The socialist wing of the Democratic Party is a little too eager to show its communist roots these days, with its most prominent members all but outright saying UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson deserved to be murdered.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) also soft-pedaled the murder of Thompson, effectively arguing that people are justified in wanting to murder healthcare executives. All three of their statements included insincere throat-clearing about how violence is bad but that this is all really the fault of the healthcare industry. (All emphasis in quotes added)
“Murder is murder and it is totally unacceptable,” Sanders said, “but… the outpouring we have seen indicates that there’s a lot of frustration and anger at a healthcare industry which rejects claims that people desperately need.”
Here are Warren’s far more ominous comments: “Violence is never the answer, but people can only be pushed so far.” Warren went even further, saying, “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.” She insincerely tried to walk that back after saying it in a separate statement, saying, “I should have been much clearer that there is never a justification for murder” after justifying Thompson’s murder.
Ocasio-Cortez managed to go even further than Warren: “This is not to say that an act of violence is justified, but I think for anyone who is confused or shocked or appalled, they need to understand that people interpret and feel and experience denied claims as an act of violence against them,” she said. That comment cannot reasonably be interpreted as anything other than justification for Thompson’s murder. In this telling, Thompson first committed an “act of violence,” meaning his murderer was acting in self-defense.
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The easy answer here is “violence is never acceptable.” That is it. The word “but” should not be used. You shouldn’t be turning a murder into a healthcare debate, effectively encouraging people to start policy conversations by executing people they don’t like in the streets. The murderer, in this case, did not have a point. He is not sympathetic. His feelings are not valid. He is a cold-blooded murderer who does not belong in human society.
Sanders, Warren, and Ocasio-Cortez are trying to legitimize this murder by attempting to make it a serious analysis of the healthcare system, and Warren and Ocasio-Cortez are certainly trying to justify it by calling it a “warning” and saying it is a response to an “act of violence.” The United States’s Democratic Party socialists do not care who needs to die or how much blood needs to be spilled to get the government healthcare regime they want, where they will become the ones deciding which care gets denied.
This article was originally published at www.washingtonexaminer.com
