"What happened to the United Healthcare CEO is no mystery. The cold-blooded murder of the two young people who worked at the Jewish embassy in Washington, is no mystery. Sadly, what happened in Minnesota this weekend was almost predictable. I mean, there was two assassination attempts on Donald Trump even before the election."
Not too long ago, our self-professed "knucklehead", said from the podium, "We need to get meaner". This was before he called the ICE police force, "Gestapo". While testifying in front of Congress last week, Tim Walz was asked if he would like to apologize for those poor word choices. After all, because our "knucklehead" has helped fanned the flames against ICE, cities like LA are starting to look like war zones. But who cares? This is all about getting "meaner". I mean, what is the worst that could happen from getting meaner? This weekend, we got our answer.
Is this all Tim Walz's fault? Of course not. He is but one little man in a huge cog of a hate filled mob. The man who shot the CEO of United Healthcare also was a little man in this huge cog. He could not take it anymore. All of a sudden, the health insurance industry was his enemy number one. His solution? Shoot the head guy in the back as he headed out to work.
"Toning down the rhetoric", starts with all of us, especially the loud and unhinged cog of haters. As disgusted as I was with the 2023 legislative session, especially for what they did to the unborn, hurting anyone of them was never an option for me. Voting them out of office? Sure. But bodily harm? Never entered the arena of ideas. What happened this weekend was not a political solution to anything. It was just pure hatred, allowed to gestate in this toxic atmosphere of "getting meaner".
Somebody asked when it was that our country went from rude to toxic in our political discourse. When we became so divided, so bifurcated, we cannot even talk to each other anymore. In my view, it went back to Barack Obama. He and his wife decided they wanted to slice and dice us up into many parts. By the time he left office after two terms, our nation was fairly screwed up. Then came the knife in the back (so to speak). Donald Trump beat the odds-on favorite to be our next president. That put the haters in overdrive. It was decided that anything to ruin this man was fair game. Therefore, people either loved Trump or hated Trump. Our national split went from a crack in our foundation, to a chasm the size of the Grant Canyon.
After our very mysterious election in 2020, we had the semi-cadaver known as Joe Biden. Not only was he "out to lunch" half of the time, when he was cognizant, we took our national hate to a new level. Now we were two countries living within the same borders. Politically, we could no longer even talk to each other. Watching congressional hearings on TV was like watching the WWE in a battle royal. By the time Biden's term was up, and Donald Trump started his second term, we were a mess. Just shy of ungovernable.
What happened to the United Healthcare CEO is no mystery. The cold-blooded murder of the two young people who worked at the Jewish embassy in Washington, is no mystery. Sadly, what happened in Minnesota this weekend was almost predictable. I mean, there was two assassination attempts on Donald Trump even before the election.
Who is fanning the flames of hatred in our country? The numbers are legion - especially with our leaders. Want this fixed Timmy? We need to start by taking a long hard look in the mirror.
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