INGERSOLL: Fake, Gay And Weak: An Open Letter To The Political Left

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Greetings, Dear Reader,

You read the title. You know what you’re here to read.

FAKE, GAY AND WEAK, an open letter to the political left

The Bolsheviks would turn away. Mao’s student radicals would be sickened. Stalin? Utterly disgusted.

Dear political left, why are you gay? … weak, and/or fake? 

How can you possibly be expected to load us all onto trains when your spiritual avatars are elderly, long irrelevant women and men in women’s clothing?

Robert De Niro, Jane Fonda, Bette Midler and Patti Smith (who?) headlined your big Sunday night event. It was meant to compete with Trump’s astoundingly over-the-top America 250th UFC display. You called it “Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment,” as if we’re supposed to believe you care about speech after the last 10 years of unpersoning and imprisoning normal folks for making jokes online. 

It had a crowd of tens of people who paid hundreds of dollars to sit in an air-conditioned auditorium listening to a parade of elderly women crow. At the same time, American servicemen attended Trump’s event for free to watch warriors ensconced in the American flag fight a brutal bloodsport in a literal arena.

A full 80,000 people stood in the ellipse. No cover charge. Drinking ice cold beers and cheering on the display of hyper-masculine dominance.

While billions of dollars in American might jetted above the crowd to the sound of a classic rendition of the National Anthem, your event featured weak beatnik singing and dancing from the Vietnam era. A soundtrack set to the last struggling neurons of activist boomerdom firing hysterically before the impending darkness. Millionaires in........

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