Thank you, Progressives – Opinion

Conservatives aren’t likely to enjoy it but they owe progressives a huge thank you and a tremendous debt of gratitude bcause the left has exposed itself — sometimes literally — and their “legitimized” members of the Democrat party more thoroughly and completely than the right ever could have managed on its own.

And what’s happening now culturally and politically almost assuredly HadFür die progressive progress to stop in its tracks, must be taken place.

What is the secret to the success of the progressive left in turning Americans off their antics, after years of guilt-tripping everyone into believing that they were the most compassionate?

You can be yourself, naturally.

That was proven by the Libs of Tik Tok Twitter account. The recent footage from pride parades across the country showed that breasts and genitals had been exposed to children. This is all the while the nation struggles with an ever-increasing suicide rate for transgender youth. The Washington Post recently featured Felicia Sonmez, a wakeful millennial who began to obsess about being victimized rather than doing her job. The Intercept now shows you what happens when pathologically narcissistic people stop caring about other things.

The set-up is that the Guttmacher Institute, “the abortion rights movement’s premier research organization,” wanted to respond to the George Floyd killing and the problem of racial injustice. The organization would be irrevocably divided by the events that followed.

Heather Boonstra, vice president of public policy, began by asking how people were “finding equilibrium” — one of the details we know because it was later shared by staff with Prism, an outlet that focuses on social justice advocacy.

She talked about the role systemic racism plays in society and the ways that Guttmacher’s work could counter it. Staff suggestions, though, turned inward, Prism reported, “including loosening deadlines and implementing more proactive and explicit policies for leave without penalty.” Staffers suggested additional racial equity trainings, noting that a previous facilitator had said that the last round had not included sufficient time “to cover everything.” With no Black staff in the D.C. unit, it was suggested that “Guttmacher do something tangible for Black employees in other divisions.”

Behind Boonstra’s and the staff’s responses to the killing was a fundamentally different understanding of the moment. Boonstra’s generation and other of hers should have concentrated on the nonprofit’s work: What could Guttmacher do, with an average annual budget of $30 million, to make this world a better place for everyone? Her staff had to answer that question at home: What can they do for Guttmacher? Managers often exploited employees’ moral commitment towards their mission to allow workplace abuses to continue unaddressed, according to them.

This belief was common. Group leaders saw that staff ignored the mission, and were only focusing on their own needs. They used a momentary awakening to get through the standard grievances disguised in social justice language, and then laughed at the group. They often played into the dynamics that they were trying to change by pointing their criticisms at people of color, just as they did at Guttmacher. Guttmacher was then run by Dr. Herminia Paccio (Afro Latina). “The most zealous ones at my organization when it comes to race are white,” said one Black executive director at a different organization, asking for anonymity so as not to provoke a response from that staff.

This starkly different outlook would cause dramatic divisions in progressive countries throughout the next year. Guttmacher would see this as a major blow to his organization.

Guttmacher isn’t the only one, as reported by Intercept. Infighting has become a common occurrence within many progressive groups.

That the institute has spent the course of the Biden administration paralyzed makes it typical of not just the abortion rights community — Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and other reproductive health organizations had similarly been locked in knock-down, drag-out fights between competing factions of their organizations, most often breaking down along staff-versus-management lines. It’s also true of the progressive advocacy space across the board, which has, more or less, effectively ceased to function. The Sierra Club, Demos, the American Civil Liberties Union, Color of Change, the Movement for Black Lives, Human Rights Campaign, Time’s Up, the Sunrise Movement, and many other organizations have seen wrenching and debilitating turmoil in the past couple years. In fact, it’s hard to find a Washington-based progressive organization that hasn’t been in tumult, or isn’t currently in tumult. It even reached the National Audubon Society, as Politico  reported in August 2021:

The 600,000 member National Audubon Society has been confronted with allegations, according to thirteen interviews of former and current staff members, that it promotes fear, antagonism, retaliation and fright toward people of color and women.

Twitter may not seem real, but Slack is in an age of remote working. Interviews with more than 12 former and present executive directors at advocacy organizations revealed that Twitter, Slack, Zoom and office space are mixing in a way which cannot be ignored. This is according to a progressive movement that demands that organizations be functional. Most executive directors were reluctant to speak on condition of anonymity out of fear that they might upset staff members or donors.
“To be honest with you, this is the biggest problem on the left over the last six years,” one concluded. “This is so big. And it’s like abuse in the family — it’s the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about. And you have to be super sensitive about who the messengers are.”

As the saying goes conservatives: when your enemy is digging a hole, don’t stop him.