The Rebel News Network here in Canada is constantly derided as a “far-right” perpetrator of racist/sexist propaganda. This is a brazen lie. On Feb. 19 the Rebel’s David Menzies interviewed American feminist Naomi Wolf on the subject of the Left’s apparent support of the Trans agenda. Wolf has been vilified by some on the Left for having betrayed her “liberal” roots by insisting that individuals with penises who declare themselves to be Females ought not to be allowed into Women’s washrooms, locker rooms, prison cells or athletic competitions.
Declaring that she is still a “classical liberal,” Ms. Wolf insisted: “I didn’t leave the Left, it left me!” While she certainly has reservations with various aspects of the conservative agenda, particularly with what she sees as its assault on women’s reproductive rights, she nevertheless seems to feel her liberal values to be far more consistent with those on the contemporary Right. Why, she asks, are feminists across the U.S., in consort with the “progressive” media, not ranting daily about the violation of Women’s rights by biological Males claiming to be Females? The answer, of course, is the regime of “political correctness” legitimized by the Left over the last few decades, an authoritarian regime that dismisses all dissenters as mere “haters.” That Wolf might distance herself from this so-called liberal zeitgeist ought to have been obvious to anyone who read her 2007 book “The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot.”
In this work Naomi cites the political developments which signalled the beginning of a decline into totalitarianism of various 20th C. nation states. Nazi Germany, of course, is among those cited. Sadly, she maintains, America in the early 2000s seemed to be manifesting some of these same tendencies, generally under pressure from the political Left. The same is of course also true here in “progressive” Canada. Hence the establishment of a Cultural Climate in which one point of view has come to be deemed politically correct; in which dissenters are liable to be “cancelled,” fired or even imprisoned; in which the mainstream press has become little more than a spewer of Leftist propaganda; in which the Rule of Law is applied with a ridiculous double standard; in which the defenders of the status quo, in this computerized age, never cease searching for new ways to invade the space of each and every private citizen. Yes, the rights of the Individual, you may have noticed, no longer seem to matter to those who deem themselves the Defenders of Democracy!
To appear on The Rebel is to open oneself to hysterical vilification by the Left. Obviously Naomi Wolf doesn’t really care. What is encouraging is that she is not the only former “liberal” to have decided that contemporary conservatism actually has more in common with her values than the woke, self-righteous, dictatorial Left!