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Left-Wing Activists . . . Batter Themselves Down While Trying To Impose Social Liberalism

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By DEXTER DUGGAN

Social-issues liberalism continues to poison the Democratic Party and draw that party ever-farther away from the base that used to provide it with such power.
When the U.S. Supreme Court invented the imaginary “constitutional right” to permissive abortion in 1973, left-wing activists thought they’d be riding a wave of the future to growing clout. However, the opposite occurred. The Democratic Party began coming apart as former supporters were exiled and trekked over to the Republicans.
That’s a major reason the left wing came to insist on unlimited, overwhelming immigration, to try to replace the U.S. voters it rejected.
Now left-wing Democrats, who call the shots for what’s left of the party, are full throttle for an even zanier aberration — a strange man inviting himself into your daughter’s school bathroom, so he’ll feel “safe” and accepted, and, just over the horizon, criminal charges against you if you dare object. Watch out as this develops.
Pro-abortion zealots had thought High Court power would force their opponents into marginalization, silence, and then nonexistence. But the reverse has proved true, with Republican pro-lifers more active than ever.
A chart from the Pew Research Center in 2015 helped show how dramatic the change had been. In 1978 Democrats controlled both chambers of 31 state legislatures while Republicans controlled only 11. The remaining seven states’ legislative chambers were split between Democratic and Republican control, with the unicameral Nebraska legislature not counted.
By 2015 the dominance had been almost exactly reversed, the chart showed, with Republicans controlling both chambers in 30 states and the Democrats only 11.
And don’t forget how congressional control flipped from longtime Democrat majorities to Republican control.
Gradually moving, the tectonic plates had shifted to reshape politics. It was an earthquake on the installment plan, with the shaking muted but the result unmistakable.
Its development had gone unheralded by the dominant media because they didn’t expect it, didn’t want it, and wouldn’t concede it except with fallacious explanations that comforted their fantasy worlds.
The same thing can be happening now with the rapid rise of the sexually disoriented as they shove to impose their psychological difficulties as a way of living on the entire nation. As with abortion, the dominant media cheer these radicals and frame traditionalist people in hostile terms.
If a counter-revolution to this sexual immaturity has already begun, don’t expect to see it lauded or encouraged in reportage that swoons over men barging into women’s lavatories and lustily cheers veto-casting governors who defy majorities in their state legislatures that want to protect constituents’ consciences.
Whatever happened to “women’s rights” — against bathroom invasions? Like other shallow “progressive” slogans, this one quickly ceased to mean anything to left-wing media dashing off to a repellent new crusade.
The completely unthinkable of only a few years ago is suddenly the utterly imperative new imposition by a tiny gang that dare not be denied, challenged, or rebuked by the overwhelming majority of the nation.
The left-wing UK Guardian wrote with joy on March 29 that a liberal New York school is simply stripping the words “men” and “women” off restroom doors.
The Guardian website solemnly quoted a radical student, “A public facility shouldn’t have to ask if you’re a man or a woman” — an unhinged idea, considering the context. But this bulging nonsense is the latest notion that everyone else is expected to cheer as being long overdue and eminently reasonable.
This mindset finds it hilarious, or bigoted, that “women and girls” should expect “peace of mind” in public lavatories. One can only wonder what is the next previously unknown basic right that will engage the left’s insane ardor. Whatever it is, it won’t help the Democratic Party — a fact certain to surprise all the leftists surfing on the minuscule waters of this latest wave of the future.
Only a few years ago, readers would have been totally perplexed at a March 29 headline, “New York Gov. (Andrew) Cuomo bans official travel to N.C. because they have men’s and women’s restrooms.”
What had North Carolina plumbers ever done to make it unworthy of visits by New York officials? Oh, the Tar Heel State doesn’t want to plumb the depths of depravity.
Accompanying the headline was today’s typically pretentious, puffed-up rhetoric by the supposedly Catholic, left-wing Democrat Cuomo that embracing the unwelcome bathroom meanderings of the sexually troubled is a glorious victory for the rights of all people.
Except, of course, the large majority of people, who reject this aggression against their lives.
Surely some fulminating judges can hammer the nation into submission yet again to obey the odious.
However, the nation hasn’t been very good at obeying the anti-science junk law and fairy tales that the Supreme Court invented 43 years ago to mandate massive abortion.
Among the headlines at the Pewsitter news aggregator (pewsitter.com) on just one day, March 26, were these: “More abortion restrictions sent to governor,” “Florida governor signs law ending funding to clinics providing abortions,” “Indiana governor signs new abortion restrictions into law,” “Michigan House passes bills to prevent abortion coercion,” and “Pro-aborts don’t like new step in inquiry of baby-part sales.”
On March 24 the Arizona House sent three bills restricting abortion to its governor’s desk. On March 28 Utah Republican Gov. Gary Herbert signed a bill requiring anesthesia for abortions at 20 weeks of pregnancy or later, to minimize pain for the baby.
The Wintery Knight blog on March 25 noted other new pro-life laws signed by Republican governors in Kentucky, South Dakota, and South Carolina.
The reason for all this activity, of course, is that a stubborn, blind U.S. Supreme Court, urged on by left-wing media and the national elite, still refuses to admit its huge error back in 1973 and to undo its judicial legislating. So the nation must continue to rebuke the court until it repents.

