Here’s an interesting snippet: Dan Savage, professionally offended/professional offender, suggests that what *he* wants to see happen is, for a period of thirty years, all human pregnancies be aborted. *Maybe* he was kidding (doesn’t really seem that he was), but perhaps more telling was the enthusiastic response of the audience. Mr. Savage has been mentioned hereabouts before, and very clearly has some pretty strong leftie-creds.

So… at the far end, this leftie shows that he’s not after ‘freedom of choice” after all, but complete authoritarianism. What’s more: whether you think abortion should be legal or not, at least *most* people will agree that killing a fetus without the mothers consent is murder, or at least something very close to it. So what this feller advocates, and many in the audience loudly approves of, is the murder of entire generations. Every pregnancy for thirty years would be, what, maybe a billion? Fewer, perhaps, because there wouldn’t be  children coming along in those years to mature and start getting pregnant themselves.

VIDEO: Dan Savage says ‘abortion should be mandatory’ to reduce the population.

That Mr. Savage should suggest the greatest act of mass murder in human history in order to form the sort of world *he* wants is no particular biggie. He’s a well-known attention whore; his schtick is saying things to shock people. The newsworthiness of the episode is the popularity of his authoritarian views amongst his political compatriots in the audience. One guy ranting on a streetcorner? Not news. That same guy leading a nation of suckups to commit warcrimes? That’s news.