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To the Editor,
Bill Maher, cynical, liberal Democrat comedian and sociopolitical pundit, jokes about his increasing popularity among conservatives. He's found respect among conservatives because, having retained his intellectual objectivity, he understands how insanely skewed Democrat ideologies have become. He's saying the kinds of things now, that Rush Limbaugh was saying many years ago, which Maher often laughingly dismissed.
As Maher has wittily stated, if trends toward claiming "queerness" continue, "by 2050, everybody'll be (LGBTQ)," also noting that youth always wants to be part of the popular crowd. Therefore, young people would naturally gravitate towards that "identity," as it's presently the most ridiculously acclaimed population segment.
Young people like being "edgy;" rebellion, after all, is part of adolescence "finding itself." Challenging previous generations' social standards. Shocking the oldsters.
The 1950s saw "juvenile delinquency;" greasy hair slicked into a "D.A.;" defiant attitudes; motorcycle gear. In the 60s emerged the "counterculture." Hippies; Flower Children. Long hair, "free love," and flamboyant clothing styles. And drugs. And body odor.
By the 70s and 80s, "heavy metal," "punk," and "New Wave." In the 90s, dark, brooding, "Goth" fashion was edgy. "Addams Family" chic.
The problem with "being edgy" is that to stay "edgy," you have to keep pushing where the "edge" is. You have to keep getting increasingly weird and outrageous, until eventually sensible reason is lost, and you fall off the "edge," into ridiculous, delusional insanity.
...and here we are, with vague, blanket self-identification as "queer," whatever that means in the moment. "Non-binary." The dangerous epidemic of transgenderism, that has every awkward, Borderline Personality nebbish thinking they're "trans."
In the 50s and 60s, it was easier. Society was much stodgier; more conservative. "Rebelling" didn't take much. We've relaxed so many standards since then, though, removed so many barriers, that just about anything goes. It takes much more to be "edgy" now. Nowadays, in order to be cool, one almost has to be something else entirely, some even reportedly "identifying" as "transspecies"--as animals.
Why not, right?
The LGBTQ bloc, especially transgenderism, is the most recent celebrated minority with, inexplicably, their own monthlong celebration of self-absorbed "Pride," clamoring for "LGBTQ rights." Minority rights has long been a popular subject for pretentious leftwing showboating. Gay is the new black is the new women; that is, with all the legitimate civil discriminations, complaints, and battles fought and essentially won, "LGBTQ rights" is liberalism's only remaining relatively justifiable civil "struggle." However, with the enforced legalization of gay marriage and homosexuality's cultural mainstreaming, what civil rights they don't have as compared to the rest of us, is debatable.
Disapproval isn't oppression.
But to feel relevant, angry, eternally offended liberalism always needs an issue. Fodder for loud, obnoxious, often violent protest. They'll find something. Who knows? They do love their deviants and perverts. Maybe pedophilia will be their next cause célèbres.
My question is, with libertine degeneracy and enabled delusion being the mainstream order of the day, what's next for the socially rebellious?
I suggest objective, traditionalist conservatism. That'd certainly shock the oldsters.
Rob Denham
Weirton