People may not believe in evil, but evil believes in them.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
What do people who don’t believe in evil do? They blame inanimate objects. Guns.
19 years ago, a middle-aged unemployed taxi driver carrying two milk cartons full of gasoline walked onto a South Korean subway and started a fire that killed 192 people.
That was not a milk carton problem. Nor was it a gasoline problem.
6 years ago, a Muslim terrorist drove a truck into a Bastille Day event in Nice, France killing 86 and wounding over 400 other people. Body parts were being pried out of his wheel wells.
That was not a truck problem.
Across the long stretch of human history, millions of people were killed long before the invention of firearms, in often cruder and far more brutal ways. Back then we lacked CNN, but people generally understood that this was not due to the invention of smithing, but the problem of evil.
The problem with evil is that it requires us to believe in good.
Modern people are unwilling to believe in G-d, and so they believe instead in government. And they are convinced that the god of government can fix everything if we only give it the power.
The trouble is that while people may not believe in evil, evil very much believes in them.
The gun control debate is a policy argument based on fundamental fallacies about human nature, black markets, and what a malicious mind bent on hurting people can accomplish. Conservatives argue for empowering individuals to resist mass shooters while leftists once again chant that if we locked up all the guns and gave them to the government, it would be fine.
But if guns are the problem, why aren’t there regular mass shootings in Switzerland and Finland? In Israel, a school shooting is an attack carried out by an Islamic terrorist. And that’s dismissed as a “political” act and something utterly different than an obsessive weirdo shooting up an American school because we can’t simply find the common evil denominator in both.
If guns are the problem, why weren’t there school shootings every few months during an era when guns could be bought at every hardware store and ordered through the mail?
Muggings, carjackings, and gangland shootings in Chicago are all attributed to some general social malaise that can be solved by freeing the criminals and locking up all the guns.
As if the guns have agency and the shooters do not.
Gun control hasn’t fixed any of the crime in Chicago but that’s just because, like most leftist policies, it hasn’t been implemented comprehensively enough, goes the leftist argument.
The trouble with gun control is that people do have individual agency. They choose evil.
Leftists don’t believe in either G-d or free will. And that’s understandable because the one is linked to the other. They inhabit a mechanical world in which society is real and people aren’t. Individual accountability doesn’t exist in the leftist construct of a world where people are just cogs in a machine reacting to social stimuli based on their genes and upbringing.
The central assumption of leftist thought is that if you control the society, you can also control the character and conduct of every person who has been raised in it. Every leftist policy flows from this idea. Government becomes god and can, given political omnipotence, give us utopia.
All we have to do is give up our individuality, our rights, and our faith in anything else.
That it doesn’t work is too obvious to even need saying after the rot of the Soviet Union, Cambodia, Communist China, and the lost glories of every single failed leftist experiment.
The real question is what remains in the empty spaces of the soul in these leftist machines?
Take away moral accountability, a sense of purpose, and a belief in a higher power, and what do you get? Mass shootings every weekend and any other kind of atrocity that’s been popularized and made to go viral. The human ego slamming against a society that doesn’t know it’s there.
Or evil.
The malicious narcissism, the violent self-pity, and the thwarted egotism of the mass shooter are a familiar phenomenon. They’re far more endemic than the availability of firearms. The killers hope to leave a mark on society. They take lives to force us to recognize their specialness and what they believe we owe them. The media happily rewards them with their bloody 15 minutes.
There are collectivist movements, like Nazism and Communism, dedicated to this premise, but there are also plenty of individuals prone to falling into this evil mindset. These individuals and movements thrive at a time of confusion, when people lack meaning, and don’t see a future.
The problem of evil is an old one. It can come from many directions. But our society is particularly vulnerable because its elites can no longer even grapple with the concept.
They’ve created a society in which evil thrives because they are incapable of recognizing it.
Human dysfunction has been reduced to mechanistic failures of biochemistry, economics, government oversight, legislative policymaking and society. Everything is blamed except the individuals who actually make the decision to go ahead and kill other people.
But that’s what happens when you believe in governments and don’t believe that evil is a tangible reality outside of TV and movies.
Instead of talking about human crimes, we talk about gun violence. The lack of individual moral accountability only contributes to the next atrocity not by guns, but by individual people.
