Throw open your windows and the air is rife with anguished cries from aggrieved leftists.
Social media, traditional media, they also are host to an abundance of vacuous laments from the lunatic left.
It wasn’t bad enough that some free-speech advocate billionaire was buying Twitter, ostensibly about to turn that left-wing propaganda platform into the even-handed populist commentary source it was supposed to be.
Sure, that development had prominent socialists among Twitter management reportedly breaking down in tears at meetings and an abundance of their fellow travelers, both inside the company and out, similarly reduced to incoherent shouting and threat making.
But wait, there’s more. Comes a leak from Supreme Court that indicates Roe v. Wade, the cornerstone of legal justification for killing unborn children, which had been written into federal law, just might be overturned.
There was a riot last night in Los Angeles in which windows were smashed by mask-wearing opportunists, some of them carrying communist flags. They were there, we were told by various media, to protest for abortions. What that has to do with communism or socialism, I’m not sure.
It’s predictable that such professional agitators, eager to take to the streets for any left-wing theater, would appear on cue and cause property damage.
Where are the cries for Democrats to renounce such conduct and disassociate themselves from such street hoodlums? You haven’t heard any, have you?
That’s textbook Liberal Hypocrisy 101. Conservatives must be held to a high standard and ordered to denounce groups who stretch the bounds of decent conduct. Liberals can embrace any outlaw organization that leans left and it’s just the case of them exercising the right to protest as guaranteed by the Constitution.
Sadly, but equally predictable, is the appearance on social media — megaphone for morons — of vacuous commentary on the abortion matter.
One such moron was observed on Facebook referring to “this abortion ban” and hoping supporters of it would choke and bleeping die tonight.
A wordsmith, she wasn’t. Not too bright in other areas, either.
Dear Moron Betty (her initials are MB), an overturning of Roe v. Wade would not ban abortion. That decision would be left to each state. You can bet deep blue socialist states such as California, New York and my own Pennsylvania will keep the butcher shops open, the last example having its outgoing toolbag governor rushing to the microphone to proclaim that killing babies will be allowed in Pennsylvania as long as he has anything to say about it.
How noble of him.
Sanitize linguistically the practice of abortion all you want by calling it Pro Choice, it still amounts to being pro taking a life.
The same hysterical types who scream that the government should keep its hands off their bodies, most often have no problem with mandated vaccines (at last glance, injected into bodies) being necessary to facilitate travel, going out in public or keeping one’s job. And what about the masks worn on heads attached to bodies, to enable free passage?
Another bromide cites rape and incest to justify abortion. According to a 2019 story in USA Today, a left-leaning publication, about 1 percent of abortions annually are for reasons of rape or incest. That leaves what I am confident is a great chunk of the remaining 99 percent of abortions mostly to be explained by morning-after regrets following promiscuity.
According to a story from NPR, another leftist mouthpiece, citing a 2017 study, approximately 1 in 4 women in the United States will have an abortion at some point in their lives.
All or mostly due to rape and incest? I doubt it.
Alas, people, we live not in a democracy, but an idiocracy. Convenience and expediency are the touchstones. Coaches of sports teams often quote the cliché “There is no I in team” to which present-day Americans would respond, “But there is a me and it’s all about me, baby.”
Dated concepts such as right and wrong, once easily identified, have been blurred and parsed to the point of being useless.
Politicians play to this widespread idiocy for a simple reason – it’s a winner. They buy votes with stimulus checks and all manner of ridiculous social programs that benefit mostly the providers and not the supposed needy.
They dredge up and dramatize “issues” designed to be raw meat fed to their cultist followers.
So, while it does my heart good to hear the whining from the lefty navel-gazers, I doubt any long-term benefit will be seen.
Somehow, in some way, Twitter’s work force will keep the outlet leaning hard left.
Somehow, in some way, Democrats will maintain power in mid-term elections.
Somehow, in some way, abortions will remain legal and readily available in these United States.
We have too many entrenched leftists in government, school systems, institutions of higher education and various media, for real progress to be made.
We have too many gutless conservatives, willing to cut and run anytime a stand on principle becomes a touch too controversial, for real progress to be achieved.
But it is amusing against the backdrop of that reality, to see the brain-dead and morally bankrupt agonize so publicly about these short-term gains by the right.
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