The Left Is Deranged: Jesse Singal / Jeff Goldblum / "#MeToo" / Transgenderism Edition

The Orwellian left is addicted to false accusations.
   Jesse Singal has published very mild criticisms of transgender ideology. This, of course, is verboten. First, he was accused of "transphobia"--which is, of course, a version of the contemporary left's only argument: if you disagree with us, you're an evil bigot--though it's a made-up species of bigotry. But when that didn't stop him, they deployed their second line of defense--as they did against Michael Bailey: they accused him of being obsessed with / into trans"women." Which means: men misrepresenting themselves as women...as everyone knows...but everyone is afraid to say...because they don't want to get the Jesse Singal / Michael Bailey treatment. Because most people find such accusations gross and embarrassing...but they're afraid to say so even when unjustly accused of it...because that's the insane clown world we now live in.
   The contemporary left is deranged. Mental illness needn't be a disorder of an individual person's mind. It can also afflict collective minds. A collection of irrational, totalitarian ideas has infected much of left-of-center America. To make matters worse, such irrational, totalitarian ideas also attract people who just make things worse--e.g. Nicole Cliffe in Singal's example. And everything over there just keeps getting crazier and crazier. And almost all the actual liberals, who could put the brakes on this, are silent.
   One of the sub-varieties of this insanity that contributes to the whole is the tendency to eagerly accept all politically correct accusations without a single shred of proof.
   Contemporary progressives really are making the right-wing religious types of my youth seem...well...not so very terrible by comparison. Given a choice between the two, I think I'd...well, tell 'em both to go get bent, actually. No, seriously: the religious wingnuts who drove me so crazy as a kid were pikers compared to the Orwellian left.