The Satanic Left Part 2

 Yesterday's post was entitled The Satanic Left, and you probably thought I might be exaggerating just a bit. But sadly, along comes Mike McDaniel with poll numbers to show that, if anything, I may have been too generous. You can read McDaniel's post at Assassination culture comes for America.

At least 31.6% of all people responding to the study think the murder of Elon Musk at least partly justifiable, and 38.5% think the same for Donald Trump. Consider this: nearly 40% of this group of Americans think the murder of a POTUS is to some degree justifiable, and they are willing to say that to strangers conducting a study! How much of the social contract--the universally understood beliefs and behaviors necessary for our society to exist—has been discarded for that to happen?

It's probably no surprise to see nearly 49% of self-identified leftists willing to see Musk murdered, nor is 55% for Trump. These, after all, are people who suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, people in a constant state of rage. Musk and Trump are destroying “our democracy,” they’re racist, fascist and both are worse than Hitler. These are the same people who wanted Americans who disobeyed fraudulent and unnecessary Covid rules financially destroyed, jailed, even killed.

As McDaniel makes clear, we cannot survive long with two very different cultures: the Left and Normal Americans. Normal Americans do not go around murdering their political opponents. They vote them out of office, but unless they have committed egregious crimes, they tend to let them alone. But the Left has always believed that the ends justify the means. For Normal Americans, and especially Christians, assasination of leaders by individuals is off the table.

Let's take the a well discussed case: If you could go back in time, would you kill Hitler as a child before he could commit the evils of the Third Reich? For Leftists, the answer is "Yes." Very much like Islam, if their actions advance the cause, it is permitted. For Christians, though, the answer is "No." Hitler had not yet done anything deserving of death, so to kill him would be sinful. Even after he rose to become Chancellor of Germany, and began committing evil acts, the individual does not have the authority to kill or to order the killing of someone (except for self-defense.)  The state has the power of the sword, not the individual. Either another state would have to wage war and then put Hitler on trial, or the German people would have to rise up in self-defense and, forming a new government, could then put him on trial and execute him.

We’re to “believe the science,” and it’s now telling us Normal Americans—men and women who know evil lurks within us all and keep it under tight, voluntary control--are not at all like as much as 60% of self-described leftists who seem happy to unleash the evil within. Normal Americans aren’t perfect, but they know what happens when rage rules, when hatred consumes the soul and the body politic. They know what men and women are and willingly restrain the very human capability for violence.

Sane, normal Americans must worry that it may be impossible for people with such different views of human nature and political reality to live together in peace. A second civil war may be inevitable.

Sigh