UPDATED: PERFECT SYMBOL FOR THE POSTMODERN LEFT: BRADLEY MANNING WANTS TO TRANSFORM HIMSELF INTO A GIRL

Bradley Manning, the Army private sentenced to military prison for leaking classified documents, revealed he intends to live out the remainder of his life as a woman. 

“I am Chelsea Manning. I am female,” the Army private wrote in a statement read on TODAY Thursday. “Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. I hope that you will support me in this transition.” 

Manning, 25, was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Wednesday after having been found guilty of 20 charges ranging from espionage to theft for leaking more than 700,000 documents to the WikiLeaks website while working in Iraq in 2010.

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY THE PERFECT METAPHOR FOR THE POSTMODERN LEFT, WHICH HATES AMERICA AND THE WEST.

HE STOLE NATIONAL SECURITY SECRETS AND EXPOSED THEM TO HURT THE USA AND THE WEST.

NOW - TO BE HAPPY AND FULFILLED -  HE WANTS TO BE TRANSFORMED INTO A FEMALE AND HAVE HIS PENIS CUT OFF.

AND THE LEFT SEES NOTHING WRONG HERE.

WHY DOES THE POSTMODERN LEFT HATE THE USA AND THE WEST?

SIMPLE:

IN THE TWISTED LITTLE PROPAGANDIZED MIND OF THE POSTMODERN LEFTIST, AMERICA - AND THE WEST THAT WOULD FALL WITHOUT AMERICA'S SUPPORT - IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

1. MOST OF THE WORLD'S GENOCIDE - ESPECIALLY RACIAL GENOCIDE; 
2. SEXUAL REPRESSION;
3. CATASTROPHIC GLOBAL WARMING;
4. AND POVERTY - ESPECIALLY THIRD WORLD POVERTY.

ALL OF THESE ARE DEMONSTRABLY, FACTUALLY FALSE - PROOF HERE.

POSTMODERNISTS WILL ARGUE THAT THEY LOVE AMERICA. BUT THEY REALLY ONLY LOVE AMERICA THE WAY A NAGGING BITCHY WIFE "LOVES" THE HUSBAND SHE CAN'T STAND AND TRIES TO TRANSFORM.

THEY DON'T LOVE AMERICA FOR WHAT AMERICA WAS FOUNDED UPON, HAS ACCOMPLISHED OR REPRESENTS. 

THEY HATE THOSE THINGS ABOUT AMERICA. 

THEY LOVE THE BOUNTY AMERICA LABORED TO BRING FORTH AND THEY WANT TO GET THEIR FILTHY STINKIN' PAWS ON IT SO THEY CAN DOLE IT OUT TO THEIR FACTIONS.

UPDATE: 

Addendum: SEX CHANGE SURGERY AND THE GRAMSCIAN AGENDA

Like Lysenkoist science, the postmodern assertion that the choice of male or female sexual partners is rigidly fixed at a genetic level, but that gender is infinitely transformative, that gay men cannot turn back to straight, but that men can become women and women can become men, makes no logical sense. It makes even less scientific sense.  

But it makes perfect political sense. 

The left’s version of the old racist “one-drop rule” that treated anyone with even one drop of black blood as black is to treat anyone with even the loosest claim to minority status as a minority and to mandate the irrevocable nature of that minority status.  

That is why Obama is black, rather than half- white, why Elizabeth Warren can be a Cherokee and why a straight man can become gay, but a gay man cannot become straight. [AND WHY GOV. CHRISTIE FELT HE HAD TO OUTLAW "GAY CONVERSION THERAPY".]

It is why a man can become a woman or a woman can become a man and gain an entirely new transgender minority status. 

The scientific principle at work here is the conservation of minority status.  

The left’s policies are meant to diminish the size of the majority and enlarge the size and number of minorities. 

Political diversity when applied to science logically leads to immutable homosexuality and mutable gender. It leads to a construct of race governed by a politically correct version of the one-drop rule in which racial identification always trends toward minority status, rather than majority status.  

