June 13, 2024
The Left's Missing Survival Instincts
By
M. Walter
On nearly every major issue, progressives are hurtling towards extinction.
Abortion, LGBT, guns, crime, open borders, even religion; all the things they relentlessly, senselessly agitate about, if extrapolated out to their inexorable ends, would result in the actual physical extinction of their population. Whatever neural highway connects the “actions” part of the human brain to the “consequences” part appears in them to be not merely broken, but never constructed in the first place.
Worse, we are now several generations deep into progressive parenting: too many people with too many decades of indoctrination on
what to think rather than
how to think -- and there are millions of them: people who, since birth, have had every adult around them hovering, helicoptering, and insulating them from even the most benign challenge, depriving them of the essential, evolutionary sting of a bad choice.
Now they are grown and thickly among us in all our public and private institutions, incapable of regulating their emotions to process even the smallest deviation from their Truth; their never-jostled internal compass they are certain points them morally and intellectually to true north. We, the unindoctrinated, are left scrambling for purchase, for even the simplest agreed upon objective truth (“
What is a woman?”).
The rules for informed American citizenship used to be full sunlight and reasoned debate with objective truth -- or, at the very least, an agreed-upon set of facts -- emerging from civilized rough and tumble. (Think William F. Buckley or Milton Friedman debating liberals, who used to know how to comport themselves.)
The rules now seem to be: whoever is the wokest or loudest wins. They don’t even have to prove their case on the merits. They just have to silence the opposition. Their opponent’s acquiescence is all that’s required.
ABORTION
It goes without saying that the surest way to kill off a population is for that population to stop having babies. But in this case, it’s not just the killing off of one’s own, it’s the
proud killing of one’s own. “
Safe, legal, and rare” has devolved into “
Shout Your Abortion.” Abortion up until the moment before birth is allowed in only a handful of countries, China, North Korea and the United States chief among them. Bills have been put forth to outlaw the practice, but to our everlasting shame, they have failed -- with Republican help. Looking at you,
senators Collins and Murkowski.
LGBT, etc.
Again, self-explanatory: if everyone was gay, nobody would get born and the population would die off. It’s not just the unproductive nature of homosexuality, it’s the absolutist “pride” of it. Once again, that slippery slope got awful slippery awfully fast. Since the Clinton era of “don’t ask, don’t tell” it has switched gears from passive acceptance to active, taxpayer-funded endorsement. Now America’s military will
pay for your gender reassignment surgery and take time away from life-saving readiness training to instruct uniformed personnel
on the proper use of pronouns.
Also: it used to be just adults. Now it’s kids -- and they’re getting younger. In 2005, the “youngest ever” sex reassignment surgery was performed on a 12-year-old boy, transitioning the child from
“Tim” to “Kim.” Now?
Toddlers -- barely more than babies -- are being mutilated at their parents’ request, and the families are taking their star turns on
NPR with warm and glowing profiles about the normalcy of it all.
In a different America, in a more rational time, this type of intervention would have rightly been called Munchausen-by-Proxy.
GUNS
No matter what progressives tell you about the 2nd Amendment, the truth is that they want it repealed. When you ask what will happen to America’s guns (there is at least one gun for every man, woman, and child in our 330 million+ population),
they really seem to think they’ll all just vanish, magically.
The "common sense” part of “common sense gun legislation” went flying out the window when, incredibly, they upped the ante from disarming American citizens to disarming America’s police.
These Democrats trust Iran with the means to make nuclear bombs more than they trust their fellow Americans with a Glock.
These are not serious people by any standard, and as much as practical, should be ignored. Where they cannot be ignored, they must be stopped.
CRIME
New York City has been a gusher of headlines since their “no-cash bail” law went into effect.
“[Then Governor] Cuomo estimate[d] the new law will keep about 90% of defendants out of jail at least until their case gets resolved. These offenders will also have the added bonus of a
new incentive program in New York City -- which will give released suspects things like New York Mets tickets and gift cards for showing up to court.”
Rob a bodega, go to a Mets game! Make it Yankees’ tickets and you could probably eliminate crime in Gotham altogether!
San Francisco got in on the crazy-on-crime game too. The City by the Bay decided the
first $950 of theft was free -- but you gotta do it during business hours. Which is nice! No more late nights.
Extrapolated out to its inevitable ends and there won’t just be “
food deserts” but
everything deserts. Who in their right mind would open a business in that environment? Without business there are no jobs. Where there are no jobs there is destitution and misery and the hollowed-out shells of once great cities. See
Detroit, where you can buy a home for $1. Detroit hasn’t had a Republican mayor in over sixty years,
since 1962.
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