How the Left Is Using Americans' Empathy and Decency to Destroy Us
BY SARAH HOYT
OCT 27, 2020
... Yes, Americans are in a panic and obeying nonsensical (mask) orders and outright harmful ones, like the closing of businesses that are no more or less harmful than the ones being left open.
But they’re not doing this because they are in a panic for themselves.
... But the majority of Americans aren’t complying with the crazy mandates because they fear for themselves. No. Most of them are doing it because they want to be nice or good. Specifically, they want to be nice or good to their fellow citizens.
... But most people aren’t analyzing it. The media has told them over and over again that failing to wear a mask might hurt other people.
And Americans are decent.
... It’s not just the fact that the culture – except for those places and people who have gone utterly feral – generally respects property, but that in America people will go out of their way to help other people.
... Which is the problem, of course, because the left is using our empathy and decency as a weapon against us.
Not just with COVID-19 restrictions, though those are obviously part of this. For instance, how have most churches been convinced to shut down and stop the free exercise of religion, except by convincing them to be “caring”?
... The problem with all this is that our empathy is being exploited for things that are not just objectively bad for us, but bad for everyone else.
... No one wins from this kind of weaponized empathy. There are only losers. Mostly because weaponized empathy is meant to short-circuit your logic and make you act in ways you know are nonsensical and counterproductive.
This is the “vote for us or we’ll set fire to more people’s businesses” type of empathy the left is pushing on us.
And we’re falling for it. Which is worrisome.
They couldn’t take over America by weaponizing envy, so they are doing it by weaponizing decency.
... My question is, how long will the West agree to commit suicide in order to be polite?
How long will America submit to the demands of rude, immature Marxists, who tell you “it’s only polite” and “be considerate”?
And will it be long enough to kill us?
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