The key to government power is gradualism. Anything can be accomplished by government over a long enough time period. People accept their conditioning over time no matter what it is. Even the most absurd of notions come to be accepted over a long enough time frame.

The principle of government is that political power is maximized by forcibly leveling every individual to the same status of conformity, collectivism, ecumenicalism and serfdom. And since that leveling cannot be accomplished by raising up the weakest, it must always be accomplished by reducing the strongest.

Most people were not aware, because it was done gradually, but erasing traditional sexual norms began a number of years ago. It has been unofficial public policy in America for many years, as I told readers to The Bob Livingston Letter™ back in 2004, and repeated for Personal Liberty readers in 2008. The subtle, almost imperceptible move includes the substitution of the word “gender” – a grammatical term – for the word sex – a biological term – as a distinguishing descriptor for male or female.

The effect is to program the mind. It removes the biological component that distinguishes male from female and inserts an esoteric component that allows for the denial of reality and creation of an alternate reality.

When one suffers from anorexia, she (odds are it’s a female) looks in the mirror and sees herself as fat. It doesn’t matter what reality is; whether she is normal weight or rail thin. That person creates an alternate reality in her mind. Anorexia is a mental disorder. One seeking to help that person shrug off this false sense of self would not reinforce that unreality by telling her she is fat. Rather, one would help her seek treatment for it so she could begin to recognize she is not fat and is destroying her health.

Likewise, one who looks in the mirror and sees himself or herself as opposite of his or her biological sex is creating an alternate reality. It is a mental disorder and should not be coddled or reinforced. Nor should anyone else be forced into accepting that person’s alternate reality as reality.

So the “unofficial policy” in America is to feminize men in order level the playing field for the sexes. This is also a plank of feminism — which is endorsed by both political policies — as the site everydayfeminism.com explains: “Bottom line, the goal is homogenous: Feminism aims for gender equality within a currently patriarchal society.”

Now America is being converted into a nation of girly men. And we now have effeminate men intentionally raising a generation of even more effeminate men. It is just a matter of time until you won’t be able to tell men from women without a scorecard.

I say it is unofficial because it is a policy not yet openly promoted by government, but was/is being accomplished covertly behind the scenes. For instance, in jobs that require physical strength – police work, firefighting, the military, etc. – standards are set that men must meet to qualify. Men unable to qualify are denied the jobs. Not so for women, whose standards are set at a lowered bar to qualify. This likewise programs the mind because when people see women performing these tasks they assume that the women achieved the job with the same qualification standards as the men, even though it is not so.

In addition to mass propaganda, there are a number of factors at play in the feminization of America’s men. Part of it is societal. Millions of young men are being raised without a father or single positive adult role model to teach them what it means to be a man. No matter how hard they try or good their intentions, mothers or grandmothers cannot teach young boys how to be a man.

There is also a chemical component. Our bodies are being inundated with synthetic estrogens – called xenoestrogens — that our making their way into our bodies pretending to be biological estrogen. They are found in our soil, water, air, food supply, personal care and household products. And all of these products reach us with government approval or government sanction.

These xenoestrogens are negatively affecting the reproductive health of men, according to a study published in Environmental Health Perspectives. The study found that instances of testicular cancer and male reproductive disorders are increasing because of exposure to “supranormal levels of estrogens.” Additionally, xenoestrogens are causing a rise in instances of gynecomastia – man boobs – in boys and men.

Along with these physical changes, xenoestrogens create radical emotional changes as well. Combined the “normalization” of homosexuality, the normalization of so-called “gender dysphoria” and with it the creation of a whole new set of pronouns, pressure from parents and other authority figures, it’s little wonder that young boys are being coerced into the mental illness of not being able discern their maleness.

And the feminization of men is official policy in Hollywood, so it’s just a matter of time until it will follow so-called “gay marriage” into official government sanction.

In an article recently posted to the entertainment gossip rag Eonline.com, actor Brian Austin Green defends his decision to let his 4-year-old son wear dresses and wigs.

“My son, he’s 4. I’ve heard from some people that they don’t agree. They don’t agree with him wearing dresses,” the “Beverly Hills, 90210” star said. “To them I say, ‘I don’t care.’ He’s 4 and if he wants to wear it, then he wears it. It’s dresses or goggles or slippers—whatever. It’s his life.”

Meanwhile, the federal government has sent $138,000 in the form of a grant to the University of Washington for a study that asks 4-year-olds about their “internal sense of gender identity.” The Washington Free Beacon reports the two-year project “will interview 250 children aged four to six, and their parents, asking a series of questions about ‘gendered behavior.’ The study will investigate whether gender theories, such as Gender Schema Theory that blames society on differences between genders, are sufficient for today’s ‘wider range of human gender experiences,’ where there can be anywhere between 3, 37, and 58 genders.”

Of course, 4-year-old children are not aware of such things as “gender identity” unless adults prominent in their lives manipulate them. And it is taking place, in the classroom and with parents not only manipulating them but also in providing them with hormones in order to “make” their bodies change.

A common theme in science fiction novels dealing with society’s future describe a world without the different sexes of male and female, or a unisex world. We are almost there.