How Would You Feel?

A man dies. He was a good man, someone who did the best he could given what he had to do. A husband, a father, a grandfather many times over. Wealthy in many ways - loved by family, friends of all stripes from all persuasions, he was well off monetarily. He was a man with many interests and passions: the law, music and fine wines being a few. A good man and decent, one who often made the people around him laugh with the jokes he told.

Yet! Because of his thinking, the way he approached problems in a manner others didn't like, he was hated. Why? Simply because of a difference of opinion.

The man dies. And while this man's wife and his children and his friends grieve in the days after his passing, these others celebrate. They say things like 'how soon can we stop pretending to be sad?' and 'the Devil is back in hell, yay'.

Now whose character do you suppose that speaks of louder?

At the same time these cruel and despicable statements are being made, a woman and her family are grieving. This wasn't a long expected death, a relief of sorts after an illness. It was sudden. The man was traveling with friends. He went to bed, saying he was tired, and he died, alone, far from his loved ones.

The next day these... individuals (since I cannot bring myself to call them 'people', a term I reserve for human beings with caring and true sensitivity toward others) start in.

You know the family saw these things, or heard of them. We live in the day and age of Twitter and Facebook. The news organizations picked it up and reported it.

Now, take a moment. Put yourself in the place of that wife or her daughters or sons. How would you feel if that was your father or husband or grandfather being spoken of in such terms? Would you like it, be able to laugh about it and joke?

What is wrong with individuals who do stuff like this to someone else in a time of grieving? Where is common decency and respect for the dead? Where have character and kindness gone in this world?

We've all heard the term 'you can disagree without being disagreeable'. In this case, I think it goes much farther: 'you can disagree without being hateful', and that's what these individuals are. They are so full of hate it spills out, hurting and damaging a family already hurt and damaged, and for what purpose?

Do they think they're clever or funny? Is that what it is?

I don't. I think this is the worst and lowest form of despicable. It's like kicking someone in the gut and the heart when they're down.

What's almost worse, in a way, is that these people are of the liberal left - the same liberal left that wants to promote the idea and convince the rest of us 'we care more than you do'. What a fine example to show the world. 'We care more than you do.'

Not in this case, not even close in this case, because kind people, caring people, human beings with one single shred of decency or humanity would never even think of doing this to a family in mourning.

To do this privately, among friends and like-thinkers would be shameful enough, but in this day and age of Twitter and Facebook and instant communication it was Tweeted. It was thrown into the public domain without a single care, except personal aggrandizement, of what it might do to a hurting, grieving family.

Rolling Stone Magazine, The Atlantic and other "leading" publications with a left of center agenda proudly kicked this family in the gut while they were dealing with the death of a loved one.

What does that say about the individuals who run these organizations?

What does that say about the people who buy their magazines and papers, supporting these individuals in their lifestyles?

I say it strips pretense away and shows the world their despicable, cruel and debased characters. It makes me sick.

Philippa

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