There’s a video going viral on Twitter(X) that shows a bunch of young women dancing at some festive gathering of some sort. Accompanying all these posts are usually a bunch of right-wing condemnations about how “slutty” and “lacking in virtue and morals” these women are.
The dancing is amazingly tame. Absolutely nothing to get excited about. But there are a lot of these voices — way too many to ignore.
I bring the matter up because it is a data point that highlights a warning I (and others) made to the political left in America for a few years now, but that has yet to be heard.
The warning is: Don’t go too insane, lefties. If you do, the pushback you will see from the right will make your heads spin. You don’t want to live in the world that your insane behavior is provoking.
Be warned.
At this point, my most intransigent lefty readers (if there are any) are making this complaint: Wait. What left-wing insanity? What on earth has the left done lately to deserve this harsh pushback from the right?
And also at this point, everyone who isn’t an intransigent lefty is chuckling sadly and shaking their heads.
Here’s a very incomplete list of things being pushed by the left right now that bear little resemblance to Democrat politics in America from just 20-25 years ago:
Soft on violent crime and theft to the point of legalizing this behavior if you are in the approved identarian group.
Shoving LGBTQIA2S+++ sexuality into literally everything in movies and TV.
Normalizing and defending every pedophile on the planet. Ask any academic. It’s not their fault. They are just “Minor Attracted Persons”.
Trying to impoverish 3rd world counties and destroy Western civilization by criminalizing fossil fuels — even to the point of complaining about human exhalation — in the “green agenda” madness.
Pushing the insane “trans” agenda in all it’s awful forms. Biological men competing in women’s sports. Men being incarcerated in women’s prisons. Men being allowed in women’s bathrooms, changing rooms, locker rooms, rape crisis shelters, etc, etc, etc.
Distorting capital allocation and corporate governance with the lunacy that is DEI and ESG.
The blatant (and proud) racism that accompanies the hideous identity politics of the modern left.
Advocating for late-term abortions as if such a thing was desired (rather than the result of a horrific medical problem in almost all cases).
Lowering educational and employment standards and waging war on meritocracy in the most awful and racist ways.
Pushing sexually explicit content and experiences on other people’s kids (drag queen story hour etc).
Whatever kind of awful racism and sexism and glorification of violent crime is going on in half of modern rap music videos.
And that’s just off the top of my head.
The left has gone nuts and if they don’t quickly do an about-face, they are going to summon into existence a puritanical, religious, conservative, authoritarian, totalitarian backlash.
That backlash is brewing already. It’s building. You can see it clearly if you only open your eyes. You don’t want to summon that demon, I promise you.
And of course, this “pendulum” effect works both ways. Part of the reason for the sexual revolution and the explosion in identarian politics and the LBGTQIA2S?*!%#@+++(to infinity) stuff is a reaction to intolerance and bigotry (often enshrined in law) on the right.
It’s a lesson that everyone should learn.
If you don’t want their madness foisted on you, don’t foist your own version of madness on them.
If we don’t learn that lesson, we’re going to tear each other apart.
Naturally,
Adam