Why are “progressives” so annoying?
Their policies? Their browbeating and illogic? Their exaggerated sense of their own intelligence?
Yes. All the above.
But the fact that they are such whiners doesn’t help much:
There is something profoundly cruel about vilifying a person for their democratic choices. When normal people become targets instead of politicians, something has gone very wrong. This then is the real politics of fear and hatred. It is espoused not by the Right, but the Left. And the people who are going to make the next five years truly unbearable are not the ones who make up the democratically elected government, but the ones who desecrate war memorials and spit bile at anyone who dares to think differently from them.
The only cure for crybabies is to desensitize them to being pummeled.
Meanwhile, Anne Althouse reports that deposed Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson (she’s sitll a Justice) and the lefty block of the SCoW skipped out on the tradition of presiding over the Marquette law school graduation ceremony, leaving only the new Chief Justice and the three that voted for her to attend.
I think they’re playing on the vestiges of chivalry we still have–more or less “real men don’t hit girls” and all that. And yes, I’m saying that knowing that a lot off liberals bear a superficial resemblance to the male sex. More or less, the whiny left resembles nothing so much as the young “ladies” I knew in junior high who used their superior size and chivalry to make life a living Hell for any young man they didn’t favor.
And yes, we need to start telling people that if they want to throw punches, they’d better be ready to receive them, too.