“We are better people than you. We have higher standards.”
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About two years ago, one of my wife’s best friends began to turn down invitations to get together. Then, out of the blue, she unfriended my wife on Facebook.
That’s a rude way to brush off someone, so my wife finally asked her: What gives? Have I offended you? Her terse text response was full of self-righteousness: “John and I are so appalled by the things that Steve writes that we don’t want to associate with you anymore.” I wasn’t offended that they disagreed with my positions or even felt our political disagreements are so vast that we probably shouldn’t hang out together anymore. After all, we are two Americas today.
What stuck in my craw was the word “appalled.” It was her way of saying, “We are better people than you. We have higher standards.” Appalled is the outrage you feel when someone gets drunk and starts hitting on your wife.
I recite the incident because it is an example of how liberals have anointed themselves as intellectually and morally superior to those on the Right. Welcome to the “religious Left.”
A case in point: Several days ago, the Boston Globe printed a front-page opinion piece by the paper’s liberal columnist Yvonne Abraham. She denounced the idea of any “unity” agenda with Republicans or conservatives. “Here’s the thing about unity,” she wrote. “To achieve it, you have to believe in a common good. And most members of this Republican Party have demonstrated over and over that they simply don’t. You can’t find common ground with a movement defined by lies.”
Of course, the irony here is that it was President Biden, not Republicans, who pledged a government that would unify the country after the election. But now that the Democrats have taken power, why bother to find common ground with irredeemable people when you control all of the levers of governmental power and steamroller over them instead? What is there to gain by uniting with people who are “white supremacists” or “insurrectionists?” These people are rotten.
Most everyone I know on the Right agrees that judging a person by his or her skin color is a grievous wrong and that violence is rarely an acceptable form of political protest.
Do liberals? The new vice president called the liberal mobs who ransacked cities this summer “civil justice warriors.” Apparently, it is excusable to burn down a building or assault a police officer if you are protesting racial injustice, climate change, abortion rights, or social programs cuts.
The Trump Haters say: Anyone associated with the protests that led to violence and the assault on the Capitol should be criminally prosecuted and are even guilty of “treason.” But several years ago, when thousands of “social justice warriors” (i.e., union thugs) stormed past the police and occupied the domed Capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin, for three days, the media celebrated.
Now the Left is constructing a blacklist of conservatives who worked or campaigned for former President Donald Trump. It might as well be asking the McCarthyite question: “Are you now or have you ever been associated with Donald Trump?”
Abraham is right about unity. The United States is a country divided into Hatfields and McCoys. There isn’t going to be any unifying of the country under Biden. That was an appealing but hollow campaign slogan that swirled down the drain with the absurd House snap-impeachment of Trump a few days before he was to leave office.
Biden said he “doesn’t see red states and blue states, but just one United States of America.” But he said his first act of president would be the “Blue State Bailout” to the tune of $350 billion — paid by the Republicans in red states. That is a financial insurrection against half of the states of the country that are not run by Democrats.
The Left has collectively “unfriended” those of us on the Right. Liberals don’t think we live up to their standards of proper behavior and righteousness. Only they have the right to protest election outcomes. Only they have the right to riot in the streets. Only they have the right to invade and occupy government buildings.
If these are the people who are unfriending us on Facebook, that’s fine by us. Frankly, the feeling is mutual.
Written by Stephen Moore for MSN ~ January 22, 2021