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The Banality of Evil and Cognitive Dissonance On Steroids
Is anybody particularly surprised that a squirrelly and downright evil-looking 17-year-old from the progressive state of Wisconsin murdered his parents to get money to finance his plot to assassinate President Trump and bring chaos to the country? Nah, it’s just another day in a postmodern, post-Christian America that has become totally unmoored from all previous standards of morality and behavior. The headline for this story did not appear at the top of any news website that I saw.
Ho-hum. It takes a lot to shock us these days.
Well, how about the fact that this little punk, Nikita Casap, was supportive of a satanic pedophile cult known as the Order of the Nine Angles, known also for its anti-Semitism and its fawning admiration for Hitler? Again, ho-hum. Because, after all, our most elite universities allowed themselves to be taken over by anti-Semitic supporters of genocidal terrorists, as well as being just fine with the sexualization of children, so… Nope, not impressed.
And by the way, I thought Trump was Hitler. But now you’re telling me that people who love Hitler want to kill Trump? I’m confused. But I guess it’s asking a bit much from these twisted freaks to be consistent.
Funny. This post-Christian civilization fancies itself so sophisticated in terms of its secular morality (“tolerance” and “diversity”), its scientific and technological progress, and the fact that it no longer believes in the supernatural. And yet, it seems to spawn more of these nihilistic sickies per capita than any society in human history.
Speaking of nihilistic sickies and anti-Semitism, Josh Shapiro, the Jewish governor of Pennsylvania, and his family were the recent victims of a violent home invasion. It included the use of an incendiary device that set his house (the governor’s mansion) on fire. It occurred during the Jewish holiday of Passover, which was probably just a coinkydink, right?
Governor Shapiro has been very outspoken about his Jewish faith and has said, “Family and faith ground me.” And that is a truly wonderful thing, but…
You’re a member of the Democrat Party, dude. You need to wake up and smell the Molotov cocktails! This party, of which you are a member, reeks of anti-Semitism. Five milliseconds after October 7, your party sided with Hamas. Your party is full of irredeemable, anti-Semitic, socialist trash — the Squad et al. They could find a way to rationalize any massacre of Jews by screaming about “colonizers” and “stolen land,” while ignoring that every square inch of the Islamic Middle East was gained through violent conquest. Nothing an Islamic terrorist could ever do to Jews, no matter how depraved, barbaric and cruel, could ever faze this party’s proclivity to excuse it.
And yet, this is the party you choose to be in. How is that possible? The cognitive dissonance must be off the charts.
After the attack on the governor’s mansion, Shapiro said, “This kind of violence is becoming far too common in our society, and I don’t give a damn if it’s coming from one particular side or the other… it is not OK, and it has to stop.”
Governor, which side do you think that hate is coming from? I mean, you must have at least some kind of walking-around, common sense about the reality in front of your face. If you let the Democrat ideology/woke mind virus overwhelm that, you could end up dead. Or be attacked in your home in the middle of the night, like you were.
And since we’re on the subject of reality, it’s worth pointing out that only a few weeks ago, Governor Shapiro, you attended dinner at a jihad-preaching, Holocaust-denying mosque (is there any other kind?) and announced that it would be receiving a five million dollar grant because such institutions are “more important than ever before . . . as we’re facing tumult overseas and we’re facing a lot of rising hate here at home.”
Again, Governor… What the hell are you thinking? Where do you think the “tumult” and the “rising hate” are coming from? Does it come from the victims of Oct. 7 or its perpetrators, the latter being the avowed enemies of Jews and our Western civilization generally? Do you really think that 5 million smackaroos is going to help stem the “rising hate,” or is this just another mindless virtue-signaling exercise designed to prove you’re not “Islamophobic?”
What would it take, Governor Shapiro, to wake you up to the fact that your party and virtually everything it promotes is utterly antithetical and hostile to your faith and any Judeo-Christian faith? For crying out loud, they didn’t let you run as Kamala’s vice-president because… you know why, right? You’re a Jew! And they didn’t want to offend the pro-Hamas wing of the party. So instead, they picked the spasmodically quirky little nitwit, Tampon Tim, a guy who added nothing but additional risk to an already vacuous ticket. They preferred to risk losing the election to the guy they stupidly called “Hitler” rather than offend those who, in Hitlerian fashion, hate Jews. How’s that for some absurd irony — but can you even perceive it?
