"The Darkness Has Reached New Lows"
Donald Trump + (Ignorance * Fear)+ The Big Lie = Pure, Unadulterated Hate
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whether you come down on the left or right side of the ideological fence, I’d strongly urge you to listen to the audio posted by Rep Adam Kinzinger (R-IL). It’s 3:15 of raw, unfiltered hate, the sort of thing that will make you wonder what anyone could do to deserve such vile language directed at them.
What did Kinzinger do to deserve such opprobrium? He’s a member of the House January 6th Committee, charged with investigating the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021. For that “betrayal,” some of Donald Trump’s supporters have threatened him and his family with some of the vilest language you’ll hear this side of a Klan rally.
(AmeriKKKa- Where freedom of speech translates to freedom to be a YUUUGE asshole.)
We know who your family is, and we’re going to get you, get you, little cocksucker, you cocksucking little bastard, gonna get your wife, gonna get your kids.
Unknown caller
I guess I can’t say a whole lot more other than I hope you naturally die as quickly as fucking possible, you fucking piece of shit.
Unknown caller
Of course, the Congressman doesn’t take any of it personally. Why would he? It would drive him crazy if he did. All he’s doing is his job, and he knows Trump’s supporters are worried their hero might be held accountable for what he did that day.
With any luck, there’s every chance he will be. And he deserves nothing less.
If you listen to the voices on the audio, and I listened to the entire 3:15, what you’ll hear is powerlessness. People who feel empowered don’t direct that sort of vile language at another person. They don’t make threats they have no intention of following through on. They don’t call a person names they would never think of using were they to be face-to-face with that person.
They’re cowards emboldened by the veil of anonymity.
What I also heard was ignorance, fear, and an utter lack of self-awareness. The people on the audio are frightened. The profanity and hatred in their voices betray the ignorance and fear behind the bravado. They’ve been taught to fea the world around them, the future, different religions, races, and ideologies- by Donald Trump. They don’t possess the intellectual candlepower to process what comes next. Worse, they lack the self-awareness to recognize that they’ve allowed themselves to be propagandized and brainwashed.
Frightened people lash out in fear, and that’s precisely what I heard in the voices. Those weren’t the voices of rational, thoughtful people who’d considered their position and decided that Adam Kinzinger wasn’t their cup of tea. No, they were the voices of people terrified of what might happen if their hero was held accountable for his actions on January 6th.
What they can’t handle is the truth:
It’s been said that one most hates what one most fears. In this case, these hate-addled “patriots” fear that their hero, the man in whom they’ve invested so much of their hopes and dreams, might end up wearing prison orange. The reality that Donald Trump might be charged, tried, and convicted of crimes stemming from his actions before and during January 6th is proving to be too much for them. And so they’re lashing out because they know no other way to process their anger and rage.
The hatred and vitriol directed at Rep. Kinzinger are not the product of great minds. They are, in fact, the product of very small minds incapable of processing their emotions like rational adults. That many of these people are raising children should scare the Hell out of reasonable Americans. These children will almost certainly grow up with the same fear, ignorance, and hatred their parent(s) have spewed forth on this audio.
Yay, AmeriKKKa….
When I listen to this audio, I understand how 1933 and the rise of Nazi Germany came to pass. I recognize how an entire nation can be propagandized into forfeiting their rights in the name of safety and security. And I can grasp how mass unwarranted fear of The Other can induce a nation to react against anything and anyone perceived to threaten their prerogatives and privilege.
Those 3:15 represents the absolute worst of America- ignorance, reaction, fear, hatred, and the willingness to threaten harm to those who’ve done you no harm. The crudeness of the threats and the disregard for the humanity of Rep. Kinzinger is truly disturbing. The lack of education and mental incapacity of those making the threats only makes the hatred and ignorance that much worse.
(Since when is leaving a message that wishes for Rep. Kinzinger to die considered “pro-life?” Just asking for a friend.)
I may be an atheist, but I’ll make an exception and say that I hope there’s a special place in Hell for the people who would leave messages like this for a public servant whose only “crime” is doing his job. Cowards like this lack the courage to leave their names and contact information, which is pretty typical for bullies. They don’t have the balls to do anything but spew rage and hate. Then again, it takes no courage at all to leave a nasty, hate-filled voicemail.
I hope it made the cowards feel better, because I doubt it had any impact whatsoever on Rep. Kinzinger or his resolve to carry out his responsibility on the January 6th Committee.
I can only speak for myself, but I sincerely hope these pitiful excuses for human beings get the help they so clearly need. They won’t, of course, because they’ll never believe they’re the ones with the problems. They’ll go through life carrying their hatred and ignorance like a badge of honor; they lack the self-awareness to understand that they’re fools.
The darkness really has reached new lows.
Oh…and before I go, isn’t it interesting that the male MAGAs seem to be fixated with “cock sucking.” For a group so allegedly anti-LGBTQ, that’s an odd fascination, don’tchathink?
I thought I’d throw that out for your consideration.