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All right, listen up, now, you leftists: Gene Simmons wants you to calm down. And he’s right.
The KISS frontman is an unlikely source for political wisdom, but on Sunday, he said what a lot of people need to hear, particularly the overheated leftists for whom politics is a religion and patriots are heretics who must be burned at the stake, or at very least lectured, harried, and harassed at every opportunity.
Simmons offered this wisdom on, of all places, CNN, where this sort of thing should be repeated every day at noon, maybe right after leftists have finished screaming abuse and vitriol at Trump during the Two Minutes Hate. (No, they don’t really do that, but on the other hand, yes, yes, they do.) He said: “It’s nobody’s business who you support. Nowadays, people engage in, ‘So are you pro or,’ and my first question is, ‘Who the f— are you? Who are you?’ Since when does who I support or not support is the business of anyone except my conscience?”
The answer is that it became everybody’s business, at least as far as the left is concerned, when leftists politicized absolutely everything, and demanded, like the totalitarians they are, that people in all situations and walks of life affirm their political orthodoxy. If you couldn’t buy a Bud Light without affirming that men can become women, and couldn’t watch a sporting event without seeing athletes take a knee during the National Anthem in mute protest against the alleged injustices of the American system, and if you couldn’t have a family Thanksgiving gathering without some self-righteous blue-haired harridan yelling at you, then Simmons has a point.
Asked on CNN about the MAGA movement, from which, of course, leftists recoil in horror as a vampire does from sunlight, Simmons answered in a way that showed that he was not himself an adherent: “Some of it makes sense and some not.” He continued, however, by reiterating his call to leftists to regain some perspective: “But literally, have a sense of humor. Take a pill, shut up and stop worrying what your next-door neighbor believes or doesn’t believe. It’s their America, too.”
“It’s their America, too.” Bumper stickers should be issued. In those four words, Simmons summed up the problem with the contemporary left: leftists are so certain that their fantasies, insanities and delusions are right and righteous that they simply cannot comprehend that anyone might not share them. Even worse, they are likewise adamantine in their certainty that anyone who does not share them is evil to the core, and must be shunned and despised, no matter what his or her relationship may be to any given leftist.
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
He wasn’t my favorite 80s group, but since 2016, after Trump got elected, he gave him the due respect, even though he wasn’t initially supportive of him (blocked the Trump campaign from using his music, like many other rock bands). For this, he has my respect
somehistory says
Every day, it’s possible to read of some jerk demanding that some other person’s personal attire, hair-do, favorite word, kind of….(fll in the blank)…be immediately changed or eliminated to make all of the jerks happy in their bid for total control.
I was never a fan. But he’s right. And he must know how it feels, because he and his group played outside the *normal* box from the get-go.
skeptiker says
Der Psychiater bekommt von den Insassen der Anstalt noch einmal die Gelegenheit, letzte Worte vor seiner Hinrichtung zu säuseln.