“Physical reality is consistent with universal laws. Where the laws do not operate, there is no reality.” – Star Trek
And where I’m drawing, there is no art.
I love those moments when I make connections, mixing together equal parts of theory, experience, and coincidence together for an observation. It makes me feel like the big picture is coming together, and I’m at least one step closer to understanding the way the world really works. Sadly, I still can’t figure why the dentist tries to make conversation when his hand is in your mouth up to his wrist, but I did solve another puzzle.
The realization I came up with the other day is a simple one: Leftism contains a requirement to deny reality. The best current example is, of course, transgenderism. I had already decided to write this post prior to this weekend, but I came across an article titled, For Transgender Men, Pain of Menstruation is More Than Physical on NBC™(LINK) today. The article goes on to complain that transgendered men are somehow discriminated against because they can’t buy feminine hygiene products in a men’s restroom. You can’t buy cheesy-beef chimichangas in men’s restrooms either, but you don’t see me complaining.
I’m not making this up, the way I taught my kids to say “hit me” instead of “I’m sorry”, just so when they got to school that they’d feel silly. Pugsley was not pleased and has indicated that this will be a major factor in his nursing home selection criteria. I do know that men complaining about having menstrual pains has been the punchline of jokes in the past. Heck, I even had a sound clip of Bart Simpson™ saying “ohhh, my ovaries” once upon a time.
Poor Optimus Prime. He identifies as a truck.
All of this restroom nonsense is certainly a bit beyond the initial LGBT rights request of: “Let consenting adults do what they want in the privacy of their own bedrooms.” Now, that apparently includes letting consenting adults do whatever on the dining room table during Thanksgiving. And you’re ___phobic if you don’t applaud position changes. Pro tip: get your mashed potatoes early.
This has had consequences outside of the evil patriarchal bathroom conspiracy. Sure, someone born as a biological women being upset that they have periods takes the absurdity meter to 10. This level of denial of reality is so profound that the denier is shocked when basic biological processes that have existed since before humans invented cell phones . . . still apply to them in the current year. To complete the cycle? The denier demands everyone else play along in the same game of pretend.
How much are they wanting everyone else to play along? This one person in the article was upset that feminine products companies had the bad taste to market feminine products only to women. It’s like a company was being called bigoted because they didn’t manufacture tires for aircraft carriers.
I don’t dislike women pretending to be men, or vice versa – I’m just not sure I care at all.
I bet his new transgender name is: Pebbles.
I’m not sure that I’ve ever even met a trans person, since they are rarer than a squealing, strudel-serving sheepdog. The percentage of trans people probably reaches 0.005% of the population or so. The number is about one trans person in every 20,000 people. That means that in all of the United States, there might be 16,000 or so actual transgendered people – heck, let’s double it and call it 32,000 people, which are more people than are fans of the Cleveland Browns®.
32,000 bottle is a lot of Coca-Colas© for me to have to drink in one day, but a group of 32,000 people in the United States is hardly the basis for public policy, or a good business basis for Gillette™ to alienate actual customers. Aw, who am I kidding: it certainly makes sense to change every bathroom in the United States and offer feminine products to women who want to use the bathroom with men.
It is certainly not possible for trans people to anticipate the entirely predictable, periodic, and monthly tyranny of menstruation and, oh, plan ahead. That’s hateful speech. Let’s instead spend MILLIONS of taxpayer and consumer dollars creating an infrastructure for between 16,000 and 32,000 people not bright enough to remember that they menstruate.
This delusion carries on beyond rare mental conditions – it is an active belief of some Leftists that natural men who are “transgender” should be able to compete in sports against natural women. This has had the result of men crushing women in event after event where it’s allowed, from bicycling to track to weightlifting to Australian Rules Football. Because, of course, the Left also believes the lie that there is no difference between the biological ability of men and the biological ability of women.
But this isn’t only about transgenderism. Where else does the Left deny reality?
After all, it isn’t fair. There are three people attempting to bring that poor transwoman down.
How about citizenship? In the eyes of a Leftist, an illegal alien is exactly the same as a citizen. Illegal aliens deserve all the benefits of a citizen, and on top of that, should be able to vote. I’m not making this up. In March of 2019, the Leftist-controlled House of Representatives voted to support communities that granted illegal aliens the right to vote – and on top of that the Left has stood in the pathway of most changes that would lower the number of illegal aliens in the country.
