It's Never Over

Take a close look at your own personal life in the America of 2019.

Examine what your day-to-day interactions are concerning all people around you. Think about your job, your shopping experiences, eating out, going to concerts, attending school and synagogue/church.

Think about dating, marriage, friendships, and so many other social activities you might engage in.

Now ask yourself this, and be totally honest, how often do problems of race and bigotry come up for you personally?

I don't have any poll numbers, but based on my life experiences, my guess is that for the vast majority of Americans this is not an issue in the normal course of daily living. We're not supposed to acknowledge this out loud, but most American people get along with each other.

Of course hate still exists among a few, it's impossible to eliminate it completely.

But American society by and large is a decent place with freedom and equality for everyone.

With the Left, things never get settled, no matter how much of their agenda gets adopted into the laws and the culture of this country. One might think that after the Civil War race problems would be over. No.

Okay, so how about after the civil rights laws of the 1960's were enacted? Nope.

And now after decades of "leveling the planning field" for minorities in just about all aspects of public and private life, after all the housing and school issues, after hiring practices have been addressed, do you suppose the issue of race inequality has been dealt with once and for all? Not as far as the Left is concerned.

The dirty little secret is, the Left will never acknowledge progress or improvement. The social problems for them never, ever go away. They can't let it go away. The reason is racism has become big business.

For those who head up race-based organizations and political lobbies, it is imperative to keep the fires stoked up, to keep the races at odds with each other, and to act as if nothing has improved for people of color in the last two hundred years.

It's the same for the women's movement and for all the other factions of the progressive agenda. They have to keep pretending that things are as bad as they've always been. No progress has been made. Women are still being held down. Homosexuals and the others in the alphabet community are still being ostracized from society.

You'd think that after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of abortion in Roe v. Wade in 1972 that the whole abortion thing for the left would be over. Maybe you thought at the time, "Well, thank goodness, at least now I don't have to hear about this thing anymore." If you thought that, you were wrong. The progressives won but they couldn't take yes for an answer. They need to keep the warfare going. They need to keep their base alive and angry.

And the drumbeat of inequality goes on with gay rights. I bet you figured that once the Supreme Court approved homosexual marriage maybe the whining would be over. Wrong again. Now that homosexual and lesbian marriage has been deemed "normal" the gay rights movement has morphed into the LGBTQ rights movement for the myriad of genders invented by the Left.

It's no longer enough that America tolerates homosexuals and lesbians. It's no longer enough that America has accepted them. Now we must embrace them, we must celebrate them. All aspects of society must change to accommodate any and all forms of transgender abnormality, physical of otherwise. We teach it in our schools, we allow it in the military, in sports, and really everywhere. If a seven year old boy decides he wants to be a girl, or a whatever, he can be that. No questions asked.

It certainly puts a new spin on the idea that in America you can be whatever you want to be, eh?

So that's the story with the Left. The push on American normal values and tradition goes on and on. For them it's never over. No amount of placating will stop them. Changes in societal acceptance and new liberal laws really don't mean a thing. They will never be satisfied until all aspects of traditional Western culture have been erased. That's the real goal.

It's never been about "equal rights," "inclusion" or "diversity."

It's all about the fundamental transformation of America.

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JWR contributor Greg Crosby, former creative head for Walt Disney publications, has written thousands of comics, hundreds of children's books, dozens of essays, and a letter to his congressman. He's been a JWR contributor since 1999.