A growing record of insanity
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
To say the left in America has gone off the rails is like saying the Super Bowl is a fairly popular football game.
It’s hard to keep up with the tsunami of cultural and economic insanity thundering through a thousand outlets every day, but here’s a try. You thought Vermont’s Democratic Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders was radical? Current Democratic leaders start with his views and go further left.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi mocks the idea of securing America’s southern border as something only a bigot like President Trump would want. Hence, she and her party oppose even a dime for any more physical barriers that would help the border patrol stem the ongoing invasion of illegal immigrants. Three more caravans on the way? Ho hum.
Openly socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, wants not only open borders but to abolish the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which is charged with keeping us safe from drug dealers and violent criminals. She also backs a confiscatory tax scheme with rates as high as 70 percent, free college tuition and a “Green New Deal” mandate that would strangle industry, cause energy costs to skyrocket and make blackouts common. She’s a huge hit wherever she speaks.
New York State’s Democrats last week legalized late-term abortion right up to a baby’s due date. Virginia’s Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam endorsed what amounts to infanticide after birth while defending a proposed law that would allow abortion of a baby even during a woman’s labor. Commentator Larry O’Connor has dubbed Dr. Northam, who is a pediatric neurologist, “Governor Gosnell,” after the infamous Philadelphia baby butcher recently depicted in the Dean Cain film “Gosnell.”
Sen. Kamala Harris, California Democrat, wants to end all private health insurance plans and put the government solely in charge. She’s not even bothering to falsely promise, as did President Obama, that everyone can keep their health plan and doctor if they like them. She wants no escape.
Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren wants to seize and redistribute income from “the rich” and backs government control of corporations and “Medicare for all.”
Meanwhile, Democrats are deploying the LGBTQ legal agenda to criminalize conservative religious views, using transgenderism as the spearpoint. After enacting their radical, full-term abortion bill, New York legislators passed a law three days later enshrining the LGBTQ activist agenda and another bill criminalizing counseling for young people with unwanted same-sex desires. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York Democrat, signed both with fanfare.
The Empire State joins 14 other Democrat-dominated states with similar laws whose view of sexuality is like the Eagles’ song, “Hotel California.” You can get into homosexuality and transgender behavior anytime you like, but you can never leave — they will see to that.
Such laws are a totalitarian assault on free speech, client self-determination, parental rights, religious freedom and the universal understanding of male-female complementarity found in every culture and every major religion. They constitute an open attack on the Judeo-Christian morality that undergirds our country’s commitment to liberty under law.
A breath of sanity occurred this past week when U.S. Magistrate Amanda Arnold Sansone recommended a limited injunction against the city of Tampa’s SOCE (Sexual Orientation Change Effort) law barring counseling for minors.
She wrote that the city “be enjoined from enforcing” an ordinance against mental health professionals “who provide non-coercive, non-aversive SOCE counseling — which consists entirely of speech, or ‘talk therapy.’” In other words, she didn’t buy into the false allegations of “electroshock therapy” and other aversive methods that the counseling profession abandoned long ago.
The judge’s ruling is a tiny pinprick of hope against a dark, lunatic campaign to stamp out normalcy. Meanwhile, the abomination of “Drag Queen Story Hours” for small children is spreading across the nation. How did it come to this? In the middle of the 20th century, cultural Marxists began to dominate the universities and produce a trickle-down effect on public schools, the professional associations and American culture. They have now taken over one of America’s major parties, as evidenced by Democrats’ embrace of culturally corrosive attacks.
The Democrat-run House Natural Resources Committee this past week drafted a new oath for witnesses that omits “so help you God.” After a Fox News story stirred a backlash, the committee backed off and voted to keep God in the oath. Similarly, during the 2012 Democratic National Convention, mention of God was removed from the party platform, then restored as delegates loudly booed.
“It is incredible, but not surprising, that the Democrats would try to remove God from committee proceedings in one of their first acts in the majority,” said Rep. Liz Cheney, Wyoming Republican. “They really have become the party of Karl Marx.”
