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Some time ago, the fine American novelist Walter Kirn (Up in the Air, Mission to America) issued some words of wisdom that influenced my reading and writing of fiction. “Novelists know what they are doing when they make things up,” Kirn wrote. “And they are better equipped to understand current events than the people who report them because they have been trained to see the patterns and the motivations behind the surface noise.” In consequence, I tend to see the novel as a clearer time capsule than anything in mainstream or social media. And as a roadmap in the Culture War. [I]n ‘The Washington Trail,’ I establish that Slade left the Army Rangers because of their lowered standards for female recruitment. Take my fourth novel and first political thriller, The Washington Trail, published in September 2024, a full two months before the last election, when many thought Kamala Harris would win. The plot hinges on two Washington private detectives, Mark Slade and Neil Cork, trying to foil a progressive/Deep State/Communist Chinese conspiracy to derail presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. The heroes break the law and commit violence doing it, so a Trump loss would have sent them to prison, not to mention hurt book sales. Yet I wrote the thing in 2023, when Trump wasn’t even the Republican nominee. And I was for DeSantis. At the time, not only had Trump been charged with four criminal counts — and getting mocked by unctuous prosecutors like Leticia James, politicians like Adam Schiff, and talking heads like John Bolton — but his opponent, actual President Joe Biden, was hailed as an unassailable dynamo. “I can’t keep up with him,” said Nancy Pelosi. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand tweeted, “The President is as sharp as ever, leading us through tough negotiations with clarity.” Of course, reasonable people could see Biden was a zombie. I pegged him in an article here way back in 2020. And in The Washington Trail, when the detective agency’s secretary kids with Slade on the phone. “Mark, thank God you called! The President is missing! They say you’re the only one who can find him!” “Tell them he must’ve switched coffins,” said Slade. I knew even as I was writing the book, each day going further in an irreversible direction, that it could end up as a total waste of my increasingly finite time. That in the reasonable case of a Trump derailment, my manuscript would be laughed off the computer screen then deleted by the publisher (the modern equivalent of getting tossed in the junk pile). But I continued, because as a storyteller, I realized that the Left’s fear and loathing of Trump, should he continue to survive, would create the ultimate American drama. And I had to fictionalize it and risk the loss. Although written a year prior, The Washington Trail takes place nine months before Election Day 2024. Trump, despite the legal and political attacks on him, is beating Biden in the polls and the favorite to win. This is driving the corrupt FBI, a Chinese spymaster, and an eco-warrior group to homicidal action. In one scene, a beautiful Hollywood actress and climate change radical tells Slade why she’ll do anything to stop Trump. “He’ll reverse everything we’ve achieved over the last four years. Clean energy that can heal the planet — solar power, wind power, alternative food choices. Instead, there’ll be a thousand more pipelines and coal mines and cows all over the land, poisoning our air and water.” “Cows?” Slade said. I turned in the manuscript in February 2024. Aethon Books liked it enough to bet on a Trump victory in November and published it (like I needed any more proof I’m not in Hollywood anymore). Aethon offered me a three-book contract for two more Slade-Cork mysteries a year apart. Family losses delayed the first sequel a year, but I’m writing it now. And what a difference that year has made for realpolitik and the Culture War. For instance, in The Washington Trail, I establish that Slade left the Army Rangers because of their lowered standards for female recruitment. “You have a problem with women in combat?” Amy asked him. “More than the Chinese will when they take us on,” said Slade. Last month, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gave a speech to top military officers basically agreeing with Slade. “If you can’t meet male-normed combat fitness tests or maintain a disciplined appearance, you’re in the wrong profession,” Hegseth said. “Resign now.” In my book, Neil Cork quit the FBI because of their illegal operations against Trump, even though he opposed Trump. “I didn’t vote for the man. In fact, I cheered his defeat. Then Wilcox ordered us to raid his home, telling us to turn up something, anything that would keep him from running again. A preemptive strike against the leader of the opposition, and his supporters — all 75 million of them.” Earlier last month, former FBI Director James Comey was indicted on two counts including obstruction of justice while trying to frame Trump on the fake Russia-gate story. Approximately 250 FBI agents were recently fired for conduct unbecoming their positions — such as kneeling during the pathetic Black Lives Matter display. And Leticia James and John Bolton have both been indicted on criminal charges. So, Walter Kirn was right. We novelists do know what we’re doing when we make things up. And by that measure, the new Slade-Cork thriller, The Camelot Trail, coming next fall, is going to be prophetic. READ MORE from Lou Aguilar: When the Movie Legends Die Battling the Hollywood Hydra Hollywood Unraveling: The Idiot Savant Have yourselves a romantic little Christmas. Get your love interest my Yuletide romance fantasy novel, The Christmas Spirit. 