So why, Governor Shapiro, are you in this sick, shameless party? Do you really believe that Yahweh looks favorably upon this party or favorably upon you for being in it? I’ve got news for you, Governor: The Judeo-Christian God is not down with prideful, idiotic virtue-signaling. He’s dead serious about morality, and the Democrat Party falls short on almost everything.
While we can somewhat — albeit with great difficulty — comprehend how a troubled 17-year-old like the one in Wisconsin can fall prey to the seductions of evil, it is totally baffling how seemingly rational, well-balanced adults who claim to be grounded in faith can be so clueless to the evil all around them. It is, and will continue to be, a confounding riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.
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Sometimes after reading one of our sales pitches to the Democrats , I think, “Wow, if I were a Democrat who was seriously thinking about switching, this would convince me to stay as far away from these people as I can! They are not just attacking the bad guys in my party….it seems they hate me, too.”
We need to do a better job with our messaging. The Democrats have succeeded by making the party of terrible ideas sound appealing.
We have succeeded in making the party of good ideas sound terrible.
First, there is no cognitive dissonance. To Dems, including Shapirio, Trump the majority of Americans that love their country, is the primary enemy. Thus Nikita and Josh are bedfellows.
Second, the most interesting thing is that there is chatter than Nikita is part of a group of young men being actively recruited by foreign agents.
Preach it, brother!
The only thing about your analysis that I’m beginning to question is that we keep trying to use logic, shame, and illustrations of hypocrisy when dealing with the Left, because this has always been the basis for rational discussion of differences.
But I am, reluctantly, beginning to conclude that we are not dealing with rational adversaries. (I know, I know … )
I was reluctant to actually believe that there is a deeper, probably spiritual conflict going on here. But then I heard that clip of a woman confronting a school board (I think), and with her allotted time to speak in an open forum, elects to pray to Jesus for the healing and understanding of the board and the whole situation.
She was immediately shut down, told “Stop, stop! We don’t do prayer here!”
She persevered, but they succeeded in shutting down her free speech, with most of the crowd hissing and twisting in venomous hatred in the background, like vampires being shown a cross.
I don’t know. This is all starting to look like we’re actually living in a Jack Chick tract.
This party of which you are a member reeks of anti-Semitism.
Unfortunately, it’s alive and thriving on the Right as well. Just look at Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens.
I was amazed that Shapiro brought the moral equivalence into his first words after the firebombing. Guess he’s referring to January 6 or something,
Interesting that a mosque gets state funds. I think Sleepy Joe dished out cash to Catholic Charities to settle “newcomers”, but this $5M is for being important? That sounds like what you do to support a dreaded state religion. Hard to believe Sharia allows cash contributions from infidels.
Its remarkable to me that Dems seem to have the Jewish vote locked up, despite the protests and college campus mess. Cody Balmer might be a big MAGA guy, but I doubt it.
Does that mean you don’t think there are prominent anti-Semites on the Right? Or does that mean you don’t think Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson are anti-Semites? Both?
There is a lot of free-floating anger in America today, and not all of it is politically-motivated. Consider, for example, the terrible behavior on planes and other public conveyances and the snarly interactions between customers and business representatives, with the snarling observable on both sides.
That’s what happens when society lowers its standards on pretty much everything: morality, behavior, appearance. You end up with barely dressed people acting out on airplanes or anywhere in public. I remember a time when it was different — but only barely. You have to be pretty old to remember such a time.
I don’t know if the things that are happening today are all that new. When I was in my early teens growing up in the rather exclusive rich person ghetto of Forest Hills Gardens there was a gang of Neo-Nazis formed by a demented young man named George Liggett. He called himself Von Licter, as I recall. The group would hang out near the Sutton Hall Pharmacy on the corner of Austin Street and Ascan Avenue, catty corner from Our Lady Queen of Martyrs cathedral. From that perch they would ambush and assault Jewish kids who passed by. That was in the late 1950s/early 1960s. At some point the cops removed him. It may have been after he was expelled from the New York City private school he was attending because he had what was described at the time as an automatic rifle in his locker.
