The Patriot Post® · Monday Opinion

Best of Right Opinion

• Peggy Noonan: The Parkland Massacre and the Air We Breathe
• Gary Bauer: Dereliction of Duty
• Ryan T. Anderson: Here Are 5 Reasons Transgender Policies Are Harmful
• Ken Blackwell: Where to Draw the Line?
• Joe Bastardi: Rebuttal to Cryptocurrency Causing Global Warming

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Opinion in Brief

Peggy Noonan: “We discuss motives, but isn’t it always the same motive? ‘I have murder in my heart.’ Why do so many Americans have murder in their hearts? … We have been swept by social, technological and cultural revolution. The family blew up — divorce, unwed childbearing. Fatherless sons. Fatherless daughters, too. Poor children with no one to love them. The Internet flourished. Porn proliferated. Drugs, legal and illegal. Violent video games, in which nameless people are eliminated and spattered all over the screen. … The abortion regime settled in, with its fierce, endless yet somehow casual talk about the right to end a life. An increasingly violent entertainment culture — low, hypersexualized, full of anomie and weirdness, allergic to meaning and depth. The old longing for integration gave way to a culture of accusation — you are a supremacist, a misogynist, you are guilty of privilege and defined by your color and class, we don’t let your sort speak here. At this moment we are in the middle of a reckoning about how disturbed our sexual landscape has become. … A nation has an atmosphere. It has air it breathes in each day. China has a famous pollution problem: You can see the dirt in the air. America’s air looks clean but there are toxins in it, and they’re making the least defended and protected of us sick.”