Is America Losing Its Mind?

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There are few things worse than being called “intolerant,” “Inflexible, or “closed-minded.” Who wants to be that? Isn’t it far better to be open to everything, dismissive of nothing?

Well, not necessarily.

Let’s frame this a different way.

Should we have any standards at all? Or should the standard simply be “anything goes?”

These are new questions. For most of American history, standards of acceptable behavior were generally agreed upon.

Today, we can’t even agree on the difference between men and women. Those on the Progressive Left seem dead-set on unsettling just about every settled question—all in the name of being “open-minded.”

But can your mind be so open that your brains fall out?

Do we need to tolerate every crackpot view under the sun, no matter how harmful? No matter how false? Do we need, for example, to keep an “open mind” on murder? Of course not. That question’s settled, and every citizen has an obligation to follow the law. Even if someone doesn’t want to. Even if he “identifies” as a serial killer.

How about a more controversial example? Consider the case of Drag Queen Story Hour, an activist organization that sends transvestite men wearing sexualized clothing into elementary schools and public libraries to read books and sometimes even dance in front of little kids.

In the name of tolerance, must we allow men to strap on stilettos and wiggle around in front of toddlers—even when our communities object, even when we know that it’s wrong?

This example is a little bit tougher for the “tolerance” crowd, not because the answer is obvious—though it is—but because any way you answer, someone’s views are not going to be tolerated. If we answer “yes,