The progressive left has become a kaleidoscope of causes, each new week bringing a fresh banner to wave, a new slogan to chant, and a new enemy to vilify. From women’s rights through abortion advocacy to Black Lives Matter, from anti-Trump fervor to pro-Palestine marches, and now, astonishingly, to waving the flag of Iran’s theocratic regime, the left’s priorities shift faster than a desert sandstorm. The exhaustion must be palpable, chasing one cause after another, each more contradictory than the last. Yet, the real obscenity lies in their blindness to the stark realities of the regimes they champion, regimes that would crush the very freedoms they take for granted in America.
Consider the irony: many progressives who proudly march for women’s rights or LGBTQ+ causes under the banner of liberation would face brutal consequences in the very countries they defend. In Iran, a woman showing her hair or wearing a skirt risks imprisonment, beating, or worse, state-sanctioned violence that makes a mockery of “freedom.” Homosexuality is punishable by death, with the regime’s track record including executions for such “crimes.” Yet, we see protesters in Western cities waving Iranian flags, seemingly oblivious to the fact that their rainbow flags or feminist slogans would earn them a one-way ticket to a Tehran prison, or worse.
This isn’t solidarity; it’s a willful ignorance that borders on absurdity.
The left’s fleeting allegiance to causes reveals a deeper issue: a lack of moral consistency. The Black Lives Matter movement, once a cornerstone of progressive activism, has faded from their spotlight, replaced by newer, trendier crusades. Anti-Trump rhetoric, once a unifying rallying cry, has given way to pro-Palestine protests, which now morph into bizarre defenses of Iran’s ayatollahs. Each cause is embraced with fervor, only to be discarded when the next hashtag trends. It’s activism as performance art, driven more by social media clout than by principle.
Whoopi Goldberg’s recent claim on The View that living in Iran in 2025 is comparable to, or even preferable to, life for Black Americans epitomizes this disconnect. To equate the systemic challenges of racism in America with life under a totalitarian theocracy that executes dissenters and imprisons women for defying dress codes is not just misguided, it’s an insult to those suffering under Iran’s regime.
Goldberg, a multimillionaire with a platform to speak freely, enjoys liberties that would be unthinkable in Tehran. Her assertion dismisses the brutal reality of Iran’s human rights abuses, where nearly 350 executions occurred in the first four months of 2025 alone, disproportionately targeting minorities and political prisoners. This isn’t a defense of America’s flaws but a call to recognize the vast chasm between a nation striving for justice and one that codifies oppression.
The progressive left’s embrace of such regimes reveals a troubling paradox. They champion “liberation” while aligning with systems that enforce the opposite. Code Pink, a self-described feminist group, condemns Israel’s actions against Iran, ignoring the latter’s execution of women for showing their hair. How can one claim to fight for women’s rights while excusing a regime that jails and kills women for defying modesty laws? The same activists who tear down posters of Israeli hostages or chant “Free Palestine” remain silent on the 53 civilians still held in Gaza’s tunnels or the 1,200 murdered on October 7.
This selective outrage isn’t justice, it is a betrayal of the very values they claim to uphold.
Conservatives, by contrast, anchor their principles in enduring truths: individual liberty, the rule of law, and the sanctity of human life. These values don’t shift with the latest protest du jour.
The left’s endless pivot to new causes betrays a loss of touch with reality. Their activism, once rooted in tangible issues like civil rights, now flirts with defending the indefensible. America, for all its imperfections, offers freedoms of speech, of protest, of identity that Iran and similar regimes crush without hesitation.
Progressives must ask themselves: How can you champion liberation while applauding those who would jail you for your very existence? Until they reconcile this contradiction, their activism will remain a hollow echo, loud but lacking substance.
