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Tuesday, August 29, 2023

TODDLERS PLAYING WITH OPPOSITE GENDER TOYS SHOULD NOT BE TRANSITIONED

 TODDLERS PLAYING WITH OPPOSITE GENDER TOYS SHOULD NOT BE TRANSITIONED

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

 

For at least the last hundred years youngsters have played with toys of the opposite gender.

Little girls wore “dungarees” and cowboy boots that were at the time worn solely by boys. The girls pretended to be riding ponies while boys pretended to play house with girls and their dolls.  Adults believed the children would quickly grow out of this experimental stage of role playing their parents.

 

Before wokism changed our entire traditional culture being a girl or boy was clearly and simply defined by the child’s anatomical structure. A child born with a penis was a boy and a child born with a vagina was a girl no matter the clothing or objects they played with. Some girls were “tomboys,” and some boys were “prissy” and more inclined to be involved with “girly” things.

 

Parents, grandparents, and friends understood that reinforcing normal and appropriate behavior for the individual child would help them accept their biological gender without resorting to drastic psychological and surgical measures to change their sex. Adults in the past had more faith that their child’s world would conform to their natural destiny.

 

Today we are reacting to societal changes that have negative outcomes. In this woke culture, sexual deviance has supposedly become a proud and courageous frontier. If a person has inclinations towards an unusual tendency or orientation to a novel lifestyle, they deserve special status as a “protected class.” Deviancy is being pushed and celebrated as a badge of courage.

 

Instead of helping people overcome individual mental difficulties we are choosing to just label the problem. This is not done to eliminate the issue but to make accommodations for it to be acceptable to others. 

 

Labeling a condition is the first step. A person is given a label such as defiant disorder, autism, speech delayed, or many other labels. Next comes accommodations with a specialist assigned to assist the individual to accept their disability rather than learning to overcome or solve their dysfunction. Only by helping a person read better, do math at a higher level, speed up their learning of academics, follow instructions instead of doing their own thing, can we normalize the person’s actions.  

 

Labeling a person’s behavior does not solve or minimize the problem but creates a permanent excuse to live with the unsolved deficiency. Labeling a person’s inabilities and creating special accommodations only adds credibility to their so-called handicap. It does nothing to help them be a better functioning, independent person.

 

Through our schools and families, our society is finding means of passing on the difficulties to professional psychological and sociological experts who console the family members for their dysfunctional member. It does little to help the person’s limitations or solve the family issue.

 

Children doing weird or inappropriate behavior for their gender should be gently redirected.

Parents should assure the child that their preferences should change with time. At the same time, they should encourage more sexually appropriate behavior. 

 

Once everybody is on the same page we will realize that gender dysphoria is currently a hot topic in our woke society. As each authority agrees the confused child will understand and accept their gender. They will understand they are not able to just transfer to the opposite sex without radical physiological or mental reorientation. 

 

Presently in our woke culture, gender dysphoria is in vogue. Modern parents are likely to play psychologist with their youngster. Instead of firmly stating, “you are all girl, or all boy” too many “enlightened” parents want to investigate why the child seems to have confusion. This approach opens the floodgates to even greater confusion. 

 

Parents’ attitudes in the past were simple. You were born a boy or a girl. It was God’s will. You were born bright and into a loving family. You or no one else could change your sex except by horrible surgical procedures that will leave you the same genetic sex with different anatomical organs. The conversation should end with, “you were blessed to be born a wonderful girl or boy.” The discussion should end there. Any further discussion is futile and there is no alternative.

 

Going down the road of gender dysphoria does not end well for anyone. The label “gender dysphoria” does not solve anything. It merely gives the person a unique label to hide behind. 

 

Any person who has been given a label, no matter how interesting or “cool” in time it loses its glow leaving the confused person to speak for himself without the label to shield them.

 

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers and blogs, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and the latest book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

THE WAR BETWEEN EVIL AND GOOD

 THE WAR BETWEEN EVIL AND GOOD

By Domenick J. Maglio Ph.D Traditional Realist

 

On June 28th, 2023, marching from Tompkins Park to the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, New York, drag queens chanted, “We ‘re here, we’re queer and we’re coming for your children.” Not only are deviants, like drag queens on the move to destroy the innocence and goodness of our children but our government schools, entertainment industry, social media, legacy news, child development experts, some despicable politicians, and even some religious groups are indoctrinating our children into hedonism. 

 

Government schoolteachers are openly expressing that their college education training gives them knowledge that is greater than the parents have to make decisions for their students. Many of the decisions schools have made is to push questionable anti-traditional concepts without fairly presenting both sides of the issue. CRT, transgenderism, white supremacy, equity/Marxism, and revisionist history are presented as positives. 

