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.