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As we watch the news media and pundits express confusion about the motive behind the latest attack on ICE, followed by weeks of pondering just what could have motivated the assassination of Charlie Kirk or the reasons behind the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, I can't help but remember this Simpsons Halloween spoof of Dracula:
Remember when that was supposed to be humor, not the actual news? That it was supposed to demonstrate the stupidity of the Springfield police, not the actual news station's SOP. But that's the world in which we now live. Somewhere along the line, I think people imagined that the only side effect of chucking God from our society would be that we can now party like it's 1999. It didn't dawn on us that there would be other side effects not quite so pleasant. In this case, the decline of honesty and truth as virtues worth demanding from our national institutions and leaders.
Continued below.
Remember when that was supposed to be humor, not the actual news? That it was supposed to demonstrate the stupidity of the Springfield police, not the actual news station's SOP. But that's the world in which we now live. Somewhere along the line, I think people imagined that the only side effect of chucking God from our society would be that we can now party like it's 1999. It didn't dawn on us that there would be other side effects not quite so pleasant. In this case, the decline of honesty and truth as virtues worth demanding from our national institutions and leaders.
Continued below.
Progressive lies in an age of lies
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