About this episode
It’s not a wholly uncommon condition that affects teenagers. Oppositional Defiant Disorder. It’s when a young person has a frequent and persistent pattern of anger, irritability, arguing, defiance or vindictiveness toward you and other authority figures. For most young people it’s a healable affliction that goes away by the time adulthood sets in. But to a lot of grownup Democrats, they never bothered to seek out treatment. It’s gotten so bad for the left, that if the right comes out for an issue, the left believes it has to come out against it. Even on issues where the two sides should find common ground, the left implausibly finds a way to oppose it. No matter how mainstream or popular the right’s position on an issue, the left can’t contain itself. Here are some examples.Free speech. The left’s response: more censorship. Barack Obama told some Stanford students this week that “misinformation” was the biggest threat to democracyCorporate welfare. The left’s response: defend Disney’s ability to get a government waiver in order to have its own political subdivision. Due process. The left’s response: blacklisting, cancelling with no explanation.Anti-war. The left’s response: intervene on behalf of Ukraine.Doing business with totalitarian governments and human rights abusers. The left’s response: ignore China’s oppressive regime and Uyghur detention camps. Virtue signalers like Apple, the NBA and Disney just turn a blind eye.And of course, issues with the sudden fad known as transgenderism. A little over four years ago Nick Meriwether was teaching his political philosophy class when he became front and center in the misgendering crime of the century. He called on a student by saying “Yes, sir”. That was enough for an Ohio public university to determine that Meriwether “effectively created a hostile environment” for not using the proper pronouns when addressing a transgender student. A written warning was placed in the teachers file and a note that said “further corrective actions” would be taken. Meriwether sued, and just last week was awarded $400,000 from Shawnee State University. A jury said his civil rights were violated, due to his religious beliefs.Earlier this week, a group of Massachusetts parents sued the school which encouraged their children to take a new name and adopt new gendered pronouns, without the parents co
