Charles Krauthamer had his finger on the pulse of the American body politic when he wrote:
To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.
This tracked well. Conservatives generally thought liberals were simply being stupid about their beliefs and related policy choices, such as the liberal positions (manly of them impressively held together simultaneously) that:
Men and women are the same;
There are more than two genders;
You can choose your own pronouns;
Men can be women, and can play in women's sports and wander into women's bathrooms;
Trans women are women;
Teens are too young for a tattoo without parental permission, but they can have irreversible body-altering surgery without parental knowledge or consent;
DEI;
ACAB;
Law enforcement, jails and incarceration are a "sickness";
Michael Brown was a gentle giant that dindu nuthin';
George Floyd was a saint;
The mentally ill just see the world differently;
No requirement for cash bail for criminals;
A revolving door justice system; and many other positions that are far from mainstream but pushed often to the point that people opposing those views were cancelled, called racists, fascists or what have you.
Even after the murder of Iryna Zarutska, conservatives just thought liberals were really stupid to hold such policies that kept leading to terrible results for innocents in society.
No cash bail for violent offenders, a revolving door justice system, and "equity" in the criminal justice system led the murderer to be released immediately after 14 arrests on a verbal promise he'd show up for his latest offense that all came together to lead to her murder.
Yep, conservatives still considered liberals to be stupid.
After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and seeing the joyous reaction to that assassination both online and on the mainstream media by liberals, conservatives now consider liberals to be both stupid and evil.
Given where liberals considering conservatives to be evil has led, that conservatives are now considering liberals to be evil should be a rather sobering thought.
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At times I have read and sometimes commented on a blog called Just An Earthbound Misfit. The latest post was so vile that I had to write and say that I was sad that they felt like that. And then, a simple, "Goodbye".
It is one thing for people to have disliked Charlie Kirk, what he said, or what he stood for. But when they literally say "F..k Charlie Kirk", that is a bridge way too far.
I find myself becoming one of the angry right, who sees that the Democrat party is made up of nothing but those who absolutely hate any conservative, and don't care if we all die, so long as they get to control the government and the money flow.
Charlie Kirk's death has changed things in America. I fear that at some point, if the left doesn't clamp down on their expressions of hatred that some very bad things are about to happen, which one would wish that nobody wants to see.
And I do miss Charles Krauthamer. He was a voice of reason in a world of unreasonable people.
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