A few nights ago, I was scrolling around on social media and ran across a heartbreaking video out of Detroit. It happened in February, so you may have already heard about this, but it was new to me. It was the story of a 29-year-old woman who was sleeping in her van with her mother and children, and two of the children died. Initially, it was believed they froze to death, but later, an autopsy found that they died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
No matter the cause of death, it was a terrible situation. A two-year-old and a nine-year-old are dead, their futures ripped away. The mother claims she asked everyone for help, from the children's father to the city of Detroit. There are some holes in the story, and a lot of questions, and points we could argue, and so on... but that's not why I'm writing this.
Here's my issue: When I watched the video on social media, I made the stupid mistake of reading the comments section. With the exception of about 99.9% of the ones here at PJ Media, I find that comments sections are almost always cesspools. This one was no different. It was filled with anti-life leftists whose immediate reaction to these poor children dying was: This is why abortion should be legal in every state and at every stage of pregnancy.
Imagine that. If we'd just murdered these kids in the first place, they never would have died.
There was no talk about how this woman could have prevented having children she couldn't care for by using contraception or not having sex at all. There was no talk about why she ended up in this situation in the first place and what we can do to prevent it from happening again. There was no talk about the size of Detroit's homeless population and the fact that the city has a history of being run by corrupt Democrat politicians. There was no suggestion or volunteering to get out there and find other women and children in this situation and help them.
There was none of that. The go-to response was basically "that's too bad — should've killed them."
Then again, the only people the left seem to want to help these days are violent criminals who are a threat to national security and our society and should never have been in our country in the first place. In February, liberal filmmaker and activist Michael Moore wrote in a blog post, "Who’s really being removed by ICE tonight? The child who would’ve discovered the cure for cancer in 2046? The 9th grade nerd who would’ve stopped that asteroid (sic) that’s gonna hit us in 2032? Do we care?"
I'd like to ask the same of all these abortion activists. I don't foresee a member of Tren de Aragua switching course and becoming the doctor who grows up to cure cancer, but that baby who was just tossed in the trash at the abortion clinic because its parents couldn't keep their pants on or use a condom might have.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised, and it has to be one major reason why the Democrat Party is dying. I think many people vote for Democrats out of habit or a misconception that they're the party of inclusion, but many more are catching on. In truth, Democrats are only in favor of the inclusion of people who fall in line with their orders, make them more powerful, and support their freakish agenda, which, at the moment, seems largely based on killing children before they're born and convincing children who made it past the abortion stage that they were born in the wrong bodies. Oh, and making sure they have enough illegal immigrants around to pick their cotton grapes and mow their lawns at unsustainable wages. Let them eat cake.
It's getting harder and harder to wrap all of that with a pretty bow and call it a platform when the other side just wants the best for the country and every current and future citizen, no matter their age, race, religion, background, etc.
The fact that violence and murder have become the left's go-tos feels like the last breaths of a dying ideology. And it goes beyond abortion. Look at this Luigi Mangione guy. He killed a father in broad daylight because he didn't like the company he ran, and he's got more groupies and fans than the Backstreet Boys (I might be aging myself with that reference, so insert whatever band the kids these days listen to).
Look at the people who don't like what Elon Musk and DOGE are doing. They're lighting dealerships on fire and keying cars, which only hurts the people who own these cars and businesses.
Look at the people who are pro-Hamas. They resort to riots and harassment of Jewish people. That doesn't promote any sort of agenda, aside from Trump's desire to deport people who are a threat to the nation.
Even the left's rhetoric is trending that way, proving violence is the only thing they have left. Look at Jasmine Crockett, who has, in the last couple of weeks, threatened a senator, threatened Musk, gotten physical with a reporter, and mocked a governor with a disability.
On another note, I do not understand how so many people turned out this way. So angry, so hateful, so violent. This is not the way I was raised, and it's not the way I wish to conduct my life as an adult on my own.
I grew up with parents and grandparents who taught me that if I want something, I need to work for it. For example, if you don't like what's being done politically, campaign for a new candidate, a new party, or new laws. That's one reason I ended up here at PJ Media last fall.
They taught me to use my voice to speak up for the things I felt were wrong but to do so with respect. I remember going to Tea Party rallies in Atlanta in 2008 and 2009, and that's what the thousands of us gathered there did. We didn't harass anyone. We didn't hurt anyone. We didn't ruin anyone's property or burn anything down. We didn't even leave trash.
They taught me not to look for the easy way out. They taught me to own my mistakes. They taught me to respect life — every life. If I accidentally got pregnant, for example, I could put the child up for adoption or raise it to the best of my ability. You don't rob someone else of their chance at life because it might make yours a little more uncomfortable. You don't shrink away from your responsibilities.
Maybe these leftists just weren't raised well. Or maybe they were raised too well, if you will, but Democrats. I was talking with someone a few nights ago about someone else we know who has a young daughter who calls herself every liberal label in the book and has the pronouns to prove it. The child, well, she's a young adult now, is incredibly spoiled. The parents coddled her and told her everything she did was perfect and right growing up, and now she thinks the world owes her the same thing.
Maybe it's the fact that morals and respect have been thrown out the window in general. Recently, I witnessed a teenager who I know curse one of her parents' friends out because of their political beliefs. To their face. That person's mother more or less defended her. My mother would have chewed me out for acting like that toward an adult, no matter who they voted for.
Maybe they're lazy and afraid of hard work? Maybe they just don't have any substance to fall back on. Crockett and people like her make a lot of headlines, but what is their actual point? You don't like Donald Trump? Well, okay then. What are you going to do about it besides threaten people and call them names? What is your alternative?
Leftism seems more and more like a mental illness than an ideology with each passing day.
I guess I just don't get any of it, but I've never been more grateful that I'm not a part of it.
