What the Left Knows

My dislike for this guy is notorious but here he’s correct. Other than angry tweets and speeches and a single riot that inconvenienced zero civilians, nobody can find a single thing that Trump did that negatively impacted their lives. Or the Right. What did the Right actually do that anybody can name as having affected their lives?

I had to grab my 4-year-old and run away from a riot moving in my direction, and that riot was not organized by the Right.

I’m always scared at work. Fear is the backdrop of everything I do. I conceal my beliefs, my thoughts, my opinions. It isn’t the Right I’m afraid of. The Right never scared me at all.

Instead of feeling unclouded joy that I wrote my first book in Ukrainian, I’m scared that somebody will find out and I’ll be vilified for it by my colleagues. It is not the right-wing colleagues I fear might do this.

I was extorted into a medical procedure against my will. My body was invaded, my body integrity was breached using extreme coercion. That wasn’t done by the Right.

We have lost 5 out of 11 of our tenure lines for good. They are gone. It was done under left-wing slogans. Zero austerity measures at my university were done under right-wing slogans. And it wasn’t pretense. Our administrators are fanatically left-wing.

Every negative thing that affected me in recent years was done by the Left. Even people who are completely on the Left know it’s true for them, too. They, too, are afraid of being cancelled, “called out”, publicly pilloried. They, too, avoid areas that BLM turned into war zones. They hate the constant preaching of their bosses who wave progressive banners as they make working conditions worse. They, too, feel like idiots when they are told that men in skirts are women. They have been bamboozled into believing that 1/6, which touched their actual lives not a whit, matters more than the real, actual fear that lives in the pit of their stomach, but deep down they know the truth.

They know.