Crushing Conscience

Republicans have a lot of their legislative power because the Democrats’ pro-abortion fanaticism keeps driving them into the wilderness.
Constantin Querard, a conservative Republican campaign consultant in Arizona, told The Wanderer on March 29 that people will keep up their pro-life campaign.
“Abortion isn’t an issue that can be settled by the Supreme Court inventing a right,” Querard said. “People still know right from wrong, and unjust decisions will be gradually undone by citizens and legislators in every state over time. The right to life is God-given, as stated in our founding documents, no matter what…black-robed justices decided 43 years ago.”
As for the legislative activity, he said, “The Republican Party is a pro-life party, and its platform in every state is pro-life, so it is great to see so many GOP-dominated state legislatures advancing bills that protect babies and their mothers.”
The Hill national political news site took note of Querard’s political activity in a story posted March 19, which described him as a “veteran Arizona political operative” who “made his name mobilizing grassroots conservatives and delivering surprise victories to insurgent candidates in the state legislature.”
Meanwhile, social liberals increased their efforts not only to batter down bathroom doors but also to punish the majority of people who’d dare disagree.
When homosexuals began pushing for “gay rights,” they falsely insisted they only wanted to have a “live and let live” society, each person free to follow his own way. However, now that judges have begun forcing homosexuality onto the entire society despite massive public votes against it, the sex activists say no one can be exempted from honoring deviancy — including bakers, florists, or clergy marriage-makers.
A growing battlefront here is to crush bills allowing conscience exemptions.
Homosexuals quietly recruited wealthy, powerful corporations to align with them and threaten economic disaster against any state that disagreed.
One might have hoped the corporations would have kicked them out the door for their arrogance and presumption. However, the big businesses, like various politicians they fund, care mainly about money and pleasing liberal media who’d smear them beyond recognition otherwise.
A glaring early example of this occurred in Arizona in February 2014. A conscience-protection bill passed the legislature without public rancor and was sent off for the signature of then-Gov. Jan Brewer, a moderate Republican conservative from the John McCain wing of the Arizona GOP.
Almost overnight, liberal media and major corporations nationwide exploded with fury and threats to destroy the Grand Canyon State economically if Brewer dared sign. The homosexuals’ boardroom spadework bore fruit. It was no longer live and let live, but get in line or die.
Brewer could have set a national example of courage by repudiating these bullies, but she quickly wilted, issuing the veto. “Moderate” McCain of course was no help. Rather than telling his big-business buddies they had nothing to fear from Arizona protecting consciences, McCain trembled and blurted, “I know the entire business community is galvanized, in a way that I’ve never seen, against this legislation.”

Real Discrimination

As March 2016 drew to a close, Georgia Republican Gov. Nathan Deal became the latest frightened politician to throw up his hands in surrender as major corporations threatened his state with economic devastation. Deal vetoed even a watered-down conscience-protection bill.
Deal proclaimed his opposition to “discrimination” — while exposing traditionalists to thoroughgoing discrimination against their own beliefs.
The conservative Heritage Foundation’s Ryan Anderson noted the “hypocrisy” of big-business lobbyists:
“They want to be free to operate in Georgia according to their values, but they don’t want small-business competitors to be free to operate according to theirs. If all of the major corporations are already in favor of gay marriage, then this religious-freedom law poses no threat. It merely protects the rights of those who disagree.”
And Querard, the Arizona conservative GOP political consultant, told The Wanderer: “Voter frustration will only be increased by elected officials who ignore the will of the voters, to satisfy the narrow interests of major economic players. Hopefully, Gov. Deal learns the hard way that a few big companies don’t elect governors. The people do.”

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