A dark fringe outlines Jillian Michaels’s refreshing honesty a out Cali craziness.
While the news cycle has definitely moved on from Michaels’s explanation of how crazy California has become, it’s worth pausing for an observation. By her own admission, she is and remains progressive. She’ll play along with a child’s gender dysphoria, for example, even if she thinks puberty blockers and schools’ lying to parents is beyond what should be acceptable.
The problem is her progressivism — progressivism generally — has no inherent stopping point. Michaels’s lingering common sense from a more-sane era is nice, but it’s quickly fading. So, progressives like her may move somewhere else and only vote for the level of radicalism they like, but that will bring the radicalism to which they object.
Look at Rhode Island for evidence. Democrat state Representative John Edwards of Tiverton used to be considered somewhat conservative, yet his base (and financial backers) have apparently moved such that he was a primary sponsor of legislation to protect organizations that perform abortions and child sex change procedures from litigation.
Not surprisingly, my primary thought is that people should run from progressivism, but even moderating that position is worthwhile. Progressives who still possess some common sense should begin asking themselves if there’s a way they can insist on thresholds or barriers that will actually hold. Otherwise, they’ll bring the Cali craziness with them wherever they go.
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