WTF is wrong with us, anyway?

Seriously.
 
Since when did we just sit by and let clearly delusional people intimidate us with their madness?  Or to permit them to try to gaslight us into believing everything we’ve always known to be true suddenly isn’t? That their “reality” is real, while ours is not? 
 
We know that’s what’s actually happening. Why aren’t we trying to stop them? 
 
Staying silent or cowering in the face of their unrelenting assault on reality is a mistake, as we’ve seen. It signals tacit approval which just encourages more insanity. 
 
Too many appear afraid to say what they honestly believe or even joke about the silliness of it all. They claim it’s not worth it.  If they speak out they fear being targeted by a mob of self-appointed scolds who will harass them and their families at home, at school, and even at work. 
 
All of which, sadly, happens too often.   
 
Still others suspend their disbelief and pretend it’s all okay. Yet they know it’s not okay. We all know it’s not okay. Everyone needs to stop pretending.  
 
Most of what the left, activists, and the media promote these days is not just untrue but increasingly dangerous to our country, our young people, and generations to come. When Biden said: “we choose truth over facts” we laughed.  They didn’t; they agreed. Unfortunately, their “truth” often isn’t remotely connected to reality. Perhaps intentionally.     
 
So why don’t we, as rational thoughtful citizens, stand up and fight back?
 
All it takes is for enough of us to refuse to comply.  Just say no thanks.
 
And when they overreact, don’t go straight to outrage, which is what they want.  Instead, publicly ridicule them. Libs of TikTok on Twitter provides a master class in in this.  They repost videos created by loonies on the left describing themselves and their beliefs.   
 
It’s scary at times, yet frequently hilarious to see people passionately expose their stupidity and bizarre ideas out there for all the world to see. The original creators of these posts never intended this to happen; these were only supposed to be seen by zealots just like them. They expected to be praised by their peers who agree trans women can have periods, children should be taught about anal and oral sex in kindergarten, and teachers should be able to coach elementary students into changing gender without ever letting parents know that’s going on. 
 
Suddenly, when they realize ordinary people might see how they are subverting parents’ rights and indoctrinating their kids on the sly, overtly sexualizing children, while bragging about how they get away with it, they are furious. Showing the world what they’ve posted in whole in original context without editing – in short, exactly what they said in their own words – is hateful.  Transphobic. Homophobic. Anti-LGBTQ. And whatever else they can come up with.
 
But it’s their own words. Out of their own mouths. Stuff they intentionally posted. What I think troubles them most, however, is that down deep they know what they claim to be true just isn’t.  There’s no way they can honestly believe that a man who pretends to be a woman can get pregnant, or that a woman who pretends to be a man can produce sperm. Or that using their authority as a teacher to psychologically manipulate kindergarteners or elementary school kids to choose a different gender or sexual orientation is in any way appropriate. They know that's wrong.  

 

In their videos they think they are revealing their soul, their overwrought hand wringing, and their pride in their misdeeds to what they hope are their legions of followers.  But they end up as the object of well-deserved ridicule on Libs of TikTok. That has to sting.  
 
There’s a reason why the loons on the left and their suck-up pals in the media and Hollywood hate when the quiet things they say to each other, and nod in agreement, are inadvertently said out loud for all the world to see.  Because most of what they want to hide is crazy.    
 
And frankly, they know it.   
 
Our collective mistake is taking it all too seriously. I stopped doing that a while ago and I’ve felt better ever since.  Calmer. More relaxed. More should try it.  
 
The media and our leaders pound us with lie after lie about the threats to our democracy, or very existence, every day if we don’t take them seriously. And how morally bankrupt we are not to accept and embrace their twisted world view. But really, there’s no reason to.  Most of it is silly and demonstrably false.  
 
That’s why we shouldn’t.  I’m surprised they still do.
 
It amazes me that we’re now supposed to ignore basic biology, human physiology, science, our own history as a nation, the role of the Constitution, and a lot more, most of which we learned in public school and college decades ago. Suddenly, we need to question all we ever learned.      
 
But of course, we’re not allowed to ever question them.   
 
If we dare question anything they say, no matter how ridiculous, we are monsters. Racists. Sexists. Homophobes. Transphobes. Religious fanatics.  Science deniers. Right-wing nutjobs. Bigots. Ignorant hillbillies. And, most recently, and most curiously, fascists.
 
Confronted with facts, they have no valid counter argument, except name calling. 
 
Their core beliefs are so preposterous, and so obviously wrong to anyone who graduated public high school more than 30 years ago.  I’m not talking about kids who took accelerated courses, National Honor Society types, or anybody who went to college. Just ordinary high school students graduating with a passing grade. 
 
For the record, there haven’t been huge breakthroughs in biology or basic science in those past 30 years that would make it true that humans have more than two sexes, biological men can get pregnant, bear children or breast feed, or that that anyone born a biological male who later decides he’s actually a girl can suddenly do any of those.  It’s not physically possible, despite bathing him in puberty blockers at an early age, extensive hormone therapy, doing breast implants, or mutilating his genitals
 
Biologically, he’ll always be a boy, not because of how he feels, but because of his chromosomes.  He can grow his hair long, he can dress up like a girl, he can have doctors cut off his testicles and turn his penis into a vagina, and he may appear to be a girl and live as one, but he won’t be.   Despite what many teachers are instructing students as young as kindergarteners, no one can actually change the biological sex they were born with. 
 
And “feeling” like you might be another sex is a far cry from being one.
 
Which is really the problem here: the crazies want us to accept what they “feel” as real.  They have no facts, just feelings. And they demand we accept their feelings and agree to their completely wacko view of human biology, science, history, and much more. 
 
We really don’t have to. And we shouldn’t.