What a disgusting statement Senator Elizabeth Warren made last week.
Most of the nation recoiled in horror earlier this month, watching the obscene video of a man wearing a black mask shooting UnitedHealthcare chief executive officer Brian Thompson in the back at the entrance of the Hilton Hotel in New York City. Thompson, 50, married and the father of two sons, was later pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Most consider it a dark day. But our own senior senator, proud to be considered in the vanguard of “progressive” Democrats, saw in this brutal act yet another opportunity to make hay while the sun shined.
While faintly condemning the assassination of Thompson, she said, “Violence is never the answer, but people can only be pushed so far.”
The rest of her statement sounded like maybe she thought there’s some good to come out of shooting somebody in the back.
“This is a warning,” Warren told HuffPost, “that if you push people hard enough, they lose faith in the ability of their government to make change, lose faith in the ability of the people who are providing the health care to make change, and start to take matters into their own hands in ways that will ultimately be a threat to everyone.”
A warning, she said. In other words: If government doesn’t take over health care, expect more shootings.
She wasn’t done.
“The visceral response from people across the country who feel cheated, ripped off, and threatened by the vile practices of their insurance companies should be a warning to everyone in the healthcare system,” Warren said.
A more specific warning: Health insurance officials ought to start considering themselves potential targets.
It’s cold comfort that after being heavily criticized for her comments, Warrant offered this:
“Violence is never the answer. Period. I should have been much clearer that there is never a justification for murder.”
Yes, she should have.
And how about adding this one: There is never a justification for muddying the waters when it comes to murder.
Murder can never be condoned. Nor should it be described in anything other than horror.
But Warren did, and she even implied that health care executives throughout the nation should be on their guard for copycat murders.
Ideology always trumps the law in the left-wing mindset. And Senator Warren is the role model for this kind of twisted and shameful thinking.
In her leftist worldview, the U.S. health care system is so broken that we all should be able to understand why people might assassinate health care executives. And even expect more of it.
Warren believes that socialized medicine – a so-called “single-payer” government system – is the only way the U.S. health care system can be fixed. This, despite the fact that health care systems run by the government in other are more dysfunctional than ours. (Good luck getting an MRI in Canada. If you think it takes too long to see a specialist here, try Britain.)
But Warren’s statements go far beyond support for poor government policies.
She imagines her policy pronouncements are so important that it’s O.K. to comment breezily on the murder of someone she apparently sees as a hindrance rather than a human being.
With the left, violence is often, if not the first resort, at least not the very last.
One only needs to think of what happened in Democrat-controlled cities across America after the death of George Floyd in 2020. Demonstrators “protested” violently for days, and in some cases weeks, as downtown areas in cities like Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington were taken over by left-wingers. The chaos and anarchy ultimately required large deployments of troops and state police to restore order.
Senator Warren should be ashamed of her words, but even more so of her sentiment. A man has been murdered. He shouldn’t be treated like a pawn in some political chess board.
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