Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Things Worth Considering 1

This item speaks the truth our progressive Democrat socialists with deny to their dying breath. It is so sad that is the case. See what I mean. Quote: "The Great Struggle of our time. With societal turbulence all around us, many people feel that we are locked in some great and portentous struggle. But because it is so pervasive and multifaced, the nature of this struggle is not readily obvious. There are many fronts on which this struggle is being fought: racial relations, education, healthcare, popular culture, financial system, and freedom of speech, among others. It is not easy to make sense of it all, especially since the battles are highly pitched and emotions are running very high. What characterizes these battles, besides their intensity, is deep polarization. The possibility of the warring camps coming together and meeting on some common ground seems to be growing more distant by the day. There is even talk that the two sides will either come to blows, or they will each go their own way in some form of secession. Many have observed that the contenders seem to be separated by an unbridgeable gap, and yet no one has been able to explain the nature of this gap, or what exactly it is that separates the mindsets of the opposing sides. In our view the great struggle in the grip of which we find ourselves cuts much deeper than the immediate issues we argue over. The real fight extends beyond any particular point of public friction. The great battle of our time is a battle about the very nature of reality. More precisely, what the two sides war over on the most fundamental level is what constitutes truth and how it should be determined. 

       To shed light on this dynamic, let us take one of the heated controversies of the present time. For this we choose transgenderism. This is an especially suitable example for two reasons: this issue is highly divisive and polarizing, and it delineates the opposing camps sharply and clearly. As you may know, transgender advocates claim that biological males can become women and vice versa. Understandably, many people find this claim rather far-fetched. For one thing, it does not feel true, given that the evidence of our senses seems to refute it. When, for example, people look at transgender “women” – i.e., biological men who say that they are women – most people immediately recognize that these are not real females. What most people see is men who pretend to be girls. This is how the human mind – in the vast majority of instances – interprets sensory input that it receives upon encountering such persons. And yet transgender advocates vehemently maintain that this is not the correct interpretation of visual data. They insist that what is in front of our eyes are not men who pose as girls but real girls. The claims of transgender advocates thus run in direct contravention to what we perceive to be the case with our own eyes.  [...]  

       Denial of reality is the contemporary Left’s ideological stance. If this flagrant subversion of fact was confined only to the transgender movement, that by itself would be reason enough for serious concern. But here is something truly alarming: This kind of wholesale denial of reality is emblematic of the whole of the American political left as it stands in 2021. Whereas before such levels of absurdity were mostly the domain of the left’s fringes, today they permeate the whole of it. This, of course, includes the mainstream of the Democrat party. If you think this is an exaggeration, contemplate this: on the very day of his inauguration, Joe Biden signed an executive order number 13988. Called “Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation,” Biden’s directive seeks, among other things, to force schools to allow boys who declare themselves girls to compete in sports with genuine biological girls. It is as revealing as it is significantthat Joe Biden did this on his very first day in office as President of the United States. As soon as he assumed power, the standard bearer of the Democrat Party tried to impose by executive fiat a brazen negation of reality upon this nation. More alarmingly still, Joe Biden is widely considered to belong to the moderate wing of his party. The question immediately arises: if this is what moderates do, what are the designs and goals of the party’s more radical elements? The fact that Biden issued the edict on his first day shows that transgenderism is not some peripheral cause held by leftist radicals. This issue is central to the Democrat mainstream.  This shows the deep moral corruption of the Party in its current incarnation, because wilful denial of truth is the most severe of transgressions. This apparently was the primary offence of the one whom the Good Book calls the Father of Lies. The Democrat establishment follows well in his path."   [...]  

       Should they succeed, we will find ourselves living in a dystopian nightmare ruled by totalitarians. That’s why the great battle of our time is the battle for reality against those who aspire to negate it. This is what the current struggle is ultimately about."     The Great Struggle of Our Time: The Battle for Reality - American Thinker

 

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