I've been listening to videos by John McWhorter and Douglass Murray, and both have reached the conclusion that woke leftness, which is very different from being a traditional liberal, has become a new religion -- without realizing that that's what it has become. I'd thought the same thing myself, so there seems to be convergence on that point. It's as though people who abandoned traditional religion still had a religious impulse onto which they grafted their version of social justice.

I'm a gay man, and I can remember when I used to be pretty far on the liberal end of the spectrum. The thing is, I haven't changed, but the goalposts have been moved so far so fast that I'm almost a conservative at this point. The woke lefties don't care if you have evidence or an argument. They just want to scream at you if they see you as a heretic. They don't seem to have any idea how vicious their behavior has become.

I don't need to live in a world where everyone agrees with me, validates me, or approves of me. You mind your business, and I'll mind mine.