The man pictured is named Andrew Pollack, and he lost a family member in last week's Parkland School shooting. The comments which followed are revolting. Here are a specimen of a few, posted at Moonbattery:
"I have zero sympathy for this man. Look at the shirt he's wearing. He helped murder his own daughter."
"His shirt, then the photo of his murdered daughter? It came full circle on him. Your beliefs effect everyone."
"I'm sorry that he lost his daughter, but he voted for Trump and now is suffering the consequences of his actions."
"The shirt: I'm sorry, but I have to laugh."
There are more such disgusting statements for anyone interested, but we feel that this sample is about as much as any sane person can tolerate. But that is the point.
We expect this kind of behavior out of the Left. Most people reading such statements are filled with repugnance at the coarseness of character they display. But if it is disgusting for the Left to stoop to these levels, it doesn't justify the same stooping from the Right. The Red Pill/Alt-RINOs believe that it does. It's not uncommon on many of their sites to see similar things written about tragedies.
Conservatives should always seek to be held to a higher standard. There's nothing wrong with using rhetorical devices like humor, sarcasm, memes, etc. in their proper place and context; but the average person is just as repelled by Right-Wing vulgarity as they are from the Left. Remember that the average person in America is not philosophically political. Most Americans cluster somewhere in the Middle between ideological Left and Right. Probably the majority lean slightly Conservative while still favoring a number of Liberal policies. One of the ingenious political tactics of the late William F. Buckley was to juxtapose the confidence and stability of Conservatism against the extremism of Liberalism. The Reagan Revolution was largely shaped by Buckley's coolness while Liberalism self-destructed. And, frankly, in geopolitics, the Soviet Union collapsed without WW3 by a broader extension of the same philosophy.
The Red Pills and the Alt-RINOs share with the Left a disbelief in humanity's potential for goodness. They both believe that people generally need to be ruled over by an elite who manipulates society for society's supposed own good. They only disagree on whom this elite should be: either superior Alpha Males from the Master Race or superior Commisars from the Master Universities. Both are at complete variance with the fundamental Conservative doctrine that "all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights."
The commentaries following Mr. Pollack's post are not only disrespectful to his humanity, but reflect the kernel of the intolerant spirit that brings about totalitarianism in a society. People who believe that man's daughter deserved to die because of the man's politics are a stone's throw from the Paris mobs who used to watch gleefully as whole families were wiped out on the Guillotine. If the Conservative Movement comes that---as the Alt-RINOs wish it to---then it ceases to be Conservative at all. That has already happened to American Liberalism: extremism has turned the Democrats into a party that Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, or Johnson wouldn't recognize if they were alive today.
Let's not let it get to that point. Faith also implies faith in our fellow-man.
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