Ehrlich: Our Ideal Reply to Progressive Moral Claims
Engaging Responses to Progressives’ Moral High Ground
Useful one-liners often become part of the cultural lexicon.
The brilliant “Seinfeld” popularized “yada, yada, yada” — always applicable, but never quite defined. Former Arizona Cardinals head coach Dennis Green made “they are what we thought they were” an overused cliché in post-game interviews. And then there is the ever-popular “it is what it is” — a rather doleful recognition of reality so common in today’s vernacular.
But I have a new favorite: “Two things can be true at once” — a useful retort when progressives (per their usual modus operandi) seek to rent the moral high ground on the polarizing cultural issues of the day.
TRUE:
- Parents can get emotional and confrontational when “woke” (read: inappropriate) instruction is given to their children.
- The importation of deadly fentanyl through the mail was a major problem during the first two years of the Trump administration.
- Book bans are anathema to free speech.
- Extraordinarily high bail for non-violent offenders discriminates against the poor.
- The Department of Justice is integral to the rule of law.
- Groups with extremist platforms are appropriate targets of law enforcement.
- The media has been critical of Trump for his alleged carelessness with classified documents kept at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
- Asylum is a compassionate and long-established reason for immigration to the U.S.
- Generalizations are generally valid.
ALSO TRUE:
- The specter of federal police agencies investigating unruly parents at school board meetings is government overreach at its Biden-era nadir.
- Trump diplomacy vis-à-vis China successfully curtailed the mail route, but Biden-era traffickers found an alternative path by shipping precursor chemicals to clandestine labs in Mexico and then smuggling the finished product through a porous southern border.
- Challenging overtly age-inappropriate materials in the children’s section of a library is always the right thing to do. (When and where did crossing this line become acceptable?)
- Extending cashless bail to violent criminals has placed far too many recidivist felons back on the street.
- Attorney General Merrick Garland’s allegation that criticism of the Justice Department is an “attack on democracy” is way off base. No federal agency is immune from criticism — ever — because we still have three co-equal branches of government.
- The effort to give parental rights, pro-life and traditional values groups the “extremist” moniker is simply an extension of the Biden administration’s uber-political “ultra-MAGA” narrative.
- The fourth estate has been remarkably indulgent about the tranches of confidential documents found at Biden-controlled venues in Washington, D.C., the University of Delaware and his house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
- The vast majority of Biden-era illegal migrants showing up at the southern border are in no way asylum seekers but rather (usually low-skilled) economic refugees.
- Valid exceptions exist for almost all generalities.
You no doubt have other examples of “also truths” that can and must be appended to popular lefty allegations/indictments. So be aggressive in your response. Make progressives engage outside their “safe space.” Not a comfortable place for them…
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