It’s interesting how quaintly outdated the liberal rhetoric is. We hear about “sex assigned at birth” when science has long allowed to determine a baby’s sex through a simple blood test given to the mother just a few weeks into the pregnancy. That whole thing with a midwife lifting the baby up in the air so that everybody could see the genitals and announcing the sex is from the 1920s. A whole ideological edifice was erected on this “sex assigned at birth” which doesn’t exist anymore.
They talk about abortion as if it were 1963 and abortion pills didn’t exist. Abortion to them is “a procedure” and you have to travel to see a doctor. It never occurs to them that if this were true, COVID lockdowns would have constituted an abortion ban. Cancer patients had to delay procedures. Women went without mammograms. Hypertensives skipped phlebotomies. How come, then, that abortions were not affected? Why were no coat hangers used for desperate home-made abortions? It was because of the invention called telemedicine. It has only existed for a few decades, so it’s understandable that some people are failing to clock on.
Immigration to progressives is stuck in the era of the Ellis Island and should be administered exactly as it was back then. They seem not to know that the Internet has been invented, for example. Or that the world economy changed, Hitler is long dead, and Madison Square Garden is used daily for non-Nazi events.
To them, Jim Crow still exists and there are no xerox machines in rural areas. The possibility of scanning a document by means of a device called a smartphone never occurs.
They believe it’s crucial that newspapers endorse political candidates as if social media didn’t exist. And that books can be banned because in their world there’s still no Amazon.
They want to progress from the baseline of 1939. We saw this clearly here on the blog in yesterday’s debate about immigration. The discussion is ultimately fruitless because one side was discussing what is today while the other was still rehashing old fights from 80 years ago.