If there is one coherent theme in the political left’s rhetoric and actions, one that overrides all else, it is their dirty little war against reality. Like all wars, this one has been costly, and not only in terms of the money squandered on impossible schemes.
Millions of human lives have been ruined by those caught up in the fiction of “entitlements,” where one person actually comes to believe that he, she or her illegitimate children have some claim on your and my time, life and substance – beyond the claim of voluntary compassion that Jesus taught his followers some 2,000 years ago.
Nowhere is the left’s deep and abiding commitment to inflicting unreality upon the rest of us more apparent than in biology. The pseudo and dismal sciences (psychology, sociology, economics) give enough “wiggle room” for leftists to rearrange their arguments and stay one step ahead of the think tank studies. Biology does not, as evidenced by an article in the Electronic Telegraph (June 11, 2003, “Britain at sex disease crisis point, say MPs”).
The article is a sad commentary on the sexual diseases rampant among British youth. These include “chlamydia, a disease that infects one in 10 sexually active young men and women and can cause infertility.” That’s just the beginning: “Syphilis rates in Britain have increased by 500 per cent in the past six years and rates for gonorrhea have doubled. Rates for teen-age pregnancy remain the highest in Europe. At the same time, poor adherence to HIV treatments is promoting the development and transmission of resistant strains of HIV.”
But it is the British parliament’s identification of the problem and their proposed solution that makes such interesting reading. “David Hinchliffe, the (MP report’s) committee chairman, said: “We were appalled to visit one hospital where the sexual health clinic was operating out of a Portacabin and turning away 400 potentially infected patients a week through sheer lack of capacity.” These patients require 10 to 12 days before they can be seen. The report urged screening programs at night clubs. Mr. Hinchliffe “blamed the spread of sexual disease on people being unwilling to talk about sex openly.”
No, Mr. Hinchliffe, quite the opposite is true. Chlamydia, syphilis, gonorrhea and AIDS are irrefutable evidence that people are not only talking openly about sex, but are quite openly doing it anywhere and with anybody. You don’t get these diseases by being sneezed on at a rock concert.
Biology, you see, enforces intellectual discipline on the left. It’s a real science. The results are repeatable. And once repeatable, quite predictable. Biology doesn’t lend itself well to spin. The British sexual-disease epidemic is a direct result of the British sexual-coupling epidemic. It’s a numbers game, Mr. Hinchliffe. More sex, by more infected people, yields exponential increases in sexual disease. But take heart: All such exponential curves finally end once the entire available population has been infected.
Social taboos exist for a number of reasons. One of those is that we as a society cannot afford the cost of large numbers of people breaking those taboos. Sex outside of marriage is one of the taboos the left has always believed never applied to itself. They’ve stolen billions of dollars from taxpayers trying to prove the point. But the fact is neither the National Health Service in Britain, private insurers in America, nor anyone else can afford the price of the left’s continued war against reality. Young people will become infertile, taxpayers and insurers will go broke, and the health-care system will disintegrate. We will become a Third World country.
Put in their own words, the left needs to “get over it” and “move on.” They’ve destroyed two generations with their utopian schemes – decimated families, alienated children – and brought creeping national bankruptcy with their endless social programs. All of which is a civil way of telling them to shut up. The adults have finally determined that their infantile rebellion is over. We’re going to undo what we can of the damage their private little war has done to innocent civilians.
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