When Conservatism is Evil, the Furthest Left Person is the Most Virtuous

 

Andrea Jenkins is the vice-president of the city council on Minneapolis.  Wikipedia describes her thusly:  “Andrea Jenkins (born 1961) is an American politician, writer, performance artist, poet, and transgender activist. She is known for being the first black openly transgender woman elected to public office in the United States.”  Another wonderfully non-judgmental passage from Wikipedia:  “When she was young and still presenting as male, she participated in Cub Scouts and played football at Robert Lindblom Math & Science Academy moving to Minneapolis in 1979 to attend the University of Minnesota.  In her 20s, Jenkins came out as gay, married a woman, became a parent, and divorced.  At 30, she began to outwardly present as female and returned to college to finish her bachelor’s degree from Metropolitan State University, which she followed by earning two master’s degrees–an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University and an MS in community economic development from Southern New Hampshire University … In 2018, Jenkins completed Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government as a David Bohnett LGBTQ Victory Institute Leadership fellow.”

I could write a series of posts just about that last sentence.  A David Bohnett LGBTQ Victory Institute Leadership fellow at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.  Golly, JFK must be so proud.  Oh, and I forgot to mention: Andrea Jenkins is a Democrat, an important point, considering what happened to her or possibly him yesterday.

Ok.  So Mr. or possibly Ms. Jenkins was surrounded in his or possibly her car by a group of Black Lives Matter leftists, holding him or possibly her hostage for about two hours, demanding that she sign a pledge for far-left stuff of the day.  Powerline has a good summary of the event here. Two things jumped out at me: Jenkins is not exactly a right-wing establishment Republican. It’s hard to imagine that there is anyone to her left. Unless, of course, Republicans are portrayed as evil, so the further one gets from conservatism, the more virtuous one becomes.  The resulting race to the far, far, far left then really has no finish line.  They just keep going further and further left, trying to win the virtue Olympics over everyone else.

The other thing that jumped out at me was the video at the end of the Powerline post: the gentleman in the video is expressing his anger at the supposed right-wing policies of Jenkins.  I won’t try to summarize his tirade because really, I can’t.  You really should go check this out.  The point he makes is that some people are ungovernable, and are incapable of functioning in a democratic society. That’s the point he makes – I’m not sure what point he was trying to make; it’s just astounding, you have to see it to believe it.

I look at the idiot in the car, surrounded by other idiots, and I wonder who the biggest idiot is.  It doesn’t matter, I suppose.  Except that the idiot in the car is the vice-president of the city council of a major American city.  He or possibly she is an important public figure.  And he or possibly she was briefly held hostage by people even further left than him or possibly her, being released only when he or possibly she agreed to their far, far left demands.

If you think that this is as far left, and as crazy, as the American left can get, I think you’re fooling yourself.  So long as conservatism is defined as evil, then virtue lies to one’s left.  Wherever one is.  Virtue is further to your left.

So the gentleman in the mob films a video of himself participating in holding a public official against their will, and releasing them only after extorting them into agreeing to push for certain policies in their public office.  He then posts this video on Facebook, with his real name at the top of the post because he knows that his multiple crimes will never be prosecuted.

As long as he remains to the left of everyone else, he is the most virtuous person.  Thus, immune to criticism, and not subject to the laws used against evil conservatives.

It’s very upsetting to me that he is exactly correct.

Think of the changes in America’s politics over the past 18 months or so.  Then try to imagine where we’ll be in 5 or 10 years.  The mind boggles.  If you can’t figure out where this ends, that’s because it doesn’t.  It just keeps going further left.  It never ends.

Until it does.

America is full of fine people, such as those I met at the Atlanta airport last week and the ones I’ve been vacationing with this week in St. Thomas.  If those fine people don’t recognize the threat posed by the American left – and very quickly – then those fine people won’t recognize their country.

A black transgender performance artist is now considered right-wing.  When that level of wokeness is not sufficiently woke then that should wake some people the heck up.  Pay attention.  This is getting out of control.

There is a point of no return.  I hope that we’ve not yet passed it.

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  1. Blondie Thatcher
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    First, no wonder these “people” want someone else to pay for their education. How much money are we talking about with ALL those worthless pieces of paper. Did this “person” work at all during any of this time? Second, I can’t watch the video of those good for nothing humans blocking this car. Can we please get rid of paying people to not work? Lastly, I did watch the video of a grown man acting like a toddler sitting in a highchair. I hope his constituents have seen it, too. Jesus take the wheel. 

