@Urwrong
I think we probably are too, but probably not for entirely the same reasons you do.
In the main, I believe we should have equal rights and freedoms, just not necessarily equal outcomes.
They should have the right to define themselves as they please…for themselves, defining themselves for me infringes upon my freedom of thought and speech.
I don’t think the left is necessarily anymore delusional than the right.
In matters such as these, the left often misses the big picture, whereas the right often misses nuance.
And the left often sides with women and minorities, whereas the right…used to side with the majority, in the last few decades it’s been put on the defensive, increasingly allying itself with culturally neutral, libertarian politics…at least in theory, in practice both the left and right by and large cater to the elite.
I try to think independently of both ideologies, but the way our government and society is structured, it cumbersomely pressures people into exclusively identifying with one or the other to the point of intellectual, political and social paralysis.
We can’t entirely trust science, because it has limitations, makes mistakes, and can be corrupted by both progressives, conservatives and government itself on the one hand, and (big) business on the other.
That being said, we should always at least try to consider the science, as well as think for ourselves.
As for sexual fluidity, I’m open to the possibility, I mean the body and brain/mind can change to some extent, for various reasons, naturally and synthetically, what bothers me is the fauxsexual community wants to be able to define themselves for me, independently of science and my interactions with and interpretations of them.
They also tend to exaggerate how possible sexual fluidity is.
I’m not sure I fully agree with the analogy you’re making.
On the one hand, I think the right’s position on trans/faux is more in line with the science, but because it’s in tune with the big picture, whereas the catholic church was wrong, because it failed, refused to see nuance, the imperfections on the moon revealed by Galileo’s telescope (in their model, the ‘heavenly spheres’ such as the moon were perfectly spherical and unblemished, kind of like thinking men are wholly men without any femininity or ambiguity, or women wholly women.
See you can go too far in either direction.
The right often fails to see exceptions, and the left often runs away with exceptions, trying to turn them into the new rule, when they’re not sufficiently significant to warrant such.
Ideologies like progressivism and conservatism are like religions in some ways, in that they both have and attempt to impose their belief systems on the people, culturally, politically and socially, often irrespective of what science and common sense have to say.
I agree, the left is way out in left field in all sorts of ways as of late.
All of us here probably at least believe we’re doing the right thing on some level, but whether we are or not is debatable, and that is why I will say: on with the debate.