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For hundreds of years, men dominated the major institutions in western society, but over the past several decades there has been an unprecedented shift. Today, leftist women either dominate or are on their way to dominating most of our major institutions. As a result, the way that things get done has been totally turned upside down. Even our largest corporations are now making consensus-driven decisions that are based on emotion rather than on facts. If you insist on disagreeing with the consensus, you may find yourself being “canceled”. Defending the narratives that the group has established and protecting the feelings of favored individuals have become far more important goals than getting to the truth. A few days ago, a conservative woman named Helen Andrews published an article that is taking the Internet by storm.  In that article, she equates the feminization of our society with the rise of “wokeness”… Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition. Other writers who have proposed their own versions of the Great Feminization thesis, such as Noah Carl or Bo Winegard and Cory Clark, who looked at feminization’s effects on academia, offer survey data showing sex differences in political values. One survey, for example, found that 71 percent of men said protecting free speech was more important than preserving a cohesive society, and 59 percent of women said the opposite. Andrews is a woman, and she is certainly not suggesting that women are bad. But she is pointing out that things have gotten way out of balance. When I was growing up, I never thought about the political views of my doctors, and I didn’t really care. But today we live in a society where politics has to be a part of everything… Men tend to be better at compartmentalizing than women, and wokeness was in many ways a society-wide failure to compartmentalize. Traditionally, an individual doctor might have opinions on the political issues of the day but he would regard it as his professional duty to keep those opinions out of the examination room. Now that medicine has become more feminized, doctors wear pins and lanyards expressing views on controversial issues from gay rights to Gaza. They even bring the credibility of their profession to bear on political fads, as when doctors said Black Lives Matter protests could continue in violation of Covid lockdowns because racism was a public health emergency. Compartmentalization is a good thing. If I hurt my arm and go to see a doctor, I don’t want to hear what he thinks about gay rights. I just want him to fix my arm. Unfortunately, we live at a time where most people feel like they have to signal whether they are for or against the liberal consensus that has dominated our society for the past several decades. The reason why the left hates Donald Trump so much is because he has become the embodiment of the backlash to “wokeness”, and that is also the reason why many conservatives love him so much. Donald Trump is not polite, and he is not afraid to express controversial views that are in direct opposition to the “woke” narratives that our major institutions have been pushing. Many conservatives think that “wokeness” has been defeated now that Trump is in the White House, but the truth is that once Trump is gone the millions of “HR ladies” that dominate our major institutions will still be there. It all starts at a very early age. Even at the earliest grade levels, our girls are vastly outperforming our boys… On average, girls in 3rd grade outperform boys in reading and writing by roughly half a grade level. By the end of 8th grade, girls are almost a full grade ahead. That’s according to a 2018 study from Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis that tracked assessments from 10,000 districts across the nation. Normal female behavior is encouraged in our public schools, while normal male behavior is frowned upon. So a lot of boys end up deeply hating school. At one time boys could at least look forward to participating in organized sports after school, but now participation in such sports by boys is “declining rapidly”… Youth sport participation among boys in the United States has been declining rapidly over the past ten years. The cancellation of sports seasons during the unscientific and draconian COVID lockdowns has only exacerbated this devastating trend. According to a survey conducted earlier this year by The Sports & Fitness Industry Association, the percentage of boys who regularly competed in sports dropped by nine points over the past decade—while the participation rate for girls, while still less than boys, has increased slightly. In