stupidest of all are people who vote for assholes like these.
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