Indeed, Marx called for extirpating religion — the “opiate of the masses.” He saw socialism, like capitalism, as merely a way station on the road to communism.
Given the unblemished record of human misery produced by socialism and communism, you’d have to be crazy to want to push our country in that direction — wouldn’t you?
• Robert Knight is a contributor to The Washington Times.
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“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi mocks the idea of securing America’s southern border as something only a bigot like President Trump would want. Hence, she and her party oppose even a dime for any more physical barriers that would help the border patrol stem the ongoing invasion of illegal immigrants. Three more caravans on the way? Ho hum.
Openly socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, wants not only open borders but to abolish the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which is charged with keeping us safe from drug dealers and violent criminals. She also backs a confiscatory tax scheme with rates as high as 70 percent, free college tuition and a “Green New Deal” mandate that would strangle industry, cause energy costs to skyrocket and make blackouts common. She’s a huge hit wherever she speaks.
New York State’s Democrats last week legalized late-term abortion right up to a baby’s due date. Virginia’s Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam endorsed what amounts to infanticide after birth while defending a proposed law that would allow abortion of a baby even during a woman’s labor. Commentator Larry O’Connor has dubbed Dr. Northam, who is a pediatric neurologist, “Governor Gosnell,” after the infamous Philadelphia baby butcher recently depicted in the Dean Cain film “Gosnell.”
Sen. Kamala Harris, California Democrat, wants to end all private health insurance plans and put the government solely in charge. She’s not even bothering to falsely promise, as did President Obama, that everyone can keep their health plan and doctor if they like them. She wants no escape.
Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren wants to seize and redistribute income from “the rich” and backs government control of corporations and “Medicare for all.”
Meanwhile, Democrats are deploying the LGBTQ legal agenda to criminalize conservative religious views, using transgenderism as the spearpoint. After enacting their radical, full-term abortion bill, New York legislators passed a law three days later enshrining the LGBTQ activist agenda and another bill criminalizing counseling for young people with unwanted same-sex desires. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York Democrat, signed both with fanfare.
The Empire State joins 14 other Democrat-dominated states with similar laws whose view of sexuality is like the Eagles’ song, “Hotel California.” You can get into homosexuality and transgender behavior anytime you like, but you can never leave — they will see to that.”
This is an out and out lie that has been debunked ad nausem on other seeds. Why do you keep telling lies as truth?
C4P is a major reason that NT can't attract new members, IMO. We have a lot of members who are very partisan yet who can speak rationally and intelligently, but anyone checking out this site sees this bullshit .. fake news and conspiracy theories to the max, combined with religious fanaticism .. and assumes that there is no sanity to be had in here. I'm sure this is a CoC violation but I'm going to say it anyway.
Since CoolDemocrat isn't a member of NT, I'll use him as an example of the liberal extreme. If he were here, we'd have the same issue with him.
It is the analysis opinion of the regular writer for the Washington Times newspaper 📰 and as carried by Real Clear Politics. I agree with those opinions because of the expansion from life of the mother to some nebulous exploitable lesser standard. The overall article is spot on in all the points it made.
The credibility of the Moonie Times makes the National Enquirer look like the Washington Post by comparison. I'm certain that you do agree with it but that agreement doesn't mean that their author is either rational or correct because of your agreement.
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1.) People do not choose to be LGBT.
2.) Reparative therapy doesn't change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity, but it does harm people. It should be banned as religious quackery.
Except that when the other site closed I was as successful as anyone else here in going over and using gentle persuasion. I just recruited a new member here last week. I and other conservatives have fewer seeding source options and yet you still complain about us using what is left to us in a way that makes you unhappy.
How are you limited in what you can seed?
I'm talking about the NYS law, not Virginia....NO where in the NYS law does it say up til birth
The opinion on the NYS law is false, doesn't matter that you agree with it, YOU ARE SPREADING FALSEHOODS AS TRUTH.
