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 kind of 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 (her husband) 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 disagree with my positions or even that they felt our political disagreements are so wide 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 not just intellectually but morally superior to those on the right. Welcome to the “religious left.”
A case in point: the Boston Globe recently printed a front-page opinion piece by the paper’s liberal columnist Yvonne Abraham, who denounced the idea of any “unity” agenda with Republicans or conservatives. “Here’s the thing about unity,” she snuffed. “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 is President Joe Biden, not Republicans, who is pledging an agenda to unify the country. But so far, the new administration’s position seems to be: Why bother to find common ground when you control all of the levers of governmental power and you can steamroll over them instead?
What is to be gained by uniting with people who are “white supremacists” or “insurrectionists”?
Most everyone I know on the right agrees that violence is rarely, if ever, an acceptable form of political protest.
Do liberals? The new vice president of the United States called the liberal mobs who ransacked cities this summer “social 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 cuts in social programs.
The Trump Haters say that the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol are guilty of a treasonable offense. OK, but several years ago, when many thousands of “social justice warriors” (i.e., union thugs) stormed past the police and occupied the domed Capital building in Madison for days, the media celebrated.
Abraham is right about unity. America is now a country divided into Hatfields and McCoys. In just his first four days in office, it’s clear there isn’t going to be any unifying of the country under Biden. That was a hollow campaign slogan that has swirled down the drain as the White House issued executive orders, such as killing the Keystone XL pipeline, that have infuriated conservatives. The absurd House snap-impeachment of former President Donald Trump a few days before he was to leave office was absurd enough, but not nearly as divisive as the apparent Senate plans to go ahead with a trial.
Biden said he “doesn’t see red states and blue states, only sees the United States.” Really? Then why is one of his first proposals a blue-state bailout to the tune of $350 billion — to be paid by the Republicans in red states. That is a financial insurrection against the half of the states that are not run by Democrats.
The left doesn’t want unity with the right. It wants submission. They don’t think we live up to their standards of proper behavior and righteousness.
If these are the people that are collectively “unfriending” us on Facebook and in the grocery stores, that’s fine by us. Frankly, the feeling is mutual.
Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and an economic consultant with FreedomWorks. He is the co-author of “Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive the American Economy.” To find out more about Stephen Moore and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
Remember the “Democrat Party Socialist State” Lies!
You will be loyal and support the Democrat Party Socialist State or you will be classified as
“Enemies of the State”.
The dishonorable Democrat Party revolves around and its philosophy is based on Total Control, Lies, Hate, Cons, Deceptions, Immorality and the lack of Integrity, Ethics or Honor.
“The Left Wants Unconditional Surrender, Not Unity”……I disagree,,,,Unconditional surrender IS their definition of American unity, and Modern day American Civil war “Unconditional Surrender” General U.S. Grant Joe Biden, who unconditionally grants the extremists of his party everything they demand is leading the Democrat Socialist Army of darkness to accomplish by dictatorial executive orders, that which a Democrat vote of THE PEOPLE he was elected to protect, would never allow, if he followed the Constitution he swore to uphold, but ignores with each opportunity to grab power. His time in power will not end well, like most dictators have historically proved.
“C’mon, man”, he is keeping his promise, remember? He promised it was going to be a “Dark Winter” and here its not even quite the end of January and he’s bringing it to us – as promised.
Tell us something we already didn’t know Mr Moore..
Ah Scruffy, once again you are to kind, but I do realize that we have to watch our language here.
As an old soldier, I’m very familiar with the term, “Cuss like a sailor!” so in some regard I do expect more, still, I understand.
The tirade of names and phrases I would love to express here regarding these Leftist fools would surely have me banned for life, as most the moderators for comment boards such as this are devout Left wing Fascists!
