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The Heart of the Pedophilia Problem: It’s in what we consider to be “adult content”

I’ve been writing these articles daily for over 15 years, and they are changing slightly.  It will probably tick off some people, but that’s OK.  We are trying to make America great again, and that means that we have to shift our focus from fixing things out there somewhere to looking at ourselves and fixing what’s broken within us, which allowed a broken world to occur in the first place.  So my work here is transforming perhaps from a Drudge Report from the classic days to more of a Tony Robbins motivational seminar at an Alcoholics Anonymous session.  That’s OK. When I started doing this, it wasn’t a very popular thing to do, and it made many people very angry.  But they are only angry because they know it’s true.  And that was never more abundantly true than over the issue of pedophilia, the diabolical trend of having sex with children that is such a horrendous problem—much more than most people want to admit to.  Here in my local community of Butler County, Ohio, we have seen sex with children and a very soft reaction to it from the public in general to be a significant trend among well-paid members of polite society.  So this isn’t just a scum bag in the corner with a porn addiction kind of problem.  It’s happening everywhere.  This past year, I was able to serve as a foreman on a grand jury, and I saw lots of evidence of child pornography that showed me the face of true evil manifesting in the world. That is such a problem. I would put it at number one out of all our current issues.  There are people trying to have sex with kids that you know and they are trying to do it right now.  And no child is safe if they interact with five or more people, even within family structures.  But why is it such a problem?  And why is it so hard for us to admit to it?  Well, that’s the heart of the problem.  We were all raised to advance it.

When we were all kids and coming of age, we were told by society that smoking, drinking, and having sex were “adult” content in movies and books and that we were kept from seeing or witnessing the practice.  Before puberty, we teach kids fun things, and we talk about those things as kids’ things.  But when we get to a certain age and want to show that we are adults, we start doing one of those three things: sex, drugs, and drinking to prove that we have come of age.  How many fourteen-year-old girls take up smoking as a means to show the world that they are now ready to be pollinated and have gained the power to use sex as a weapon?  Well, why do they think that?  Because we told them that was how adults become adults.  And they want to be adults and transition from being a kid.  We taught them that the values of being a kid were to be locked in a closet never to return, or to sell all those cute things from our childhood in a yard sale, to trade all the adorable stuffed animals with body piercings, pop music posters, and sexual conquests.  And because we focus on those three things as our gateways to adulthood, we don’t give ourselves any room to grow any further, and most people never mature beyond the age of 15 years old.  By that time, the mistakes of that chosen lifestyle scare people for life, and they never get over all the bad things they did during this age group.

By the time most people turn 50 or 60, they have made so many mistakes in their own lives and then destroyed the lives of their children with the same diabolical practices that they start to go a little psycho and lose touch with reality.  They come across as so out of touch that young people never consider listening to them for wisdom, which makes the situation worse for the older people, and they drop off the map and die quietly while their grandkids and great-grandkids can’t take their eyes off their smartphones during the funeral, caring almost nothing for the somber occasion.  That is a big reason why adults seek sex with kids, either to get back to that innocence or to undo in their minds the mistakes they made their entire adult lives.  Adults are old and broken, and kids are new and fresh, so in a parade of broken people, kids don’t have much of a chance to enter their teenage years without some corrupt influence trying to groom them into horrendous behavior on a path to self-destruction because that’s all the adults know to do and they pass the mess on to the next generation for all kinds of foolish reasons.  And before you know it, the men are taking their adult wealth and secretly flying to Cambodia to have sex with a harem fantasy of 14-year-old girls while the wife discharges her frustrations with growing insanity because women express themselves differently on this problem than men do.  Women feel rejected.  The men seek youth to do it all over again knowing what they do now that they wished they knew then.  Some men stay in the legal lane by getting a new wife in their 20s when they are in their 50s.  But in many ways, that isn’t good.   Nobody escapes intact, and everyone’s lives are ruined in the process. 

This ruin is on such a scale that we can’t deal with it.  So when we find out that our school superintendent is essentially selling his wife for sex-ploits with the world because of a severe porn addiction, and that addiction is taking them into sex with kids in their school, we act surprised.  But when that incident actually happened, most everyone sat on their hands and said nothing about it because deep inside, they were just as guilty.  They didn’t yet do the deed.  But they were thinking about it.  This trend to decriminalize sex with minors is more than just a desire; it’s the direction a society like ours goes when sex, drugs, and reckless behavior are the only things that we identify as proper to be an adult.  So, our values never progress beyond those traits, and we wonder why we have the problems we do.  Well, it all starts by telling kids that “adult content” is a forbidden fruit, and that’s their path to proving they are no longer children.  And we wish we could say to them that when they are 50, 60, and 70, they will want to have held on to their childhoods a lot longer and not be in such a rush to pick one or all of those three things to show the adults they were ready to grow up.  But that is why we have a pedophilia problem. We have baked it into our social order, and until we change that, it will continue to be a massive problem.  Kids don’t have much chance because the adults of their lives never figured it out.  Because they, too, were taught all the wrong things and, as adults, don’t know any better how to behave.  And it’s not just a few people; it’s most people of all ages and classes.  They all have the same fundamental problem: how they entered adulthood, thinking one of those horrible things was the means to get there.  Only to discover they should have held on to their childhoods much longer.  And if they had, they would have been much happier and intellectually sound as older adults than the empty lives they were given to live and never otherwise questioned. 