 

Child development experts for the most part preach permissive materialism parenting as a religion. It has allowed parents to focus on their own adult social life without the guilt of not being there to raise their children correctly. The social and news media have discussed deviant groups in glowing terms making them attractive to naïve minds. Even some church groups are more in tune with the leftist deviant thinking than Christianity. In many communities Christianity is under attack as deviance is being glorified. 

 

This battle between good and evil has been going on for centuries. A major problem for our culture is parental influence has been degraded by parents’ absence which has been filled by “experts.” These child development experts preach acceptance of the child’s idiosyncratic behavior rather than normalizing their thinking and behavior.

 

The parental impact was further weakened by removing the mother from the home into the workforce in the 1960s and chiseling away the father’s authority with the children. Parents were the transmitters of proper socialization, civil and traditional American values to our youth. 

 

Social media celebrities and too often deviant “influencers” are directing children in the wrong path to personal vulnerability and evil. The cell phone plays a gigantic role of allowing all sorts of negative practices to be learned and practiced by the mere manipulation of the children’s fingertips. The children’s cell phones are the major access point to being seduced into the world they are not prepared to enter. Many youngsters are too ignorant and immature to reject reckless suggestions. 

 

The world war for the minds of our children is raging.  As parents relinquish more of their roles and children turn to live entertainment more antitraditional ideas can be imprinted into the minds of our youth with no counter information. This indoctrination is not only happening in our children’s entertainment world but also in our government schools. Even “woke” politicians like President Biden, are talking to young people as if they were their children, not ours.

 

Usually, parents have greater responsibility and opportunity to inculcate their children with moral values and insights to avoid temptation that would lead to a path of evil.  Parents with their greater worldly knowledge can teach their loved ones to live an honorable, highly functioning, Godly life.

 

God fearing people were losing this war but are starting to see the need to protect their children from so many evil forces. Some parents are starting to confront their children to straighten and strengthen their immature thought processes and consider the issues in a complex world. The long-term implications of their future behaviors must be examined and thoroughly discussed.

 

Youngsters need assistance from adults. Leaving young and naïve children to their own devices is setting them up for a self-destructive lifestyle. Loved ones need to stand strong to protect their children. Adolescents must realize that deviants and wrong lifestyles have disastrous pitfalls that complicate their lives, not solve their problems. The luster and sophistication of these smooth-talking teenage hustlers must be unmasked, or our children will follow them into hell.

 

The war between evil and good has been going on for eternity. When most families were extended ones living around other family members and close neighbors, there were many eyes watching our children. In the modern world of electronics, children can reach far into the world of extreme bizarreness, evil rituals, and even human sacrifice.

 

Now more than ever we need to sit down with our children to point out Biblical truths as well as the evil events that are being exposed in the media. Children need to know the horrible downfall of people who follow and practice evil.

 

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers and blogs, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and the latest book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

THE MORAL WAR WILL BE WON BY NOT ACCEPTING DEVIANCE

THE MORAL WAR WILL BE WON BY NOT ACCEPTING DEVIANCE

By Domenick J. Maglio, PhD. Traditional Realist

 

The “woke” culture has replaced traditional values with many that were historically considered sinful. This reversal has happened at warp speed. There has not been any noticeable counter- attack by traditional Americans. This silence has been shocking since it does not make sense unless you realize who has the public media microphone. 

 

The politicians, media, and corporate world are all backing “wokism,” a Marxist movement to construct a one-world government supposedly to save the planet. This creative narrative is meant to save our world from imploding by global warming, over population, pandemics, or some other earthly calamity.

 

To start this project of creating an entire new culture, the old system must be disassembled. The “woke cabal” is in the worldwide process of disabling and devaluating the institutions that created stable and productive nations. 

 

The Supreme Court of the USA voted to legalize same sex marriage and weaken traditional marriage. In our woke culture, criminality is being ignored and mental illness is not being recognized. Pedophilia has become almost celebrated by the media with little or no denouncing of this practice. Deviance has not only gained greater acceptance but has become chic. 

 

Direct attacks on Christianity such as those by the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” were pushed by the media even when they were supported by few.  Christianity is under attack worldwide according to the Vatican News with no media outrage. Drag queen story hours and shows are being performed in schools and venues where children attend.  Students in school are being shown actual sexual acts and learning about deviancy as if it is normal. The Bible has been removed from some school libraries, but Satan clubs are held in some government schools. Evil is being uplifted by woke government officials while morals are being ridiculed.