high school, the achievement gap between boys and girls is even larger… Girls, in addition to being more likely to take advanced courses in high school, tend to earn higher grade point averages than boys in high school. In one statewide study of public high school students, 51 percent of graduating female students earned a high school GPA above 3.0, compared to 36 percent of male students. Girls were 1.9 times more likely to be in the top 5 percent of graduating GPAs, and boys were 1.6 times more likely to be in the bottom 5 percent of GPAs. Of course it doesn’t end there. At this point, young women are far more likely to get a college degree than young men are… In 1972, the year Title IX was passed to promote gender equality in higher education, men earned 56.4 percent of all bachelor’s degrees, while women earned 43.6 percent—a 13-point gap. By 2019, there was a 15-point difference—in the other direction, with women earning about 58 percent of all bachelor’s degrees. The pandemic accelerated that trend: from 2019 to 2020, male first-time college enrollment dropped by 5.1 percent, compared to less than 1 percent for women. This trend has enormous implications for the future of our society, because college graduates are the future leaders of our society. In other words, they are the people that are going to run our major institutions in the future. In her excellent article, Helen Andrews was particularly concerned about what this is going to mean for our legal system… The field that frightens me most is the law. All of us depend on a functioning legal system, and, to be blunt, the rule of law will not survive the legal profession becoming majority female. The rule of law is not just about writing rules down. It means following them even when they yield an outcome that tugs at your heartstrings or runs contrary to your gut sense of which party is more sympathetic. I very much agree with her. It won’t be too long before our legal system is completely and utterly dominated by liberal women… A much more important tipping point is when law schools became majority female, which occurred in 2016, or when law firm associates became majority female, which occurred in 2023. When Sandra Day O’Connor was appointed to the high court, only 5 percent of judges were female. Today women are 33 percent of the judges in America and 63 percent of the judges appointed by President Joe Biden. Once liberal women have achieved a stranglehold over our legal system, what will our society look like? That is not something that I am eager to imagine. As Andrews has correctly pointed out, even now our anti-discrimination laws essentially require “that every workplace be feminized”… Anti-discrimination law requires that every workplace be feminized. A landmark case in 1991 found that pinup posters on the walls of a shipyard constituted a hostile environment for women, and that principle has grown to encompass many forms of masculine conduct. Dozens of Silicon Valley companies have been hit with lawsuits alleging “frat boy culture” or “toxic bro culture,” and a law firm specializing in these suits brags of settlements ranging from $450,000 to $8 million. Women can sue their bosses for running a workplace that feels like a fraternity house, but men can’t sue when their workplace feels like a Montessori kindergarten. Naturally employers err on the side of making the office softer. So if women are thriving more in the modern workplace, is that really because they are outcompeting men? Or is it because the rules have been changed to favor them? You aren’t going to get sued if you don’t hire enough men or if your workplace does not feel welcoming for men. But if you don’t hire enough women or if your workplace does not feel welcoming for women you could get sued into oblivion. Sadly, many men feel as though our entire society has become extremely unwelcoming to them at this stage. Perhaps that helps to explain why men are dying from “deaths of despair” at a rate that is almost three times higher than women… Men die “deaths of despair” from suicide, drugs, or alcohol at nearly three times the rate of women. And often, those hit hardest by these trends are working-class, men of color, or both. One of the reasons why our society is such a mess today is because we have allowed vast hordes of extremely liberal “HR ladies” to run things. If we stay on the path that we are currently on, the future of our society isn’t going to be bright. Millions of young males that are being pushed aside by our society are going to end up as addicts, and millions of them will find themselves in prison. Actually, that has already happened. Millions upon millions of lives have already been wasted, and millions of young boys will soon be joining their ranks if something is not done. Unfortunately, the “HR ladies” that are now in control of our major institutions seem to think that things are running just fine. Michael’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com. About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written nine other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”, “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today. 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