Dear fellow Americans of the opposite political persuasion from most of the country,
I’m writing to you in the wake of a very depressing and yet enlightening past few days in the aftermath of several morale-shaking events. Among them were the Minneapolis murders of a pair of children in a mass shooting by a confused young man induced to believe the answer to his emotional problems was a gender change, the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light rain train by a deranged monster roaming free after some 14 arrests, and finally the assassination of Charlie Kirk by what increasingly appears to be an Antifa terrorist in Utah. (RELATED: Charlie Kirk Must Now Be Made Immortal)
I know you have your own ideas and interpretations of these events. I, and the rest of America, have heard them.
And there’s the problem. It’s a problem for you, not us. You may not understand that yet, but you really should.
You’re looking at these things mostly from the perspective of what many of you call “social justice.” For example, you’re telling us that Decarlos Brown is a young man poorly served by our educational and criminal justice systems, and what he did to Iryna Zarutska was certainly unfortunate and terrible, but it’s an inevitable byproduct of 400 years of racism and neglect for poor and underserved Americans, particularly of color. (RELATED: Did Decarlos Brown End the Civil Rights Era in America?)
In Minneapolis, you’re telling us the church murders are what we get for allowing such ubiquitous gun ownership.
And you’ve used that argument in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk assassination, too, going so far in some cases to snicker at the “irony” of an old Kirk quote saying that while gun murders are a lamentable price to pay for the Second Amendment, the preservation of our God-given freedom of self-defense is worth it.
Not to mention, there has been the nonstop character assassination heaped upon Kirk, even in messages purporting to bemoan his death. (RELATED: It’s Charlie Kirk’s America Now)
I’ll not beat around the bush here. Your perspective on these events is pretty much on brand with your perspective of everything else going on in the country.
It’s awful. And we’ve noticed.
We used to attribute this stuff to incompetence that could be cured by dialogue and persuasion. Now we attribute it to malice…
I’m not going to say you hate America and the people in it. One of the things I’ve learned, from you, actually, is that demonizing those who disagree with you makes it utterly and completely impossible to persuade them.
So instead, what I’ll say is that things like trashing Charlie Kirk as a “hatemonger” when tens of millions of Americans saw him, and see him, as a highly-articulate, passionate Christian witness who did more to promote free speech on college campuses than anyone else and offer civil debate to your side, signals pretty clearly to us that you hate America and the people in it. (RELATED: Charlie Kirk: The Last Debater)
We look at that rhetoric and what we see is that if you can’t simply denounce his murder without qualifying it by trashing him, you’re neither sincere in the denunciation nor possessed of goodwill toward those of us who liked and appreciated him. (RELATED: Charlie Kirk Is a Casualty of the Cultural Counterrevolution)
You haven’t stopped calling us fascists, and you can’t unreservedly object to the murder of a guy you’ve been demonizing as a fascist. We’re really not so unreasonable in believing you want us just as dead as Charlie. (RELATED: Charlie Kirk and My Friend From Boy Scouts)
This applies to a whole lot of you. Maybe most of you. Probably most of you, actually.
There’s an old joke that says, “Everything before the but is bullshit.” What that means is when you say that you, of course, condemn a political assassination, but Charlie Kirk was a fascist and a racist and a poopy-head, we don’t see you as any different from the thousands of cretins we’re actively pursuing the termination of in teaching and government jobs.
And we’re not amused by your objections to that as “cancel culture.”
You can’t go around taking glee in the cold-blooded murder of a fellow American just because he disagrees with you politically or culturally. The rest of the country sees that as ghastly, and we won’t accept it. That’s different from laughing at an off-color joke or objecting to gay marriage by an order of magnitude, and if you can’t see this, it’s a problem.
It’s a problem because we don’t believe any longer that you guys are just emotionalists and immature. We think you know good and well what you’re doing, but you don’t care.
We used to attribute this stuff to incompetence that could be cured by dialogue and persuasion. Now we attribute it to malice, because, as I said, it looks like you hate America and the people in it.
If you dislike someone and want to take advantage of them, you won’t think twice about gaslighting them. And your attempts to gaslight us have been absolutely nonstop — so much so that you aren’t fooling anybody anymore; you’re just making us angrier and angrier.
