Stop Caring
By: Kurt Schlichter
Itās become clear that America has a problem with caring. Americans care far too much. They need to care less about things that are pinko ruling class deems important. They need to actively not care.
Why limit our caring? Because caring gives your enemies leverage over you. Your enemies donāt care about you. Do you think those fat, ugly communists infesting our college campuses care about you? They donāt, except to the extent they can hurt you. When they talk about āFrom the River to the Sea,ā theyāre not just talking about the Jordan to the Med ā theyāre talking about the Mississippi to the Pacific and the Atlantic, or they would if they knew any geography.
They donāt care about you. They want you dead. Their problem is they have no upper body strength and no guns. They canāt make you die or do anything else. The only way they can exercise power over you is by convincing you to exercise power over yourself.
Thatās where your caring comes in. They use caring as leverage against you. Itās weaponized caring. They canāt do anything at all unless you care what they say and what they think and act accordingly. If you stop caring, you start winning.
Now, Iām not saying all caring is bad. You should care about your family, not in a Joe Biden way, but in a normal daddyshower-free way. You should care about your dogs, but not in a Kristi Noem way. The Bible instructs us to care about others. Look at the Good Samaritan story (Luke 10: 29-37). Note that the Samaritan story took place in ancient Israel, kind of establishing the whole Jewish indigenous thing, but thatās not the point here. The point is that Jesussays you should care about innocent people in need of help. The Samaritan came across a man who had been beaten and robbed, except on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho and not a modern blue Democrat city. The Samaritan helped him out. The victim didnāt do anything wrong. He didnāt ask for it. He suffered misfortune. Itās a good thing to care about people like that.
But itās a bad thing to care too much about people who cause their own problems because that deprives them of the educational benefit of suffering the consequences of stupid decisions. And itās also bad to care about people who use caring to beat your brains out.
We all have a limited caring bandwidth. We canāt care about everything, which the left understands and uses against us. Weāre supposed to care about the things the commies care about. Weāre supposed to care about Gazans who are getting killed because Gazans started a war instead of Nigerians who were getting killed because they are Christians. Allowing the enemy to determine your hierarchy of caring allows them to set your agenda. Donāt allow them to do that.
A proper hierarchy of caring has God, Country, and Family right at the top. You should care about those things and care a lot. But after that, you have to make choices about what you will care about. Here are mine. Next in the hierarchy of caring come American civilians, and then come American soldiers and first responders. Why are these heroes second? Well, because they ā and I ā took an oath that does not expire to uphold the Constitution, meaning putting American citizensā lives ahead of our own. So, if I have a choice between an American citizen and an American soldier taking a bullet, itās got to be the soldier. Thatās when we earn all that āThank you for your serviceā stuff. But still, their pace in my hierarchy of caring still means a heck of a lot of caring.
Next come allied civiliansāthatās because they are allies. Then come allied soldiers and first responders. After that come other civilians. Then come enemy civiliansāyes, I care less about the lives of enemy civilians than I do about American and Allied civilians and soldiers. You have correctly assessed my relative levels of caring. I know it will stun moral illiterates that I will take my own side in a conflict, but I do.
And after that comesā¦nothing. I donāt care about enemy combatants ā the Hamas semihumans do not deserve the title āsoldiers.ā Not a bit. I actively want bad things to happen to them.
So, if somebody asks me why I donāt care enough about the Gazan people who are suffering because of the war the Gazans started, thatās because, as enemy civilians, they are near the bottom of my hierarchy of caring. How do I know they are our enemy? I listen to them.
Itās unreasonable to expect me to care much about the enemy, not simply because they are the enemy but because one can only care so much. Again, you only have so much caring bandwidth. You canāt care about everything, and you certainly canāt care about everything equally. Adults distinguish between things. The left distinguishes between things. My life and yours are right at the bottom of their hierarchy of caring. The leftists donāt care if we think thatās wrong. Why should we care what they think?
And hereās another rule of caring ā I canāt care more about strangers than the people who have a duty to care about them do. Letās take the Gazans again, please. Gazan children are getting hurt in a war that their parents and tribe started and still perpetuate by not surrendering and giving up their hostages, yet Iām expected to care a lotabout them. But why am I expected to care about them more than their parents and their tribe do? If they cared, they would surrender, release the hostages, and better yet, have never started this war in the first place. A parentās duty is to care about his own children. Iām not sure how anyone really expects me to care about somebody elseās children more than the childrenās parents do, but Iām not going to. And no amount of moral intimidation is going to make me.
The fact is that the Gazans brought on their own pain, and their problem is their problem, not mine. Even if I could do something about it, other than end it sooner by encouraging Israel to get on with it and wipe out these Hamas bastards, it is not my moral duty to do so. I didnāt create the problem. I donāt control the solution, or at least one thatās acceptable to me. I suppose we could cut Israel off from arms and allow the Gazans to murder them all, but thatās not going to happen. So, I guess the Gazans are screwed until they decide to change how they do business. If they donāt care enough about their own fate to do that, I donāt see why Iām required to compensate by caring much more about their fate than they do. And I donāt.
Your caring is yours. You get to decide what you care about, not some bloated pierced freak working out their daddy issues on the campus quad. And if they donāt like that, guess what? I donāt care.
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