Comedian Patton Oswalt looked genuinely stunned when he learned California law allows birth certificates to list “non-binary” as a designated sex for newborns.
The reason for the inclusion of a third category, the 2017 California law explains, is that infants “may later identify differently.”
Oswalt’s ignorance of legislation in his own state — introduced and now enforced by a party he enthusiastically supports — highlights two recent political curiosities. The first is that Democratic lawmakers keep adopting positions so demented that even their supporters refuse to believe they’re real. The second curiosity is related to the first: many Democratic voters appear to have created a cocoon of ignorance around themselves and their communities so thick as to protect them from learning what their party is doing or how it functions. (To head off the inevitable whataboutism: Yes, the Republican Party faces similar problems. The amusing and, therefore, more interesting difference is that a core tenet of the modern Democratic Party, and really its entire pitch to voters, is that it is more intelligent, better educated, and more open-minded than the GOP. The Democratic Party is the party of settled science, of experts, of rational thought! It doesn’t suffer from ignorance or insular thinking! Or does it?)
The education of Patton Oswalt happened during his recent conversation with HBO host Bill Maher, who, like Oswalt, is reliably liberal but less insensible to the insanity that has overtaken their wing of American politics.
“We stopped being a scientific people,” Maher lamented of the left.
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