Our society is unwell. We see this in a thousand different ways. Regular church attendance has declined significantly over three generations. Marriage rates are down; divorce rates are up. An increasing percentage of women choose not to have children; an increasing percentage of men choose not to settle down.
For its part, the entertainment industry glorifies selfishness, violence, vanity, promiscuity, abortion-on-demand, immediate gratification, and overindulgence, while mocking religion, hard work, compassion, fidelity, strong marriages, committed parents, and healthy families.
Post-WWII Americans participated in clubs, amateur sports, town halls, civic organizations, and religious gatherings; today, Americans collect online “friends,” scream obscenities on social media platforms, and exercise next to strangers in the gym. As every part of our personal lives has become politicized, it has become increasingly difficult for Americans with varying political beliefs to interact. Political grievance has grown into a monster whose shadow follows us everywhere.
This shadow now eclipses the invaluable relationships that we once collectively understood as “our society,” the special camaraderie among countrymen that has little to do with government or politics and everything to do with a people’s concern for, allegiance to, and cooperation with each other.
Although the ugly symptoms of society’s illness are visible everywhere, they are particularly revolting when it comes to public celebrations of and excuses for murder.
Over the last year, four high-profile murders have continued to dominate the news
- the political assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
- the political assassination of Charlie Kirk
- the stabbing murder of high school student Austin Metcalf in Texas
- a Massachusetts mother’s strangling-murder of her three young children
Three of the four defendants accused of having committed these murders have either admitted to killing their victims or been convicted of murder.
The defendant standing trial for Charlie Kirk’s murder sent a number of communications after the assassination that strongly suggest his culpability. In other words, there has been very little confusion in any of these four cases as to who committed murder.
Nevertheless, all four defendants have received an outpouring of support from parts of the American public.
After the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024, American leftists celebrated the murder as some kind of “principled” and “justified” fight against private health insurance. Thompson’s assassin had inscribed the words “delay,” “deny,” and “depose” on cartridge cases used in the killing, and he was apprehended with a short manifesto criticizing the American healthcare system.
These facts combined with the murderer’s boyish good looks were enough to turn him into a celebrity among those Americans who wish to expand Obamacare’s government takeover of medicine and end private health insurance for good. Even though the murderer shot Thompson in the back, many Democrats blamed “capitalism” and “corporate greed” for the slaying.
Hundreds of thousands of social media users mocked the murder victim, and crowdsourcing raised well over a million dollars in funds to support the murderer’s legal defense. Fashion designer Marc Jacobs called the murderer a “trendsetter” who “looks pretty good the way he dresses.”
A similarly ghoulish public reaction followed the assassination of conservative thought-leader Charlie Kirk last September. American leftists flooded social media platforms with celebratory messages. Many news pundits suggested that Kirk’s Christian faith and defense of conservative principles made him guilty of “hate speech,” a ludicrous charge that his alleged assassin had repeated in private messages. Democrat politicians mocked Kirk’s young family for defending the Second Amendment after a rifle had been used in his murder.
Jimmy Kimmel used his late-night show to disseminate the lie that MAGA Americans were somehow responsible for Kirk’s assassination, even though all evidence points to a violent leftist in a relationship with someone claiming to be “transgender.”
Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah defamed Kirk as a “racist” and lectured, “Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness, and absolution for white men who espouse hatred and violence.”
In defending her callous trivialization of a political assassination, she insisted, “Refusing to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face in performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence is…not the same as violence.” A leftist assassinated Charlie Kirk for his political beliefs, and the mainstream corporate press have conspired with American leftists to blame Kirk for his own murder.
After a black high school student stabbed Austin Metcalf in the heart with a knife at a Texas track meet, every race huckster in America came to the murderer’s defense. James Talarico, the Texas Democrat running for the U.S. Senate, has argued that, because “there were no black members of the jury” that convicted Metcalf’s murderer, the “system is not working for black Texans.” The New Black Panther Party has spent months demanding that the murderer be released in the name of “black power.”
Many of the murderer’s apologists claim that he acted in self-defense. These absurd and racist claims have persisted despite the convicted murderer having admitted to police that he committed the murder. Hours before killing Metcalf, the murderer texted, “When I stab somebody I’m gonna lick their blood off the blade.”
The murderer’s girlfriend reported him for stalking just one hour before he stabbed Metcalf to death. In another text, the murderer admitted being “on the verge” of committing violence. Nevertheless, the murderer has legions of supporters who blame “white supremacy” for his conviction.
Finally, mobs of pink-clad, leftist women are defending a Massachusetts mother on trial for murder, even though she confessed to strangling her three children to death. The murderer and her army of supporters blame “postpartum psychosis” for the triple-murder. Women across the country have chosen to give the child murderer “the peaceful support she deserved.” There are thousands of online videos in which women express sympathy for the murderer because of how difficult it is to take care of young children.
If the thought of millions of leftist women across the country empathizing with a mother who strangled her own babies were not startling enough, it is worth noting that over 50 percent of white, leftist women under the age of thirty have been diagnosed with a mental health condition and nearly 30 percent of women have an antidepressant prescription.
On the flip side, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is serving decades in prison for subduing — in a manner consistent with his training — George Floyd, a non-compliant suspect under arrest who had a lengthy criminal record and both fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system.
Because Floyd subsequently struggled to breathe and died while in custody, leftists demanded that Chauvin be tried and convicted of murder. Seeking vengeance, not justice, Black Lives Matter and Antifa burned down neighborhoods across the country and left dozens of unsolved homicides in their wake. The threat of continued violence secured Chauvin’s conviction.
As Elon Musk recently wrote, “Derek Chauvin was unjustly convicted of murder, therefore he should be freed. The facts show that he was not the cause of death, nor did he at any time intend for death to occur.…That is the truth.” But Chauvin is white, and the man who died in his custody was black. In America, “black lives matter” is a sacred mantra; “all lives matter” is considered “hate speech.”
When murderers are celebrated and scapegoats go to prison to satisfy the mob, it is clear that American society suffers from a devastating illness. We have communists who cheer the murder of businessmen. We have delusional people struggling with identity issues who believe Christians should be killed. We have race hucksters who excuse violence, while condemning police officers’ best efforts to enforce the law. And we have a lot of women who embrace and excuse madness.
Leftism is a deadly disease. Those suffering should seek immediate help.
