Here’s what that looked like: Which was a good deal more civil than what happened in Texas when a similar bill came up for discussion:
Evil is characterized by disorder, chaos, violence, and filth.
And so disorder, chaos, violence, and filth are the weapons used against efforts to save children from the mutilation and sterilization that “gender-affirming care” represents.
The current generation is many times more likely to embrace transgenderism than its predecessors, which is a clear signal of social contagion and environmental mental illness. It isn’t hard to understand its source, either — the institutions the Left controls, namely mass media and academia, have been pushing it nonstop for years, not just in its pristine form but indirectly by presenting androgyny instead of masculinity and femininity as distinct traits of men and women. Those blurred lines have brought this fad into the almost-mainstream and at the same time have destroyed the lives of thousands of children unable to process the distorted signals they’re getting.
So efforts to restore order to the chaos must be met with more chaos.
In Montana, as everywhere else, the Left gins up oodles of freaks to descend on the capitols and make things as openly, obnoxiously unpleasant as they can. None of the advocacy — “I am trans. I am a big gay baby. My pronouns are they/them. What are yours?” — is aimed at persuasion. It’s aimed at intimidation, of a sort.
There’s an implied message: bring bills we don’t like, bills the public favors, and we will bully you. We will make you miserable. We will make you sit through hour upon hour of inanity, disrespect, contempt, and aberration.
And while it comes off as emotionalism, that isn’t what it is. It’s strategic. It’s calibrated to generate a perfectly reasonable response. It’s intended to make ordinary Republican legislators, the ones who didn’t sign up to fight the culture wars, throw up their hands and gripe at Gabe Firment and the others willing to take on this fight.
“I came here to build roads and do economic development. I just want to make the schools better and the taxes low. Why am I being subjected to this?” is that reaction. “Don’t bring any more of these damn bills and the freak show that comes with them.”
And this is how they win, without persuading a soul. Because disorder, chaos, violence, and filth … works.
Just like, as AOC said upon Carlson’s firing, “deplatforming works.”
They’re willing to sink lower than anyone else. That’s their path to power. They’re counting on our acceptance of the old quote by George Bernard Shaw — “Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
But this pig must be wrestled with, or else he’ll destroy the garden.
HB 463 passed out of the House Health and Welfare Committee in Louisiana by a bipartisan 14–3 vote. It will go to the House floor, where it will almost certainly generate disorder, chaos, violence, and filth, as was seen in those other states. But it will likely pass, and then we’ll find out whether the Senate, populated chiefly by those Good Time Charlies who blame the author rather than the agitators for their inconvenience, will continue the fight.
Maybe they will. Or they won’t. This year. But the fight is continuing, and those degenerate tactics are getting stale. More and more, there is a realization that, unpleasant as it may be, the pig must be wrestled out of the garden.
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