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October 15, 2023

There’s a saying that hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. In other words, a hypocrite knows that virtuous principles have value, so he hides behind virtuous words even as he engages in contrary behavior. But what do you call it when people boldly abandon their principles out of political opportunism? I call that cultural and political sociopathy. Hamas’s sadistic raid on Israel has exposed to many people the sociopathy that guides the Democrat party and its fellow travelers on the left.

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Writing on X, Robert Sterling assembled an incredible laundry list of the rules that leftists have insisted that Americans must live by. At least since 2020, and in many cases years or even decades earlier, these are the rules controlling college and university campuses, media outlets, and political elections. However, on October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel, the rules changed, big time.

Image by Andrea Widburg using AI.

Here’s how Sterling describes leftists’ unembarrassed break with their very recent past:

It’s been amazing this week to watch the left invert every rhetorical device they’ve used since 2020, all to avoid having to criticize terrorists dedicated to Jewish genocide. It would be hilarious, if it weren’t so reprehensible.

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2020: Silence is violence.

2023: People can’t be expected to comment on every situation. It’s okay to just keep silent, especially while events are still unfolding.

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2020: If you’re nitpicking small details instead of focusing on the big picture, you’re doing so to avoid your complicity in atrocities.

2023: 40 babies weren’t actually beheaded. 40 babies may have been killed, and some of them may have been beheaded, but that’s not the same as 40 getting beheaded. Details matter.

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