Scott Tibbs
Fight "soft on crime" policies instead of mocking murder victims
By Scott Tibbs, October 20, 2023
Imagine your romantic partner is brutally murdered in front of your eyes. Activists of the opposing political party, rather than empathize with your pain and offer policy solutions that would prevent the kind of senseless violence that claimed your partner, openly mock and ridicule your pain because you voted for the "wrong" people. Do you think you will be more or less likely to change your views and support the opposing policy? Well, you do not have to imagine it, because this is reality.
In the Before Times, when Republicans were actually intelligent, they could address
things like this without totally beclowning themselves. Those times are gone, and that is why this former Trump supporter is now a "Never Trump" voter. Wide swaths of the conservative movement and the Republican Party have been corrupted by Donald Trump and his filthy mouth. Even parts of Christendom itself have been corrupted by Trump and his foolish "fight fire with fire" mentality. It is all about trolling, cruelty, sadism and "owning the libs," not about protecting innocent people or maintaining order.
Now, I know what you are thinking. "You need a sense of proportion, Scott. This is one rando on Twitter. Who cares?" The reason it matters is that this man is representative of a much larger group. There are millions of people who think the way he does, and that this kind of public depravity and inhumanity is perfectly acceptable. We have to make Leftists feel the consequences of their votes and the policies they support, right? That attitude is disturbingly common, even among people who claim to be Christians.
Compare this to how Republicans used to behave in the Before Times. The brilliance of the Willie Horton commercial in 1988 was that Republicans attacked the foolish and dangerous
policies of Michael Dukakis, and questioned his fitness for office. (I know it was an outside group, not the George H. W Bush campaign itself.) For those who do not remember, Dukakis supported a dangerously foolish furlough program to let violent criminals out of prison. One of those criminals, Willie Horton, took the opportunity to brutally assault a man and repeatedly rape his girlfriend.
That commercial, and the Horton scandal, was one of the big reasons George H.W. Bush sailed to a landslide victory and was elected President. Bush won 40 states and won the popular vote by 7 million votes. The 1988 presidential election was the second-to-last time Republicans won the national popular vote. If the "conservatives" of today were around then, they would have mocked Horton's victims and suggested they deserved what happened to them. And it would have hurt
Bush, not Dukakis.
Fellow conservatives, can we please have some common sense? Absolutely
no one thinks you take crime seriously when you are mocking and laughing at murder victims and their loved ones. When you are "trolling for the lulz" you think you are "owning the libs," but you are humiliating yourself. This is why we lose. Instead of converting liberals to our way of thinking and why "law and order conservatism" protects the innocent, we make them hate us by mocking their grief. Persuadable moderates are repulsed by this behavior as well.
Yes, we absolutely need to point out how Democratic Party policies and Democratic politicians have endangered public safety by coddling dangerous criminals, including murderers. But when "conservatives" are openly mocking the girlfriend of a murder victim before the body is even cold, that does not help us. Do you honestly think that anyone who shares this woman's perspective is going to listen to a single word you say when you are openly mocking her grief and dancing on her boyfriend's grave? Really?
In the 1970's and 1980's, the saying among conservatives as crime grew out of control was "a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged." Conservatives brilliantly used violent crime to their electoral advantage, and Bill Clinton made a point of being "tough on crime" both during the 1992 campaign and by signing a crime bill in 1994. Clinton knew he could not get elected if he was perceived as soft on crime. Now, any advantage we could have is washed away by our obsession with "owning the libs."
But there is something much more basic here. Ultimately, this is not about politics. This is not about winning elections. This is about basic human decency.
Laughing at someone who has lost a loved one, because she does not share your policy preferences, is 100% pure evil. This behavior is Satanic. Stop acting like this. If you cannot be bothered to show some sympathy for people who lost a loved one to murder, and you are compelled to mock them and laugh at their grief out of some perverted
schadenfreude, do everyone a favor and shut your filthy mouth.
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