1) Leftists, supposedly 'for women,' champion the right of biological males to compete in female sporting events.
The incoherence here is real and rooted in the conflict between opposing leftist commitments. On the one hand, leftists champion the downtrodden, the oppressed, and the marginalized, even when the latter bear the lion's share of the responsibility for their condition. On the other hand, contemporary leftists embrace an absurd social constructivism according to which racial and sexual differences are social constructs with no basis whatsoever in biological reality.
The incoherence is easily avoided. Leftists need to temper their enthusiasm for the downtrodden, etc. while jettisoning the absurd social constructivism. They need to show more respect for biological science. Don't they fancy themselves on the side of science?
2) American leftists, much exercised over the COVID-19 pandemic, support draconian measures against citizens while allowing illegal aliens from all lands to flood into the country untested and unvaccinated. If they are convinced that the Chinese virus, so-called because of its origin, is so terrible, why do the leftists who control the current administration permit the incursion of illegals who bring a variety of diseases with them, not to mention Fentanyl which is also a major threat to the health of the populace?
In this example the incoherence is merely apparent. There is no logical conflict between infringing the liberties and livelihoods of citizens while inviting in and celebrating noncitizens in all their glorious 'diversity' if one is motivated by globalism and hatred of one's own country. The left is being the left by not allowing a crisis to go to waste.
3) Leftists, supposedly 'for the workers,' allow and indeed encourage an influx of illegal aliens the economic effect of which is to drive down wages for the working-class citizen.
This example is like the immediately preceding one. And again the incoherence is merely apparent. If one is motivated by the desire to destroy one's own country, as she was founded to be, then it makes sense to impoverish the lower and middle class citizens who stand athwart the left's globalist agenda and to support and empower illegal aliens who do not share or even understand American values and can be expected to enlarge the ruling elite's power base.
4) Pro-lifers who insist that all black lives matter, including pre-natal black lives, are accused by leftists of being white supremacists.
Here too there is no real conflict between competing leftist commitments. If you see politics as a form of warfare, and want to win at all costs, then you will use every tactic at your disposal including the 'Orwellian smear' to give it a name.
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