Greg Gansky on the "Would You Rather Have a Dead Son or a Live Daughter" Transgender Trope

A madness--a cultish secular religion--has affected our "elites."

And transanity is merely one aspect of it.

To the extent that populism is a reaction against elites, and given the abject lunacy afflicting said "elites," how can any sane person find the recent rise of populism puzzling? Ordinary people believe things like "girls are female." Our "elites" emit clouds of brainless jargon in denial. Ordinary people believe that we should have and enforce a border. Our "elites"...well, emit clouds of brainless jargon in denial of this, too. And this pattern is repeated with issue after issue...

   The argument in question in the post is one of the left's most despicable ones: let us sexually mutilate your children. If you refuse--or even so much as argue against us--children might kill themselves. Unstated conclusion: and you will be responsible. Their blood will be on your hands...

   Madness.

   Abject madness.

   We are not engaged in an ordinary political disagreement. We face a faction that has been possessed by a kind of insanity that requires and encourages outright rejection of plain facts and obvious moral positions. 

   If sociology and social psychology were worth a damn--and if those disciplines hadn't been possessed by the same ideas--they'd be investigating the nature and origin of this mass hysteria.