Michael Shellenberger, who to his complete and total credit has published damning takedowns of the left’s inherent hypocrisy and corruption in works such as San Fransicko, published an article on Wednesday titled “Progressives Will Be Horrified When They Wake Up To What They’ve Done.”
The subheadline of that piece said, “The sterilization of children, the killing of mentally ill addicts, the decimation of education, and more, will haunt the Left.”
Many conservatives think this way, that our poor, misguided leftist friends, who may or may not have endorsed the aforementioned barbarities with the best of intentions, merely require the right revelation, the right sequence of carefully constructed arguments and cold, hard facts, to abandon the false god of leftism. These conservatives cling to the idea that even hardcore leftists can be reasoned with, that the marketplace of ideas merely has to work its magic to convert these wayward sheep back to the old civility of yore.
The thing is, the left won’t wake up. There will be no mass conversion event when all the trans activists, corrupt bureaucrats, and Antifa thugs suddenly snap out of it and rejoin the more sane ranks of American society.
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