{"id":1457737,"date":"2022-04-29T08:16:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T12:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457737"},"modified":"2022-04-29T08:17:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T12:17:07","slug":"its-not-in-your-head-the-left-really-has-become-this-miserable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-not-in-your-head-the-left-really-has-become-this-miserable\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Not In Your Head: The Left Really Has Become This Miserable"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fits-not-in-your-head-the-left-really-has-become-this-miserable%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457737&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><em>Dear Abby: I\u2019m a liberal Democrat and my entire political party is full of insufferable nags. What do I do?!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That was the entire point of New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/25\/opinion\/reactionary-new-right.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this week<\/a> wherein she fretted that normal Americans are perhaps drifting to the political right because the left has become so indefensibly annoying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those who get most of their politics online, this can be what the left looks like \u2014 a humorless person shaking her head at others\u2019 insensitivity,\u201d she wrote. \u201cAs a result, an alliance with the country\u2019s most repressive forces can appear, to some, as liberating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Without saying it outright, Goldberg was getting at the left\u2019s defining qualities today. Its allies have become so miserable, so toxic, so angry <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/24\/democrats-arent-just-extreme-anymore-theyre-weird-and-gross\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">and weird<\/a> that it\u2019s repulsing voters. They call people \u201cracist\u201d for any reason at all. They push for <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/27\/transhood-documentary-shows-why-kids-are-incapable-of-making-irreversible-medical-decisions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the sexualization of children<\/a> in public schools. And they shut down all discourse that threatens their delicate ideology.<\/p>\n<p>Look what\u2019s happening with the Elon Musk-Twitter drama. A billionaire wanted to buy a publishing company \u2014 not something unheard of \u2014 and it was an unnecessarily drawn out, messy fight for him to do it because the left wing and Democrats believe they alone dictate what counts as fair discourse.<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg declared the left \u201cstagnant,\u201d but what she really means is that it\u2019s miserable. It\u2019s stuck in a rut because its activists are singularly motivated by negative emotions now. What do they talk about these days? Persecuting Trump supporters who were in Washington on Jan. 6, Covid as a means of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/17\/democrats-2022-slogan-enjoy-this-small-break-from-covid-mandates-were-bestowing-upon-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">controlling the populace<\/a>, and \u201cequity\u201d for anyone who claims to be oppressed (i.e. the Democrat voter base).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the left becomes grimly censorious, it incubates its own opposition,\u201d wrote Goldberg. \u201cThe internet makes things worse, giving the whole world a taste of the type of irritating progressive sanctimony\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She says this like it\u2019s a problem created by the right, or even unassuming independents who must not be able to distinguish between the \u201conline\u201d left from the <em>real<\/em> left. It\u2019s not. It\u2019s people like Goldberg who wanted to teach children about transgenderism and how it sucks to be white. That people were repulsed by their weird fixations isn\u2019t their own fault. It\u2019s the fault of the left for being so creepy, unhappy, and maladjusted.<\/p>\n<p>Look at Florida. The hottest controversy there now is whether kindergarten teachers should be able to explain to students <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/20\/floridas-parental-rights-law-has-turned-leftists-into-a-sad-frustrated-mess\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">what it means to be \u201cgender queer.\u201d<\/a> Leftists are adamant that they get to talk about sexual identity with kids. It\u2019s dumb. Even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10651701\/New-poll-shows-52-likely-Democratic-voters-Florida-Dont-Say-Gay-bill.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a majority<\/a> of Democrats in that state know it\u2019s dumb.<\/p>\n<p>Look at the reaction to the district judge in Florida who <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/18\/federal-judge-nukes-bidens-unlawful-mask-mandate-thats-muzzled-travelers-for-more-than-a-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">struck down<\/a> the airline mask mandate. Leftists are furious that they can\u2019t tell people to cover up their noses and mouths anymore (at least for now).<\/p>\n<p>Look at the election of GOP Virginia Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/02\/youngkin-governs-for-parents-who-say-get-away-from-our-kids-you-freaks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Glenn Youngkin<\/a>. His central campaign theme was that public school kids shouldn\u2019t be instilled with the idea that being white is an irredeemable sin. The left nearly needed an exorcism.<\/p>\n<p>Look at your own encounters with these people. The funny thing about left-wingers is that they feel absolutely no reservation about showing up to a social function and popping off with their political opinions on race, sex, and equity. <\/p>\n<p>Any normal person thinks to himself, \u201cI\u2019d rather not.\u201d Leftists don\u2019t. They see it as their duty to ensure that everyone knows how they feel (miserable).<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t like it? Tough.<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg knows her movement is an emotional and mental mess. She just can\u2019t bear to break the news.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re always angry. They\u2019re always upset. They\u2019ve lost their grip. Goldberg could have just said that, but instead, she whined about conservatives and independent Americans who aren\u2019t into the gross and distasteful things that the movement she belongs to has produced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the short term, however, it\u2019s frightening to think that backlash politics could become somehow fashionable, especially given how stagnant the left appears,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>The left doesn\u2019t \u201cappear\u201d anything. It\u2019s undeniably vulgar, and fewer people want to be part of it. Maybe Goldberg should just admit it and stop making excuses for how awful the left-wing Democrat movement is.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Privileged-Victims-Americas-Fascists-Hijacked\/dp\/1642931454\">Privileged Victims: How America&#8217;s Culture Fascists Hijacked the Country and Elevated Its Worst People<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Abby: I\u2019m a liberal Democrat and my entire political party is full of insufferable nags. What do I do?! 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