No bridge too far

My imaginary audience for this is progressive liberals. On the slight chance that any of my hanging-on-by-an-unspoken-fingernail liberal friends happen to be reading this, friends, I am talking to you, too. Goodness knows you don’t contact me, but perhaps you “check up” on me to see if I’m “still going crazy.”

Do you have a bridge too far? Can you imagine any action that the left, or the Democratic party could take, that would be too much for you? Is there an evil that your party could commit that would compel you to say, “My conscience will not permit me to pull the lever for this party, or to stump for its positions. This is too much. It’s evil. Though I know that not voting for my party will endanger some of my personal interests, those are small compared to the evil that this party is doing.”?

It appears to me that most progressive liberals have no such bridge. It appears to me that most of them are shockingly weak-charactered. Shockingly amoral. Shockingly biddable. Shockingly concerned with their social reputations in academia, big cities, cocktail parties, journals.

Here are a number of bridges-too-far for me. They are bridges-too-far that should be enough, each singly on its own, to push any person of conscience and good will to say “no.”

-The White House and the Democratic Party’s official stance is that children should be poisoned with Lupron (“puberty blockers”), and that there is such a thing as a “child born in the wrong body” who “needs” to have his testicles removed, her breasts sliced off.

-The official position of the White House and the Democratic Party is that white people are insanely evil, and that they are targeting black people for denial of jobs, housing, reasonable interest rates, health care, and murder.

Meanwhile, in reality, American black people have been elevated to the status of Sacred Caste in this country while they, the black people, commit crimes, including violent crimes, at extraordinarily disproportionate rates (did that that word grab ya, liberal friend? It should. You respond to it like Pavlov’s dogs when it’s used to make black people look like victims when they’re not.).

-The Biden Administration is allowing millions of unvetted, illegal immigrants into the country while calling any of us who want an orderly, vetted, reasonable immigration process “racists”.

-The Biden Administration abrogated the Constitutional rights of all Americans for years during the fake pandemic. Mask mandates. Attempts at forced vaccination of federal workers. Plotting with Democratic state governors to force injections.

-The Democratic governors in various states did the same at the state level. In my own state, Vermont, Gov. Phil Scott signed an executive order making it illegal to walk or meet outside with anyone who is not living in your household.

-Democratic governors in the bluest states, such as Washington, Minnesota, Vermont, California, and more, have legalized child abduction and mutilation that they call “gender affirming care.”

-The public school system, dominated by leftist teacher’s unions, has produced the most ignorant, uneducated students in American history. Your own journals that you trust will even admit these numbers when they tally up how many students are proficient at grade level. America’s children are at third-world or worse levels of knowledge and ability to think. Let alone how feral and unsocialized they are.

-Fatherlessness, and the concomitant phenomenon of single mothers under extraordinary stress, is at an all-time high. We see the results of this. Yet I have heard a friend tell me “Kids don’t need fathers, I can’t believe they’re still backing that old thinking.”

The kids are not OK, no matter how irritated it makes you to hear that, and no matter how derisively you chide me when I mention it.

Children need fathers. Mothers alone are not enough. Women are not the superior sex (don’t think I don’t know how many liberal women believe this but say that they don’t. I can see right through them.).

I could make this a 10,000-word essay if I had the time. The list is endless.

Having spent most of my life as a progressive liberal, I consider myself more than usually stubborn and late to mature. It disappoints me that it took me until my middle 40s to shake off my emotional and distorted allegiance to the left.

Given what a late bloomer I am, I must extend understanding to other late bloomers.

But not infinite, unbounded understanding.

That line has been reached for me. Understanding stops now.

Any one of the evils I listed above should have been enough for any person, including progressive liberals to wake up and correct course. Late bloomer though I be, I’m not nearly as late as those of you who are still there.

If you are still there, you are not part of my life. Something is profoundly wrong with your thinking and your ethical contemplation.

Anyone who is going to throw the lever for the Democratic Party is not my friend or anyone I want to associate with. To do so is to affirm and support evil. It is to affirm and support state-sponsored child abuse at concentration camp levels of severity.

No. This is not “partisan politics.” It is not symmetrical, liberals. It is not “the same thing as those nasty conservatives who hate me because I respect women/people of color/people of McGender”. Those “nasty conservatives” aren’t the nasty people you think they are; they’re actually a lot nicer in a substantive way than most of you.

This isn’t about politics. It’s about morals. If you throw the lever for team blue, your morals are corrupt. I don’t respect you. I can’t respect you.

We’re opponents. And when this war on children and sanity goes farther, we’re going to be actual enemies.