Destroying Feminism
The Democratic Party is Surprisingly Similar to My Home Country Iran
May 19, 2025
Submitted by Sara Peppard
This reflective paper explores my personal experiences growing up in Iran, immigrating to the United States, and aligning myself with the Republican Party, detailing the motivations behind my political beliefs.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), or Pasdaran, was formed after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Following the overthrow of the Pahlavi monarchy, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s new Islamic regime sought to solidify its power against perceived internal and external threats. The IRGC was officially established on May 22, 1979, as a paramilitary force tasked with safeguarding the Islamic Republic and its values.
In contrast, the Democratic Party evolved from the Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1820s as an opposition to the Federalist Party. Over the years, the Democratic Party has grappled with various issues including globalization, healthcare, and climate change, and has increasingly engaged in identity politics to cater to its diverse electorate. But these two political organizations formed on two different continents follow very similar patterns of operating. As an observer and a person who lived in both countries here is my reasoning.
Surprising Connections
Though the IRGC and the Democratic Party operate on opposite ends of the political spectrum, both pursue change and demonstrate surprising similarities. They often disregard common cultural values, focus on influencing youth, invest heavily in lobbying for their respective agendas, and fiercely attack opposing views, despite their superficial tensions — particularly during periods of liberal presidential leadership in the United States. Connections between the two organizations have become apparent, especially following the COVID-19 pandemic and close connections with National Iranian American Council (NIAC) lobbyists.
IRGC’s alliance with the Democratic Party in the U.S. sounds absurd to many people, but again, through a trail of three decades of lobbying you can now find the head politician sitting in a private room in Iraq with America at a negotiation table. Over the years, the IRGC expanded its reach and capabilities, evolving into a powerful institution within Iran with significant involvement in various sectors, including politics, the economy, and military affairs. It also established affiliated organizations and networks including the Quds Force, which is responsible for extraterritorial operations.
The IRGC promotes Islamic revolutionary ideals and national security narratives, while the Democratic Party advocates for political ideologies that align with “democratic” values such as individual rights, social justice, and governance.
Indoctrination
IRCG, based on radical Islamic ideology rooted in the Shia planning for the destruction of Israel and promoting Islam to other nations, did a great job over five decades, through brainwashing and indoctrination of youth at schools and local mosques throughout the Middle East and spending the Iranian and black-market oil money to created a religious ideology army that works beyond any border. We all saw many terrorist attack incidents in Western Europe and America and the root cause was related to the religion of peace.
On the other hand, the Democratic Party — following democratic values through respecting individual rights and social justice — was able in over three decades to indoctrinate young people within U.S. soil by taking advantage of a multiracial social construct of American culture, focusing on a specific group and playing one against another, demoting current culture and language within the U.S. By placing selective individuals in influential positions such as education, CEOs of news agencies, government officials, and lobbyists the Democratic Party promoted a narrative of social hate of America and its history and culture, ridicule of Christians and their beliefs, and white man as the enemy. Through globalization and Hollywood, Disney, and other influential organizations this narrative is broadcasted globally. If you travel outside of the U.S. in the recent years, the bias hatred is obvious, especially within western and eastern Europe.
These two forces could easily clash over the Islamic and atheism ideology, but again they are both following the same footsteps of communist ideology from both sides of the spectrum.
Tightening the Rope
As IRCG infiltrated senate, candidate, and election procedures, Iran increasingly hindered and tightened the rope around women and their social appearance, custody laws, working environment, and promotions, among many other ways that limited their social and political effectiveness.
Growing up in Iran right after revolution as a female meant everyone in your family, school, TV station, and society was mandated to cover up hair, body, and basically female existence in society. The whole ideology is based on Islamic laws and after revolution was enforced heavily to reduce male discomfort. Marriage was mostly a trade between two families over accumulated wealth and virginity. Raising children and becoming a mother was a social promotion for many females in Iran and sexual, verbal, and physical abuse from their drug-addicted spouse was tolerated. The social construct of society was made to fade away the voices of female politicians, influencers, and other strong-minded women. IRCG painted a faint motherly view of female in Iran just to raise the future revolutionary generation. And strong female figures are not part of that whole picture.
