Jack Posobiec of Human Events and author Peachy Keenan discussed the cultural shift from liberalism back toward the center, with the recent release of the film “Sound of Freedom,” the prayer rally at the LA Dodgers stadium, and then Keenan’s recent book called “Domestic Extremism.”
“Now it really is part of this huge pendulum swing back to the norm,“ Posobiec said. “It's not even all the way to the right, but it isn't some like you know, fantasy. This is back to war because it's swung too far to the left and things have gone too far. Can you thread that needle for us? How does it all fit together?”
Keenan responded: “That's why I wrote my book, ‘Domestic Extremism: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War.’ It's not about being a real domestic extremist. That's what they think we are. All we are is extremely domestic. You know, we want to live our inborn identities as men and women. We want to get married and want to raise children, and right now we need to protect those children. I mean, our kids feel like they're under attack everywhere at school, on all their screens. It's really coming from all directions.
“And so that's really what the book is about,“ Keenan said. “It's not about being some kind of, you know, crazy person. It's about a return to norms. And I'm not talking about going back to, like, the 1780s. How about, like, the 1980s? You know, when it was normal for a woman to have three children, when marriage was considered a good way to be happy. These things have become totally taboo.”
“That's exactly right,“ Posobiec responded. “I mean, you look at some of this, you know, people say, ‘Oh, you know, women, the workplace doesn’t care.’ My mother worked a full career. She was [a] professional. What she did was that she went to college, then had kids, like right away, [and then] took a couple years where she was sort of working halftime part time etc. Then after we were older, she went back to school, got her Master's, continued on in her career, and was perfectly fine having both.”
“And yet we've been told that there's no possible way you can do that, it's completely insane, you know, and conservatives just want people in the, you know, just want women in the home shackled to the kitchens. But that being said, there's also a mentality that I would also point out to say like, ‘What's wrong with the parents staying home?’ We live with this mindset as if that's prison, that’s slavery. Okay, really? - compared to driving for an hour and a half each way every day to get in [to work]. This idea that you know, you're being shackled to a cubicle is somehow liberating as opposed to having a family, I don't think so.”
Keenan said she wrote the book about her experience as a working mom, stating, “I'm a working mom. I work at home. When I had little kids I stayed home. We took a huge financial sacrifice for me to do that. But like, I don't I didn't want to outsource my parenting of a newborn to strangers. I just feel like that is a normal maternal instinct that young women are, like told to ignore that feeling, that you should want to be with your newborn. You're not allowed to even say that."
“And then when my then four-year-old was in preschool, I had an incredible opportunity. I went to work at a huge giant entertainment company here in Los Angeles. And it was for a dream job. I couldn't turn it down. And these women would have their babies and come back to work after six weeks. And I would be like, ‘Where's your baby, you know?’ And they were like, ‘Well, he's at school.’ And that's what they would call daycare, to kind of, like, make it sound better than it was. And it was incredibly sad. And then I got pregnant, luckily, and I went home and I never went back. And I mean, yes, you can work. You can have a career. But when your little kids are small, I mean, they want Mommy and I think it's time you have to listen to what the babies want from us.”
