Why the World Is Turning to the Right
The latest good news comes from Chile. José Antonio Kast is the new president. The European press has already labeled him “far-right,” which undoubtedly means he’s a normal, conservative guy with common sense who will do things right. Sometimes I wonder what headlines the Left will use the day a truly far-right leader emerges; perhaps they’ll need a compound word that takes up three lines of space. Let’s raise a glass to Kast and to Chile, which has renounced misery and corruption.
Chile joins the long list of countries around the world that, in the new balance of power, are aligning themselves with the Right. The explanation is simpler than it seems.
We’ve always believed that the postmodern Left declared war on the Right, on freedom, on private property, and on the most basic morality. But there’s something more important: It declared war on nature. And however arrogant a political stance may seem, you can never win a war against all of nature.
The Left has tried to tell nature that it’s wrong about everything. It has even denied biology. And it has even tried to explain to nature that it’s also wrong about its perception of the climate, and that any warming it might be experiencing is the work of minuscule humankind. Nature doesn’t speak, but every now and then it laughs in the face of fools.
The hatred of science wielded by the Left over the last two decades is astonishing. Consider economics. Socialism is a scientifically failed plan in every laboratory where it has been tested. But the Left says otherwise. And as for the social sciences (as a sociologist, I maintain that this is the first lie: calling something that isn’t science a science), they have been, from the beginning, the great ideological breeding ground for lazy progressives who, incapable of completing a real humanities degree or failing a science degree, invented a lesser qualification that lumps together nonsense from a bunch of subjects. Even granting the notion that sociology is a science, the Left has stubbornly fought head-on against its empirical truth: Men are not inherently violent or sexist, the difference between men and women is not a social construct, and the crimes of the poor are not the fault of the rich oppressing them. The list of absurdities defended by progressive sociologists for a century would fill a long essay, a long series of articles, which I promise to tackle someday if my friends at The American Spectator approve the idea.
Medicine deserves special mention, where the entire body of knowledge accumulated over centuries has been overturned, demonstrating that the Left, if it were a single entity, would pat itself on the back every morning, delighted with its self-discovery. Sex reassignment is a lie; such a possibility does not exist, and yet they have insisted on practicing it. Hormone therapy makes people sick, not cures them. Abortion is not a medical option, but murder, something that goes directly against the very reason for medicine’s existence, which is to save lives. And euthanasia doesn’t alleviate any pain; it is also murder. I would have liked some consistent leftist to defend this position naturally and without euphemisms, to tell us, “I am in favor of killing the elderly and the sick,” and for the debate to begin there.
The Left has fought tooth and nail against another empirical truth, this time from the scientific field of demography: that the family is the most successful model for building strong and stable societies. In criminology, they have denied the scientific evidence that punishing crimes is more effective in combating crime than the obsession with reintegrating individuals with a high probability of reoffending into society.
Language isn’t technically a science, but they’ve tried to pervert its most basic rules to use it as an ideological weapon, tearing down what academics and the very evolution of speech over the centuries had built.
And perhaps you don’t know this, but at the moment the wokeist structure collapsed, eminent left-wing thinkers were also working to dismantle mathematics. I know for a fact that in several European schools, a tagline has been added to the subject, and it’s now called “mathematics with a gender perspective,” which I suppose means that 1 + 1 equals 2 if you’re a boy, and any number you like if you’re a girl.
Even engineering. There was a lot of laughter when a European minister announced a national plan to thoroughly analyze whether roads, tunnels, and bridges were built with a gender perspective. There wasn’t so much laughter when he announced the budget allocation he would dedicate to such nonsense.
Anyway, friends, welcome to the new politics of common sense. Now all that remains is for the Christian Democrats in all those European nations where the Right has won the last elections to stop joining forces with the Left to prevent them from forming a government. Because at this point in history, I am more infuriated by those who boast of their common sense yet insist on striking deals with the deranged Left than by the leftists themselves, who inhabit a universe as lush and dreamlike as that of professional hallucinogenic mushroom testers.
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