After four long years during which our democracy was under constant peril, one might say the November election cured that crisis, at least for now, returning the American voter and American values to center stage. Zealots of the Left, however, continue their tired chorus of accusation and cancellation. It is staggering how blind to election results and deaf to the voices of voters they seem to be. Wokeness may be in retreat but this core cadre, still including many in legacy media, continue their ranting about existential threats and trying to shame us into shedding crocodile tears over illegals. They have doubled down on their playbook even though its tenets have been hollowed out, proven false again and again.
This failing mindset was perfectly captured by the perspicacious novelist Saul Bellow, an early victim of political correctness: “A great deal of intelligence,” Bellow observed, “can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is great.” What we have been witnessing is proof of the Bellow equation: the Left ever more desperately clings to its illusions, and its investment in ignorance commensurately soars. Their conjured existential crises have evolved from global warming to climate change, to Russian collusion, Trump 45, then Trump 47, and now expanding to include Elon Musk, every challenge to the Deep State, and whatever Executive Order happens to be signed today.
I recall being puzzled long ago at the leftist declarations of certain of my acquaintances, wondering what sources their hypereducated intellects were consulting to support their emotional pronouncements. Gradually I realized it wasn’t about their words, it was about that emotion. They weren’t using their once-questing intellect to get to the truth, they were just consulting their newly-discovered elitist tribe (coached by legacy media) to see what cue card they should read. They were not exploring and processing knowledge, they were just mechanically reciting leftist sound loops, dressed up with Ivy League syntax. You hear a lot of accusation and derision in those loops, but seldom do you hear words of cognitive engagement, words that reflect a genuine interest in discovery or the shared advancement of knowledge that until now drove human progress.
For years many of us wanted to believe this was just a passing naivete. No longer. At this point the Left’s deliberate lack of interest in the truth can only be called willful ignorance. It is impossible to embrace the 1619 Project, or claim that Winston Churchill caused World War II, without deliberately ignoring actual, easily accessible history. Perhaps the most blatant examples are the zealots’ pronouncements that grammar, spelling, and math are constructs of white supremacism — particularly disturbing since impressionable students are being indoctrinated with this ignorance.
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