The science is bad, but the political calculation is impeccable.  

Biology is just as irrelevant in 2013 America as it was in 1923 Russia.  

How the human body works doesn’t matter. How the body politic ought to work is of obsessive importance.  

The individual is a metaphor for the collective. 

The power of the state to transform the individual from male to female is a metaphor for its power to transform the entire nation through the transformation of language. 

In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it,” George Orwell wrote in 1984. “It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense.

WHAT'S THE POLITICAL MOTIVATION OF THE POSTMODERN LEFT'S EMBRACE OF TRANSGENDERISM? Simple:

By dividing the majority into a series of tiny minorities, they diminish the ability to oppose them, AND BECAUSE - AS FAVORED MINORITIES THEY BECOME PART OF THE LEFTIST COALITION QUALIFYING FOR THE PLETHORA OF DOLED-OUT GOODIES AND SPECIAL RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES THE LEFT HAS MADE AVAILABLE AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE. 

"Gay marriage" actually has a similarly POLITICAL goal: 

 "Homosexual Activist Admits True Purpose of Battle is to Destroy Marriage"

And then there's this:

Children’s Television Network Launches Transsexual Superhero Show…

The postmodernist's Gramscian Agenda doesn't stop there, either: 

Gov’t-Run School Curriculum… Children Forced to Kiss Same Gender In Simulated Homosexuality (Video)

This is tantamount to the enforcement of perversion and goes beyond even the nightmarish world Antony Burgess imagined in "The Wanting Seed."

BOTTOM-LINE - ALSO FROM DAN GREENFIELD:

... why stop at gender when you can also do species? There are people who believe that their true identity is that of an animal. And who is to say that species isn’t in the mind, just like gender is in the mind?

This isn’t just a thought-experimentor satire. It’s reality.

Species dysphoria is the equivalent of Gender dysphoria. Mentally ill persons with gender dysphoria are fashionably diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder. There is as of yet no Species Identity Disorder, but that is no doubt coming.

Like Trannies, Transpecies Americans create special pronouns for themselves and insist that refusing to pretend that they’re cats or wolves is a hate crime.

Like most newly minted civil rights groups, Trannies are intolerant of Transpecies Americans accusing them of only pretending to think that they’re cats and playing the old, “How dare you compare your pain to my pain and your imaginary identity to my imaginary identity” game.

Men who claim that they were really born women based on their personality insist that the idea of men who claim they were born cats is just nuts.

“Trying to legitimize your “species dysphoria” is despicable and insensitive to people with gender dysphoria,” one site says. “Denial of a biological link to sexuality/gender-identity is harmful to all queer (LGBTQI) people.”

Identity is apparently only in the mind, until you encounter people whose identity is also in the mind and make your mind identity look stupid.

ADDITIONAL READING:

WHY THE LEFT WANTS TO DESTROY THE FAMILY

 EXCERPT:

 As the Gramsci biography puts it:

Gramsci stated that, in the West, bourgeois cultural values were tied toChristianity, and therefore much of his polemic against hegemonic culture is aimed at religious norms and values [umph added - Relipaundit]. He was impressed by the power Roman Catholicism had over men's minds and the care the Church had taken to prevent an excessive gap developing between the religion of the learned and that of the less educated. Gramsci believed that it was Marxism's task to marry the purely intellectual critique of religion found inRenaissance humanism to the elements of the Reformation that had appealed to the masses. For Gramsci, Marxism could supersede religion only if it met people's spiritual needs, and to do so people would have to recognise it as an expression of their own experience.

The destruction of the family will condemn millions of children to dysfunctional outcomes. The left would sacrifice those children - future drop-outs, wards of the State, prisoners, runaways, and suicides - in order to create a society in which everyone is essentially institutionalized from birth to the grave, and in which every decision affecting everyone's daily life is made by a bureaucratic elite and enforced by violence.

For further details, see The Road to Serfdom, the must-read and re-read book by the economist F. A. Hayek.