Hope. Change. Hate.
When they go low, we lose our minds.
Once upon a time this would have been a deranged letter to the editor. The sort of thing that would have triggered an FBI investigation. Now it's the new normal. It's a column at the San Fran Chronicle's sister site. The same left that endlessly preached about violence and claimed that Sarah Palin's map killed is completely okay with a winking defense of sending death threats to the head of the EPA.
An article published on the San Francisco Chronicle's sister-site on Wednesday offers justification for the increased number of death threats to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, saying the threats "make a warped sort of sense."
Mark Morford's column was originally headlined, "Why do so many people want the E.P.A.'s Scott Pruitt Dead?" It goes on to answer that question.
Shall we sum up? Scott Pruitt, the pallid, oily anti-environment corporate shill beloved by the least palatable humans in the corporate world, is getting a lot of death threats, up to five times more than any E.P.A. head in history.
They are, perhaps, coming from scientists. They are, perhaps, coming from environmental advocates, or teachers, or peace activists, or lovers of life and humanity and nature, or distraught mothers, worried that Pruitt’s actions will, quite correctly, endanger the lives of their children. They are, most likely, coming from Mother Nature."
An earlier version apparently had the SF Gate article claiming, "They are, most likely, coming from god herself."
But don't get the idea that he's proposing anything violent.
"Wherever they are coming from, it does make a warped, dangerous sort of sense.. you surely understand: this is no advocacy for violence. Only the smallest of minds and most unstable of souls would mis-read my words in such a way."
Of course. How could we miss it. And Brutus is an honorable man.
Mark has in no way called for Pruitt's death. He just explained that such death threats could only be happening for the best of reasons. And are probably coming from whatever mystical forces he believes in.
Now consider the number of death threats being sent to GOP members of Congress. And the Republican baseball field shooting by a Bernie Sanders supporter. The left has embraced its darkest side. And increasingly it's unashamed to promote violence and hatred.
Now if the name Mark Morford sounds vaguely familiar, you might remember him for the viral "Obama is an enlightened being" column that was passed around quite a bit on the right.
Here's where it gets gooey. Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.
Mark's evolution to a higher spiritual being doesn't seem to be going so well. Unless the outcome of the evolution is supposed to be hating your political opponents based on some New Age beliefs.
But that too is the left. The real left. The one you don't see on TV. The one that doesn't show its face in public.
And Obama has certainly led us to this brave new way of relating and connecting. Just ask Mark and the crazies on the left sending death threats.
Lightworker? Close. Maybe Darkworker would be more factually accurate.