I & I Editorial BoardWhatever happened to the republic we knew growing up and well into our adult years? We had political disagreements, some of them quite heated. But what we’re living through today, thanks to deranged Democrats, is not only unfamiliar, it is catastrophic unless the left comes to its senses.
We often see charges from the political right that Democrats, socialists, and progressives want those who refuse to surrender to their agenda dead. Maybe it’s an overstatement. But when we see survey results that clearly show there is an uncontrolled sickness, a pandemic of depravity, we think maybe it’s more truth than an alarmist reaction.
A September poll asked 683 Democratic voters how they would feel if they “woke up tomorrow morning and saw the following news headlines.” The Center for Strategic Politics found that nearly nine in 10 (86%) said they would have a positive feeling if the headlines told them “President Donald Trump has been impeached and convicted by both houses of Congress and has been removed from office.”
Not surprising, yet still somewhat chilling.
But things get worse.
Fifty-six percent said they’d be happy learning that Trump had died overnight in his sleep, while 84% would be pleased if the 25th Amendment had been used to declare Trump “unfit by a majority of his Cabinet and removed from office.” Almost 60% would be delighted if a military coup had ousted Trump.
Some don’t need polls to express their distemper. They have forums that feed the Democrat-progressive-socialist ecosystem. Podcasters Jennifer Welch, “a darling of the liberal media” whose program is “a must-stop destination for any Democrat with lofty political ambitions,” and Angie Sullivan laughed hysterically for almost 30 seconds at the thought of “digging up Charlie Kirk” and murdering him again.
The best response to this that we’ve seen on social media noted that “The correlation between people who have ‘hate has no home here’ signs in their yard and agree with these ladies is probably close to 100%.”
An apology was issued, but it’s the sort that comes about only when the apologists are trying to do damage control, not when there is true remorse. We can say this with confidence because we know, as does anyone paying attention, that the left supports political violence at roughly twice the rate of the right.
The violent, retribution-driven left has a number of targets it desperately wants to ruin, imprison, and, if we’re reading the twisted implications correctly, in some cases execute. The list, of course, starts with President Donald Trump and includes Trump family members, War Secretary Pete Hegseth, various White House officials, Elon Musk, business executives who have supported the president, and even Republican voters, whom one just-elected Democrat believes belong in concentration camps — the sort with the gas ovens that facilitated the Holocaust. The American “Robespierres with guillotines” want blood, both symbolic and literal.
It’s sickening and disheartening to know that people have become so deeply disturbed and lost their humanity. How did a major portion of our citizenry become so mentally deranged?
That’s one of the bigger questions of our time, but we should also be asking ourselves: How do we cool the fever and unwind the rage? The answer, and our willingness to correct the course, will determine if we can keep our republic and preserve Western civilization.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
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I&I wonders: “How did a major portion of our citizenry become so mentally deranged?”
This is how: Our greatest generation (those who fought in WW 2) once they got back coddled their children. Their children then coddled their children, and on and on. Nowadays, attendance at an event, rather than excellence, is rewarded.
Public school teaching didn’t help any. Grades became negotiable-and diplomats rather than bookworms became the popular creed.
This went on through the college, where “pass/fail” grades were given. College also offered a cotillion of courses that didn’t help you find a job but had intriguing sounding names.
Today, success is defined by how many protests you’ve gone on-and if they were violent, how many repercussions you’ve survived.
Young people have been cosseted coddled and spoiled-and this will continue until Momma, Daddy and Big Nanna Government stops doing for them- and allows them to grow up.
This is an 80 year old man’s opinion-and I’ve noticed, even at the library, that children and teenagers and young adults are all very polite-as long as you agree with them.
The Dems just dominated in an election where the Republicans were calling candidates Talafreako, Tranny Annie and all kinds of slurs and attacks. Vivek’s ad in Ohio against Amy Acton was also a low moment. Reign of terror by the Democrats – or “dumbocrats” as Trump has been calling them – I dunno. There’s demonization of our fellow citizens on both sides but Republicans have long ago ceded the moral high ground by glorying in gutter politics. It’s the MAGA brand. I’d like to think there’s a desire for a return to civil discourse but we have a LONG way to go and plenty to atone for as a country for letting things get this bad.