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  2. Henry Racette Member
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    @HenryRacette

    Excellent, sobering, infuriating post. Thanks.

    Minor point struck me while reading your Wikipedia block quote. Contrast these two phrases:

    When she was young and still presenting as male…”

    and

    “At 30, she began to outwardly present as female…”

    Got it? When he was young, he “still” presented as male — that is, hadn’t yet stopped living in denial of his true inner nature. Now that he thinks he’s a girl, he’s finally outwardly presenting that inner nature that, since he’s really a women (because trans-women, we’re assured, are really women) he must have been all along.

    The hoops these people have to jump through, to try to make sense of their fantastic misconception of human sexuality.

    (For what it’s worth, I don’t think I’ve seen a male transvestite do his shtick quite so badly as this guy.)

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  3. Gary Robbins Member
    Gary Robbins
    @GaryRobbins

    Another sobering post.  I pray for our country.  

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  4. DonG (2+2=5. Say it!) Coolidge
    DonG (2+2=5. Say it!)
    @DonG

    Commies are drawn to political power like a moth to a flame. 

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  5. Hoyacon Member
    Hoyacon
    @Hoyacon

    I’ve always felt that the best defense the country has against the march leftward is the inevitability that the the left will overplay its hand—something we’ve seen on a number of occasions.  Now I’m not sure it’s possible anymore.  

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  6. Hoyacon Member
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    At 30, she began to outwardly present as female and returned to college to finish her bachelor’s degree from Metropolitan State University, which she followed by earning two master’s degrees–an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University and an MS in community economic development from Southern New Hampshire University …

    I almost hesitate to post this because there is some justified concern here about “educational elitism,” but I’m 0 for 3 in even having heard of these schools.  Yet they apparently lead to Harvard if you check the right box(es).

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  7. Bryan G. Stephens Thatcher
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    We are past the point of no return. We had a shot, but the GOP elite and extremists voters voted for Biden instead of America.

    Make no mistake, a vote for Biden was a vote for this sort of thing.

     

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  8. Henry Racette Member
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    @HenryRacette

    Bryan G. Stephens (View Comment):

    We are past the point of no return. We had a shot, but the GOP elite and extremists voters voted for Biden instead of America.

    Make no mistake, a vote for Biden was a vote for this sort of thing.

     

    A vote for Obama was a vote for this kind of thing as well. It predates Biden, Trump, and even Obama. The left has been getting loopier for decades.

    The big question, I think, is whether or not normal Americans are engaged in the battle for the culture. My own opinion is that they are not. (I’m still surprised how many friends, even conservative friends, aren’t familiar with the term “woke” and still think the “trans” movement is much smaller than it is.)

    I still believe normal Americans are a sleeping giant.

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  9. philo Member
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    Henry Racette (View Comment): The big question, I think, is whether or not normal Americans are engaged in the battle for the culture. My own opinion is that they are not.

    My observations are that far too many are still enjoying the post-Trump honeymoon period where there is not wall-to-wall hysteria turned up to “11” from the Democrat-media class…most just notice the lack of noise and don’t even realize the destruction being done to their world. By the time they finally re-engage it will be quite late in the game. Too late?

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  10. KevinKrisher Inactive
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    Hoyacon (View Comment):

    At 30, she began to outwardly present as female and returned to college to finish her bachelor’s degree from Metropolitan State University, which she followed by earning two master’s degrees–an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University and an MS in community economic development from Southern New Hampshire University …

    I almost hesitate to post this because there is some justified concern here about “educational elitism,” but I’m 0 for 3 in even having heard of these schools. Yet they apparently lead to Harvard if you check the right box(es).

    I don’t know what is involved in a college program in “community economic development.”

    But it appears to be an option at some schools. Here’s the description of the master’s program at the University of North Carolina:

    What is Community Economic Development?

    “Community economic development involves restructuring market incentives to leverage private investment for the development of community-based businesses, affordable housing, and financial institutions, in order to improve community life beyond the purely economic.”

    Unfortunately, I still don’t know what it involves.

     

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  11. Hoyacon Member
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    philo (View Comment):

    Henry Racette (View Comment): The big question, I think, is whether or not normal Americans are engaged in the battle for the culture. My own opinion is that they are not.

    My observations are that far too many are still enjoying the post-Trump honeymoon period where there is not wall-to-wall hysteria turned up to “11” from the Democrat-media class…most just notice the lack of noise and don’t even realize the destruction being done to their world. By the time they finally re-engage it will be quite late in the game. Too late?

