The Primal Scream of the American Left
Democrats are content to reduce America to a pile of rubble as long as they can rule over it.
One would think America would be reaching a tipping point. American daily life is presented with so many unresolvable contradictions that sooner or later - likely sooner - something has to give.
There are many inescapable contradictions of the progressive movement and its chosen disease vector, the Democrat Party. A few right off the top of my head are that they:
Believe that while an individual is incapable of knowing what is best and managing his own life, a government made up of individuals do and can manage that individual’s life for them.
Believe that the problem with life is that it is impossible to plan and yet want to set up an all-powerful government to plan it.
Believe that for an individual to be truly free, he must have every aspect of his life controlled.
Despise and distrust business corporations and yet want everybody to love and trust the largest corporate entity in America – the government.
Believe free speech isn’t free unless it is moderated, and certain people aren’t allowed to speak.
The leftist control freaks are all going to primal scream therapy now that Elon Musk wants to take over Twitter and return it to a free speech forum. Since the blue-checked leftists and “journalists” treat Twitter as their own ecosystem, Musk taking control is the equivalent of the Death Star destroying Alderaan.
But there is another contradiction that has been bouncing around in my head due to the current battle over sexualizing kids in schools.
Another significant contradiction struck me a few days ago when I saw a video of a parent showing a school board the pornographic content of books and websites being used to “teach” kids aged 12 and under about transgenderism and homosexuality. Graphic portrayals of oral sex, anal sex and outright promotion of transgenderism were par for the course – in cartoon and stylized graphics, of course – but things that would literally be considered pornographic. Prior to that there was the case of a school board shutting down a parent who embarrassed them by reading graphic passages describing various sex acts from some of the books that were on teacher and school board approved reading lists for elementary age kids.
Just last year, Virginia mom Stacy Langton confronted the Fairfax County (VA) School Board with books containing graphic images of pedophilia. She noted:
"Both of these books include pedophilia. Sex between men and boys … One book describes a fourth-grade boy performing oral sex on an adult male. The other book has detailed illustrations of a man having sex with a boy."
That contradiction is this: If you showed, read, or shared such literature, images, or websites with a co-worker, you would likely be fired for sexual harassment. The very things that are being pushed on pre-pubescent children would be considered grounds for punishment – or termination – if a single coworker objected or someone complained to HR. If an adult had those same “resources” on their computer, they would likely be investigated for child pornography (unless Ketanji Brown Jackson had anything to do with it).
Frank Langella, the well-known 84 year-old actor, was just fired from Netflix’s upcoming series “The Fall of the House of Usher” allegedly for "making inappropriate comments to a female co-star.”
Making comments. An octogenarian was fired for “making inappropriate comments”.
Think about that for a moment.
Things are being presented to students as “education” that you would be fired for if you did it at work.
Does that show you just how absurdly screwed up our society is?
The left knows it. They know this is not what parents or the American people want for their kids.
That’s why Twitter just shut down the account of Libs of TikTok simply for showing the depravity of progressive teachers who have access to impressionable children. Libs of TikTok does not even offer commentary on the videos, they only capture and post these self-made videos the people make of themselves promoting their own deviant behaviors, appearances, ideas, and actions.
It is why Twitter and Facebook have tried numerous times to ban the Babylon Bee, a satirical site that understands what Malcolm Muggeridge, the British journalist, author, and satirist, is true:
"We live in an age in which it is no longer possible to be funny. There is nothing you can imagine, no matter how ludicrous, that will not promptly be enacted before your very eyes, probably by someone well known."
None of this is about sexual harassment, education, or our children because the progressive movement could give a damn about any of those things. They are not champions of women, children, the poor, not even gays or transgenders. They only see these people as a means to an end.
This is about power.
They have decided to save the village, they must destroy it.
This is about the total and complete destruction of the foundations of every single institution America has depended upon over the past two centuries. Now they are going after American children, proving there is nothing they won’t do.
Progressives and Democrats are perfectly happy to rule over a smoldering pile of rubble if that’s what it takes.
We would do well to remember that.