Instapundit links to this series of posts over on Twitter/X:
We told you to leave us alone.
We didn’t want to get too political.
We didn’t want to get too involved.
But you made us.
You went after our kids, our jobs, our money, and our lives.
You made us care.
Remember?
Well this *waves hand* is our response.
Enjoy the bed you made.
Most Americans just want to be left alone. They want to do their jobs, raise their kids, and enjoy their lives. They have vague, at best, political thoughts, and those only bubble to the surface every few years.
They pay attention to local issues, especially those that touch either them or someone they care about. If it happens outside their circle, they might take a few moments out of their day to drop a coin in the donation box at the checkout or make a meal to go to a family in crisis.
But then they want to go back to the daily grind of employment, church, school, and family.
In short – They do not want to be disturbed. They do not want to be inconvenienced. Most of all, they do not want to care. They pay other people to care. They trust other people to care.
Where politicians have messed up in the past decade or so is that they insisted that people care about national and worldwide issues.
Don’t care that some folks can’t get health insurance that is as good as the government thinks they should? Well, now you’re forced to care because the government is telling your insurance company who it has to cover and what it has to cover. Enjoy the decreased coverage and higher premiums.
Don’t care about a war on the other side of the world? Well, the government is going to make you care because money that could have been spent on something closer to home, if at all, is going to be going that way, along with quite likely that nice young man down the road who joined the military a couple years ago. Enjoy the sound of Taps playing out across your local graveyard.
Don’t care how other people are raising their kids because you have your hands full trying to raise your own kids right? Well, the government is going to make you care because it’s going to glorify the most depraved thing you can think of when it comes to children, and then it’s going to teach your kids that depravity is OK. Oh, and don’t tell your parents, little ones, because they’re big meanies. Enjoy the underage drag shows and sterilization of gay teenagers.
So, slowly at first, then all at once, we started to care. The problem for our elected servants is that when we start to care, we go from “Huh?” to “How dare you?” to “I can’t tell you what we’re going to do, but we’re going to need a shovel, some plastic sheeting, and a roll of duct tape.” right quick.
For those playing at home, this is the same mistake the Japanese and Germans made in 1941. We seriously could not have cared less about the wars in Europe and Asia, until somebody bombed us and then one of their friends decided to join in on the fun. After we stopped the bleeding, we proceeded to rip out the problem on both sides of the world, root and branch. In the end, we emasculated two cultures that had thousands of years of martial spirit by pulling that spirit out through their belly buttons.
Now, after taking insults and threats, liberally sprinkled with actual harm done to us, since 2009, the American middle has awoken, rubbed the sleep from its eyes, and has decided to bring hell to breakfast over the whole mess.
Enjoy the next few years. I would suggest praying that this burns out before we finish cleansing the country with fire.
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