He's whining because he can't seed from banned nut case sites. He forgets this is NOT a free for all site that has rules we all follow. He brags about another site that he can lay it all out there nut case sites and all. Maybe he can create his own website where he is "free" to seed all the bullshit he wants to
The article is clear bullshit
Let me get my violin and play a song for him...............
How dare you try to limit his sincere religious beliefs with your facts.
Perhaps you can explain why women (and girls) who kill their newborns go to prison.
LGBTQ USA life style choice. And we don’t need to make being LGBT like hotel California. And no you can’t ban religious speech as much as censorship is 2nd nature to many non conservatives.
Where is your proof that someone chooses to be LGBT? If they chose to be LGBT, then did you choose to be heterosexual? I know that I didn't choose to be hetero. I always have been hetero'.
Nobody is banning religious speech, so climb down off of your cross. How can you claim that non-conservatives support censorship when the ACLU has made a career of fighting censorship in all its forms? Are now you a supporter of the ACLU?
NO one chooses their sexuality, that's complete utter bullshit. NO one is banning religious speech, just stop with the fake religious persecution because no one is buying what you are selling. You are free to practice your religion, you are free to go to church, what you ARE not free to do is try to use your religion to create laws in this country. Your religion is NOT the only religion in this country.
1.1.4 clearly suggests banning speech because of religion.
Sad that some people can't follow the rules.
You cannot force others to undergo dangerous and ineffective reparative therapy because of your religious beliefs. The Christain Scientists do not support medical care, so can they deny you medical care with medication because of their religious beliefs? You can't pray the gay away.
Maybe they should pray about obeying the ToS and the CoC.
Maybe you should help a new member learn the way the place works instead of showing the kind of hostility that would drive new members away?
Who said anything about forcing or coercing anyone to listen to such counseling?
You previously posted this,
Reparative therapy should be banned because it is dangerous and ineffective. It should have been banned 20 years ago.
That's par for the course.
But, but, he's being censored. And it's all a liberal/democrat/secular progressive plot.
Such "counseling" shouldn't even be allowed or tolerated, as it is ineffective and dangerous.
And again, no.
The right wing is grasping at something--anything--to distract from it's collaboration with foreign powers, especially The House of Saud and Putin's----oligarchy.
"Life of the mother?" Or, "Life of the child?" Since when has the right wing cared about either?
It is the left, not the right that has collaborated with hostile and other foreign powers such as China, Russia, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia. The attempt by the left at transferrance to others for their own evil is a sick perversion of Justice.
Who let the Saudis out of this country the day after 9/11 happened. It was a republican president.
You want to talk about evil perversion of justice talk about the current republican president that denigrates our allies and praises dictators i.e. Putin (Russia) and Kim (North Korea).
Sick perversion? Yeah. Helsinki comes to mind.
how is it possible to "remove" a supposedly all-powerful all-knowing God from anything ?? i'm not sure why the religious are upset - if they are so righteous then they should pray and their God would fix everything, correct ?
they should pray and their God would fix everything, correct ?
Nah. They already know how effective prayer actually is.
i just seems odd... they pray for everything else.. especially for their own selfish desires in their own personal lives... so why won't they pray for this ? why would they need human intervention if their God is all powerful and all knowing ? wouldn't it make sense to just get God to do something where humans failed ?
He’s already done all that need be done by Him before the 2nd coming. Then there will be more proof and power than the human mind can comprehend.
In other words, nothing! Got it.
There is no proof now, nor has there been any to begin with.
I don't know whether to laugh or to cringe when you type such religious apologetics.
How can Jesus possibly return when there is no proof that he ever existed? The Bible is a claim so you cannot also use it as proof of Jesus without creating a circular logic fallacy.
well that doesn't answer the question at all. Why do the religious need human intervention for matters like the article discusses ? if the religious are so righteous and correct in their positions (their beliefs and matters like the ones in the articles) - why don't they just pray for their God to handle the matters discussed in the article instead of trying to have human intervention ? (why blame Democrats or Republicans ? you can just have God fix everything by praying to him right ? ... isn't that part of your belief - God fixes everything ?... just pray and believe !)