Issues & Insights
screenshot

The Left’s COVID Insanity Is Creating A Once-In-A-Lifetime Opportunity For Conservatives

How many times can leftists reveal themselves to be intolerant, close-minded, dogmatic, bigoted, cruel, unforgiving, race-mongers while claiming to be the virtuous ones? Two recent events – both of which took place in uber-liberal San Francisco – suggest that the time for leftists honoring themselves might soon be at an end.

Last week, San Franciscans voted overwhelmingly – and we’re talking an average margin of 75-25 – to recall three school board members for, as the Washington Post put it, being “too focused on racial justice.”

Actually, the last straw for parents was the fact that, instead of reopening schools, the board was fixated on renaming 44 of them that carry names of those currently disfavored by leftists. You know, deplorables such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln​, Paul Revere, and … California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

Feinstein? She was the first female mayor of that city, and her voting record in 2019 and 2020 was more liberal than Sen. Kamala Harris’, according to Americans for Democratic Action. Not good enough, apparently. The left wants to cancel her for the sin of  “replacing a damaged Confederate flag that was part of an 18-banner historical display outside of City Hall when she was mayor of San Francisco in 1984,” according to one account.

How’s that for tolerance?

It gets better. One of the board members who was recalled essentially called everyone who voted to give her the boot a white supremacist. “Don’t be mistaken, white supremacists are enjoying this. And the support of the recall is aligned with this,” Gabriela López tweeted.

Over the weekend, San Francisco Mayor London Breed admitted on “Meet the Press” that “We failed our children. Parents were upset. The city as a whole was upset, and the decision to recall school board members was a result of that.”​​

When even people in San Francisco can grasp the fact that the woke left doesn’t have their children’s interests in mind, they might also be open to rethinking their prejudices about conservatives.

The second jump-the-shark item came in the form of an op-ed published in the New York Post by a former top executive Levi Strauss & Co. 

From a leftist perspective, Jennifer Sey did all the right things. She was a working mom with four children who rose through the company ranks, going from assistant marketing manager to global brand president, and was in line to be the company’s next CEO.

At Levi’s, Sey was the executive sponsor for the black employees group and two of her children are mixed race. She was an outspoken supporter of Sen. Elizabeth Warren during the presidential primaries.

No matter. Sey had the temerity to complain about the pointless COVID public school shutdowns. That did it. The left called her a racist, a eugenicist, a QAnon groupie. She was accused of being anti-science, anti-fat, anti-trans.

They also castigated me for my husband’s COVID views,” she wrote, “as if I, as his wife, were responsible for the things he said on social media.”

Even though she wasn’t speaking for the company, Levi’s executives told her to stop expressing her views. This is a company, mind you, that openly champions every leftist cause on the books. The company’s head of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” even told her to go on an “apology tour” because she was not being “a friend of the black community at Levi’s.”

She didn’t apologize. After suffering all this abuse from the “open-minded,” “tolerant,” “love-filled” left, she resigned and refused to take a $1 million severance payout because it included a nondisclosure agreement that would have kept her silent about her reasons for leaving.

Here’s how Sey describes Levi’s today:

“It’s trapped trying to please the mob – and silencing any dissent within the organization. In this, it is like so many other American companies: held hostage by intolerant ideologues who do not believe in genuine inclusion or diversity.”

How many other liberals feel this way today? How many are coming to realize that the left is a cesspool of close-minded haters? That it is the definition of mob justice? That progressives don’t have you or your family’s best interest in mind? That they are the secular version of religious zealots? How many are realizing that the left’s intolerance isn’t limited to COVID, but that this is how it approaches every issue, where if you don’t toe the line perfectly you get canceled?

Then ask yourselves, how many of these people understand that the left has been lying to them about conservatives all these years? How many of them would be willing to listen to conservatives talk about why freedom, liberty, and the ability to pursue your own happiness is preferable to the left’s dogma and dictates? That compassion isn’t measured by how much money the government spends, but by individual actions?

There’s an opportunity here for conservatives, but only if conservatives stop attacking each other and start reaching out to those who’ve had the scales fall from their eyes to show them that the grass really is greener on the other side.

— Written by the I&I Editorial Board

We Could Use Your Help

Issues & Insights was founded by seasoned journalists of the IBD Editorials page. Our mission is to provide timely, fact-based reporting and deeply informed analysis on the news of the day -- without fear or favor.

We’re doing this on a voluntary basis because we believe in a free press, and because we aren't afraid to tell the truth, even if it means being targeted by the left. Revenue from ads on the site help, but your support will truly make a difference in keeping our mission going. If you like what you see, feel free to visit our Donations Page by clicking here. And be sure to tell your friends!

You can also subscribe to I&I: It's free!

Just enter your email address below to get started.

Share

I & I Editorial Board

The Issues and Insights Editorial Board has decades of experience in journalism, commentary and public policy.

10 comments

  • states need to recall electors

    then it will complete the “democrat stole the election” message

    Democrats will cease to exist

  • “ the left is a cesspool of close-minded haters” Good description!
    I call them The Radical Left Democrat Party of Death Degradation and Deviancy…
    The Evil Party!

  • Unfortunately we have people like Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, etc, who have demonstrated an uncanny ability in the past to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory…

  • As the late Senator Patrick Moynihan said, “A Conservative is a Liberal who has been migged.” Jennifer Sey is getting a sample of how intolerant the Progressives™ are.

  • When Conservatives get a “one in a lifetime opportunity” they simply piss it away. It’s the GOP Way.

    • Yeah, we had that happen in Canada with Steven Harper as PM, he had a majority Conservative Govt and frittered it away.

      We could have rationalized the CBC, reigned in human rights tribunal abuses, give Quebec what they want (and the rest of Canada) by having Ottawa butt out of controlling immigration, build a pipeline from Alberta to Quebec (what a great idea) …..but instead, NOTHING.

  • The few at the top will control the masses.

    Is there really a party in DC that is for the citizens?

    Come on Man!

  • More people will eventually die from the covid vaccines than have or will die from covid itself.

About Issues & Insights

Issues & Insights is run by the seasoned journalists behind the legendary IBD Editorials page. Our goal is to bring our decades of combined journalism experience to help readers understand the top issues of the day. We’re doing this on a voluntary basis, because we believe the nation needs the kind of cogent, rational, data-driven, fact-based commentary that we can provide. 

We Could Use Your Help

Help us fight for honesty in journalism and against the tyranny of the left. Issues & Insights is published by the editors of what once was Investor's Business Daily's award-winning opinion pages. If you like what you see, leave a donation by clicking on donate button above. You can also set up regular donations if you like. Ad revenue helps, but your support will truly make a difference. (Please note that we are not set up as a charitable organization, so donations aren't tax deductible.) Thank you!
Share
%d