Don’t pretend you don’t know what I’m talking about. We’ve been gaslit over and over again. The Trump-Russia hoax. Hunter Biden’s laptop. Burisma. COVID, on about a dozen different angles. The 2020 election. January 6. The Afghanistan pullout. The border. Things like the DNC email leak. Pizzagate, for crying out loud (we still don’t know what all that crap in John Podesta’s emails was). Practically everything to do with Hillary Clinton. (RELATED: A Cliff Note Guide to Russiagate: The Hillary Coverup)
And Joe Biden’s fitness for office.
Black Lives Matter. Transgenderism. Denying the Great Replacement Theory while clearly executing it for the four years Biden resided in the White House.
Racism, about a hundred different ways. That’s gotten so bad that it backfires on you repeatedly; a great example was when a deranged white man killed a several workers at Asian massage parlors in the Atlanta area, you launched a “Stop Asian Hate” campaign in an effort to demonize white people and it generally crashed and burned because the Asians noticed pretty quickly that they get a lot worse time of it from black people than white people.
I could go on and on. The point is that everything you’re doing is either designed to rankle and irritate ordinary people who either have a different agenda than yours or have no agenda and just aren’t bought into your desires, or you’ve become so nose-deaf to your own absurdity that you can’t discern the difference between that malice and your own incompetence.
And this is why you’re losing the public.
I’m not going to give you political advice. From a political standpoint, I’m happy to see you keep on keeping on. There’s the old line from Sun Tzu that says that if you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by. I take several meanings to that, but most prominently is that every human endeavor eventually comes to an end, and yours — which seems to be the reversal of our very nature as human beings with a whole host of cultural and political aggressions — is certainly not built to last.
The concern I have, and I share it with lots of others, is that your denouement will drag the whole country down with you.
And I don’t want to go down on your account. In fact, I’m pretty adamant that if the rest of us have got to scrape you off to save ourselves, I’ll very gleefully do so.
So what I’m suggesting to you is that now is the best possible time for you people to undertake a very fast, very thorough bit of self-examination.
Before it’s too late.
Stop trying to make us believe Tyler Robinson, the cretinous assassin of Charlie Kirk, was some right-winger. The investigation of Robinson and his motives isn’t complete, but what it’s produced so far are clear signs Robinson was one of yours, just as Robert “Robin” Westman, the Minneapolis church shooter, was one of yours.
In fact, as it’s perfectly obvious that transgender ideology is poison both societally and politically, maybe you should join the rest of the country in rejecting it. You pushed that on us; we reject it. We’re not backing down, and at this point, you should. It’s a dead letter. That’s mental illness, and it needs to be treated as such. (RELATED: Acknowledging the Relationship Between Transgender Identity and Violence)
You should also look at the idea of scraping off Antifa. For a decade now, you’ve been soft-pedaling that domestic terror group as some sort of phantom cooked up by the Right while you’ve caterwauled about neo-Nazi extremists as the premier national security concern. Nobody buys that stuff even though you’ve pushed it since 2009, and increasingly, Americans are associating Antifa with you guys. You really don’t want that association, because we’re about to go live on insisting that Antifa be crushed under the heel of whatever law enforcement or military agencies are necessary to do the job.
And we’ll win that argument, regardless of what effects it has on you.
I could go on, but I’ll mention just one more thing, and it’s this: you lost the 2024 election not because we’re a bunch of mouthbreathing fascists in a cult with Donald Trump but because we voted for the farthest thing we could find from you. So when you go to neverending lengths to stop Trump’s agenda on things we support, like deporting illegals, firing radicals from government jobs, defunding colleges that line up with Hamas, and so forth, what it tells us is this isn’t about your hatred for Trump.
It’s about your hatred for us.
When you say that Trump is Hitler and you wish him dead, we take that as you think we’re Nazis and you wish us dead. And your reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder did nothing to attenuate that perception.
Anything you might have to say beyond the point of wishing us dead is meaningless. Not to mention you already said it and we rejected it then.
So you’d better rethink this idea that you’re the “resistance.” You might want to think about contributing ideas and energy to making America succeed. You lost an election and the country wants a break until the next one, which means your charge is to cooperate, not sabotage.
And the more you do the latter, the more we start thinking you’re an impediment to this country succeeding that ought to be removed — hopefully by peaceful and legal means.
Make no mistake where we are right now. The days of the non-Left simply thinking you’re misguided are over. And the consequences of that change are shortly going to be upon you. So be smart, and soon.
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