On 9/11 And Us Being More Divided Than Ever
On 9/11/2020, Conservative Commentator Allie Beth Stuckey tweeted the following:
If 9/11 happened today, a large portion of the left would cheer, declare we got exactly what we deserve, & welcome the chaos. I very much wish that weren’t the case. I wish we simply had policy differences.
Of course, this is something they say every year. That, while the left might have been civil at the time, nowadays they’re just too far gone to respectively respond to something like 9/11.
It’s quite odd to think about because the first people I remember blaming America was this guy, four days after the attack:
The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way — all of them who have tried to secularize America — I point the finger in their face and say “you helped this happen.” — Jerry Falwell
Stop it Jerry Falwell, you’re dividing America. Well, okay the entire nation agreed he was a monster, with even people like Pat Robertson, who was interviewing Falwell at the time and responded to this with “I completely concur” later saying he wasn’t paying attention, but still. Even Falwell himself was forced to pretend to feel sorry for blaming the American public for the 9/11 attacks.
In 2007, Dinesh D’Souza published The Enemies At Home, a book that openly blamed American culture for 9/11. For that matter, as early as the week of 9/11, Republicans like Orin Hatch and Newt Gingrich were blaming America — in the form of blaming former President Bill Clinton.
Of course, this is a constantly moving target. Stuckley says that in 2020, specifically this year, liberals would blame America for 9/11. Ignoring how (un)true that is, these people were saying liberals were already doing that back in 2001. In her 2002 book Slander: Liberal Lies About The American Right, Ann Coulter wrote:
Even Islamic terrorists don’t hate America like liberals do. They don’t have the energy. If they had that much energy, they’d have indoor plumbing by now.
On the day of 9/11/2001, Conservative radio host Michael Savage (who is also a strong supporter of President Trump) and his son Russell Weiner (the founder of Rockstar Energy) spent the day blaming the left for the attack. But all of that must be thrown down the memory hole so we can now accept the Gospel of us being more divided than ever because of liberals.
It’s for the this reason you also didn’t see any of these comments from a recent Fox News article on the wildfires in California, but you did see plenty of anger about hypothetical liberals blaming America for 9/11:
What do we want? Dead libs. When do we want them? Now.
If you can’t win by vote win by fire.
It’s sad that the fires are mostly in southern Oregon. It would be much better for fires to be in Portland.
Again, because the narrative is not about reality. What I just quoted is not us being “more divided than ever,” because, as I just showed, many on the right were saying the same thing back in the 2000’s. It’s me showing that this narrative that the left is dividing us is simply not based in reality.
