It’s not a wholly uncommon condition that affects teenagers. Oppositional Defiant Disorder. It’s when a young person has a frequent and persistent pattern of anger, irritability, arguing, defiance or vindictiveness toward you and other authority figures. For most young people it’s a healable affliction that goes away by the time adulthood sets in. But to a lot of grownup Democrats, they never bothered to seek out treatment.
It’s gotten so bad for the left, that if the right comes out for an issue, the left believes it has to come out against it. Even on issues where the two sides should find common ground, the left implausibly finds a way to oppose it. No matter how mainstream or popular the right’s position on an issue, the left can’t contain itself. Here are some examples.
Free speech. The left’s response: more censorship. Barack Obama told some Stanford students this week that “misinformation” was the biggest threat to democracy
Corporate welfare. The left’s response: defend Disney’s ability to get a government waiver in order to have its own political subdivision.
Due process. The left’s response: blacklisting, cancelling with no explanation.
Anti-war. The left’s response: intervene on behalf of Ukraine.
Doing business with totalitarian governments and human rights abusers. The left’s response: ignore China’s oppressive regime and Uyghur detention camps. Virtue signalers like Apple, the NBA and Disney just turn a blind eye.
And of course, issues with the sudden fad known as transgenderism.
A little over four years ago Nick Meriwether was teaching his political philosophy class when he became front and center in the misgendering crime of the century. He called on a student by saying “Yes, sir”. That was enough for an Ohio public university to determine that Meriwether “effectively created a hostile environment” for not using the proper pronouns when addressing a transgender student. A written warning was placed in the teachers file and a note that said “further corrective actions” would be taken.
Meriwether sued, and just last week was awarded $400,000 from Shawnee State University. A jury said his civil rights were violated, due to his religious beliefs.
Earlier this week, a group of Massachusetts parents sued the school which encouraged their children to take a new name and adopt new gendered pronouns, without the parents consent. Vernadette Broyles, general counsel of the group suing the Ludlow School District, said, “We are seeing this type of concerted effort by school officials across the country. School officials are making decisions about the lives of children that they are not qualified or authorized to make and doing it without telling, and often deceiving, parents.”
These public (and many private) schools consciously have determined that they know best when it comes to the gender of a student. We're not just talking about Critical Race Theory or genderless bathrooms. A number of teachers have been featured on the “Liberals of TikTok” touting their personal experiences with gender reassignment and their various chosen pronouns...while in class, teaching. A number of these teachers have been counseling students on “changing their team”. (And, of course, the leftist Twitter felt it needed to censor the “Liberals of TikTok”, even though it just runs unedited videos of trans promoters. Too much truth is harmful).
The issue has been given even more oxygen by the rabid opposition to Florida’s left-proscribed named, “Don’t Say Gay” bill, most famously by the Disney Corporation. As many know by now, it prevents the discussion of gender transition to K-3rd graders. Disney, which we discussed in a previous edition of “I’ve Had It”, has a number of employees who are trying to include gender and sexually loaded themes into its cartoons and movies. The company says it will try to get the measure overturned. Despite Disney’s outrage, polling doesn’t seem to be on the Mouse’s side.
Here’s how the polling firm framed the issue, “Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in Kindergarten through third grade or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.”
Two thirds of the respondents believed it was inappropriate, even more than half of Democrats believed it was not a good law.
Opponents of this type of sexualizing of small kids are claiming that the advocates are basically “grooming” the kids. Grooming is defined as when someone builds a relationship, trust and emotional connection with a child or young person so they can manipulate, exploit and abuse them. Children and young people who are groomed can be sexually abused, exploited or trafficked. And while, a lot of the activities now being chronicled throughout the country has led to what could be called grooming, the left is very defensive about it. This headline from the liberal Atlantic “Grooming is Republicans Cruel New Buzzword for Targeting Trans Kids.” Of course, the Biden Administration has felt the need to weigh in. Presidential spokesperson Jan Psaki said the bill is 'politically charged' and 'harsh' and puts parents of LGBTQ children in a 'heartbreaking' position.
The flak only gets heavy when you’re over the target. It’s obvious the Republicans have a killer issue here, in fact, may have a handful. As mentioned before, cultural battles may be just as important in the outcome of the midterms as inflation, crime and border issues. The left has lost its moral compass and only seeks to maintain power. But mainstream America is onto the game, and is taking measures to return a majority of the country to sanity.
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An update on a story we’ve reported on: Loudoun County School District employees could face criminal charges for covering up a rape that occurred on a district campus.
A special grand jury has been convened to explore charges against the superintendent, who claimed at the time. that there had never been any assaults in the LCSD bathroom.
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A number of political prognosticators are speculating that a Republican President could have a “filibuster proof” 60 seat majority in the US Senate in 2024.
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In the dead of night 10 months after the episode, Homeland Security finally announced that the border patrol whipping incident was closed and there will be nothing further on it. The left and the regime’s media allies, used this picture to paint the Border Patrol as a bunch of meanies, furthering their position that illegals were being mistreated and should not be restrained. The patrolman shown was proven to not having whipped the crosser, but it didn’t stop President Biden from harshly condemning him the day after the alleged event.
The Great Reflex