There have been a slew of comments in recent months suggesting that ideological woke progressivism is a new religion manqué (the reference to the left hand is intentional), a bottomless reservoir both of false fulfillment for the spiritually empty and resentful as well as of satisfying and punitive censoriousness toward heretical recalcitrants.
As such, it has its own orthodoxy; its own speech codes (consider, for example, the proposed new Rules package for the 117th Congress, which removes “gendered” words such as “father, mother, son, daughter” as offensive against “inclusivity”; or the ridiculous farce in that same body in which a prayer was ended with “Amen and Awomen”); and its own blasphemy laws and vindictive sanctions for their violation. I have no wish to belabor this short piece with a bevy of examples; poke around on Google and you will find plenty.
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