Rich Hoffman

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Beer Drinkers and Wine Tasters: A reality in politics that the Never-Trumpers haven’t figure out yet

A stark contrast was evident to me during a very expensive dinner I was at with many very smart people from all kinds of political backgrounds. The people who were trying to argue for Ron DeSantis being a good alternative to Trump were also the same people claiming to be experts on red wine, white wines, and their various vintages. I’m not a drinker at all, by any means. There is a running joke in my family that I enjoy only three kinds of beverages; the first is water. The second is milk. And the third is Mello Yello, my favorite soft drink. In many ways, I have never grown up to think of adult beverages as something I value. I still drink like a pre-teen, and I have no desire ever to change that. But at social occasions, I will sip on a beer or wine to experience life as its presented. I’ll do that to some extent with alcohol, but when it comes to other things, such as marijuana, in any shape or form, I have a lifelong policy against it, and I will never join in the behavior. I have never done that kind of thing privately or in a group setting, and never will. But I’ll try what they offer with beer and wine and listen to people tell me why one wine is better. Yet I don’t know the difference between vintage wine or new wine from Kroger that was plucked from grapes last week. It all tastes the same to me. And to that point, I’ve never been a small fork, big fork kind of person either. Which fork do you use for your salad, and which for your main meal? My sophistication on these kinds of things is to pull out my pocketknife, which I always have on, even when wearing a $1000 suit, and stick it into my food to eat as if I were at a campfire. 

That’s when a very smart and highly educated guy who was trying to help me told me that I was drinking my red wine in the wrong glass as one of our waitresses wanted to pour me some from the most recently opened bottle. I put a wine glass in front of her to pour; she hesitated as this guy explained to me why. “You are supposed to use the wide-rimmed glass, not the narrow one; the red wine likes to breathe.” I then looked and noticed a difference, so I put the bigger glass in front of her and she poured away, and everyone at the table giggled at my expense, which I played up. I have no desire to know those kinds of things, and I think it’s funny that people think those kinds of things are important, and to them, it is. I prefer to think about really big things, and those kinds of topics seem small to me. But jokes caused by the circumstances are opportunities to find common ground, so we were all having the costly dinner dressed in our best attire, and we had a little fun at my lack of knowledge on these things. In my world, I am happy to offer other people some emotional leverage on me because it makes all the other discussions easier. My thoughts are rigid, so a social perspective concession helps make hard conversations more digestible. But because of the news of the hour, I noticed something about this event, which was paramount to the trouble with politics.

Even after all the trouble Trump is in, the RINOs and Never Trumpers are mystified as to why people still support him. The wine-drinking Democrats who locally can be found in my area at Cooper’s Hawk but generally are found at wine tastings at Martha’s Vineyard, Mackinac Island, and other highbrow places are mystified as to why Trump is leading in the polls and he actually gained in strength after the Alvin Bragg indictment. With the same skill that they put into worrying about what silverware to use during dinner or which glass the wine goes in, they are making decisions about politics that do not represent the beer-drinking public, the general people out there who actually vote. The same people who will drink a warm Bud Light out of the back of a pickup truck on a night at the local demolition derby. People do not want aristocrats who understand the difference in wines when the world is falling apart. People don’t want to be ruled by some dumb rules as to which fork to use during dinner. Most people will never have a chance to attend one $500-a-plate dinner in their lives and think about the difference between white wine and red wine. And they certainly don’t want to be ruled by people who do, and when you peel back the layers of the “hate Trump at all cost” movement, they haven’t yet figured out that people don’t like them because of their aristocratic wealth or access to the finer things in life. People want a government that works for them, which is what Trump has offered. And they’ll crawl through broken glass to get it. 

It’s the beer drinkers who decide elections. And in a world where people work hard to be elite so that they can work their way into social respect because they know what fork to use or what glass the wines go in, they expect some kind of payoff, which has been ingrained in us from thousands of years of evolution. But that’s not what people want out of their elected representatives, and much of our political class has never figured it out, and realizing that destroys assumptions they have had about life their entire lives. It’s not that the finer things in life aren’t fine, or shouldn’t be enjoyed. I enjoy them when I get a chance to experience them, even if my idea of eating a finely cut steak is to punch it with my pocket knife and to stick it in my mouth like a skewer. The key to political victory is in the beer drinkers who are just as happy with a warm beer out of the back of a pickup truck as with a fine bottle of white wine. Or maybe not even drinking at all, and would prefer a glass of water to intoxication of any kind. The masses are not running for a path in life to aristocracy. And they don’t want to worship people who are so pretentious. There will always be people who will want to take those extra steps in life, but that is on them, not on a social respect that they expect will come with their knowledge of fine wines and cheese.    Even though he is very rich and can afford the best things in life, Trump is just as happy with a bucket of chicken as he is with a great steak from an expensive restaurant. And that’s why no matter what the aristocrats of society throw at Trump, people will vote for him anyway because he has shown a disdain for those pretentious types, not a reverence. And that is ultimately why those who have spent much of their life thinking about such things, like James Comey and many others, hate Trump so much. Because Trump represents a rejection of everything they value as a civilization. And Trump is a reminder that that is what voters value as well, and that realization hurts their feelings and dictates their political persuasion as RINOs and Never Trumpers who will never understand until it’s too late for them.

Rich Hoffman

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