So now the occupant of the Oval Office has called people who support Donald Trump ‘garbage,’ and believe it or not his designated replacement Kamala Harris hasn’t disavowed Biden’s vitriol.
Beyond the obvious problem that the sitting President of the United States views half of the people who vote in this country as being disposable and less than human, the issue is that this is exactly how the elites in the country view the rest of us.
With all their flowery rhetoric about ‘saving democracy’, the ugly truth is that the billionaires, academics, Wall Streeters, cultural elites and politicians who make up the establishment of America have revealed exactly how they view those who disagree with them.
The bitter clinger deplorables have now had ‘garbage’ added to the epithets hurled at them by those who pretend to preach civility.
The Vice President and her running mate feel completely fine with calling Donald Trump – ‘Hitler’ – even as they support those who would eradicate the Jews as they run wild all over our college campuses chanting for Intifada and that the Jews should be driven out of Israel from the ‘river to the sea.’
In a by-gone age, Americans lived by the credo that ‘sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.’ But today, we have a world where adult college students shrink into a puddle of despair or are driven into a rage simply by being exposed to ideas which differ from their programming.
We have people cancelled, driven out of business and threatened with violence for expressing basic commonly held ideas like there are two sexes. Or that men pretending to be women should not play women’s sports due to their genetic advantages.
Back in the day, I would stand at a College Republican recruiting table on some pretty unfriendly campuses, but no one threw anything at me or attempted to tip my table over. Not today, the very idea of presenting limited government alternatives to the Marxist orthodoxy cannot be tolerated by those who demand toleration for ideas and lifestyles which are well outside societal norms.
And even while eating at a restaurant discussing politics with a friend, those on the left feel empowered to try to intimidate people into silence as I experienced during the Trump administration at a DC area barbecue restaurant. While trying to eat lunch, a well-dressed, professional father with his young boys stood screaming and threatening me in front of my table because he overheard my discussion of a just completed meeting at the White House.
The left has firmly established that to them, words matter.
And if words matter to them, it is important to take them seriously when their President of the United States calls Trump supporters garbage.
You see, making other humans less than you are is an essential ingredient in denying them freedoms and oppressing them in the future, and that is exactly what the left is setting up.
By normalizing the demonization of their opponents, they are creating an acceptance to the idea of suppressing those same voices.
It is their justification for having the FBI and Department of Homeland Security actively urging private social media platforms to silence voices they do not like and ideas that threaten their worldview.
And it is their justification for weaponizing the federal law enforcement and judicial apparatus in Washington, D.C. to such an extent that their supporters cheer the imprisonment of their political opponents, even as they justify not prosecuting their leaders for exactly the same offenses.
I don’t know if the American Humpty Dumpty can be put back together again, but I am increasingly certain that the left does not want it to be.
When those who would prosecute others under the guise of ‘hate speech’ engage in vile characterizations of their political opponents, it is time for the rest of us to believe them.
They do think we are garbage and they do want to deny our voices in a nation built upon the idea that speech is an inviolable right.
In such a world, how do we come together after November 5?
I can only hope that those who look at half of their fellow Americans and see garbage are really few and far between. That they are just misguided demagogues with little real following.
But the silence in the face of the harsh, angry speech by Biden, Harris and Hillary Clinton tells us what we really need to know.
After all it was just four years ago when they lectured us that silence is complicity.
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