Liggett wasn’t unique in his obtuseness. Another person I knew, the son of a local politician, stabbed another friend of mine with a Hiri Kiri knife, more commonly used in those days as a letter opener. What struck me at the time was that the same guy had threatened me a short time before with a kukri knife which I stupidly laughed off. I never heard anything about his ever being jailed or otherwise punished for the stabbing.
There have always been bizarrely behaving adolescents, no matter the state of religious worship at the time. What has changed is not occurrences but, rather the reporting of them. Many such events would have gone unnoticed by any but local newspapers, and they would likely be self censoring at the behest of, in the case of the stabber, his assemblyman father. Social media has brought almost every such event into the public notice forcing traditional media to at least mention it.
In my own case, while teaching in a Seattle Junior High School in the early 1970s, I was informed by one of my students that one of his classmates had brought a pistol to school and left it in his locker. The pistol, according to my informant was to be used later in the day to shoot me. I took the kid to his locker and had him open it. What I found was a loaded Model 1911 pistol. I confiscated it, took the kid and the gun to the principal’s office, and we contacted his parents. The gun belonged to his father who expressed sincere shock that his son had accessed it and promised to insure that he would never do so again. Disciplining the kid was left to the parent, and he was back in my class the next day and throughout the rest of the school year. Special Ed sort of worked that way back then. No police report was filed, so no mention of it was made beyond the principal’s office.
So, no, nothing I hear or see these days is particularly shocking to me. There may be more incidents, but we are also looking at a larger population, so it may all be proportional. No doubt that there are a lot fewer kids getting a religious education, but the kids I knew in Forest Hills who were part of that Neo-Nazi group all attended church on a regular basis, and he kid who threatened me and stabbed another friend was a practicing Jew.
I was talking about a time before, let’s say, the late 60’s because that’s when everything blew up. That was when there was a sudden, mindless rebellion against everything under the sun and all our previous standards were basically thrown out the window.
It’s not that there weren’t terrible things before that. There was the worst war in human history and a Holocaust in our living memory. But the general comportment of people in public was simply better. People wore suits and ties on airplanes, and at work, and at many other places, and comported themselves with more dignity and restraint, simply because those kinds of standards were still in place.
Yes, there were murders and violence and all the rest, but you generally didn’t have to be concerned that when you went to the airport, or other public places, that you were going to be subjected to behavior that looked like something out of a Jerry Springer Show.
I agree. I do remember going back to New York to visit my parents after living in the Pacific Northwest for several years. Among other things I remember seeing people walking around the streets in Manhattan who looked like they were in a contest for who could appear the most bizarre. In the subways which I had ridden throughout my youth without ever seeing a person acting out of line now had people smoking, hopping over turnstiles, and fires in the garbage cans. Brand new cars with nice new seating were covered in spray painted graffiti. There was a complete breakdown in what I thought of as civility and appropriateness. That was in the early 1980s.
As strange as that sentence sounds, it describes the situation perfectly. Excellent post!
Thank you.
I’d like to hear you make it sound better without lying. I’d also like to remind you that our current POTUS has done a better job of “outreach” than any Republican since Reagan.
I’m not worried about the freaks, cross dressers, criminals, and illegal aliens in our midst; as you rightly point out, they have always been with us (and, to a certain degree, keep life interesting).
I AM worried that today when there is a conflict, the authorities- the school board, the teachers, the town government, often the police, and the courts – always side with the freaks. And tell the general, sane, bread-and-butter mom-and-pop nuts-and-bolts ordinary God-fearing law-abiding citizens that they are WRONG WRONG WRONG, crazy, and of course, racists.
This all HAS to be on purpose, part of somebody’s, or something’s, plan.
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Government Is How We Steal From Each Other™
They all like the system too much.
While I agree the Democrats are the party of Jew haters, I must confess to disappointment with the Republicans. I would have thought Hamas and the mullahs of Iran would have been gone by now. Instead, Trump is trying to make a deal with evil. His negotiators are consulting with the Obama people who made the original deal with Iran. The Vance-Gabbard-Donald Trump, Jr. triumvirate is isolationist and in league with Tucker Carlson. Only by heeding the consul of this group could Trump have softened his stance on Iran.
I was angry at the time and have become more so over the years that shortly after 9/11 W thought it was a good idea to run to a mosque to reassure them and warn US against backlash. I would have preferred he wait for them to come hat (or dish cloth or whatever) in hand to him.
And the next president was a Muslim. Go figure.