What’s behind the totalitarianism on the left?

Anyone who is paying attention should know exactly what I’m talking about, but here are three recent examples.

It seems like this is the consequence of several different trains of thought that have been festering on the left.

  • There is no truth, and therefore no point in debate. Everything comes down to an exercise of power.
  • Words are violence.
  • Oppressive attitudes (racism, sexism, homophobia, etc.) are so deeply ingrained in the system that the only remedy is to tear it all down.
  • There is no right to free speech. People who are seen as upholding the current system must be silenced.

Anything else?

Now there’s no Democrat I could vote for

Tulsi Gabbard has decided to leave the Democratic Party, which reminds me of a saying I saw in an Amish country store, “We get too soon old, and too late smart.” IOW, it’s about time.

Pigweed asked how long it would be before she becomes a Nazi on CNN. We’ll see. It didn’t take long before she became a Russian agent on Twitter.

We probably need to be ruled by engineers for a decade or two …

… to get past all the lunacy.

Electric vehicles catching fire in Florida after Hurricane Ian

Ideology reigns supreme. Never mind all those annoying details.

California asked its citizens to please not charge their electric cars (sorry, we don’t have the capacity) in the same week they proposed eliminating all gasoline-powered cars. We still don’t know how we’re going to dispose of all these batteries safely, where we’re going to get the raw materials to build them, or how we’ll generate the electricity to charge them.

But we’re saving the planet, so shut up.