A+ for the Liberal Left: Advocacy for the Asinine, Compassion for the Criminal

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There’s a sickness in our culture, and you don’t need a microscope to see it. It’s in the headlines, in the classrooms, and in the courts.  The left calls it “progress.” The rest of us call it absurd.

It’s the disease of political ideology trumping safety, common sense, and morality.

Take Loudoun County, Virginia. A group of boys were in the locker room when a girl (who pretends to be a boy) walked in and began filming them. They did what any sane parent would hope their sons would do—they complained. But instead of protecting the boys, the school suspended them. Why? Because under Title IX and the district’s gender identity rules, their objection was labeled “harassment.”

In other words, privacy is optional, but ideology is mandatory.

The rules weren’t written to protect children, but to protect the narrative.

It’s the same song, different station–the aggressive, unnecessary, overprotection of the few on the fringe…at the expense of the overwhelming majority in the middle. But, but…the marginalized?! The “marginalized” will be dropped like it’s hot as soon as their usefulness wears off. And they will be traded for someone even more marginey. Because Marxism.

Do you see that? In the victimhood framework, it serves no one to recover or prevail. And should you ever achieve acceptance or accommodation, your day is done. Just ask gay men and women. 

Now consider the so-called “Maryland Dad.” For a few weeks the media framed him as a sympathetic father denied access to his child. Another tragic example of an unfair system, they told us. Only later did the truth come out: he was a batterer, an abuser of his wife, and a human trafficker. The media’s compassion was misplaced, because in their rush to fit a narrative, they offered cover to a criminal.

When the politics of progress dictate the headline, truth becomes an inconvenience.

Or look at the progressive Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn. They boasted about hiring a convicted fraudster in the name of “second chances.” Parents raised concerns, but administrators doubled down, bragging about their commitment to progressive values. It didn’t take long before that “second chance” hire was soliciting child pornography from students.

Ideology demanded virtue-signaling, and children paid the price.

Three stories. Three different settings.

One identical thread: political ideology overriding the obvious.

Boys punished instead of protected. A criminal defended instead of exposed. Students endangered instead of safeguarded. When virtue-signaling becomes more important than virtue itself, we don’t just lose our minds—we risk losing our children. I am looking at you on that, Pritzker. Look at any of these instances and tell me why we should trust mandatory psyche evals of our children to leadership that lacks such basic wisdom and consistency in character. No way. Shrink your own head, then we will talk.

Compassion and second chances are good things when tethered to wisdom and truth.

But when compassion is divorced from morality, it becomes cruelty in disguise.

And when advocacy ignores reality, it becomes advocacy for the asinine.

This is where the progressive left so often plants its flag—on the hill of ideology, no matter how many people get hurt. That’s why these stories feel less like outliers and more like a pattern. Because they are. It’s the absolutely predictable result of elevating narrative over reality, and politics over people. Look at the impact progressive advocacy has had on the homeless populations of our major cities. Safe use areas? Abundant supplies? It’s been devastating and destructive…in the name of dignity and humanity.

The test of any society is whether it will protect its most vulnerable. On that score, our headlines are a failing grade. Boys in locker rooms, wives in their homes, students in their schools—they are the ones left unprotected. Meanwhile, the criminals, the ideologues, and the administrators walk away congratulating themselves for their compassion.

But reality has a way of breaking through, no matter how tightly you script the story.

And when it does, we’d better be ready to admit the obvious: compassion without truth is no compassion at all.