BloggeRhythms

As Lev Grossman wrote in The Magicians: “If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, wishing doesn’t make it so.” Something that should be learned by Progressives in Congress.

Michael Goodwin, quite correct as usual on Saturday, June 4, writes about how The Gray Lady, the New York Times, is finally admitting the nation’s crime wave is out of control, requiring confrontation. Reiterating the newspaper’s agenda-setting role for the left, he believes “this one has the potential to be immediately consequential.”

The most amazing part of Goodwin’s analysis is where major complaints are now coming from. Headlined, ’Democrats Are Feeling The Pressure On Crime From Their Own Base,’ stressed is what he calls “police reform” giving way to a plague of violence, one of the biggest pushes for change now “largely from people of color.” 

“Citing Dem campaigns in Baltimore, Atlanta, San Francisco, and Seattle,” another reporter, Alexander Burns, concludes that motivation is not just Republican attacks but rather “mounting outcry from Black, Hispanic and Asian-American communities.” 

Often mentioned before, the far-left consistently demonstrates extremely limited intellect, habitually creating or promoting issues appearing worthwhile to them at the outset, but eventually blowing irreparable holes in their platform due to irrationality.

Combined short-sightedness and stupidity could not be seen more clearly than the current war on fossil-fuels, shutting down production with no viable replacement. As a result, their agenda will be terminated completely when Republicans take back control of Congress in November. Simply because the far-left’s political hatred always outweighs even the smallest indication of plain old common sense.

Far-left demand for police reform has enabled crime to rise across the nation in Democrat controlled populations, not even considering that one's most harmed are “largely people of color.” Outcry’s now come "from Black, Hispanic and Asian-American communities.“  With more of those areas now also voting Republican in far larger numbers.

Another long-range problem for the far-left stems from open-borders. Leadership apparently not considering that many of those freely entering the country are likely to succeed financially, one way or another. And when that happens, just like the minorities complaining about far-left crime policy today, they too will most like vote Republican in the future.

Thus, the real problem for the far-left is a failure to comprehend the American Dream themselves. Resulting in a consistent striving to bring third-world political theory to a population not only succeeding quite well in a free society, but strongly desiring to do so.

Another probable statistical problem for the far-left comes down to sheer arithmetic. “Gallup's latest update on lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender identification finds 5.6% of U.S. adults identifying as LGBT. The current estimate is up from 4.5% in Gallup's previous update based on 2017 data.”

“Currently, 86.7% of Americans say they are heterosexual or straight, and 7.6% do not answer the question about their sexual orientation. Gallup's 2012-2017 data had roughly 5% "no opinion" responses.

“More than half of LGBT adults (54.6%) identify as bisexual. About a quarter (24.5%) say they are gay, with 11.7% identifying as lesbian and 11.3% as transgender.”

Breaking the data down further, if only 24.5% of gays are truly so, that means there are roughly a miniscule 1.37% LGBT’s in the total population. Nonetheless, where they’ve evidently situated themselves has provided voluminous influence. An example of which surfaced routinely while researching statistics.

Advice is given to teachers, as follows:

5 Things You Can Do to Support Your LGBTQ Students

1. Post Safe Space Signs. You can designate your classroom a "safe zone" through stickers or posters on your classroom door. ...
2. Start an LGBTQ Organization at Your School. ...
3. Stand Up Against Homophobia. ...
4. Integrate LGBTQ Topics into the Curriculum. ...
5. Pursue Professional Development.

Taken purely on face value of the language itself, it seems there’s a definitive effort to promote LGBTQ as if it were a cause, up to and including “Stand[ing] Up Against Homophobia.”

The statistics also suggest perhaps why teachers groups and unions were so much against parental involvement in curriculum and subject matter covered in classrooms. Particularly during Covid when now housebound parents were able to see, perhaps for the first time, what was being promoted to their offspring in public schools. In fact, it was curricula like the preceding that helped elect Glenn Youngkin as Republican Governor of Virginia. He strongly supported opening classrooms to parental observation and review of curricula.

Thus, what’s occurring at present is increasing deterioration of the far-left’s platform as it deconstructs issue by issue. Out-of-control crime waves in strongly Democrat cities highlighted today, along with exposure of out of proportion LGBTQ influence in public schools. As at the same time, illegal border crossings continually mount as purposeless rise in the cost of oil spurs run-away inflation.

All of which goes back to Lev Grossman’s opening comment today from The Magicians: “If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, wishing doesn’t make it so.” Already true to a great extent for the far-left, it will be proven undeniably in November when Republican hordes will show up at voting booths everywhere across the nation.

That’s it for today folks.

Adios