In fact, the inversion against facts borders on religious:
- PETA® is against killing an animal, but babies are fair game.
- Vegans? Vegans treat accidental animal consumption as a violation of a religious commandment.
- Fat jokes are taboo.
- Sex with anyone or anything anytime is sacred and must be celebrated under every circumstance. If you have a desire? It’s good.
The religious connection goes farther.
Back in October, right before the 2016 election, the “gotcha” moment for the Left was the Trump tape where he talks about his ability to make time with the ladies and grab them . . . well, you heard the tape. “This,” the Left thought, “is it. When America hears this tape, Trump will have to crawl back under a rock and Hillary will be our anointed one.”
When Trump actually was elected, the shock to the Left was nearly religious in nature – levels of despair reserved for when a Pope dies or a Kardashian comes to town. The people that voted for Trump didn’t vote for him because of ideological purity. People didn’t vote for him out of religious fervor. People voted for Trump because they thought he might be able to fix some things that bothered them. Rightly or wrongly, people voted for him because of his leadership.
This thought process is not something the Left understands. When voting for Hillary, the Left was not making a vote for a political leader; they were voting for a religious leader, a prophet. It was even in her slogan, “I’m with Her.” It wasn’t about Hillary being with the people, it was about Hillary being their religious leader.
This is why if you say bad things about a leader on the Left the reaction is so stunning, swift, and predictable. If you mock the left, you’re at best a heretic. The reason you’re considered a heretic if you mock the Left is they’ve done a skillful job of elevating the profane to the sacred.
Profane doesn’t mean what a lot of people think it does – it really means “something that’s secular and not religious,” instead of “Daddy’s drunk on a Saturday night and just stubbed his toe.” The opposite of profane is sacred, and you need to refute the Truth in order to allow the profane to become sacred – if people can see the Truth, they’ll never accept the change.
And last I heard, the reindeer were in quarantine.
One example? Instead of saying “the Truth”, people on the Left say, “My truth.” Truth is blurred from an objective reality to a shared subjective reality. This is a necessary condition because if Truth exists, there is room to doubt the ideas of the Left. That’s simply unacceptable – there is no universal Truth, merely a diversity of individual truths.
Well, “my truth” includes gravity and things like the Sun.
Regardless, the Left has managed to turn the following things into its sacraments:
- Abortion – which is never taking a human life, rather it’s the eradication of a bunch of cells, like a wart that could have been a concert violinist.
- Sexual Preferences/Compulsions – it used to be that people were restrained when talking about sex. Now? Have a parade about it whatever your kink is.
- Being Fat – the “healthy at any size” is certainly supported by most really fat scientists.
- State Solution Supremacy – despite a continuous supply of state failures, the true salvation of people lies in the state doing something for them. Self-control? Personal responsibility? Hate crimes.
- Illegal Aliens – If we import several million Mexicans into the country, the country will be exactly like it was before we imported them. They certainly won’t recreate the problems of Mexico in Los Angeles.
- Race/Ethnicity – They either don’t exist, or exist as social constructs. Very useful for extracting victimization to farm votes for the Left.
In order to make room for the new sacred things, the Left had to make the following things profane:
- Christianity
- Marriage
- Family
- Individuality
- American Traditions
- American Values
If you look back, the making things on the list above (like Christianity) the butt of jokes was intended to strip the reverence that people had for them and make those subjects profane – less than desirable. People and organizations who were virtuous were mocked, or worse, were portrayed as secret hypocrites even when they weren’t. Disney® movies went from celebrating virtue and the American culture and values in the 1970’s (The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, etc.) to mocking virtue entirely in the 1980’s (Down and Out in Beverly Hills, etc.).
The good news is that Bernie Sanders promised him he could vote next election.
But if you look at the list of the new things held to be sacred by the Left, you’ll see that these are the things we’re now prohibited from mocking. We can’t make fun of them. The Left isn’t looking to elect a President. The Left is looking to anoint a prophet. And that’s dangerous. Religious feeling has always been part of Leftism – that’s why they hate religion. It must be replaced with ideology.
The new sacred must not be mocked. And don’t ever try to contradict it with facts – the Left doesn’t care much for them.
Dangit. Now I’m in the mood for a cheesy-beef bathroom chimichanga.