Jim Goad (who some may recall from /Answer Me!/ in the olden days)
on politics:

"I stopped identifying as a leftist nearly three decades ago** for
two primary reasons:  1)  the left's main premises were counterfactual
and ran purely on the fumes of raw emotion; 2) the formerly
freewheelin', free-lovin', live-and-let-live left had become a
viper's nest of poisonously hysterical neo-Puritans who merely
bartered old hang-ups about saying "tits" and "fuck" for new ones
about saying "nigger" and "tranny" and bitch".

The left can't be defended with facts because trannies aren't women,
the genders are biologically different, and due to evolution's
pesky implications***, the races aren't anywhere /close/ to
[interchangeable].

I suspect that since the facts aren't favorable to leftists of the
fanatical type, they revert to moral hysteria to prop up and enforce
their narrative." 

Footnotes.  

**13 years, here.  I am slow, as well as somewhat intellectually
terrorized by my surroundings.

***It amazes me--or more accurately, it is evidence of the shallowness
of thought on display from those people who make a career of
screaming current articles of faith re: evolution and race---that
the implications of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis never occur to
its proponents.