Evil is a human void. It’s the egotistical emptiness that remains in the absence of good. To defeat it, we would have to conceive of good. We would have to retell the stories of the mass shootings, of crime in general, as a struggle between good and evil. Not all that long ago, we had a society capable of telling that story. These days we are more likely to celebrate evil.
The Left believes that government is god and it conceives of evil as disobedience to government. The gun control debate reduces evil to the NRA and anyone who won’t obey and hand over their guns. “Do you want more kids to die?” the gun controllers demand.
But good and evil don’t come from a gun. Nor do they come from the government.
The reduction of individual choices to mechanical abstractions, shootings to guns, individual acts to society, is the mark of elites who want to rule the world, yet can’t understand people.
There’s no formula more likely to convince people that their acts have no value, their lives no purpose, and that whatever they do doesn’t matter in any larger sense. And so evil is born.
Tell people that they’re morally worthless and they just might come to believe you.
It’s no coincidence that shootings so often happen in schools, where teenage boys might hope to gain some sense of moral purpose, and instead are told that they’re a bunch of numbers.
In the absence of good, other things will take their place.
Guns are much more real to gun controllers than human souls. But evil doesn’t require a gun. And controlling the location of inanimate objects will not fix the moral foundations of the soul.
somehistory says
Well said, Mr. Greenfield.
The person who loads and shoots the gun is the one responsible. Even if he has had bad parenting, or no parenting, lived in poverty or riches, watched violent videos on the web or movies on the screen, was bullied or girls turned down his offers. Ultimately, the one using the weapon is responsible and it is his turn to evil that motivates him.
Many want to put the blame for all of these shootings on Christians as if the shooter shouts that he’s killing for Christ or that he read in the Bible that he is supposed to go on a killing spree and “make a name for himself.’ (The Bible does have a verse about “making a name for oneself”, but it is shown as a bad thing_)
Over the past few days, several publishers have had articles about Christian “nationalism” and getting back to “Judeo-Christian” times of slavery, etc. and blaming those who do believe in God and recognize evil and don’t wish to give all power to a group of people who call themselves “government” and pretend they want the best for all. And yet, a whole heck of a lot of these loudmouths who are demanding that everyone give up the guns they own legally, have people who protect them…using/carrying guns.
As you say, leaving God out of one’s life, leaves a place for evil to come in and be expressed…with or without a gun.
Wellington says
Strongly seconded, somehistory. The fault lies within and not with guns per se.
PRCS says
“As you say, leaving God out of one’s life, leaves a place for evil to come in and be expressed…with or without a gun.”
No, it does not!
I left God out of my life more than fifty years ago and have not once had “a place for evil to come in and be expressed” as a result of doing so.
Ever! Period!
bill says
Well I gave up ‘god’ about 60 years ago and I have not done any evil since then. Your argument is ludicrous
PRCS says
+1
PRCS says
Billions of other people–many of whom have never accepted the Christian god as their own or have rejected that belief are good, moral, and not engaged in evil behavior.
Tony Stark says
And God will reward them with everlasting life. But for you pompous, arrogant, vain atheists you whole-sale reject Jesus Christ, it’s the everlasting fires of hell for your immortal souls. How do you like them apples?
Tony Stark says
Well let God judge that after your last breath. You do realize that you ain’t gone live forever on this earth, don’t you?
gravenimage says
The implication that Atheists don’t understand they all humans die is just silly.
somehistory says
Jesus said that some humans “will never die at all.” I look forward to knowing who these ones will be.
and, atheists may “realize” that all humans die…at least the humans we all know about…but they probably don’t think too much about what happens afterward, to them or their family and friends.
And, questions are allowed of others, even if we don’t expect them to actually answer.
Keys says
Outstanding post by Daniel Greenfield on good and evil. Plenty to think about.
M. Scott Peck, a once practicing psychiatrist, wrote a book, People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil, based on the people he treated in his practice. He found there were clients in whom he could find no psychiatric illness; no explanation for their harmful behavior toward others. In his fascinating book, “People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil”, he attributes to some that they choose to act in an evil manner – no other explanation.
It gets old hearing that every killer, arsonist, etc. is mentally ill (perhaps white supremacists are the exception/sarc) This “mentally ill” attribution is used more than frequently in Europe for Muslim violence.