In contrast, in the United States the Democratic Party promoted female sexual revolution, sent mothers to work outside of the house, and promoted a false feministic ideology to push abortion as a birth control mechanism — and was able to create a multi-billion industry upon it. As the single motherhood percentage rises and is promoted in every episode of movies and sitcoms, the final attack on womanhood is forcing transgender acceptance and implementing terminology like “chest feeding” or “birthing person” to replace the word “mother.” The Democratic Party openly offered free abortion at their national convention and cancelled any strong religious females who oppose their repurposed narrative.
IRCG and the Democratic Party are both against tough female figures who are passionate, goal-oriented and strong-minded. IRCG tried its best to demote females in Iran, fading their influence and their passion for changes but never understanding a true female’s heart and desire to change — just as the Democratic Party fails young females by promoting human sacrifice and losing their virginity at younger ages without making a truthful bond with the opposite sex, which is contrary to building a foundation for family and loving nature.
Starting the Disobedience
My generation that was born in 1980s in Iran started the disobedience by breaking the hijab laws and social norms. We spent much productive time and energy to gain the males’ and society’s respect for our privacy. We taught our brothers and fathers that we are human, not birthing machines to trade with a strange man over money for dowry and marriage. We asked for love, acceptance, and changes as we worked hard to gain social influence and power. We fought many sexual harassment battles on the streets, at work, and at school to stop it all for other generations in Iran.
The IRGC wants to alter female figures who are strong, opinionated and seek changes. The Iranian regime along with Shia’s indoctrination wants our daughters to lose hope, and not be sensitive to act and care about the social issues dismissing females’ humanistic and God-given rights.
Along the same parallel, the Democratic Party denies the gentle, kind, and loving nature of females in the United States. The love, warmth, and meaningful hugs from grandmothers are getting replaced by TV reality shows, drag queens, and oversexualized, cruel female characters.
American de-feminization targets young females from birth, as most of them grew up in childcare institutions with early detachment syndrome from their working mothers. Our daughters are growing up with caregivers that are not relatives. The sense of family bonding and blood relationships is meaningless. The education system then goes a step further, seizing the hearts of women and replacing them with false promises; social media further encourages this and peer pressure perpetuates the cycle of poor decision-making.
The Democratic Party does not let the importance of being strong, educated, and an advocate for mothers of future generations be heard. Instead, it induces successful female figures to be Xanax-popping, champagne-popping, age-defying women looking for a better, selfish version of themselves.
Narratives from both the IRGC and Democratic Party want to deny different aspects of being women within society. And both sides are fully aware that manipulating culture is the easiest way to cultivate females’ intelligence, passion, and love for their own vital role in society.
Destroying Feminism
I have an analogy based a Disney movie that might help illustrate the destruction placed upon females by IRCG and the Democratic Party. Have you watched “Moana”?!!
In the movie the character called Te Fiti, Godess of Love, is a lava island that wants to destroy all the islands because her heart was stolen by Maui, and she became Te Kā. When Te Fiti got her heart back without resistance and fight from Moana, she calmed down and started to sprout and turned into a nurturing, green island for everyone to enjoy. The script from Disney defined Te Fiti’s personality as selfless, charitable, sensitive, nurturing, graceful, forgiving, powerful, radiant, gentle, benevolent, compassionate, tranquil, generous, peaceful, and loving.
Like Maui, the IRCG and Democratic Party have stolen many female hearts and replaced them with emptiness.
The chaotic world we live in is because society is degenerating, and our females have become Te Kās instead of Te Fiti. Narratives of the IRGC and Democratic Party steal the heart source of passion and drive in females and so change the function and operation of females within a society.
In conclusion, the IRGC and the Democratic Party represent two sides of a spectrum that, although seemingly opposed, share common methods of undermining true empowerment and the roles of women within their respective societies. Both organizations target and attack feminism to the extreme.
I saw how IRGC’s restless effort over five decades to erase and minimize female existence in the society caused a huge revolt and backlash as the whole world observed through the “Zan, Zendegi, Azadi” (women, life, freedom) / “Mard, Mihan, Abadi” (men, homeland, prosperity) movement in 2023. My journey from Iran to the United States has allowed me to observe these eye-opening dynamics first-hand and forge my political identity here in this freedom-loving country.
— Sara Peppard
Very nice job Sara Peppard . I could almost see it as I was reading each word. Thank you.