A message for people in the middle

This is a message for people “in the middle.” You’ve undoubtedly encountered them yourselves. He or she is typically a smug, virtue-signalling in-betweener. They see themselves as a kind of Gandhi who cannot understand why we can’t all just get along. Their conceit is that the world would be ever so much better off if everyone would simply imitate their example and recognise that conservatism and liberalism are just philosophical points of view at variance. Sometimes they will state some absurd equivalency suggesting that “all politicians are equally corrupt” and the sooner we understand that the happier we will be.

The next time you encounter one of these sanctimonious prigs, ask them this. Ask them to imagine they are looking at the house of someone who voted in the recent presidential election. In their front yard they are flying a Confederate flag and a Nazi swastika. Now ask them this: “Who did the occupant of that house vote for? Kamala Harris or Donald Trump?”

Or ask them this. How many major cities have rescue services for children put out of their homes by their parents because they confessed to them that they are heterosexual? Or that they believe in Jesus? Or that they identify with the gender they were born with?

Ask them what “arbitrary philosophical point of view” do members of the Ku Klux Klan hold? The woman who walks into Walmart with a Glock sidearm and a membership in the NRA, conservative or liberal? The guy who admires Hitler, is he a Trump or Harris supporter? Among the “equally corrupt” politicians that they know about, how many of them have been credibly accused of rape? Or economic malfeasance? Who are the felons and who are the law-abiding among conservatives and liberals?

You get the idea. Many among us have been so poisoned by the mainstream media’s normalisation of Donald Trump that they can no longer discern the difference between good and evil. Don’t be fooled by such talk. Evil could not create concentration camps for human beings without masses of such “enlightened” people. Evil couldn’t get away with destroying the planet without such levelling propaganda. People who smugly believe in the false legitimacy of both sides are the grease and oil that keep the machinery of totalitarianism running smoothly.

Donald Trump wasn’t elected by MAGA. There simply weren’t enough of them. The remaining votes that he needed were provided by people like that, people who have willingly relinquished critical thinking in favour of a gooey stupidity that they mistake for illuminated open-mindedness. They are the ones who cannot get enough of their own sanctimony. They are above the fray. Until someone steps on their toes, takes away their rights or inconveniences them, of course. Then watch out.

Sorry, but a lack of empathy for the people whose lives have been destroyed, or soon will be, isn’t enlightenment. It’s hateful arrogance. It’s vanity. It’s narcissism. It’s self-satisfied sophistry. Don’t ever let anyone get away with pretending otherwise. Also, brothers and sisters, take care of yourselves, and if you can, take care of someone else too.