On college campuses today, conservative students often feel like outcasts. Conservative political perspectives are not taken seriously, and religious individuals are encouraged to keep their beliefs to themselves. As students are saturated in a milieu where progressive perspectives on history, philosophy, and politics are all taken for granted, it is easy for conservatives to begin to see their political perspective as something of an aberration, something abnormal. But that is not the case according to Allie Beth Stuckey, known as “The Conservative Millennial.”
In a recent interview, Stuckey reminded student conservatives that they have the whole of human history on their side. Stuckey believes it is the radical progressives who have lost their connection to reality, and it is only by being stuck on liberal college campuses that conservatives begin to lose sight of that fact. What might seem “normal” on a college campus full of impressionable students and leftist professors is not what is considered “normal” anywhere else in the world.
For instance, Stuckey believes it is not crazy to think that a living human being inside their mother’s womb is a person deserving of legal protection and that the philosophy which defends abortion can have dangerous consequences.
“There’s been an imperfect history of oppressing marginalized groups, and the way that people have always done that is … by saying these people aren’t really people, or they don’t have the same value as people. …. They don’t have the same value of personhood as everyone else,” said Stuckey. “That’s how you justify the Holocaust. That’s how you justify segregation. That’s how you justify slavery. We just set some arbitrary standard of what it means to be a person. … If that standard is arbitrary … then how far does it keep going?”
Stuckey, who is known for her parody of then-congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, employs satire and humor to teach young conservatives about the absurdity of philosophies which defend ideas like abortion.
“When you see things going in such an Orwellian direction, you almost feel like there’s no other way to explain the insanity of what’s going on than in some kind of satirical Orwellian way,” said Stuckey. “I’m yelling until I’m blue in the face about how a baby isn’t a clump of cells, and you guys still don’t get it. So, what am I going to have to do? I’m going to have to pretend like I am performing an abortion with a puppy, so you guys can understand this is an atrocity.”
Stuckey also reminded pro-lifers that they champion a selfless cause.
“Unlike the pro-choice side, [the pro-life side] really don’t have any ulterior motives,” said Stuckey. “How does it personally benefit me for someone in crisis to keep their child, besides the fact that I just think it’s morally right and I think there’s a better option. On the Left, they have the ulterior motive of funding Planned Parenthood, which then in turn funds the Democratic Party.”
Stuckey, who analyzes politics from an evangelical Christian perspective, reminded students of a powerful, but simple message: that inalienable rights, such as a baby’s right to life, are meaningful because they are endowed to humans by our creator.
“Now more than ever, the very idea of truth is being questioned. It’s not just that we disagree on what truth is, but the existence of truth is being questioned. Ten years ago, a lot of us would’ve agreed on a lot about truth, on some kind of … transcendent power being the source of morality,” said Stuckey. “We’ve heard before that small government doesn’t really function well without some kind of religious people. This idea was founded on men and women being created in the image of God … that we deserve some kind of protection of our inalienable rights that were given to us by a creator. If you don’t believe in a creator of some kind of transcendent power … it’s very hard to make a case for why anyone would have inalienable rights … If they’re not inherent, then they are the government’s to give and take away.”
To watch the full interview, click here.
Anthony Leonardi is a contributor to Red Alert Politics. He’s a third-year student at the University of Florida, where he runs thinkoutsidepolitics.com. Norman Young is the co-founder of ThinkOutsidePolitics.com (@politicsoutside) where he analyzes politics, culture, and philosophy.
