This evening I recieved an email from someone with whom I was having an ongoing political discussion via email few months back. Our political views are pretty much 180 off from each other - me a committed conservative and her committed liberal -Â so predictably the discussion got to a point where we decided (unspoken, but decided all the same) it would be best if we just dropped it rather than risk things getting heated and ugly.
That made tonight’s email a bit of a surprise.
She sent me a copy of a post someone left on a blog she moderates (I’d provide a link but haven’t a clue what it is, and it’s probably just as well). It was about as creepy a post as you’ll ever see. Here’s a little taste:
“…kill all of the stray pets and hard core criminals and murderers and them that rape anything.. and kill anti americans and anti christians and anti jews.. and kill them that are anti white men.. which most of you fall into…”
That wasn’t the worst part though. What my correspondent said next, to me, was:
I just sent this post, to a blog I work for, to the FBI with all relevant details. This is the whirlwind that Fox Spews, Michelle Malkin and the likes of your blog will reap. If this happens are you ready to take responsibility for it? Will you be happy if they kill me, or [redacted]? Or [redacted]? Or [redacted]?
I had to read it several times. Checked the ‘from’ address, read it again…sat there like ‘wtf’ for a few minutes before finally being able to start digest what just crossed my screen.
The I responded. It was, unfortunately, an angry response, but nothing that didn’t need to be said, and certainly nothing that I will later need to take back.
Beyond the anger though, there was and is a large degree of sadness. Sadness that someone I know to have been a reasonable, sane person, and whom I love and generally respect has fallen so far down the ideological hole that she would blame what I write for the psychotic ramblings of a sociopath.
Which brings me to my point. Is this really how we, as conservatives, are viewed by the left? Is the worldview of the modern era liberal really warped to such a degree that they believe that strong conservative values, love of God and country and the refusal to march quietly into the arms of socialism makes one some sort of ruthless psycho killer, or at the very least an enabler of such?
Apparently so.
It’s not the drunk-with-power administration who have gotten people up in arms. No, of course not. It’s the pundits and the bloggers.
How are we supposed to deal with that? How do you have any sort of meaningful conversation with those so blinded by ideology that they cannot or will not deal in reality?
It’s simple. You don’t. You can’t. You don’t even try, because to do so would be nothing more than a colossal waste of time and energy, and will quickly give you a whole new respect for the term ‘excercise in futility’.
This is a message that I hope the GOP is getting loud and clear because they will never, ever convert the far left (ie; Steele’s ridiculous ‘hiphop GOP off-the-hook’ idea). What they need to do - what WE need to do - is live and govern according to our core principals, lead by example, vote those into office who share our principals and vote out those who don’t, and demonstrate to those whose minds are being turned to mush by the onslaught of liberal propaganda being thrust upon them 24/7 that conservative values and strong conservative leadership is the way out of the mess our nation finds ourselves in at this point in its history.
-Cnation