I have often to wondered if anyone came to believe in God because of the prevalence of evil in the world – with this much Evil there must be a Good.
Kind of the opposite of the classic “there is so much evil allowed in this world that there can not be a God” – (an All Good); an All Good God, an All Good Good, would not allow it.
somehistory says
Yes, Keys, those who don’t believe in God, cannot “know” God, but so many assume to make judgments about what a God would do…”if He existed.”
If they gave themselves a chance to get to Know God, an All Good God, a God of Love, they might better understand *why* He hasn’t done what they have judged He should have done. and come to understand what the future holds for mankind.
Keys says
Thanks for your reply, somehistory.
Yes, lots of presumptions and assumptions to understand God.
Understanding God – I guess to do so completely you’d have to be Him, be His equal.
somehistory says
Thank you, Keys.
Jesus knows the Father. He said, “If you have seen me, you have seen the Father.” And He was the One to explain God. We get to know God and understand Him through His Son.
Our understanding will always be incomplete, but if we keep trying, He will continue to reveal Himself to us.
Wellington says
Very respectfully, somehistory, even an old agnostic like me can “put aside” religious reasons (which I fully admit arguably serve as very solid reasons) and still conclude that evil exists independent of religious belief and that it must be confronted.
After all, and just from a purely ethical standpoint, a la Aristotle and other great ancient Greek philosophers, evil can exist irrespective of religious thinking.
Yes, philosophy alone can lead to correct ethical and moral conclusions. If aided by an enlightened religion like Christianity or Judaism, all the better. Of course, as I know you only full well, Islam doesn’t “count” here. Ah, it’s a “complication.” Life invariably is.
somehistory says
You have doubts about God’s existence, Wellington, but you have not abandoned the moral and ethical concepts of what Jesus taught and exemplified.
Wellington says
I agree with you, somehistory. If the entire world lived by the Judeo-Christian ethic it would be a far better world. I do think it is possible, quite possible, to lead a stalwart and moral life without the Judeo-Christian tradition guiding one, but I also am of the conviction that the Judeo-Christian ethic, if followed sincerely and diligently, is more than good enough to ensure a properly led life.
somehistory says
Wellington,
in the days when Israel was given the Law to Moaes, and they agreed to live by and obey it, no other group of people had such a Law.
However, the Book of Job describes a man who lived by the basics of that Law. As did the young many who counseled him.
And, later, when Christ had come, preached and died, as Christians all believe, the man Paul, who was a Lawyer and a Jew, wrote that there ‘are people, who without Law, do the things of the Law.’
Those are probably not his exact words, but close enough, I think.
There are people who do not know the God I worship, but I have no doubts that some of them are “law-abiding” in the sense that they are not evil, not led by the forces of evil, such as the devil that the Bible describes and who confronted Jesus Himself.
I’m not judging anyone. God will do that. If one doesn’t believe there is a God, then that one should not fear what I believe is coming upon the evil of this world. Unless they are not just “denying that there is One Above them,” but acting in an evil way, doing evil and enjoying it, knowing that it goes against even the laws of man and what was once common decency.
And I Believe and Hope all who love what is Right and Just and who oppose evil will be rewarded accordingly.
PRCS says
“I’m not judging anyone. God will do that.”
Whose god will be doing that?
Will your guy in the sky be judging Hindus, Sikhs, and Jains, too?
Do you think that nice old Buddhist lady down the street from me will make the cut?
gravenimage says
I’ve been looking for that book, Keys. It was recommended by another poster here some years ago.
Keys says
I really enjoyed reading it, gi, especially his descriptions of some of his patients.
It’s still out there.
One quote: “Evil always has something to do with lies.”
gravenimage says
Thanks. It’s on my “to read” list.
Tom says
“An evil enemy will burn down his own country to rule over the ashes.” Sun Tsu.
The left do not care what destruction their policies create in society because their objective is to destroy the existing society which is based on judeo christian tenets and rebuild from the ashes their own utopia.
Heaven help us all if they succeed.
Rarely says
All very interesting but any way you cut it there’s a very big difference between an “evil” person armed with a nuclear weapon and one armed with a butter knife.