 

Child trafficking and human sacrifice are on the rise especially in the United States. It is reported that 85,000 undocumented minors have “disappeared” after coming to the US. Child trafficking has become more lucrative than drug or gun running. Children have become pawns for adults to abuse as they see fit.

 

The woke agenda used the Covid pandemic to shame citizens, including the military, into taking medical injections. People wearing useless masks told others if they did not wear masks, they would be killing innocent people. Individuals who thought people were not following government medical mandates said they were more than selfish, potential killers. Citizens were turned against each other. The woke believers, politicians, and their scientist hacks, such as Anthony Fauci, were constantly on television lecturing us on what to do and believe. Recent government statistics show deaths caused by the vaccines are greater than they predicted.

 

Divorce is increasing and marriage is decreasing. A high divorce rate means the society is crumbling on its foundation. Both children and their parents have lost direction. The parents become unable to give the children the traditional values they need to be in a healthy place. Children and their parents fill their time with sometimes deviant, unproductive behaviors rather than learn how to be healthy, functioning people. When people have no moral boundaries, deviance increases. People not following societal mores and rules make it difficult for those people who are doing the right thing to practice traditional behaviors. These believers in God are unable to prosper in a world of chaos. 

 

Once the society holds up deviance as acceptable and ridicules moral behavior as discriminatory or destructive, our morals fade. Weak people will adopt short term hedonistic pleasures without realizing the long-term problems produced in their lives. “Deviance down” affects everyone in society. This concept was to increase deviance and lower the standards of the society. The moral people become “old fogeys” while the immoral are praised as “cool trend setters.”

 

Society also suffers when leaders use their power to encourage dysfunctional behavior.  They do this to increase political and personal power at the expense of the people. The nation sinks into short-sighted self-destructive behavior where the innocent suffer along with the ignorant.

 

Bringing together separate groups who celebrate traditional values increases the strength of the whole society. Joining other people with moral values produces a strong, righteous society. We need to stop lowering our traditional values and principles to draw immoral fringe citizens onto our side.  

 

The only way traditionally moral people can gain success in moral war is to strengthen our standards and morals, not lower them. Increasing the numbers on our side by joining the people who do not celebrate our traditional moral values does not make sense.

 

Only by strongly rejecting deviance and fighting forcefully for virtuous behavior will we firmly establish a moral nation.

 

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers and blogs, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and the latest book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.

 

  

Tuesday, August 08, 2023

CAPITALISM IS BASED ON INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVE AND FREEDOM

 CAPITALISM IS BASED ON INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVE AND FREEDOM

By Domenick J. Maglio, PhD. Traditional Realist

 

In a capitalistic system if an individual works diligently, he will receive what he earns. There are also devious and corrupt ways to become wealthy. Cheating and robbing others’ property, ideas, or life to gain a higher status is a reality. However, in capitalism a hardworking, poor person or immigrant can rise quickly without having a close connection with a well-positioned benefactor. The necessary ingredient is the willingness of the person to sacrifice and persist until their goal is reached.

 

In an economy controlled from the top it is more important who you know rather than what you can do, develop, or create. Innovation is officially assigned to the experts in the top-level positions not for the lower-level laborers.  The people at the bottom of the totem pole generally remain there.

 

Of course, in a capitalist society not everything is black and white. Depending on the size, leadership, and type of business there are many individual differences, challenges and options. The wonderful thing about western capitalism is if you are not satisfied with your position, you have the option to negotiate with your supervisor, leave for another business, or enter an entirely different line of work. There are many choices rather than being stuck in a low position that is not enjoyed. 

 

When someone has worked in a particular field and decides he can make the business more efficient, he can go to a higher-level person and win the approval of this supervisor to test an innovative idea. If adopted, often the employee is given a raise and a promotion. If it is not approved, he can make requested changes to have it approved or try it with another corporation. 

 

There is another level of conviction when a person fully believes their innovation is so effective, they are willing to back it with their own funds or raise money by selling shares for their idea to gain financial backing. Many low-level workers have risked all their savings and that of their financial backers to start their own businesses which started them on the road to financial success. 

 

Starting one’s own business does not mean it will be an automatic success. The person should be aware that at the beginning of any venture, there will be a rough start-up period. The initial monetary issue places the person and his family in a precarious position. The owner and family members may have to work other jobs to pay the rent and put food on the table. 

 

It takes time for the word to get out to the public that the business is worthwhile for the price and services it provides. A startup businessperson must realize there will be ups and downs and times when the owner will consider throwing in the towel. Perseverance and discipline usually are necessary for any type of success. The business owner should have a strong conviction that his business will be sufficiently attractive and serve people’s needs or have a product that people desire. 