The left just stole the election by shifting 15% of R votes to Ds. Their “victory” is mathematically impossible.
You seem to turn a blind eye to all the slurs tossed out by the left for the past 20+ years – very selective angst. From top Dems down to “influencers”.
I realized that leftism had become a cult of death when I saw how they reacted just after Charlie Kirk was killed. Leftism is a modern version of the Shakers, a religion that required its members to forego parenthood and could only survive by adoption of orphans.
The policies loved by the left such as gay marriage, atheism, LGBTx, extreme feminism, and abortion all have the same main effect: they reduce the birthrates of leftists to a level far, far below the birthrates of conservatives who love humanity, love each other, and love children.
As a result, the political right produces more children per capita than the political left. The response of the left has been to seize a chokehold on all government-funded education, from kindergarten to graduate school, and to use their control of the schools to flip the children of conservatives into woke leftists who reject the values that their parents have taught them and that helped to create their very lives in the first place.
This is the only way that the left can survive. It is absolutely imperative for the survival of leftism as a political movement to use the schools to indoctrinate the kids of conservatives and turn them into leftists. Rebalancing the teaching profession to make it reflect the same spectrum of political views as the rest of America would be an extinction level event for leftism.
Margaret Thatcher famously quipped that “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.” The problem with leftism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ children.
The left is willing to kill to keep our kids under their thought control.
Read that sentence again, and let it sink in.
Their entire philosophy of life has become a sophistry of death, an ode to the political violence which they constantly accuse others of plotting, but which they consistently practice.
For more details, go to Substack and search for “Leftism Is A Cult Of Death”. Keep the quotation marks when you cut-and-paste the title of the article.
It’s easier for most progressives to demonize the other than it is for them to talk about public policy issues?
I’ve said it before & I’ll say it again. At least 40% of the American voting public suffered a nervous breakdown following the presidential election of 2016. COVID & BLM added another 10-15%.
It doesn’t happen overnight; it’s been brewing in baby steps for several years, and may very well be on the cusp of exploding in the near future.
The left’s mental derangement starts with the absolute certainty of the infallibility that they feel about their various positions, that the truth of their positions should be self-evident, and anyone who would actually wish to debate them is a miscreant, only doing so for nefarious purposes. This manner of thinking goes back to the education they received as children all the way through college and into adulthood, where the media, leftist podcasters and authors, and others offer them continual educational propaganda that they blindly accept. Also, they have decided to give up their power and right to critical thinking, something which could provide them with a way to escape from their hellhole.
The greater good will be the Democrats and DSA destroying whatever opportunities this election offered them as their infighting means they accomplish nothing beneficial for the nation.
2028 they will be voted off to Havana because of their socialistic middle school playground fights.
Now, any probability bets whether the main media will report these follies accurately?
The lack of self-criticism and self-awareness on the right is staggering. Do you think it’s possible that the “extreme” views of the left have something to do with Trump’s behavior and rhetoric? The man is bereft of any principles. He has no decency, no civility. He’s wildly ignorant on basically any topic. He was one narrow band of genius, and it involves self-promotion and corruption.
He has undermined our institutions, destroyed our reputation abroad, and he’s governed like a mad king – perpetually concerned with vanity projects and legacy, wielding the tools of government as his own weapons to settle vendettas and enrich himself and his pals.
MAGA killed the GOP. It’s dead now. Why? Because your side decided that personal integrity didn’t matter anymore, so long as you were able to get your tax cuts and your draconian gestapo immigration force. Well, since you hitched your wagon to the most corrupt and sociopathic political figure in American history, I don’t really want to hear it when you talk about “the extreme views” of the left.
It’s honestly not left vs right when it comes to Trump. There are many conservatives who understandably loath him. Sane people everywhere have known what he is for decades.
Anyway, enjoy the next long period of democrat reign in Washington. You have no one to blame but yourselves.
It’s because you are literally fascists. Immigrant hating. Gay hating. Women hating. Fascists. You spread the hate and it comes back to you. Face that.
Wait, doesn’t love trump hate? I swear I heard that somewhere.