Social Justice Runs Amok

If you look at the successful leftist movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, one thing they had in common was the ability to stay on message. Photos of rallies for the 8-hour day show placards calling for 8 hours of work, 8 hours of recreation, and 8 hours of rest. They do not show people carrying signs for a bunch of other unrelated issues. Yet if you look at protests today, they’re somehow all about everything. Even the Women’s March (which in theory had the potential to focus on one issue: women) managed to also be about global warming, immigration, and trans rights.