The Boy Scouts of America used to stand for something, but not long ago, it became about equity and inclusion. Undermined by left-wing influences and leaders, the BSA is barely an organization, and that’s what the Left wanted.
The Boy Scouts used to be about boy things, masculinity, and foundational ideal the Left hates. So they broke it, and is officially beyond fixing. Having lost its meaning, it is – to quote more than one movie – a dead man, and it doesn’t even know it. Or maybe it does.
The organization lost nearly half of its membership between 2019 and 2020. This national event represents one of its first steps out of a generational nadir brought about by the pandemic, a sexual abuse scandal, and an ensuing bankruptcy.
The BSA had barely resolved its struggle over membership policies — fully admitting gay men in 2015 and trans boys in 2017, and then [girls] in 2018 — before facing an avalanche of sexual abuse claims. …
Membership for the BSA’s flagship Cub Scouts and Scouts BSA programs dropped from 1.97 million in 2019 to 1.12 million in 2020, a 43% plunge, according to figures provided to The Associated Press. Court records show membership has fallen further since then, to about 762,000.
BSA became Scouts, and now it’s just this club, and there’s camping, and who gives a darn—certainly not mainstream America. Parents aren’t sending their kids to play in the woods with girls or even gay men or, better yet, people who have no clue what they are.
There are too many variables at play.
It’s just a matter of time before the whole thing falls apart or, more likely, the Left completes the transition and starts recruiting liberal kids and turns it into an American Progressive Hitler Youth or Mao’s red guard.
We laugh nervously and think that’d never happen. But then we look around. Well, yeah, actually, that could happen.
