Over the past week or so, I’ve watched with utter confusion and admittedly a mild bit of amusement that the case of one white man shooting and killing two other white men has turned into yet another American referendum on race. Race and racism are an obsession with the Left, who use it to keep African-American voters filled with the victimhood and rage that gives the Left power and of the mainstream media who use this misplaced victimhood and rage to drive viewership in an era where very few under 60 are watching cable news.
It would all be amusing if it weren’t so utterly infuriating and destructive to the country. There is no truth anymore. There is only the “truth” that “the narrative” allows. In the case of the Rittenhouse trial, the only narrative accepted is that Rittenhouse is a white supremacist who traveled to Wisconsin to kill people, and should he not be charged with murder, it’s just the latest in the long line of “white rage” being acquitted by a lopsided criminal justice system.
Of course, this is all patently ridiculous. Looking at the case’s specifics through a non-narrative lens led me to a certain conclusion, but whatever conclusion I have arrived at is irrelevant. What is relevant – and terrifying – is that facts, data, and context no longer matter to entire groups of people in America in 2021. There is no compassion. There is no analysis of ANY situation that is not viewed through a regressive, far-Left racial lens.
Critical thinking is gone – dead, buried, and replaced by whatever narrative is accepted and promoted by your “tribe” on the political spectrum. It’s a neat trick of diversion thought up by those who really, REALLY, don’t want you to be thinking about why your groceries and gas seem to be so much more expensive than either was just a year ago. Or why your veteran relative is still mad about whatever happened in Afghanistan. Or why there seems to be so MANY more new people who don’t speak English showing up in your small town by the border.
However, to America, this narrative tribalism is deeply dangerous to our way of life, thinking, and ability to relate to each other. But those who control the narrative do not care, as long as it brings them power. Until it no longer does, this said narrative will continue.