    Critical Race Theory is the canary in the coal mine on people’s engagement and an example of the “overplaying” of the leftist hand that I mentioned above.  Aspects of it are present in the early grades though high school, and should be a wake up call to parents who have been previously unengaged.  What occurs on the front lines of this fight across the country will be a pretty good indicator of the extent to which all is lost.

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  12. Henry Racette Member
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    Hoyacon (View Comment):

    philo (View Comment):

    Henry Racette (View Comment): The big question, I think, is whether or not normal Americans are engaged in the battle for the culture. My own opinion is that they are not.

    My observations are that far too many are still enjoying the post-Trump honeymoon period where there is not wall-to-wall hysteria turned up to “11” from the Democrat-media class…most just notice the lack of noise and don’t even realize the destruction being done to their world. By the time they finally re-engage it will be quite late in the game. Too late?

    Critical Race Theory is the canary in the coal mine on people’s engagement and an example of the “overplaying” of the the leftist hand that I mentioned above. Aspects of it are present in the early grades though high school, and should be a wake up call to parents who have been previously unengaged. What occurs on the front lines of this fight across the country will be a pretty good indicator of the extent to which all is lost.

    I agree. CRT and the trans movement are the two back-breaking straws of the left, in my opinion. (Except they aren’t straws. They’re steel I-beams, concrete traffic barriers, 55 gallon drums of heavy-metal-laden industrial sludge, radioactive– Well, you get the idea.)

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  13. Hoyacon Member
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    KevinKrisher (View Comment):

    I don’t know what is involved in a college program in “community economic development.”

    But it appears to be an option at some schools. Here’s the description of the master’s program at the University of North Carolina:

    What is Community Economic Development?

    “Community economic development involves restructuring market incentives to leverage private investment for the development of community-based businesses, affordable housing, and financial institutions, in order to improve community life beyond the purely economic.”

    Unfortunately, I still don’t know what it involves.

    Well, it certainly involves “restructuring market incentives,” which strikes me as a 500 lb. guerrilla masquerading as a euphemism.

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  14. philo Member
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    Hoyacon (View Comment): 500 lb. guerrilla…

    Giggle.

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  15. Dr. Bastiat Member
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    Dr. Bastiat: In her 20s, Jenkins came out as gay, married a woman, became a parent, and divorced.

    This is a great passage from Wikipedia.

    First of all, his or possibly her 20’s were a very busy time for him or possibly her.

    Next, it’s wonderful how Wikipedia says that he or possibly she “became a parent.”  That is so delicately worded. 

    Um, ok Wikipedia, did she become a father?  Or a mother?  Because if he was married to his wife and they had sex and then had a baby, that is pretty clearly “became a father.”  But Wikipedia skipped that obvious, simple description of a process that has been happening, in every species, for millions of years.  Simple.

    But no.  Because if they would have said that he fathered a child with his wife, that would mean that he is a man, which Wikipedia is trying very hard not to admit.  So no, he “became a parent.”  Like magic.

    So here we have a website devoted to nothing but providing information on things – an online encyclopedia.  And this site is clearly using language not to describe reality, but rather to hide reality.  Intentionally concealing what actually happened.

    Remember this the next time you look up anything on Wikipedia.  Or read The New York Times.  Or Google something.  Or whatever.

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  16. Flicker Coolidge
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    @Flicker

    Dr. Bastiat: Until it does.

    Editor’s Note: An incomplete sentence does not a complete paragraph make.

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  17. Gazpacho Grande' Coolidge
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    @ChrisCampion

    KevinKrisher (View Comment):

    Hoyacon (View Comment):

    At 30, she began to outwardly present as female and returned to college to finish her bachelor’s degree from Metropolitan State University, which she followed by earning two master’s degrees–an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University and an MS in community economic development from Southern New Hampshire University …

    I almost hesitate to post this because there is some justified concern here about “educational elitism,” but I’m 0 for 3 in even having heard of these schools. Yet they apparently lead to Harvard if you check the right box(es).

    I don’t know what is involved in a college program in “community economic development.”

    But it appears to be an option at some schools. Here’s the description of the master’s program at the University of North Carolina:

    What is Community Economic Development?

    “Community economic development involves restructuring market incentives to leverage private investment for the development of community-based businesses, affordable housing, and financial institutions, in order to improve community life beyond the purely economic.”

    Unfortunately, I still don’t know what it involves.

     

    The destruction of perfectly operating markets through incentives created by the chowderhead in the OP, because that’s their shiny job of nothing.  Tax incentives or grants to get something they want the private sector to do that they can’t order them to do.

