The descent of American culture from a moderately religious, moderately moral nation, to its current depths was shockingly fast. Our moral compass is pulled in every direction, providing zero guidance. We have lost respect for the sanctity of human life, and that can be laid squarely on the fanatical love of abortion that sprang out of the Women's Liberation and Feminist movements. The glory of our country's Bill Of Rights, a revolutionary change in government's relationship with the People, has become a pale and dissipated relic. Free Speech? Only if it doesn't offend! A right to a speedy trial? Not if you aren't of the correct political bent! Free exercise of religion? Bake that cake!
We have become nihilistic, we have lost the ability to reason, we have detached facts and logic from the body politic, which now is fueled by an avalanche of hysterical ignorance being pumped into the public sphere by an out-of-control social media.
And what is this all driven by? The destruction of our educational system, courtesy of communism's long march through our institutions, has led to huge numbers of Americans who have no basis for seeing the world, and live hedonistically. "If it feels good, do it" might sound like a throwaway stupidity from Timothy Leary, but it has been embraced by a generation.
And the data back it up! Heartland Institutes deeply depressing series of polls expose a youth culture that is completely detached from America's traditions of freedom and liberty and individual responsibility. Sefton and I talked with Jim Lakely about it over at CutJibNewsletter Speaks. It was sobering.
It is easy to be lulled into the media's carefully scripted response to the surge in violence as the default response to uncomfortable ideas as a problem on both sides of the debate. And that is a lie. The Democrat/Progressive apparatus has embraced violence for as long as they have been in existence. Take a look at the history of the French Revolution for a harbinger of what may be coming to America. Rigid adherence to an insane orthodoxy of transsexualism, income redistribution, destruction of traditional morality, dilution of American Exceptionalism by a flood of third world savages...all of it can be laid at the feet of the left and its insane drive for power and control.
They do not want to win on the battlefield of ideas. Their political philosophy is indefensible, so there is no other option left to them besides violence. They don't want to convince us of the rightness of their ideas, they want us to accept them...or die.
Is that histrionic? No. Street violence, a progressive specialty, is now an everyday thing in some parts of the country. Physical intimidation is the norm. Just try to discuss the inadvisability of bringing discussions of sodomy, transsexualism, and homosexuality into the second grade classrooms in many school districts, and it is entirely possible that you will be silenced, and dragged out by the police. Try to counter protest at a "Free Palestine" march in NYC, and you might get beaten by the mob! Or pray outside of an abortion abattoir. Off to jail!
And of course it is also much worse. Donald Trump survived two assassination attempts. Charlie Kirk did not.
What's the answer? It all comes down to our educational system, and its total co-option by the progressive movement. Blue-haired, pierced loons are teaching our children that it is perfectly reasonable to choose genders, kill your political opponents, take the hard-earned money of the successful, and savagely denigrate all that has made this country the greatest country in human history.
Until education is purged of this, we will continue to slide into the abyss.