{"id":2655132,"date":"2026-09-05T09:40:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/when-liberals-started-defending-female-circumcision-i-knew-the-country-had-crossed-a-line\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T09:47:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:47:52","slug":"when-liberals-started-defending-female-circumcision-i-knew-the-country-had-crossed-a-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/when-liberals-started-defending-female-circumcision-i-knew-the-country-had-crossed-a-line\/","title":{"rendered":"When Liberals Started Defending &#8216;Female Circumcision,&#8217; I Knew the Country Had Crossed a Line"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fwhen-liberals-started-defending-female-circumcision-i-knew-the-country-had-crossed-a-line%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=2655132&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--><p>The article discusses the concept of the &#8220;Overton Window,&#8221; which represents the range of politically acceptable opinions within mainstream discourse. it highlights how this window has shifted substantially too the left over recent decades. This shift allows for more radical policies and ideas to be regarded as moderate or acceptable-examples include support for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/60-minutes-runs-explosive-segment-featuring-young-transgender-individuals-who-decided-to-reverse-course\/\" title=\"60 Minutes Runs Explosive Segment Featuring Young Transgender Individuals Who Decided To Reverse Course\">gender-affirming treatments<\/a> for minors, open borders, wealth taxes, reparations, and proposals to defund or abolish immigration enforcement agencies. The author reflects on personal experiences and historical comparisons, illustrating how previously controversial topics are now treated as mainstream. The changing political landscape affects voter perceptions, with independents increasingly influenced by what is perceived as moderate. This <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >evolution benefits left-leaning candidates<\/a> who can position themselves within this expanded spectrum, while it complicates conservative efforts to counter such policies. the article emphasizes that major Democratic figures have consistently moved further to the left, taking advantage of the shifted Overton Window, which in turn influences political dynamics and voter perceptions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cOverton Window\u201d may be loosely defined as the range of acceptable opinions in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-harvey-republicans-cant-let-democrats-divide-them-over-2024-focus-on-bidens-blunders\/\" title=\"Ted Harvey: Republicans Can\u2019t Let Democrats Divide Them Over 2024. Focus on Biden\u2019s Blunders.\">mainstream political discourse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The current undeniable leftward ratcheting of this window may yield a few ephemeral benefits for Republicans in terms of extreme Democrat candidates who can be beaten where more traditional liberals might have won, but in the long term, the shift may infect the larger electorate to the GOP\u2019s detriment.<\/p>\n<p>I remember when I realized how dramatically the Overton Window had shifted to the left. I was having one of my frequent jousts with a liberal on the subject of cultural relativism. Typically, in these arguments, I would trigger the liberal by saying something that implied that Western culture is superior to alternative cultures from the developing world.<\/p>\n<p>After the liberal would call me \u201cxenophobic,\u201d \u201cracist\u201d and \u2014 if she had attended a liberal arts college \u2014 \u201cobtuse,\u201d I would spring a two-word riposte that would silence her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFemale circumcision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Checkmate. Game-set-match. I win, you lose.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, there has been insidious and disturbing development in these arguments. When I spring those two words, the liberals no longer hobble off the court and forfeit the match. Instead, they defiantly sputter and come darn close to defending female circumcision \u2014 at least so long as it is practiced as part of the sunny, loving consensual culture of an equatorial people.<\/p>\n<p>When I started getting pushback on the female circumcision trump card from what had once been comparatively benign \u2014 due to their propensity to lose \u2014 Mondale-Dukakis Democrats, I realized that the overall window had shifted dangerously to the left.<\/p>\n<p>Just 25 years ago, no one would have dreamed of advocating hormonal or surgical treatment for possibly gender dysphoric minors. Even liberal Democrats like Barack Obama opposed gay marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Wealth taxes and racial reparations were not on the table. Single-payer healthcare schemes were a third rail that could not be touched.<\/p>\n<p>No one dared suggest mail-in voting or vote harvesting after the 2000 Florida bruhaha. Court packing was an historical no-no, the only stain on the record of Saint FDR.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats may have always been squishes on immigration enforcement, but they never advocated simply opening up the border and flying in hundreds of thousands of third-world migrants in the dead of night at taxpayer expense. Obama even deported illegal aliens, reminding his objecting comrades that he was obligated to enforce the law as it then existed.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right, enforce even the laws that you don\u2019t agree with. Imagine that.<\/p>\n<p>It is naive to think that this shift occurred in a vacuum among committed Democrats and that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-chief-mayorkas-equity-is-u-s-core-founding-principle\/\" title=\"Border Chief Mayorkas: Equity Is U.S. &#039;Core Founding Principle&#039;\">independent swing voters<\/a> will not be affected. Polling is showing independents to be not as hostile to most of the examples above as they were years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The average non-politically engaged swing voter is, in fact, highly influenced by what is subjectively considered \u201cmoderate.\u201d They instinctively favor moderation, not taking sides in fights, and compromising. They adhere to the ideological equivalent of a soft rock or adult contemporary radio format.<\/p>\n<p>With the shift in the Overton Window, Democrats who favor \u201cMedicare for all,\u201d court packing, \u201cabolish ICE\u201d and even boys in girls\u2019 sports qualify as \u201cmoderates\u201d simply because they have not topped it off by proposing eliminating the U.S. Senate and limiting the police force to the minimum size necessary to arrest Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>What happens when a newly \u201cmoderate\u201d Democrat, who supports things that were until recently outside the Overton Window, manages to beat a primary challenge from a member of Democratic Socialists of America? The prevailing nominee, by way of comparison, is anointed as mainstream and electable in the media and in the eyes of the unengaged independent.<\/p>\n<p>When an independent voter in Ohio, North Carolina, Georgia, or New Hampshire looks at the local Senate race, he may decide that the Democrat candidate in his state is \u201cmoderate\u201d because the standard for \u201cliberal\u201d has been established by the likes of Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan. This is how the shift in the Overton Window works against the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is that every major Democrat figure in recent history \u2014 both Clintons, Obama, Biden, and so forth \u2014 has been naturally inclined to tack as far to the left as they can get away with.<\/p>\n<p>Our contemporary problem is that when the Overton Window shifts left, they can get away with more than they could before.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><i><b>The views expressed in this opinion article are those of their author and are not necessarily either d or endorsed by the owners of this website. 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