The left lives to
“push the envelope.” To Hollywood, the media and Big Academia, there are
apparently at least five main envelopes in need of pushing. LGBTQ rights,
abortion rights, disdain for the rubes in fly-over country, attacking
free-market capitalism and hatred of Christianity.
Surely
there must be many more envelopes out there to be pushed. Why cling to this conservative,
traditional, hum-drum, ho-hum, narrow-minded, envelope-pushing? Why get bogged
down in the status quo? Why push the same envelopes all your peers are pushing?
Why push the very same tired envelopes your parents did? Why not be original,
cutting-edge, even outré? Dare I say courageous?
If
people truly wanted to be bold, progressive and counter-cultural they could
stand up and testify that climate change is a hoax at worst and unproven at
best. So what if they were deemed a “Denier” or threatened with prison time. If they
wished to take a stand that matters, they could say that radical Islam is a
world-wide problem. If they wanted to “stick it to the man,” they could state
that men who identify as women…aren’t necessarily women. If they wanted to
“keep it real” they would aver that abortion isn’t “women’s health care,” but
simply infanticide aided by a slick public-relations campaign. Dilly, dilly!
If they
wished to be seen as genuine, they could admit that, though Trump has veracity
and character issues, he is a saint compared to either Bill or Hillary Clinton.
And many others on the left. If they wanted to appear learned and open-minded,
they could declare—unequivocally—that, on balance, the Founders were the
Greatest Generation…and built the world anew, setting it on a course of
previously unknown prosperity and liberation. They could refute the notion that
The Church of Satan and Judeo-Christianity have equal claim to the public
square.
They
could admit the obvious and say that capitalism has historically been more
beneficial to society than Socialism. The cheekiest among them could even say
that the West has nothing to apologize for and in fact is responsible for most
of the advances from which this world has benefitted.
To
which I’d add: “Hey, hey, ho, ho…Western
culture doesn’t blow.” (If you’re honest, this you’d know).