It's almost as though some Republican lawmakers were just paying lip service to moral issues in an attempt to sucker Christians into voting for them.
Yeah...just like the Democrats.
This year I watched a horde of Democrats freak out when a relatively small number of right wing business owners held a completely peaceful protest (not a single brick thrown or business looted...did they know it's 2020?). They showed up, aired their grievances about losing their businesses and livelihoods, and they left. It was pretty benign.
That's not how it was written in the left wing media though. They focused on a tiny group of local militia who showed up and a picture of a Confederate flag. This was the basis for labeling them as white supremacists, racists, amoral people who clearly didn't care about anyone else. They were mocked, ridiculed, and moralised towards...how dare they protest the loss of everything they've worked for?
Meanwhile, a month later when a vast gathering of liberals who are very sure they can identify problems burned down about 8 blocks of Minneapolis.....almost certainly devastating communities for years if not generations. The cause? They saw a cop commit a murder....then rather promptly get charged with murder. It was a difficult situation for all.
We got to watch this "protest" happen for days....the message? We're angry. The solution? Let us destroy stuff. The coverage from the exact same left wing media? They had a short discussion about how sometimes rioting was justified.
That discussion ended a few days later when people were dying in these protests. How many? I doubt we will ever know. I've heard as few as a dozen to several dozen...but nobody is really interested in those things.
The magical part was the exact same people claiming that masks and social distancing were super necessary to prevent Covid? Apparently...Covid decided it wasn't going to spread that way anymore....so no worries, continue the riots for several months.
To be fair, the left did clarify it didn't support murder....they fully supported the right to protest, for them, not those evil right wing extremists crying like babies. At least I think....it's possible they never actually specified who should be allowed to protest. Those murders....probably white supremacists. They even found a couple white supremacists some months later....they probably went around from state to state murdering and trying to make those people who were burning and looting everything look bad. That's the theory anyway...
Did the part about the masks sound weird? It might if you ever heard the the left speak about abortion. They had been repeating this "my body my choice" argument about how the government shouldn't be able to dictate what a person can do with their body and stuff....
Is that a moral stance? Nah. They probably meant something else....
That...or, you know, perhaps both sides are just packed to the gills with hypocrisy and people who endlessly moralize and judge everyone. See? Neither side actually behaves in a morally consistent manner....and both preach about how everyone else should behave. Common ground between right and left at last. We should build a bridge....raise a monument...or something.