The unity lad-Biden gets, is the disunity that he gives. At Least Trump loved America enough to nominate a capable American Veep to replace him if Pelosi succeeded in her impeachment frauds. Biden with the choice of Harris shows his self-serving contempt for our government institutions, and hides behind Conservative’s fear of Kamala’s own succession of incompetency and social corruption, thinking to use it to avoid his own self-created impending impeachments thinking the Democrat RINO unity, will guarantee him impeachment immunity, for the Unconstitutional executive decrees he proceeds to punish the American community, with impunity.
Yep, Joe will unify the Country. Joe is destroying jobs for Americans, Joe is a criminal, Joe is for murdering babies in the womb and for murdering live born babies, Joe is for open borders, Joe is not for voter integrity and that is how he won the election, Joe is for censorship and the communist news media, aids and abets the censorship. How is that for the “unity” of “global warming”? I am “appalled” by Joe and his communist policies to destroy America. Boy, with Joe’s corrupt policies, I will certainly be “unified”, won’t I Joe?
Yea, unify us all, in HATING HIS BUTT.
That’s called “Freedom of Association”, which is the fundamental right of people to associate or disassociate with others.
Only a libtard would try to force their friendship on anyone.
Stop posting this liberal nonsense.
BUT didn’t you know, ONLY WHITE conservatives, are ever ‘guilty’ of freedom by association.
This news is SHOCKING!
As shocking as the Weinstein Hollywood scandal. If you didn’t already know it, it’s because you choose willful ignorance over evidence gleaned by the most casual of observation.
“Why bother to find common ground when you control all of the levers of governmental power and you can steamroll over them instead?”
This style of revenge executive order avalanche reeks of Barry Seotoreo. Biden is too busy having fun and making money to focus on this crud. Seotoreo is too damned proud of himself to let anything go…ever. And since the destruction of The United States Republic is the goal the chores of administering for success do not exist. There is nothing more pressing to acomplish.
ITs also the same thing, we see YEAR AFTER YEAR In practically all of Africa.
New group comes to power, and tries to WIPE OUT the old group that held power, ‘FOR revenge/justice’..
Most Democrat voters are recoiling from us base on the lies their media are hammering into the public to silence all opposition. This is a call for all Trump voters to spread the truth, shout down all the lies, and turn public opinion back on the Leftists before their damage is irreversible. Share the videos of police escorting antifa to the front of the line at the Capitol and being salted in the “rioters”. Spread the word how these were the real “inciters” and started BEFORE Trump started his speech. Share the common sense that a few hundred out of 1-3 million peaceful Trump protestors does not make Trump an inciter or all the supporters rioters. Branding all opposition as traitors is nonsense designed to allow the Democrats to control thought and speech. Do Not Bow A Knee To This Tyranny and media blitz creating a totally false narrative to force surrender to the power of the Deep State Establishment–Or Else.
Submission – NEVER!
“Give me liberty or give me death!” [Patrick Henry-1775]
I prefer General George S. Patton’s approach: “The idea is not to die for your country. The idea is to make some other poor son-of-a-***** die for his”.
Nice call back.
The REAL HISTORY BOOKS are full of quotes that fit when they were first said, they fit today, and they will still fit tomorrow. As long as patriots walk the streets of the USA, patriotism will fit in to our conversations. The problem is that today only one side of a conversation gets to define patriotism and IT ONLY FITS THAT SIDE!
Racism was and is an UGLY stain on our nation and I am as against it as ANYONE who has ever walked the Earth but just because I disagree with another person does not make me a racist, contrary to what half the people say!
Disagreeing with leftists, no matter WHAT on, or why, is ‘racism/bigotry/intollerance etc.’
“Why bother to find common ground when you control all of the levers of governmental power and you can steamroll over them instead?”
Welcome to “Democracy”, which is why our founders assiduously avoided it. It continues to amaze me that all these college-educated TV talking heads, politicians, “journalists” and social media mavens talk about saving our democracy as though they are unaware of the fact that we are a Constitutional Republic and always have been. Or maybe they’re just that ignorant, which doesn’t say much about the quality of a university degree these days…
MORE like they just don’t CARE..
If we can’t get along…. let’s get it on!