Guardrails on a road serve the purpose of protecting you in dangerous places so that you don’t drive into a ditch or off a cliff. Guardrails are a safety mechanism to keep you on the road. If there is no centerline or white sideline, driving in the dark can be treacherous, and if there is no guardrail, it is easy to drive off the road into a ditch. The issue the Left is facing is that it refuses to recognize any centerline or sideline, and it considers guardrails as a sign of systemic racism and oppression.  Take for instance the idea that mathematics is inherently racist, recently promoted by the Oregon Department of Education which said that a focus on getting the correct answer is part of white supremacist culture. The idea that there are no standards, no right and wrong, no truth except personal preferences, and that everything which questions this ideology is a symptom of a culture of oppression… well, that leads to outcomes that are marginally, if not completely, insane. 

This is the problem that the Left faces.  It has no standard by which it can judge right or wrong, and therefore whatever extreme or insane idea presents itself, the Left must accept as a legitimate expression of personal preference. A man can get pregnant, a woman can become a man by surgery, a person can identify as a cat, and personal pronouns are a preference, not a reference to genetics and chromosomes. But that is not the end of it. The Left finds any scientific fact that disputes the reality of these claims to truth to be an instrument of bigotry and oppression, instead of evidence, and therefore can be discarded. The Left screams “trust the science” regarding climate change and covid “vaccines,” but rails against science when it states the obvious facts of DNA.  The problem is that the Left, because of it supposed regard for tolerance, cannot distinguish between mental illness and normality. Anything anyone feels must be true, because it is true for them, regardless of whether it is scientifically correct.  To disagree with someone’s feelings about themselves, is therefore bigotry and hate speech. If you choose a ticket to cuckoo town, why do you feel the need to force me to go along with your charade?  Perhaps because, inwardly you know, what you believe is not true, and you cannot stand to hear any disagreement because you are unsettled within yourself. To question you means you must question yourself, and because you are not at peace with the lie you have told yourself, you must prevent other people from questioning you at all. The only speech your will permit is by those who submit to your demands to support you in your psychosis. All other speech is forbidden. 

One of the reasons we see a fracture in the Democratic party is that, even within the liberal cause, they cannot call any of their extremist constituents “out of bounds.” Traditional liberals, like Bill Mahr, who truly believe in free and open debate, are being ostracized by the Left, for allowing people to disagree with the woke agenda. Traditional liberals are recognizing that the Left is no longer liberal, but totalitarian. But they are being pushed out of the party, or are forced to make sycophantic apologies for telling the truth. This sounds similar to when the KGB forced people to sign confessions to anti-revolutionary behavior, whether real or imagined. After beatings, threats to their families, these forced confessions were then used to justify their execution or exile to Siberia. Liberals now have to sign this confession of error to be readmitted into the party. 

Perhaps the worst consequence of this lack of guardrails it the abuse of children promoted by big money and big pharma, forcing puberty blockers and transgender ideology on the formative youth. Generations of psychological studies on pre-teens and junior high school aged kids have shown their identities to be in flux and the greatest desire is to conform, be liked and fit in. Their brains are not mature enough to make decisions about themselves, much less their future selves. Yet, schools and radicals on the Left are all about forcing life altering decisions on the young and preventing parents from interfering or even knowing about what is going on in their children’s lives. The idea that there is no such thing as gender, or that gender is a social construct, flies in the face of the most basic science, but now it must be considered true or you are considered an oppressor.  This is madness. Woke culture has decided that the patients should be in charge of the psych ward as they know better than the doctors who are treating them. 

The root of the Left’s dilemma is that it has no standard by which to distinguish truth from error. If the universe is a matter of chance and gender is a construct, there is no scientific reality, and no order to nature, then by what measure do you count what is true?  Feelings? Even proponents of the Theory of Evolution would embrace gender as necessary to understand nature and evolution. Humans, insects, and animals would not exist without reproduction through gender differences. The Left has decided to try and overcome this fundamental truth of nature through ideology and propaganda. George Orwell called this DoubleThink: a process of indoctrination where the subject is expected to accept a clearly false statement as the truth.    But reality is intransigent and will not change its nature just to suit some personal preference. Even if you identify as a bird, if you jump off a 10-story roof, you will not fly. Gravity will make bloody mincemeat of your ideology using the hard pavement of reality. The fact that the government is now trying to enforce this delusion as a matter of public policy makes this indoctrination into GroupThink* all the more threatening to true liberty and freedom. 

All this error of thought goes back to a rejection of God as the author of Creation, who has put into existence both order and purpose. Because God represents a restraint upon lawlessness, license, and moral perversion, the Left must reject the idea of God, and any order in Creation. And so, the Left is left without bounds, without ultimate truth or standards, and like a rudderless ship, it is blown by whatever wind comes its way. The only guardrail the Left has seems to be a hatred for anyone who disagrees with them. That provides a distant rail on the opposite side of the road but leaves them open to driving off the cliff on their own side. Weaving like a drunken man, all other drivers must Be Ware! You don’t have any rights to the road they travel on. 

The bottom line is that God created humanity with an order and a purpose:

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”  Genesis 1:27–28

Those who choose to rail against this Created order, rail against God Himself. The consequence of this rebellion is deception, disease, violence and perversion of God’s image in humanity. It isn’t liberty, but slavery to self and emotions, which leads to blaming others for all one’s problems and to accusing others of all sorts of supposed offences. In other words, rather than look in the mirror, these slaves of an unsettled conscience seek to close off debate, shut down disagreement, restrict free speech, cancel and censor anyone who dares disagree. The fact that they cannot stand open debate or disagreement reveals the inward weakness of their position. They aren’t really confident in what they believe, no matter how much they protest. So, they resort to anger, threats and violence to shut others down, which only proves the tenuous nature of the one-legged stool upon which they stand. 

The only resolution to this dilemma is repentance: a return to faith in God and in the order of His Creation. This repentance provides liberty from self and freedom from the downward spiral of insecurity brought about by believing in a lie about who you are and who He created you to be. He created you to be wonderful, to be an emblem of His image, a thing of beauty, and someone who reveals the Glory of God. Do not settle for less than what you are created to be. You were created in the very image of God.

*Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome. Cohesiveness, or the desire for cohesiveness, in a group may produce a tendency among its members to agree at all costs.^[1] This causes the group to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation.^[2][3]

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