Editor’s Note: We reprint the following with the author’s permission
By MaryAnn McCarra – Fitzpatrick
In recent years, political discourse, at every level, has become increasingly rancorous.
Even on local social media pages there are bully boys (and girls) who, when presented with facts, will screech like a bag of scalded cats: FASCIST! BOOTLICKER! SUBNORMAL! C**T! — and various other appellations too numerous to list. Posting a fact that they take issue with renders them so thoroughly affronted they are compelled to engage in a volley of pejoratives: TROLL! BOT! BOT TROLL!! You get the idea.
How is one to respond to these bilious pronouncements? One may ignore them, at which point they may posit he/she is “not real” (because, really, how could ANYONE have a view that differs from theirs?) and, thus, it naturally follows that the expressed view has no credence or is of no discernible value.
Of course, one may take the high road, avoiding the muck and mess of prolonging such a discussion, and “agree to disagree” but, in my experience, this happens very rarely. My district, NY-17, is pretty solidly blue, but there are some red voices (just not the red of Mamdani, Mao, Pol Pot, or either of the two Uncle Joes— Stalin and Biden).
There are many newly minted Republicans who registered as Democrats in their youth. Many feel that the party, slowly but surely, left them. We tend not to believe that humans can change their sex, that male prisoners should be housed with female inmates, that our borders, north and south, should be perpetually open, that teachers know better than parents about how to raise their children, or that the United States of America is Section 8 (social housing) for the entire world.
Bullies are nothing new. You met them on the playground, in school, whilst driving, at work and in social situations. We may have bullies in our families or may have had the misfortune of being bullied by a boyfriend/girlfriend or a husband/wife. Some elderly are bullied by their children or their caretakers, perhaps more than we know. Human nature has some unfortunate aspects.
In the deep blue Hudson Valley one is surrounded by those who are entirely convinced they have reached the pinnacle of political, spiritual, and cultural purity—therefore it follows naturally, as night follows day, that their words must never be challenged—by anyone.
In the event they are challenged, after they recover from their initial shock and surprise, they will, without exception, recoil and release a rancorous volley of poisonous diatribes castigating one as, at the very least, an imbecile, and, at the worst, an enthusiastic supporter of moral iniquities.
The members of the “hate has no home here” clique are quick to engage in hateful behaviors across social media platforms, freely demonizing anyone who dares to have the temerity to disagree with their party line.
Of course, they see themselves as a valiant resistance fighting against the bad orange man, whilst all they are doing is throwing tantrums at the opinion of another citizen. Last I recall, we were not forbidden from having and freely sharing opinions in public forums. If this has materially changed I must have missed the memorandum.
The current president, like him or not, was elected by a majority of the voters in this country. He won the election. No amount of whinging, whining, or shouting at your cellular telephone as you record a video in your car for TikTok changes this fact.
There are a substantial number of voters — citizens of this country — and ONLY citizens should be voting— who believe that our immigration laws should be followed and enforced. Most are also of the opinion that the taxes deducted from our paychecks and those that we pay on 15th April should fund services and provide a safety net for citizens and legal immigrants.
Why are there some who would prefer that the fraud, waste, and theft occurring within our social services programs not be found and eliminated? It’s almost as if the party of peace and love are happy to see fraud, waste, and theft to continue as long as they get a brown envelope or they can bask in the feeling that they are somehow virtuous for allowing the theft of billions of taxpayer dollars to go on unabated and unchecked. We still don’t know how much Minnesota fraudsters sent to Al-Shabaab so they could purchase armaments to murder those pesky infidels.
The red-green alliance, too, is profoundly disturbing. Do you think JFK would recognize Hamas press releases as factual documents or recognize Palestine as a country? I sure as hell don’t. To be perfectly candid, I don’t think he would recognize the current state of the “Democrat” party of today, with its bloodthirsty adherents calling to “globalize the intifada” — essentially a call for genocide. It is inconceivable to me that a modern American political party would align with those who refuse to condemn the Go-pro wearing jihadis who gleefully slaughtered babies, children, whole families, excitedly calling home to their parents as if they had just scored the winning touchdown at the big game. Does no one remember how the leftists (the useful idiots) were executed in Iran after the Ayatollah came to power in 1979?
There are times when one has to take a hard look at what way our culture is going and what we are willing to normalize and tolerate.
MaryAnn McCarra-Fitzpatrick lives in Peekskill, NY and is an administrator for Peekskill Newswire and a moderator for Westchester County Newswire, both on Facebook.
Visit her substack at https://substack.com/@maryannmccarrafitzpatrick
