The funniest thing about Jackson's "I'm not a biologist" dodge is that under current Democrat Party ideology, biologists are the absolute last people on Earth who have anything to say about the definition of womanhood.
Biology and science left the room a LONG time ago in the politicized discussion of human sexuality, and they won't be invited back into the room any time soon. The entire point of transsexual ideology is the triumph of individual will and collectivist politics over biology.
This is highly relevant to Supreme Court confirmations, because militant transsexualism is all about using coercive force to make EVERYONE ignore biology. Trans fascism is quite literally about punishing anyone who brings biological science into the conversation.
There will be legal fights over trans fascism in the years to come, and when they reach the Supreme Court, radicals and their enablers have no business being there. KBJ was caught lying far too many times yesterday for anyone who knows what time it is to vote for confirmation.
These were not little lies she told, either. She lied about issues of great relevance to the American people, like critical race theory, pedophilia, and the 1619 Project garbage:
It's illuminating that even at this late date, Democrats feel obliged to back away from the madness they gleefully impose on America's children behind closed doors. They still can't be loud and proud about their indoctrination programs. That's a hopeful sign for the country.
But it matters a great deal that KBJ looks like another in the long line of Democrats who conceal their radicalism until they have the power to impose it on the rest of us. Our government is riddled with people like that, and it's killing us. We need no more stealth radicals.
The story of the Left over the past half-century has been talking one way to the normies, when it's time to cadge their votes or slip a nominee through confirmation hearings, but acting very differently when there's no scrutiny. That's why they fight so hard against scrutiny.
Supreme Court hearings are just partisan shouting matches and exercises of raw power these days, but if this were any kind of real deliberation or reasoned debate, KBJ would have disqualified herself yesterday. The GOP probably can't stop this, but they should damn well try. /end
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A crucial idea from natural law theory is that government places the lightest burden of compulsion on its citizens when the law conforms to nature - science, reality, the physical world. A great deal of coercion is required to force people to ignore or deny reality.
The Left also understands this insight, but runs in the exact opposite direction with it. Much of the left-wing agenda is crafted to defy nature, precisely because the Left sees enormous power can be mined from creating systems of compulsion that force people to deny reality.
The more radical the denial of nature - the larger the share of normal people who must be indoctrinated, re-educated, and punished to enforce the agenda of a few - the better. It's a philosophy designed to erode liberty, leading inevitably to totalitarianism and authoritarianism.
Ten years after a presidential election dominated by talk about small businesses, you don't hear a word about them any more. It's like the political class gave them up for dead in the pandemic, and talks only about mega-corporations now.
Ten years ago, both parties seemed to agree small businesses were the "engine of job creation in America," or at least politicians from both parties shouted that slogan at every opportunity. Now they dump rising costs on pandemic-devastated entrepreneurs without a second thought.
Small businesses are a vital element of the middle class experience in America. For the Democrats' War on the Middle Class to succeed, small business must be crushed. They pretend to care about small-B just enough to avert electoral wipeouts in suburban areas.
There is nothing the socialists can't do to the American people if they can get gas up to $8 a gallon. The sky is the limit for statism and fundamental transformation at that point. The final defeat of the American middle class would be at hand.
Think about the conversations you're having right now, about how you'd begin rearranging your life if gas became .50 or 1.00 more expensive. That's music to socialist ears. They quiver with anticipation at the thought of us losing all resistance to forcible life changes.
The problem has always been public resistance to rising gas prices. The Left has long daydreamed about making gas more expensive to cripple the middle class - Obama openly said he wanted $8 gas - but once the ratchet begins, the public squeals, and the Left loses elections.
The myth of Benevolent Authoritarianism is second only to the myth of Honest Big Government in terms of dangerous ideological delusions.
Authoritarianism cannot be harnessed to "fortify" democracy, any more than wolves can be taught to guard sheep.
The "Great Reset" is supposed to make democracy stronger by making it smaller. High walls of authoritarian power will be constructed around the shrinking meadow of liberty. The walls will be policed by wise, compassionate autocrats and their business partners.
Sure, there is a growing list of things you Little People don't get to vote on, but don't worry - those are issues you're not smart enough to understand. The notion of middle-class boobs or trailer-park rubes daring to defy the Consensus of Experts is absurd.
The free world long ago gave up any pretense of putting muscle behind its vision of what makes a government "legitimate."
The authoritarian world, led by China and Russia, are now putting muscle behind THEIR concept of legitimacy through brute strength.
Decades ago, we could have made membership in global economic and political organizations conditional on democratic legitimacy. Want to hang with the big dogs of the postwar world? Here's a list of human rights you must respect. It's an exclusive no-dictators, no-savages club.
Instead, we pursued "engagement." We'll let the world's worst actors, its most ruthless dictators and toxic ideologies, have respected seats at the table. We'll make China's tyrants rich beyond belief, but in the process we'll infect their societies with liberalization.
If you're a young person looking for your first job, congratulations! You're about to participate in capitalism. The hours of your labor are probably the first capital you've owned. Treat that capital as a valuable resource that employers should be eager to buy from you.
Take good care of that capital, and do everything you can to make it more valuable, as you would nurse a small flame into a roaring fire. Those hours of labor belong to YOU. Treat them like the valuable property and precious investment they are.
Will you view your employers as customers renting those valuable hours from you, approaching them with good honest salesmanship and customer service? Will you view them as senior partners in an enterprise you have chosen to join?