A US Senator is discovered to have had a Chinese communist spy as her driver for 20 years. The security of the country is damaged. Nothing happens to the senator.
A member of Congress calls for violence against supporters of the President of the United States. Physical violence against persons and damage of property ensues. Nothing happens to the congress person.
Ranking members of the Department of Justice involve themselves in a conspiracy to derail the candidacy of a Presidential contender and after he is elected continue their seditious behavior in an attempt at a soft coup. No charges are filed and no legal actions are taken.
Paid anarchist thugs invade the halls of the US Capitol building feloniously threatening elected officials verbally and in some cases physically. No charges are filed and no actions are taken.
Elected officials involved in hearings regarding a Supreme Court nominee to determine if accusations of sexual assault are valid knowingly hold those accusations until the last minute and then insist that it is incumbent on the accused to prove innocence.
As a political culture, we are drowning in false courage. For all the exposure and exhibitionism that social media has allowed for, it has also has created a cesspool of anonymity — and what is anonymity if not a social face mask and sweeping enabler of false courage?
You can say pretty much anything you want these days with very little risk of shame or consequences.If you are a member of a protected group you can cause pain and damage to a persons’ property, name or reputation and suffer nothing in the way of punishment.
It is that entitlement mentality and sense of empowerment that allows louts to get away with this style. It is the sense of superiority and disrespect for “the little people” that allows the “Media” to construct their own face masks by virtue of whatever quotient of shamelessness they can abide in themselves — which would seem to be a lot and increasing. When you keep shocking people, it becomes harder to shock the next time. And you lose capacity for shame. People become less easily outraged by the media encouraging the barbarians shattering of taboos, and the modern social vandals become emboldened to go further next time.
Something, sooner or later has got to give. Our society, most likely sooner than later, will reach the tipping point. That is not only unfortunate. It is dangerous.
For they sow the wind,
so they will reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no ears,
so it will yield no flour;
and if it does yield any,
foreigners will swallow it up.
-Hosea 8:7
Be careful what you ask for.
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