The Democrats' Tribal Morality

What is good for the Democrat Party is moral.

What is bad for the Democrat Party is immoral.

That is tribal morality. 

Groupthink. No think.

This brand of fundamentalism permeates the soul of every Democrat.

There is no sense of common good.

There is no sense of shared interest.

The Party and only The Party is significant. Other is evil.

We saw this ethos on full display during the recent Durham hearings. Thumbnail: Durham reported serious crimes committed by high-ranking Democrats and their henchmen. Congressional Democrats attacked and vilified Durham and impugned his testimony.

If you just returned from a long cruise you might say something like "The republic cannot withstand unconditional partisanship! Western Civilization cannot endure this toxic fundamentalism! Our nation cannot survive an entrenched political party that is unconcerned with the welfare of our beloved country."

To which we might reply, "That was one long ass cruise, buddy."

You would have witnessed something similar when card-carrying liberals, Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger, were ridiculed and insulted by Democrat Representatives after exposing "Twitter File" censorship. Every Dem Congressman was uncivil to the witnesses. Zero exceptions.

This has been the state of affairs for a long time. January 6 insurrection hoax. Widespread election fraud. BLM riots. Hillary's espionage and brazen destruction of subpoenaed data...we could go back to the Lois Lerner coverup. Crime. Scandal. Lawfare. Homicide. "What" never matters to the Democrats. They are only concerned with "who and whom".

Tribal morality trickles down to the rank and file. What you might see as abnegation, they see as loyalty to Team Blue. If the minions do not possess the expertise to slay a enemy, they can certainly be counted on to rig a judicial proceeding in favor of the Dems. Their capacity for destruction is only limited to their skill set.

There is no middle ground with fanaticism. We can hope for some sort of mass deprogramming. We can hope for a resurgence of the Walk Away movement. We can hope that millions of cultists reclaim their individuality. We can hope but it won't happen. 

What is good for the Democrat Party is moral.

What is bad for the Democrat Party is immoral.

A Message To An Old Lefty Friend: It's Not Just That They Stole Your Mind

 No, we don't talk much anymore. Funerals and weddings maybe. I appreciate it when you text me that a mutual friend has passed away. In the old days, that would have triggered a phone conversation or maybe even a communal cup of coffee. No more.

Discounting the brutal effects the aging process has inflicted on this writer, I submit that I have not changed all that much. You, on the other hand, have undergone an ugly metamorphosis. 

The Kool-Aid has been unkind to you. It has not turned you into a bad person and it certainly as not turned you into a good person. The Kool-Aid turned you into a non-person.

You are an empty shell of the human being we knew and loved. You are much like the aged relative wracked with dementia. Yes, we still love Uncle Harvey and we want to make sure that his staff keep him clean and warm, but that person we try to talk to is not Uncle Harvey. Not the Uncle Harvey we like to remember. That Uncle Harvey was sharp-witted and kind and loving. The person occupying Uncle Harvey's body is cold and fearful and incapable of exchanging ideas and perspectives. Nature has played a cruel joke on all of us.

Tell us what GOOGLE ET AL wants us to believe and I can tell you what your opinion happens to be, one hundred percent of the time.

Climate Change.

Election fraud.

January 6.

COVID containment.

COVID vaccine.

Donald Trump, of course.

The Bidens.

Kyle Rittenhouse.

It's a long list. If it's been in the news, your perspective has been assigned to you, and you guzzle the Kool-Aid with pronounced gratitude. So kind of your overlords to spare you the burden of thought.

But the greater tragedy is not that you surrendered your mind to the overlords, the worst part is that you have also sacrificed your heart and soul.

Many a Kool-Aid abstainer expressed sympathy with George Floyd at the first posting of his barbaric treatment. You waited until the overlords decided that Floyd would be a sanctioned victim and that his death could provide a venue for determining the outcome of the presidential election. On cue, your roaring sentiment would hit the stage.

As Floyd's death descended (from my perspective, not yours) into political theater, we would witness displays of conspicuous compassion. Each new event more animated than the last, culminating in arson and homicide, and "Black Lives Matter" lawn signs sprawled across the fruited plain. Virtue signaling and fund-raising and more virtue-signaling and more fund-raising. Pay no attention to the marionette's strings. Our hearts are big! Huge! Enormous! Gigantic!

When Ashli Babbitt was murdered in cold blood, the Kool-Aid abstainers reacted in horror. You, on the other hand, provided a laugh track. She was a Trump supporter for crying out loud! She walked into the Capitol! Death might have been too good for her! HAH HAH HAH! A real knee-slapper!

The laugh track would grow louder each time Babbitt's mother protested her daughter's death. She would be cruelly heckled and brutally handcuffed and a sidewalk memorial dedicated to her deceased daughter would be destroyed. Your sympathy, your empathy, your compassion will only be expended on designated political pawns. Insert laugh track here.

 I remember a younger version of you, a different version of you, who was...human. You had a heart and a soul and you would have been sickened by Babbitt's murder and repulsed by her mother's abuse. Like Uncle Harvey, that person we knew and loved is long gone. Someone has played a cruel joke on all of us.