Tennessee Democrat Caught Screaming ‘I Don’t Want Children I Want Power’

With less than a week to go before voters in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District head to the polls, Democrat Aftyn Behn has managed to torpedo her own campaign with a stunning and deeply revealing outburst: “I don’t want children. I want power!”

That line wasn’t shouted on a protest stage or whispered in a smoky backroom it came straight from Behn herself in an audio clip posted online Monday, where she discusses recurring dreams with her therapist. Yes, really.

“My therapist always asks me to transcribe my dreams,” Behn said. “And the recurring dream I’ve had is standing up in a cafeteria full of women... and saying, ‘I don’t want children. I want power!’ And just screaming it at the top of my lungs.”

And there you have it the modern Left, distilled into one perfectly unhinged quote.

Rather than apologizing or walking back the statement, Behn connected it to advice from her own mother, who allegedly told her to never have kids because it would ruin her professional ambitions. Behn went further, attacking women who choose motherhood and marriage as being trapped in “deeply patriarchal structures.” According to her, Southern values like faith, family, and community are just backward measurements of success.

Let’s break that down:

• Behn openly mocks traditional family life and sees motherhood as a form of oppression.

• She embraces a worldview where power not purpose, not family is the end goal.

• She believes women who raise families are stuck in outdated roles and implies they’re less ambitious or less enlightened.

This isn’t just bad messaging it’s a total rejection of everything Tennessee voters believe in. But Behn wasn’t finished.

In another audio clip posted last week, the Democrat took aim at the very city she’s running to represent. “I hate the city, I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music,” she said of Nashville. “I hate all of the things that make Nashville apparently an ‘it’ city... but I hate it.”

She later tried to brush it off as frustration with tourism, but the damage is done. You can’t run to represent a district you clearly loathe.

And now she wants voters to hand her the power she literally dreams about—while rejecting the very idea of raising children or embracing community.

Meanwhile, Republican candidate Matt Van Epps is running a campaign rooted in faith, freedom, and the family values that make Tennessee strong. He’s not shouting about power he’s focused on service.

Behn’s tirade isn’t just embarrassing it’s revealing. Her comments show how far today’s Democratic Party has drifted from the values that built this country. The obsession with political control, disdain for motherhood, and contempt for working families has become the default setting for the Left.

This election is about more than replacing a congressional seat. It’s about choosing between a party obsessed with radical social engineering and a candidate who respects the values that actually make America work.

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