Coulter: Rule By Left-Wing Lunatics

As Reynolds might say: we've entered some bizarre hell-world where Anne Coulter is the voice of reason...  She's pretty much exactly right. You could also talk about the Kyle Rittenhouse case here: crowds of leftist criminals are permitted to commit assault, arson and theft on a massive scale--but fight back (even in defense of yourself against known violent criminals) and you go to jail. Everything is radically slanted in the leftist's favor.

   There's no reasoning with the contemporary left. Its leading edge is basically a cult. The trailing edge seems to be made up of former liberals who can't shake the presupposition that the left is good and the right is bad. So, even as the nation descends into utter madness, the trailing edge keeps making excuses. All it takes for this to happen is an inclination to spin everything 5 or 10 percent in the favor of the left (or whichever faction). 

   However much you may dislike Coulter and similar folk--and I've been furious at them for decades--they are, currently, by far, the more clear-eyed of the observers and commenters. The progressive left constitutes and inhabits a tangled web of lies and delusions. It's held together by innumerable strands of semi-logical assertions, arguments and theories...and by the emotional allegiance of former (once and future?) liberals...and by threats of rabid social sanctions for apostates. No one of these things is sufficient to keep it all together. But together, they've turned out to be more than sufficient to keep the cult unified--or unified enough, anyway. 

   I don't have any use for the farther reaches of the right, nor for the hard-core religious right. But people like Coulter are much more clear-eyed than, say, your average progressive. Clarity and honesty are basically sins on the progressive left. Political correctness is a massive system aimed exactly at preventing objectivity and its lamentable offspring, truth-telling. Truth-telling is hate-speech. Especially if it's done in a Coulteresque tone of righteous anger. If you are so foolhardy as to speak the truth, it's supposed to be in apologetic, groveling tones. You won't be hanged quite as high if you beg obsequiously for the freedom to speak the truth--but you'll still be hanged. I, of course, prefer a Coulteresque inclination to sin bravely. If you are reduced to mealy-mouthed groveling, the cult still wins that aspect of the battle.