On Feb. 13, Democratic South Dakota Representative Erin Healy tweeted: “Extremist group Family Heritage Alliance said this morning that the safest place for kids are in families that have a married mom and dad. What a dangerous and un-American belief.”
For the Left, apparently, the traditional nuclear family is now a radical right wing institution!
In response to a Super Bowl Sunday TV ad promoting the Christian faith, Democratic N.Y. Representative AOC tweeted: Something tells me Jesus would not spend millions of dollars on Super Bowl ads to make fascism look benign.
So an elected Democratic official, not some fringe loon, apparently now sees Christianity as little more than a form of Fascism!
In Tuesday’s mayoral election, Chicago’s Lori Lightfoot garnered only 17% of the vote, finishing a distant third. It is highly unusual for a sitting mayor to be so soundly defeated. Her loss, she is insisting, was rooted in racism and misogyny, her identity as a Black Woman clearly not resonating with the voting public. The fact that there had been over 800 murders in her city in 2021 and approximately 700 in 2022, apparently had nothing to do with it. The fact that rampant drug abuse and general lawlessness had caused a number of businesses to abandon the city, had nothing to do with it. She was just another innocent victim of the vileness that is White, Patriarchal America.
Each of the above aptly represents the tawdry level of discourse typical of the contemporary Left. Yes, one can find right wing loonies whose rants are clearly rooted in racism, misogyny, etc., but Mainstream Conservatism aspires to be Rational. None of the various cultural critics to whom I regularly refer would consider making the sort of grossly simplistic and ultimately stupid declarations cited above.
The Nuclear Family is not a right wing Evil. Christianity is not Fascistic. And Lightfoot’s political defeat had far more to do with the stupidity of her policies than the color of her skin.