Perhaps it’s worth just a little effort to try to minimize the damage an “evil” person can cause. As I understand it the Uvalde murderer purchased his weapons very recently along with enough ammunition to overthrow a small country. Yesterday’s Tulsa’s medical center murderer (4 dead plus him) bought his assault weapon earlier in the day.
Is it not possible that a delay in acquiring the guns and a restriction on the kind of gun available might have made a difference?
Regarding the battle between good v evil. It’s a very slippery slope. By attributing all that’s bad in this World to “evil” one risks accusing those who are perceived as causing us any harm as being “evil”. They become “less than” and perhaps unworthy of living on this planet. We know where that leads. To muslims we unbelievers are “evil” and to us they are “evil”. Nothing accomplished except self-justification. (BTW my vote is that islam is evil).
Even if you are 100% correct in your analysis who is in a position to decide who or what is “evil” and who or what is not? It’s probably best left to G’d and we should just go along doing the best we can to stop obviously evil acts — unless, of course, you believe that G’d went on vacation and left us in charge. Isn’t that one of (if not THE) major reasons we have governments — to protect us or, at least, to provide us with some level of protection?
I will probably be viewed as “evil” by some for this posting. Such is life. I am not in favour of disarming the civilian populace (it’s too late for that — already gone down the rabbit hole on that one) but something must be done before having to build moats around every school.
PMK says
Rarely,
You focus on the weapon used by these mass shooters. One issue that is not being addressed is the drugs they are using. I’ve never smoked pot, so I can’t attest to what I am hearing from various sources. However,, it’s said that the pot sold today (legally and illegally) has a higher concentration of THC, which can lead to hallucinations. As some would say: this isn’t your grandfather’s marijuana. Fentanyl is also lethal and played more than a minor role in the death of George Floyd.
As a country, we are 64th worldwide in mass shooting deaths. We have less than five percent of the world’s population and about 1.3% of these attacks.
Rarely says
Tell that to the folks in Uvalde who lost loved ones.
James Lincoln says
According to the excellent feature article:
“Instead of talking about human crimes, we talk about gun violence.”
The term “gun violence” is actually nonsensical.
It is “human violence”, committed with a gun.
It could just as well be a knife, a hammer, a vehicle, an improvised explosive, etc. Mass casualties can be committed without guns (Boston Marathon bomber 2013 with homemade pressure cooker bombs)
A gun – taken alone – is neither violent or peaceful. It is an inanimate object that can be used for target practice, hunting, self protection – or to commit a crime.
somehistory says
A few months ago, I was reading about a woman killed on her way home from a local bar. She was dead in a parking lot and the weapon was a cement block; one of those used to mark parking spaces.
People have been killed by another person turning on gas jets, or with other “inanimate objects” that if outlawed, or banned, would greatly restrict what humans would be able to do in a day.
And many people are murdered with fists, feet, and other body parts. It’s the intent, not what the perp has handy.
Rarely says
Most, if not all, suicides using a gun and most homicides using a gun would occur if no gun was available. Mass murders can be committed without guns but guns, and especially assault type guns, are the mass murderer’s weapon of choice. In two of the most recent occurrences — Uvalde and Tulsa — assault weapons were purchased very close to the crime — Tulsa on the same day. Had they not been so readily available there may very well have been different outcomes.
Where is the harm in banning assault weapons, having a delay between purchase and acquisition and having comprehensive background checks? The value of a “cooling off period” cannot be overstated.
An 18 yr old “child” buys two assault rifles and enough ammunition to start a revolution and there are absolutely no checks and balances in place? Is anyone really surprised that he used them? Pure insanity.
somehistory says
bobiden and their cohorts in the house and senate and in seats of state gov, are moe than ready and willing to arm ukraine…their ally…and more than ready and willing to make attempts to disarm russia….their opponent.
Where does that put the American citizen who legally…owns a gun with the approval of the Constitution, and all whom bodien and crew target and their guns they want to take away?
Why should law-abiding citizens have to give up what they legally own, and are guaranteed to have the *right* to own because some fool goes ballistic? How much are they giving attention to the gang violence in chicago? Or to the bm and antifa riots?
If it was really “gun violence” they had as a concern, they would target the killers and not the legal owners and law-abiding citizens.
