Progressives, go find a Trump supporting friend--the one you haven't spoken to since November of 2016--and give him or her a hug. Trumpies, find a "liberal snowflake" friend and do the same. Just for today, let's all be Americans.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) July 4, 2018
Responses to my 4th of July tweet suggest that politically-minded Americans aren't willing to drop their grudges and talking points for even a single day. If Russia isn't paying Trump, they should start, because he's doing a helluva job of dividing us.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) July 6, 2018
“Like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children,” Currently though the left is busy consuming its own parents. The boomer lefties who support it keep finding out that sooner or later, the lunatics they've been cheering on will come after them and start shouting about their privilege.
Stephen King, one of the more obnoxiously lefty celebs whose writing skills had deserted him years ago, tried to suggest a ceasefire for the Fourth.
"Progressives, go find a Trump supporting friend--the one you haven't spoken to since November of 2016--and give him or her a hug. Trumpies, find a "liberal snowflake" friend and do the same. Just for today, let's all be Americans."
It's a nice enough sentiment. It wouldn't have been all that extraordinary a generation ago. But this time around it unleashed a howling mob of lefties lecturing King about his "privilege" and putting out the usual twaddle about how Trump's very existence is endangering their lives. Or the lives of all the oppressed people they know.
King came back the usual lefty virtue signaling defense. "Responses to my 4th of July tweet suggest that politically-minded Americans aren't willing to drop their grudges and talking points for even a single day. If Russia isn't paying Trump, they should start, because he's doing a helluva job of dividing us."
Cue. More lectures about his privilege, his refusal to listen (accept guilt) for being reproved the first time around, and his ignorance of the endangered physical existence of oppressed people.
I have no sympathy for King.
This is the toxic mess of ugliness that lefties like him supported in the abstract. And then they're confused when the cultural revolution comes calling. The lessons of history in this regard have never been very ambiguous. Whatever your politics, it pays to learn from them. Instead King, like so many lefties, issued a brief call for peace only to be confronted with the fact that his side doesn't want peace.
They want a war.