"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the world we now live in. Hit lists, doxxing, and swatting. These are not pranks - these are life and death events. But that is okay, as we have minimalized people down to only shadows of who they really are. All we can see is their politics."
Eight years ago this month, a ball game was about to take place. An innocent activity, to try to have two groups in Washington who are always at each other's throats, to play nice with each other. However, a left-wing activist named James Hodgkinson decided to do something about the rage he felt towards the Congressional Republicans. What an opportunity! There they were, practicing to play a baseball game - sitting ducks on the ball field. By luck and providence, Hodgkinson was only able to seriously wound Republican lawmaker Steve Scalise before some member of Capitol Police was able to put Hodgkinson down.
Who would have thought, only eight years from that travesty, history would repeat. Only this time, it was not a left-wing activist who was going to do the shooting. It was a guy who was complicated in his politics. But he had a beef with the Democrats in the State of Minnesota as well as abortion providers. He had a list of who to kill. It had over 70 names on it. It turns out (again, by luck and providence), he was only able to kill one legislator (plus spouse) and seriously wound another one (plus spouse). If state police had not acted quickly and decisively, that fateful night could have resulted in a massacre.
What do we know? Both sides now have tried to kill, in a mass murder fashion, members of the other side. Is this really what we have devolved in to? But there were some breadcrumbs leading up to this event in Minnesota. Done by mostly the other side. A new word has been coined - doxxing. It is felt by some on the left, if you can get the picture of somebody, maybe pictures of the family, along with the name and address of that person, you can make their lives hell. Maybe even put them in mortal danger. And this goes on ALL THE TIME. Most recent victims have been members of ICE.
Another new name which has popped up recently is swatting. A favorite tool of the left, swatting is where you call 911 and report some kind of faux event at a person's house in which people are in grave danger. Danger so bad, it would necessitate the police sending the SWAT team out to rectify the situation. So then, why do it? There is always a chance when SWAT is on the scene, something bad could happen. Innocent people (like the homeowner) could get shot by accident.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the world we now live in. Hit lists, doxxing, and swatting. These are not pranks - these are life and death events. But that is okay, as we have minimalized people down to only shadows of who they really are. All we can see is their politics. Period. If some die, so be it. It is after all, for the cause.
As long as we feel that way, the country will remain split. And the civil war that some keep talking about, will only be inches away. Who did this to us? We did. You, me, our corrupt justice system, and lifer politicians. We broke it, and we can fix it. But fixing will be a whole lot harder than breaking it.
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