Rarely says
SH.
The Uvalde murderer was a law abiding gun owner…until he wasn’t.
somehistory says
Except that four years ago, he “threatened” to do exactly what he did and the cops found out. so he could have been prevented from getting a gun.
Rarely says
Threats are a dime a dozen. Good luck with stopping everyone (or anyone) who has made a threat of some sort or other in the past 10 years. Might as well stop the Moon in its orbit.
somehistory says
threating to murder others is a crime. he should have been prosecuted. and…a big question is , where did a teenager who had a job in a restaurant get so much money to use to buy so much ammo and expensive guns?
tunde says
Phenomenal post Mr. Greenfield. You made the nail and the head become one.
gravenimage says
Uvalde and the Problem of Evil
People may not believe in evil, but evil believes in them.
………….
Yes, evil is a problem.
And where a creed *teaches* evil, as does Fascism and Islam, it is an even bigger problem.
OLD GUY says
Evil maybe it just creeps into a person from their environment.
Lack of Parenting
Uneducated
Bullying
Violent Video Games
TV
Violent Movies
Cell phones
Gangs
Drugs
Just to name a few of the influencers.
Rarely says
I heard it comes from the water we drink but I’m not sure.
Tony Stark says
God will judge you on that the moment you take your last breath, atheist. You do realize your earthly is not forever. Good luck…eternity is a mighty long time to be wrong!
Tony Stark says
And God will reward them with everlasting life. But for you pompous, arrogant, vain atheists you whole-sale reject Jesus Christ, it’s the everlasting fires of hell for your immortal souls. How do you like them apples?
Tony Stark says
The Uvalde shooter cruised around with the bodies of dead cats that he had tortured & killed. He threatened to rape & murder teen girls. He threatened to kills his grandma. Don’t tell me the authorities didn’t know about him. If the FBI had done their job, 18 children would still be alive.
Tony Stark says
Jun 3, 2022 at 7:39 pm
PRCS says
“I’m not judging anyone. God will do that.”
Whose god will be doing that?
Will your guy in the sky be judging Hindus, Sikhs, and Jains, too?
Do you think that nice old Buddhist lady down the street from me will make the cut?
Catechism of the Catholic Church
843 The Catholic Church recognizes in other religions that search, among shadows and images, for the God who is unknown yet near since he gives life and breath and all things and wants all men to be saved. Thus, the Church considers all goodness and truth found in these religions as “a preparation for the Gospel and given by him who enlightens all men that they may at length have life.”
847 This affirmation is not aimed at those who, through no fault of their own, do not know Christ and his Church: “Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience – those too may achieve eternal salvation.”
PRCS says
1. Catholocism is but one of numerous Christian sects.
2. “Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience – those too may achieve eternal salvation.””
Around 105 million human beings have lived on our planet; the vast majority during the 350,000 or so years prior to YOUR guy’s arrival: leaving them just SOL.
Tony Stark says
That’s right PRCS. Those, who through no fault of their own, worship their own version of God, do what is morally correct, avoid being violent or dishonest, and help the less fortunate, will get to Heaven. But for you, you vain, arrogant, jerk of an anti-theist, who incorrectly believe that organized religion, specifically Christianity, more specifically, Catholicism, is the root of all evil, you who reject Jesus Christ because of your pride of not wanting to be like those stupid religious people, it’s the everlasting fires of hell for your immortal soul. How do you like them apples, PRCS?
Tony Stark says
It’s spelled Catholicism, and it is the original Church founded by Jesus Christ, the incarnate 2nd Person of the Holy Triune God. Perhaps you might read some GK Chesterton or JRR Tolkein to find out more.
Tony Stark says
But if you read like you spell, Chesterton & Tolkein might be above you.
Tony Stark says
Hey PRCS, I have met many atheists like you, Full of the themselves with huge egos, thinking they’re the smartest person in every room they enter. But they get reduced to being weepy wussies when death comes a calling for them. I suspect it’s the same for you. But hey, all the people you’ve ever loved & respected who have died, they’re all worm food now – gone, soon to be forgotten, like they never even existed. As you will be, too. Sweet dreams.
gravenimage says
There are many Atheists and Agnostics here who stand against Jihad.
