The Left’s Violent Game of “I’m Not Touching You.”
If you’ve been around kids in a car, particularly when they’re bored, frustrated, and mildly annoyed, you’ve probably seen them play a variation of the “I’m not touching you” game. The whole idea of it is to do as much as possible to annoy the other child, while still staying within the boundaries set by mom and dad, so you don’t get in trouble. This often leads to one kid sticking his hand in the other kid’s face or getting near their arm, which irritates the other child, who then calls out for help from their parents. Then, the kid who is deliberately annoying the other one will go, “But I’m not touching him!” This usually goes on until Mom or Dad tells them to knock it off or else.
Adults in relationships, particularly if one is passive-aggressive or loves drama, will also play their own form of this game. They’ll deliberately do or say that one thing that they know drives the person they’re with BONKERS and then pretend to be the victim when they “overreact.” You know, “Whoa, whoa, whoa! Why are you getting so upset just because I invited my mother to stay with us this weekend without asking you? Yes, I know the two of you got in a screaming match the last time she was here, and I agreed that I wouldn’t do that, but are you saying I can’t see my own mother? Am I supposed to cut her out of my life?”
Well, do you know who else does this now?
Liberals.
Liberals do this all the time now and they do it in an attempt to create violence and they are quite literally hoping people will die because of it.
A great example of this is the way Democrats “protest.”
Sometimes a peaceful protest really is just that. But it’s also used as a cover for bad behavior and even criminal activity. We saw this CONSTANTLY during the George Floyd protests that caused more than a billion dollars worth of damage and cost more than 25 Americans their lives.
Liberals would scream profanity, loot stores, set things on fire, block traffic, attack people, and what do they fall back on when they get stopped? “They’re trying to take away our First Amendment right to protest! Look at those people over there just holding signs… right now. After curfew. After those ‘peaceful protests’ led to day after day of looting, rioting, and mayhem!”
During the ICE protests in Minnesota, liberals were actually setting up surveillance, blocking traffic, and chasing ICE agents in cars, then going, “We’re just protesting.” Since when does “protesting” involve attacking ICE agents, smashing up hotels they’re supposedly staying in, arming yourself and getting into a struggle with ICE agents trying to arrest you, or trying to run over ICE agents with your car? You’ll never hear me say what the Jan 6 protesters did was okay, but what just happened in Minnesota and places like Portland was a lot closer to an insurrection than what happened on Jan 6.
Another similar tactic liberals use is deliberately blocking traffic with their protests. They intentionally stand in the middle of the road. Not on the sidewalk. Not in a public area. In the middle of a road, you know, where CARS DRIVE, then they block those cars and often get aggressive with them. They jump on the hood. They pound on the side of the car. They kick the car. They try to open it. Then, the person who’s UNDER ATTACK, quite understandably, guns it to get away from the lunatics attacking their car, and the liberals pretend like they’re innocent victims, not the people deliberately instigating the whole mess.
Do you remember what happened with the Supreme Court when liberals feared (happily, correctly) that they were going to rule against Roe v. Wade? Liberals protested outside their homes, which was meant to be a threat to their safety. Despite the fact that it’s against federal law to try to influence a judge at their home, the Biden administration and liberals in charge of law enforcement in Maryland and Virginia allowed the protests to continue. Eventually, some armed nutjob showed up at Kavanaugh’s house and admitted he was there to kill him after he was caught, which, of course, is EXACTLY WHAT LIBERALS WANTED TO HAPPEN.
Similarly, we could point to liberals making a point of calling conservatives “fascists” right after a liberal with, “Hey, fascist! Catch!” written on his bullets murdered Charlie Kirk. It was very obviously an attempt to get other wacko liberals like Tyler Robinson to step up and kill more conservatives, but when conservatives pointed out what they were doing, it was, “Are you against free speech?”
Along similar lines, millions of liberals openly celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk, a man who held mainstream conservative views. Celebrating his death was the equivalent of telling 100 million other conservative Americans who share his views that you want them dead, too. It wasn’t, “We look at the issues differently,” or “I disagree with you,” it was “I WANT YOU F****** DEAD.” When conservatives quite correctly started getting people fired who did that, it was, “What about free speech? Are you for cancel culture?”
Liberals in America are playing an extremely dangerous game. Because conservatives understand what liberals are doing, and ALL OF THEM are responsible for the violence that’s being encouraged. If liberals keep playing these games, if they keep pushing it and pushing it, they may create a situation where everyone from AOC to Bernie Sanders to Joy Reid to your mouthy liberal neighbor down the street is held responsible for liberal violence because in a very real sense, THEY ARE.
I genuinely, truly, hope it never comes to that because no one will really benefit if it does, but liberals have to want that, too. As of today? I think a lot of them think they can encourage violence and then say, “I’m not touching you,” but guess what? You’re not fooling us. We can see exactly what’s going on.
Great stuff again John. You seem to capture the deep end of the thought pool for these topics. Keep up the great work.
I was thinking about this and yet another release of the Hunger Games movie franchise. Also, the Squid Games series from South Korea that has been popular.
My son dropped out of college to join the military. His mother and I went to his Basic graduation, and he commented that it had been too easy. He was considering shifting to infantry and then special forces. We encouraged him to pick another MOS as he achieved 98% of the ASVAB. He ended up doing drone operations.
All of this funnels to the theory of people needing real life struggle to serve their lower-level psychological needs as part of their development path. If they don't have it, they make it up.
This is probably why the Romans figured out they needed gladiator fights. This is probably why NFL is so popular. This is probably at least part of the explanation for why wars continue.
Liberals are the most hypocritical of political robots in that they claim to advocate for a utopia of social harmony, while exploiting the gap in psychological needs fulfillment that send people off to do violence as a placebo for the life challenges deleted by liberal policies. They create a dystopia in pursuit of utopia.
This is what worries me the most about the loss of jobs from offshoring, robotics and AI. The human animal evolved for 99% of its existence to participate in struggles to survive and be safe. Only the last sliver of modernity have we eliminated almost all of that struggle and seem to believe that people can bypass it to go immediately to self-actualization and transcendence.
I think the reason that the kids of the left are exploding in violence is that they are making their own dystopia that creates the challenge for survival that their base psychology craves. What we need instead is for them to be working in careers of performance competition that replaces the evolutionary struggle for survival to eat and not be eaten.
Indeed. The left knows exactly what it’s doing. Funded by Soros and crew, they’ve perpetuated a narrative that only ends in one of two ways.