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  18. Dr. Bastiat Member
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    Flicker (View Comment):

    Dr. Bastiat: Until it does.

    Editor’s Note: An incomplete sentence does not a complete paragraph make.

    Perhaps I spoke too soon.  I’m starting to see the wisdom in an ‘ignore’ button…

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  19. Full Size Tabby Member
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    @FullSizeTabby

    So this person claims to be a woman, but has male pattern baldness and an Adam’s apple. This person is one of the worst examples I have seen of someone claiming to “present” as a woman. 

    Of course I start off skeptical of anyone with “performance artist” in his or her biography. 

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  20. Gary Robbins Member
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    Bryan G. Stephens (View Comment):

    We are past the point of no return. We had a shot, but the GOP elite and extremists voters voted for Biden instead of America.

    Make no mistake, a vote for Biden was a vote for this sort of thing.

    In my case, my vote for Biden was a vote against Trump.  This was my first vote for a Democrat for President since 1972.  I hope and pray that Trump does not run in 2024, and the Party can turn away from him.

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  21. Hoyacon Member
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    @Hoyacon

    Gary Robbins (View Comment):

    Bryan G. Stephens (View Comment):

    We are past the point of no return. We had a shot, but the GOP elite and extremists voters voted for Biden instead of America.

    Make no mistake, a vote for Biden was a vote for this sort of thing.

    In my case, my vote for Biden was a vote against Trump. This was my first vote for a Democrat for President since 1972. I hope and pray that Trump does not run in 2024, and the Party can turn away from him.

    You can stop with this rationalization any time.  I think most, if not all, of us understand that it’s a distinction without a difference.  The responsibility for our present plight lies with you and those of similar bent.

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  22. Hoyacon Member
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    @Hoyacon

    (Duplicate post)

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  23. Dr. Bastiat Member
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    Gary Robbins (View Comment):
    In my case, my vote for Biden was a vote against Trump. 

    Ok.

    But in the case of The United States, your vote for Biden was a vote for Biden.  And everything that comes with leftist control of America. 

    You can pretend not to understand that.  I guess.   But don’t say it over & over again.  You sound more ridiculous every time. 

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  24. Dr. Bastiat Member
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    Hoyacon (View Comment):

    (Duplicate post)

    It’s ok.  So is Gary’s.

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  25. Flicker Coolidge
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    @Flicker

    Dr. Bastiat (View Comment):

    Flicker (View Comment):

    Dr. Bastiat: Until it does.

    Editor’s Note: An incomplete sentence does not a complete paragraph make.

    Perhaps I spoke too soon. I’m starting to see the wisdom in an ‘ignore’ button…

    But, but — I thought you liked editorial revisions.

    I’d never change the sense of your text, just tweak it a bit.  To:

    [That is to say] until it does [end].

    Isn’t that so much better?

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  26. Flicker Coolidge
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    @Flicker

    Dr. Bastiat (View Comment):

    Gary Robbins (View Comment):
    In my case, my vote for Biden was a vote against Trump.

    Ok.

    But in the case of The United States, your vote for Biden was a vote for Biden. And everything that comes with leftist control of America.

    You can pretend not to understand that. I guess. But don’t say it over & over again. You sound more ridiculous every time.

    Like burning, looting and murdering the nation in order to save it.

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  27. Barfly Member
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    @Barfly

    Y’all still don’t understand them, do you?

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  28. MarciN Member
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    @MarciN

    I joined NextDoor to make sure I wouldn’t miss the next tornado on Cape Cod. :-) So I now see what my neighbors think about life. Yesterday I saw a post with a picture of a dog by himself that said 

    So a dog is a “someone.” 

    I think we are getting very confused. And I say that as a person who absolutely adores my daughter’s golden:

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  29. Morley Stevenson Member
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    @MorleyStevenson

    What is this “gentleman” in the video nonsense?  Why not simply “man”, or “woman” or “person”.  “Lady” or “gentleman”  suggests qualities worthy of respect.  I hear this constantly in news reports of the most dreadful behavior.  Some scruffy character is picked up by the police in the act of breaking and entering or hijacking a car and the report is that a “gentleman” is alleged to have done this or that.  “Man”, “woman”, “person” or “individual” would suffice to identify the alleged perp.  Why award the honorific of “lady” or “gentleman”?

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  30. Randy Webster Inactive
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    philo (View Comment):

    Hoyacon (View Comment): 500 lb. guerrilla…

    Giggle.

    I’m not sure how effective a 500 lb. guerrilla would be.

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