John Burn-Murdoch: Dems Have Moved Radically Left, Leaving American Voters Behind

Nothing here should surprise anyone who's been paying attention...or who isn't living in the fantasy world of the blue echo chamber. It's very common for progressives to say that Republicans have moved far to the right...basically they always say that, no matter what. But it's absurd. Actually, the Republican party has moved leftward (at least on "social issues"). They're mostly cool homosexuality and even same-sex marriage now. It's the left that has rocketed leftward. Despite Burn-Murdoch's somewhat dismissive discussion of Colin Wright's famous cartoon, Wright is exactly right, and many of us knew what was going on long before that cartoon made its appearance. (It's some measure of how blind the left is to the facts that they like to post an inverted version of the cartoon claiming that they were actually left in the center by the right's rapid move rightward...)

   Look, in the past decade, Democrats have basically absorbed the whole cartload of bullshit that has afflicted the academic left for 40 years--obsession with race, sex (and now "gender"), sexual preference, etc. Imagine, 15 years ago, the Dems announcing that men can be women...women can have penises, men can get pregnant...that everyone has a secret mental quasi-sex, that it's ok to brainwash children with this hogwash and then medically/sexually mutilate them...that everyone gets to choose "their pronouns" and everyone else must not only use them, but must participate in the delusion represented by such nonstandard English usage...

   DEI, CRT, LGBTQIAP2S+#%, UBI and on and on...not to mention climate apocalypticism, a rather independent variety of crazy... The Dems certainly left me behind--and this helped prompt me to become more conservative on other issues, especially economics. But I've hated political correctness since I first encountered it in graduate school. Even before I had begun shifting rightward/centerward, that shit did not fly with me. It was GamerGate, really, that first introduced me to the "SJW"... Even centrist liberal that I then was, I sided 100% with the Sad Puppies and other sane folk. Then came men can be women...use my pronouns, bigot...all whites are racist and the rest of the torrent of crazy.

  Well anyway.