 

Capitalism is an economic system that encourages innovative workers to take the next step to become an owner of a business. It is firmly grounded in individual initiative and freedom.

A capitalist must think out of the box yet be a realist. Capitalists must strive to be the best they can be. They must face challenges by competitors who also have a product they believe will benefit others. An entrepreneur must be inspired to struggle until their product becomes a household name in their community. Many may drop out for a while until they can tweak their idea or approach to resume their path toward success. Some will drop out permanently but for most it will be a temporary setback.

 

The American Dream is attained by anyone who perseveres and eventually finds their unique niche in the US society. They will probably not become wealthy, but they continue to do their best to perform at the highest level. They will be free to compete with others and make a decent living. 

 

In other words, courageous entrepreneurs exercise their individual freedom in a competitive marketplace which improves the US economic status. The US capitalist economy is the most productive in the world. Let us keep government bureaucrats and socialist leaning corporate heads from controlling our economy from the top by using their manufacturing and/or political power to prevent honest competition, which is not capitalism.

 

To have a true competitive capitalist economy every business should be free to produce their product in a fair and honest system. 

 

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers and blogs, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and the latest book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, August 01, 2023

WHEN TEACHERS HAVE MORE SAY THAN THE PARENTS, COMMUNISM HAS ARRIVED

 WHEN TEACHERS HAVE MORE SAY THAN THE PARENTS, COMMUNISM HAS ARRIVED

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

 

Local, state and federal governments have intruded into every aspect of our lives. Local councilmen have made laws informing citizens about banning chaining a dog, the length of the grass, and inquire about every change made on one’s property to be inspected and permitted. 
Every private home is now under the control of the government.

 

State government schools issue mandates on what is to be taught at each grade. The state has established education and license standards that miss the art of being an excellent teacher. Their idea is to complete a series of college courses as a guarantee of becoming a really effective teacher. It is not bearing fruit. 

 

As the American family weakens and dissolves into divorce, our schools have used government funding to provide services to students. These children can be provided psychological/ sociological services, free lunch, breakfast, and dinner and in some schools, weekend supplies of food, take home computers and other school supplies. Many of our children are being “parented by the state.” 

 

Hillary Clinton famously stated “it takes a village to raise a child.” President Biden noted that “all the kids are ours.” This undermines the importance of parents in raising their own children. It attempts to raise the status of government teachers which is an impossible task.

 

As the traditional family dissolves, the government is undermining its past support system by making divorce as easy as checking out of a supermarket.  It has become apparent that marriage as we know it is no longer just between a man and a woman. Parents are belittled in government schools. Instead of teacher-parent meetings where parents have a major say in their children’s education government schools are relying on outside “experts.”

 

The protectors of students would be a hybrid of government agencies and politically powerful coalitions of education degreed “experts,” governmental health experts who want to legitimize fringe sexual groups. They have little to no intimate knowledge of the child’s behavior and inclinations.

 

A mother and father that biologically created the child and trained them to grow into a high functioning youngster have no logical or moral legitimacy according to the government. Instead, the national government representatives, particularly teachers who took elementary psychology courses during their BA or MA courses, seem to have more rights, and should have more respect than parents who raised the child. 

 

This should not and we believed could not happen in the USA but is beginning to be proposed in the media and the most powerful political elements of our society. Too many radical changes have happened in our society in a sudden and seemingly innocuous way. We were informed that children who want to be transformed into the opposite sex than they were born could start the process without parents being notified or approving of their wishes. This was a direct shot across the bow of parental rights. 

 

There was no strong negative reaction by citizens to this outrageous process of not notifying parents about the government education officials’ transitioning the child to the opposite sex. Our democratic socialist/communist government continues to push us toward communist policies in our nation that proudly called itself a republic. There has not been strong reaction against these policies. These political heavy lugs have been dropped one after another with no negative recognition in the media. This is a viable method of desensitizing the population to communist policies and it is working.

 

Are we approaching a tipping point where we are too far into communist practices to turn back into being free from governmental control over every aspect of our lives including how to raise our children? Mao tse Tung, a communist revolutionary of China, understood that once you gain power to program young people you have the power to train them into obedient communists. Our national government bureaucrats and top government leaders are using education indoctrination from elementary school through college to propagandize our children into diehard Marxists. 

 

Stop ignoring all these assaults on our hard-fought freedoms. If we continue to ignore the removal of all of our freedoms and rights as free citizens, we will no longer be free. We need to stand together in masse to remove the progressive left leaning socialists or outright communists from power, or we will wake up living in a communist nation.

 

If this happens a free America will be history- never to be resurrected again.

 

 

 

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers and blogs, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and the latest book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.