The proverbial road to hell is paved with good intentions.\nThe regressive road back to the Dark Ages may well be paved by irrational\ntolerance that is being imposed on society by ironically labeled \u201cprogressives\u201d\nwho have seized control of a modern day American political party and many\nleading universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unlike the reference to hell, the danger of returning some\naspects of the Dark Ages is very real, according to Dr. Marc Siegel, a\nprofessor at New York University Medical School. In a chilling op-ed\npublished in The Hill<\/a>, Dr. Siegel warns that \u201cDiseases are reemerging in\nsome parts of America, including Los Angeles County, that we haven\u2019t commonly\nseen since the Middle Ages.\u201d Among the diseases that are staging a comeback in\n21st<\/sup> Century America are typhus and leprosy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Siegel focuses on Los Angeles, a city that wears its\nproclivity for irrational tolerance as a badge of honor. (He could just as\neasily have held up San Francisco, New York, Seattle, or any number of other\nirrationally progressive cities as examples.) In the name of tolerance, Los\nAngeles countenances limitless violations of U.S. immigration law. In addition\nto all the other negative effects of mass illegal immigration, Siegel notes\nthat nearly all cases of leprosy reported in Los Angeles County between 1973\nand 2018 were found in people who arrived from Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As the flow of illegal immigration has changed in recent\nyears, public health risks have increased. \u201cLeprosy is still more prevalent in\nCentral America and South America, with more than 20,000 new cases per year.\nGiven that, there is certainly the possibility of sporadic cases of leprosy\ncontinuing to be brought across our southern border undetected,\u201d Siegel writes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Irrational tolerance is also responsible for some 60,000\npeople living on the streets of LA, while city and county officials spend their\ntime and the taxpayers\u2019 money providing services to illegal aliens. In yet\nanother display of irrational tolerance, LA, like many other cities, will not\nforce the homeless into shelters for their own good and for the good of\neveryone else in the community. As former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani,\ncommenting\non current conditions in his city<\/a>, said, \u201cI had a rule that streets were\nnot for living\u201d and, in the interest of the greater good, ordered the NYPD to\nmove vagrants off the streets and into shelters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tolerance is a virtue. Our nation\u2019s founders bequeathed us a\nConstitution that protects the rights of minorities and the powerless, and it\nhas served us well. Irrational tolerance is worse than a vice; it\u2019s a danger.\n\u201cProgressive\u201d irrational tolerance asserts rights that do not exist, and\ndictates that those contrived rights must always take precedence over the\ninterests of society as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When that philosophy takes hold, as it has in many of our\nmajor cities, Dr. Siegel\u2019s question, \u201cIs a Dark Ages disease the new American\nplague threat?\u201d ceases to be rhetorical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The proverbial road to hell is paved with good intentions. The regressive road back to the Dark Ages may well be paved by irrational tolerance that is being imposed on society by ironically labeled \u201cprogressives\u201d who have seized control of a modern day American political party and many leading universities. Unlike the reference to hell,<\/p>\n