Ran across a great Federalist piece that's worth sharing on how today’s Left has become a bunch of ideological extremists...this won't necessarily help us understand them per say, but through this profile and list of associated links, it might help better define and identify just how radical their corrosive body politic has become, and perhaps even awaken a few more to a party that's left them...
Profile of the Radical Left
They went from “safe, legal, and rare” to anytime, anyplace, and your neighbor has to pay for it.
They went from scientifically and “medically accurate” information to men can have babies, too.
They went from, “Ask not what your country can do for you” to demanding a universal basic income provided by your neighbor.
They went from, “I may not agree with what you say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it” to “speech is violence.”
They went from talking about a crisis at the border to saying anyone who believes there is a border crisis is a racist.
They went from adoring Barack Obama despite his public position that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman, to passing laws preventing the opening of chicken restaurants because the deceased owner held the same position.
They went from “coexist” bumper stickers to suing grandmothers who preferred not to decorate a same-sex wedding.
They went from defending women’s autonomy to demanding women wax the genitals of men claiming to be women.
They went from nearly unanimous support for the Religious Freedom Restoration Act during the Clinton administration to insisting religious freedom is simply a “license to discriminate.”
They sued a convent of nuns to force them to pay for birth control.
They went from e pluribus unum to intersectionality.
They went from encouraging people to be good, to incentivizing people to be victims. Now, some people want to be victims.
They passed new legislation clarifying that if a woman wants to kill her child the day before her due date, she can. If the baby somehow survives the attempted abortion, the adults are permitted to deny treatment to the baby. They can just let it lie there and cry until it’s dead, I guess. Women’s rights and stuff.
They went from working to get drugs out of schools to working to get drag queens and Planned Parenthood into schools.
They went from the Fatherhood Initiative to telling anyone who would listen that dads don’t specifically matter, kids just need adults around who care about them.
They went from the War on Poverty to war on anyone who believes someone with a penis is always a man.
They went from fighting for freedom of expression to fighting for safe spaces.
They went from being the biggest defenders of free speech to passing laws that punish people if they use the “wrong” pronoun.
They passed laws claiming it’s always harmful to tell a boy with gender dysphoria he’s a boy, but they say it’s never harmful to give him puberty blockers, sterilize him, and cut off his penis — as long as he says wants to.
They convinced themselves that loving their neighbor gave them the right to another neighbor’s property.
They went from “believe women” to saying any woman who doesn’t want to share a shower with a man who says he’s a woman is a bigot. Then they went back to “believe women” when they thought it would help them oust a Supreme Court nominee they didn’t like.
They talk inalienable rights but mock faith in a Supreme Law Giver from whom inalienable rights might come.
They actually booed God.
They said they wanted everyone to love their neighbors, but when their neighbors created faith-based organizations for that purpose, they mocked and ridiculed them, then passed laws preventing them from placing orphans or housing foster kids, and protested those who were feeding the hungry because of their religion.
In some states, they passed laws telling churches they had to pay for abortions. In those same states, they made it illegal for a 13-year-old to go to the tanning bed but legal for her to get an abortion. Her parents don’t even have to know. The law also allows her to surgically remove her healthy breasts after her abortion, but sun beds are just a step too far.
...and there's no room for disagreement and nothing left to learn, because they claim “the science is settled” and “the debate is over,” so they stopped listening and started interrupting any event held by anyone who disagrees with them, in some cases violently, preventing the free expression of ideas they don't like. So we're left with this writers initial synopsis...
Anyone who denies the existence of an influential, mainstream, radical left in America today doesn't have any idea what the word 'radical' means.
It very much exists, visible day-in and day-out, regularly driven by like-minded media hounds and supported with like-minded political passage. Not your father's Democratic Party...and maybe not even yours once you really think about it.