We all need to stand together against Jihad.
Threatening Atheists and falsely claiming they are all cowards is very ugly–and not exactly Christian, either.
Tony Stark says
Why are these atheists coming on Jihad Watch and talking smack about Christianity? Don’ they know that when Islamic Jihad takes over, we Christians get a choice, but it’s heads-off for the non-believers.
gravenimage says
Tony, you make a good point, but I don’t want to live under brutal dhimmitude, either. We should *all* stand against Islam, including Christians and Atheists.
somehistory says
as you often write, g, with respect, I have been called coward and other stuff a number of times by atheists and mocked on many threads by the ps guy. I don’t have much reason to ‘stand’ with those who tell me to shut up and mock me when I won’t.
Jesus Himself said, “You are my friends if you keep my commandments.” I like that and as a person who attempts to be a Christain, that is one of my ‘rules’ for ‘standing’ with someone. If they “keep” His “commandments.” they must at least not mock me or call my God a sky fairy and worse.
PRCS says
What she said was, “There are many Atheists and Agnostics here who stand against Jihad.”
“mocked on many threads by the ps guy”
Simple fix.
Proselytize at a more appropriate website. So many to choose from.
Jihad Watch is NOT a Christian proselytization platform.
gravenimage says
I am no fan of verbal abuse from anyone, Somehistory. I was not defending it.
PRCS says
“You do realize your earthly is not forever.”
Earthly what?
“He threatened to kills his grandma.”
That should be kill (singular).
“How do you like them apples?”
That phrase is buffoonish.
“Those, who through no fault of their own, worship their own version of God…”
That you didn’t understand the point does not surprise me.
“Full of the themselves”
Bit of a typo there, eh?
I surmise you simply don’t understand embarrassment.
Tony Stark says
Earthly? Let me clarify: your pathetic, insignificant, drudgery of your earthly life is not forever.
That’s right, the Uvalde punk threatened to kill his grandma, and the FBI did nothing.
Because the FBI are made up of atheists punks like you who self-pleasure at taking down Trump supporters or anti-vaxers or concerned parents at school board meetings.
The FBI, like you, is a disgrace.
Like apples? That phrase is buffoonish? But you can’t think of a better one, can you, you uneducated, unsophisticated, ill-mannered joke of an atheist.
I was quoting the Catechism of the Catholic Church, you know, the Church of Augustine and Aquinas and Chesterton and….oh, sorry, you are too buffoonish to even begin to understand their intellectual arguments. Go read some Dr Seuss, that’s more your level.
I surmise that you are a pompous, arrogant, jerk of a human being who ought to show more respect to Christians & Catholics, who have fought Islamic Jihad for centuries than you and your cowardly atheists have ever done.
PRCS says
As you’re not very bright, Tony, let me recap:
After so politely pointing out a typo in one of my posts, you followed with these gems of your own:
“You do realize your earthly is not forever.”
Earthly what?
“He threatened to kills his grandma.”
That should be kill (singular).
“How do you like them apples?”
That phrase is buffoonish.
“Those, who through no fault of their own, worship their own version of God…”
That you didn’t understand the point does not surprise me.
“Full of the themselves”
Bit of a typo there, eh?
Oh, and here are a few more from you today:
Don’ they know
That should be don’t they know
atheists punks
That should be atheist punks
fought Islamic Jihad for centuries than you
That should be for centuries longer than you
Yes, I’m quite familiar with the Catholic Church–having grown up in that fraudulent, corrupt belief system. Left it long ago.
And having spent more than 20 years on active military duty–as an atheist–pretty sure I’ve done more than you re: Islamic jihad.
You really should use a grammar checker.
And, this bit of idiocy from you:
“Why are these atheists coming on Jihad Watch and talking smack about Christianity?”
They generally don’t.
But, as this is NOT a Christian website, many–like me–take umbrage at Christian fanatics proselytizing THEIR fairytale as fact and trashing the beliefs of other anti-jihadists, here.
Do you really think Hindus and others come here to get a dose of “the Truth”?
Oh, and by the way, “them apples” should be those apples, as a perfectionist like you should know.
I voted for Trump. Twice.
So, I’m quite sure now that you have no concept of embarrassment.
Pompous? Get a mirror.