With every passing week, I’m increasingly struck by how fast the gap is growing between red and blue states, and how wide that gap is getting. And also by what seems like the single factor that explains it: while the political right has more or less maintained its position on the political spectrum, the left has moved far, far to the left.
Elon Musk made the point back when he was thinking about buying Twitter. He shared someone’s simple drawings of his political position. The drawings featured three horizontal lines, labeled “2008,” “2012,” and “2021,” and three stick figures, labeled “conservative,” “me,” and a leftist.
In all three drawings, the conservative stick figure was on the right side, and the stick figure labelled “me” was in the same spot, roughly in the middle of the line. But in 2008, the leftist figure was labeled “my fellow liberal,” and the “me” character was a little left of center, and close to the liberal.
In 2012, the leftist was shown racing to the left, and was labeled “my fellow liberal?” and the “me” character was now just barely left of center.
In 2021, the leftist was standing to the far, far left, labeled “woke ‘progressive’,” and the center line had shifted so far that the “me” character was now about 1/3 of the way right of center.
That drawing sums up our national politics pretty well. It seems like an ideological bookend to Reagan’s old statement, “I didn’t leave the Democrat party; the Democrat party left me.” Musk has the same message to all the lefties who worshipped him 10 years ago and excoriate him as far-right now: he didn’t move, but they went so far left that they lost their minds.
We all see this in just about every big political issue of the day.
On abortion, Dems as recently as Bill and Cankles McPantsuit used to chant the mantra that abortion should be, “safe, legal and rare.” That never made much sense. (What other constitutional “rights” could you apply that to? Would you say that people should exercise their freedom of speech safely, legally and only rarely? Should they use their freedom of religion that way?) But it was at least a nod to the inherent tragedy of abortion.
Dems were also queasy about late-term abortion, insisting that it basically never happens, and trying their best to avoid the subject.
Now the activist left is super abortion-positive! They urge each other to “shout your abortion,” and vacuous actresses give acceptance speeches in which they say how glad they are that they were able to get abortions so that they could increase their career success.
The same goes for gay and trans issues. Obama ran in 2008 as anti-gay marriage, citing his “Christian faith!” (This at a time when many people across the spectrum supported “civil unions” as a compromise that would allow gay couples the civil rights of married couples while maintaining traditional marriage.)
Of course he was lying, which he tacitly admitted when he flipped his position the minute public opinion shifted enough to allow it. But as the old saying goes, “Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue,” and our society could still tell the difference between the two just a few years ago.
The trans craziness is an even starker example. Even a short time ago, if a crazed doctor started chopping off children’s healthy sex organs and chemically castrating them because they were “really” the opposite sex, that doctor would have been jailed or committed to a psych ward.
And if men demanded access to women’s and girls’ showers and athletic competitions, or seriously injured females in physical sports, they would have been jailed immediately. Assuming they survived the community-sanctioned beatings they would have gotten from those girls’ fathers.
Leftists used to tacitly welcome illegal immigration, since they knew most illegals would become future Democrat voters. But they weren’t crazy enough to completely open the borders, and ship the illegals all over the country, and give them cash and prizes to come in.
And while Dems were never exactly “tough on crime” or fans of the 2nd amendment, they would at least jail repeat offenders, and require high pre-trial bail before letting them out.
When I was a wee lad in Illinois, Chicago was run by Democrats, just as it is today.
But in 1968, when crowds of mostly young leftist dopes caused trouble in Chicago, Mayor Daley sent cops wading into the crowds with tear gas and billy clubs, and carted them off to jail, even if only for a short time. And those were protestors who actually had some legitimate complaints (being drafted into an increasingly unpopular war), and who were being obnoxiously disruptive, but not burning down entire city blocks and injuring hundreds of cops for months on end.
And now violent criminal aliens are allowed into the country, shipped up to NYC, and allowed to physically beat NY cops, and not only are they not jailed and deported, they are released immediately, without even having to post bail?!
I know you all know this, and I do too, but I’m still regularly shocked by how far our blue cities have fallen, and how fast!
Ugh! The only cold comfort I can get from many of these stories is that so many Democrats are now receiving the karmic arse-whipping that they deserve, providing me with a refreshing spring of schadenfreude, and the ongoing opportunity to mock them.
Speaking of which, have you heard that Stacy “A-1” Abrams has just laid off most of the staff of her “voting rights” (i.e. voting fraud) group, the ironically named “Fair Fight?” It seems the rotund, race-baiting election denier raised around $100 million between 2018-2021.
Annnnndddddd… they’re bankrupt!
She’s gone 0-2 in GA governor elections, and 0-for-three years in legal battles to advance the cause of stealing elections. After her group lost their most recent legal challenge against the conservative group “True the Vote,” they are now $600K in the hole, with nothing to show for it.
Also in Georgia, Fani Willis’ multiplying problems continue to entertain and delight. Just like most of Trump’s pursuers in the bogus lawfare cases against him, she is finding out how stupid it was to throw rocks at Trump when she was living in a glass house.
Or in her case, a glass house of ill repute.
Yes, it’s extra funny when someone embroiled in a sex scandal has a name like “Fani.” (Remember how much fun we had with Anthony Weiner?)
Just as it was extra funny when an old video resurfaced from when Fani was running for DA in April of 2020. In an interview with local television, she laughingly asserted, “I certainly will not be choosing people to date that work under me (sic).”
So she’s definitely made a 180-degree turn on that issue. In fact, if I wasn’t such a refined and classy gentleman, I might even say that she went from cowgirl to reverse cowgirl on that issue.
But I definitely would NOT say that “working under her” is exactly the right phrase to describe boy toy Nathan Wade, whom she hired for an unreasonably high salary to go after Trump. Nor would I say that Wade’s previous inexperience – having worked only with low-level criminal cases, and not a single felony trial – makes him a perfect example of the Peter principle.
Because I am obviously far too mature for that.
However, at least one sexually compromised leftist is going unpunished. (Which probably disappoints the little weirdo.)
I’m talking about the legislative aide who was depraved and stupid enough to record himself in a Senate hearing room engaging in a squalid display that, even though it wasn’t baseball-related, involved a great deal of pitching and catching. And then he was stupid enough to post that video online.
When that behavior caused a scandal – unexpectedly! – the little creep insisted that, “I love my job and would never disrespect my workplace.”
Yes, everybody can see that you loved your job. Some might say you loved it too much.
And if you don’t think that making a gay porn video in your office is disrespecting the workplace, what more do you think you’d have to add to achieve that? Scented candles and circus animals?
Don’t answer that!
Anyway, the creep was allowed to resign, and the Capitol police have just announced that they won’t be pressing any charges.
On an entirely unrelated note, remember when the MSM and the Dems (but I repeat myself) got the vapors because the J6ers walked through the capitol building – fully clothed, and most of them with police escort?
That was a horrific “defilement of the sacred seat of government” that sent them all to their fainting couches in shock.
And yes, please feel free to make your own “defiling the seat of government” joke here. Because as I may have mentioned, I’m way too refined and classy for that.
Hamas delenda est!
Martin Simpson 