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few months back, I began a piece by referring to the left as “ever more unmoored from reality and hoisted on the petard of its own internal contradictions.” In the piece itself, I focused on few small-bore items that might have escaped the attention of Mishpacha readers: 1) the confirmation hearings for Naomi Rao to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals; and 2) the harassment of a woman with an online knitting business who violated progressive speech codes by describing her lifelong desire to visit “exotic” India.
But I passed on the really obvious examples. That same week, a poll showed Democrats nearly evenly split between socialism (democratic, of course) and capitalism as the preferred economic system for the United States. Also that same week, the water taps were turned off in Venezuela, and the populace reduced to boiling and drinking sewer water. Last week, former Colorado governor and current presidential aspirant John Hickenlooper was booed lustily at a Democratic state party convention in California when he said, “If we want to defeat Donald Trump in 2020… socialism is not the answer.”
But for overall looniness, nothing can beat the push to allow males to compete in sports as women on the basis of their “identification” at the time. The ideological claim that gender is only a “social construct” — i.e., you can be whatever you want to be — is being treated as fact.
Really? In 1988, Florence Griffith-Joyner set a women’s world record in the 100-meter dash of 10.49 seconds, which still stands. Last year alone, over 2,000 males worldwide ran that fast.
