George Santos, the gay Republican elected to the House of Representatives who now is under fire for alleged lies about himself, is no more than a product of the gay agenda taken by him to its logical extreme.
That agenda is built on the cornerstone that reality, biology, societal norms, all are to be pitched to the side in favor of what an individual believes about himself, herself, itself.
Behind the alphabet soup concocted to cover all the gender-confused bases – LGBTQQIP2SAA – is the thinking that the only rules that apply are those one makes for oneself.
It’s a wild expansion on the premise of 17th century philosopher Rene Descartes and his “I think therefore I am,” philosophical dictum.
Descartes was in search of an undoubtable truth, a basic truism that was irrefutable.
The gay community has expanded upon that thinking with “I think I am (fill in the blank) therefore I am (fill in the blank).”
To dispute any of their assertions is to subject yourself to charges of bigotry, racism, homophobia or any other incendiary term the enablers might want to apply.
I recall the Sybil phenomenon of the 1970s, producing a best-selling book and a movie starring Joanne Woodward and Sally Field, about a woman professing to have multiple personalities.
The patient would tell her psychiatrist she was a little girl, little boy, baby, etc. and go into great detail about what ended up being 16 separate identities. In those unenlightened times, this was considered a mental illness, multiple personality disorder (since rechristened dissociative identity disorder).
Society was not expected to be re-ordered to accommodate whatever personality Sybil was claiming on that day. She was to be treated – cured if possible.
In an ironic parallel to the Santos case, a book from a decade back “Sybil Exposed” notes that Sybil had embarked on this series of multiple personality lies to gain attention.
The more she created, the more attention she got from her psychiatrist. Even though the book maintains Sybil told the psychiatrist she was just making it up, this psychiatrist was in the midst of writing her own book about the “disorder” and so dismissed the admission of falsehood as just the patient trying to avoid therapy.
This brings us to Santos, who admits to putting “a little bit of fluff” in his resume. Among the things he is reported to have exaggerated are graduating from college, working for prominent Wall Street investment firms, being a successful financier on his own, having created an animal rescue charity and being Jewish.
I am fairly certain that if Santos were a Democrat, there would be a lot less outrage about all of this.
Instead, the gay lobby would be out beating the drums for him. If Santos identifies as a college graduate, accomplished financier, creator of a charity and even Jewish, who are we to argue?
These are the same people who would insist a biological male can be a biological female simply by wishing and thinking it to be so.
It’s no more ridiculous for Santos to be imagining himself to have achieved all those successes, than it is for a bearded gent to argue he might get pregnant in the not-too-distant future.
If we’re going to hold Santos to the standard of truth and reality (and we should!), let’s expand that to restoring truth and reality to all things sexual orientation, and all things politics for that matter.
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