https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/when-must-we-kill-them
" Evil has come to America."
Is the first line of the essay titled "When Must We Kill Them?".
This essay was written during the FIRST Trump administration, and clearly doesn't take into account the peaceful transfer of power to the Biden administration and multiple national elections since.
The answer to that question is obviously, only in the most extreme circumstances, if then. Yet someone decided that Charlie Kirk was the evil that needed to be killed yesterday.
If we had a similar essay from someone on the right, the hue and cry would be overwhelming from the ASPL. The very existence of tiny groups the prefer to live in isolation as a protest against the governments regularly offered as proof of some vast conspiracy of right wing extremists preparing to overthrow the government. That a couple of hundred unarmed and mostly peaceful people wandered around the Capitol for an hour or two is offered as if it's proof of a coup. Hell they even had to invent mythical deaths to make the story juicer for those who indiscriminately buy whatever the MSM dishes up.
When one side refers to their poliitcal opponents as "evil". "NAZIs", "terrorists", "extremists" , and has spent years demonizing the other side, is it surprising when someone takes the hate filled rhetoric seriously? There is a desperation for the guy that shot the MN legislators to be some "right wing extremist", and if there was convincing proof it would have been trumpeted from the MSM. But there's not. He was clearly mentally ill, hut he'd been appointed by two DFL governors as well as being a "conservative Christian". Unfortunately for those who want it, it's just not conclusive at this time. (Obviously, for many, they've made up their mind and won't be swayed no matter what. I'm only talking to the same people who are open to actual evidence.) Like it or not, the last few years of political violence have been mostly at the hands of the left. Like it or not, the last few school shooters have been in the alphabet soup crowd.
It's not the guns fault. The author is right about the existence of evil. He's wrong in thinking that it's only recently come to the US. It's individuals choosing individual actions, sometimes driven by mental health problems. Unfortunately, we've given up on involuntary treatment for the violent, dangerous, mentally ill, instead letting them roam the streets until they finally cross some line.
2 comments:
What a nonsensical screed, but oh, so typical of the left. Heavy on projection and fantasy. VERY light on fact (I'm being generous. There was no fact present except as you say regarding evil in America).
Yes, evil has always been present in the US. It was present before the US was even a glimmer in the eye of the founders.
Look, I get it in theory. There might be a point where some sort of the violent revolution Jefferson predicted might become necessary. But not the targeted killing of your political enemies. Not the killing of one of the people most dedicated to talking with those he disagreed with, over anything else.
People like Dan insist that this sort of thing only exists on the right, but he's full of shit. The difference is that on the left it comes cloaked in academic robes and high minded sounding rhetoric.
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