"F*#k Ben Carson" - Granite Grok

“F*#k Ben Carson”

This is a real article (I’ve written the title family-friendly, they didn’t) about Ben Carson’s response to the Oregon shooting, appearing in this month’s edition of GQ magazine. Here are two snippets, just to give you the flavor:

You know, the only thing more alarming than Donald Trump leading the Republican presidential field is the fact that Ben Carson is the guy right behind him. While establishment puds like Jeb! Bush and Marco Rubio can’t decide if they want to beat Trump or emulate him, the Good Doctor made it clear this week that he is not only willing to replicate Trump’s signature brand of hot-garbage-spewing, but he’ll say even DUMBER sh#t.

You are now bearing witness to an arms race of stupid, because stupid is in such high demand from the GOP base at the present moment. Stupid is what gets you attention, and attention is what gets you better polling numbers.

This is yet another example of a progressive hit piece, but this time Ben Carson is taking the heat for uttering the ultimate progressive anathema–personal responsibility.  (The piece is also flavored with the perennial, toxic Donald-Trump-hating sauce, on the side.)

In an interview after the Oregon shootings, Carson simply stated that if he were in a similar situation, he wouldn’t just let a shooter fire bullets at him without charging back at him.   He would sacrifice himself in an effort to save others.  He wouldn’t cower.  He wouldn’t comply with the shooter’s demands to lay down and die.

With that statement, the progressives descended, with a vehemence.  How dare Carson put voice to an idea–the idea of self-defense, or even worse, defense of others without reliance on the “authorities”?  It is so offensive to the progressive left that the idea of self-reliance, of self-sacrifice, of not waiting for help to arrive that the thought must be absolutely discredited.

If too many people put stock in the idea that Americans can make a plan for their actions in critical situations, well, people might get other ideas.  For example, an idea that the government might *not* be the ultimate savior of all the people all the time, that Americans might be able to respond to physical, life-threatening aggressions in a self-preserving way, all on their very own!  Or, the ultimate horror for progressives, that guns in the hands of lawful citizens might seriously curtail future attacks such as the ones occurring this week in Oregon, Sacramento, or Houston.

This whole idea of the responsible citizen must be banished from the public’s consciousness.

The best way for progressives to do that is to discredit the messenger.  Immediately.  F#@k yeah.

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