THE PRISONER OF INTERSECTIONALITY

New Geography reports on virtuous Elizabeth Warren:

New England progressives, inheritors of the Protestant reforming tradition, long have sought to impose “morality” on the rest of society. This led them not only to promote things like clean government and improved sanitation, but their zeal also had a darker side, including the embrace of eugenics, considered by one of its proponents as “the science of being well born.”

In place of the market, and allowing people to choose their way of life, Warren’s predecessors often favored enforcement of morality — for example, Prohibition. Today’s progressives like Warren don’t talk in conventional moral terms about personal or family responsibility but embrace a trendy morality that opposes any manifestation “male patriarchy” and has little interest in the traditional family. “We’re not here today because of famous arches or famous men,” she told a rally in Washington Square Park earlier this year. Do most Americans think Washington, Jefferson and Hamilton did not have much to do with creating the republic in the first place?

Warren’s up-to-date New England morality also includes such things as a virtual right to abortion at any time, despite the fact that just 13% of Americans think third-trimester abortions should be generally legal, compared to the 60% who think first trimester abortions should be generally legal.

One other issue Warren is out of step with Americans on is taxpayer-funded sex changes. Warren has reversed past positions and now embraces the clearly unsaleable idea of having taxpayers pay for prison inmates’ sex changes.

Another great one from Joel Kotkin.