Perhaps in our modern day comfort the idea of “happiness” codified into the Declaration of Independence seems perfectly acceptable, but at the time this had to be some kind of radical idea. This notion that the mass of men should pursue “happiness”.
The late eighteenth century was still one closely connected to one of ruling class, and servant class. Not long removed from a feudal society model. Where the wealthy definitely pursued their own “happiness”, at the expense and toil of the working class, and lower class. Those left to tend the land, lift the bails, work the coal mines, and to live the life that Henry David Thoreau later referred to as “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation”.
That is certainly no description of “happiness”.
In our present day and age, where even the lower class can afford to go on a Carnival Cruise Line and evince the most ratchet behavior, “happiness” is a given, an expectation, most consider it a “right”. As did the forefathers portend. I would venture to say that in our present day and age we have more “happiness” available, especially if you agree that comfort is to some degree a “happiness”, than any society in the history of mankind.
How many of us enter a chilled, air-conditioned building from the sweltering heat expectantly? As if our minimum expectations are to experience climate controlled “weather”, with a temperature of seventy, at all times. To a man visiting from the eighteenth century just moving about through air-conditioning would produce a “happiness” that would cause glee.
In the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, there is an explosion of “happiness” on the Left that is so profound they cannot keep their joy to themselves, they must go to one of the new sites devoted to video and share their unbridled joy. On this new “X” competitor catering to the Left, Bluesky, they appear on video giddy over a family man losing his life, a wife being widowed, two children facing life without their beloved father.
On Tik Tok, Instagram, and “X”, they take the time to make videos expressing their “happiness” that a man has been felled by an assassins bullet. A man who never harmed a soul, but attempted to take his own values out into the public arena for debate. Who wanted to persuade, challenge ideas, talk, discuss. Never in a cruel fashion, never vitriolic, just conversational tone. A discussion of ideas. Against a usually hostile crowd on Campuses where ideas in opposition flourish, and are well-nurtured.
I’ve only seen a few of these ghoulish videos, and I note that most are made by young, Liberal, females. Many are teachers, working in institutions of learning where spirited debate should be welcomed, but where it appears that only one side of the debate is acceptable. Their side.
And I must share with you my first thoughts on viewing these videos from the Left, that though they seem to be “happy” that Charlie Kirk has been swept too early from this mortal coil, there is something in the eyes that tells me that in their individual lives they are anything but “happy”. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that we have now, in this country, two entire generations of women from their twenties into their late thirties, turning forty, who are the most personally miserable people alive today.
These two generations have produced a single woman, career driven, overly-selective, and self-centered, who cannot find the “happiness” promised by Mr. Jefferson and Company, appear to be seeking this “happiness” in all the wrong places, and have made of themselves such a miserable wretch of a human being that they celebrate a man getting a bullet straight through the neck, severing a major artery, and bleeding out before our nation’s eyes.
I’ve encountered these women, frequently. Young, Liberal, confident in their opinions, wayward as they may be, convinced that they alone have found the real truth in life.
And yet to a woman they are the most miserable creatures that exist in our nation.
In private they will confess. To a lack of fulfillment, a yearning, a desire for companionship, a “soul mate” to join them in their journey.
So many of these women have decided to forgo the benefit of children that it is just astounding. They wear their abortions as a badge of honor, feel as if they are doing humanity some service by not reproducing, and are convinced that humanity has been the single worst thing that ever happened to planet earth.
Somehow we have allowed the Left to control our educational system, poison the minds of our youth, mostly the impressionable young woman out there between the ages of fourteen and forty, and we have put so many of them on SSRI’s as if a pill can solve their blues, that we have made two generations of young women completely miserable.
To the extent they celebrate an assassination. They didn’t just witness the event and keep their joy private, as even one from the Left with a lick of common sense might, so as to present a human face to the world. No, they decided to go online and share their lack of empathy, their lack of sympathy, their lack of humanity with the entire world.
I’ve met these young women. They are pursuing this “happiness” all wrong. They have been conditioned to think that this “happiness” is in all the wrong places.
The wealthier of these women who have achieved some career success clearly think that this “happiness” can be found in an expensive handbag, white Range Rover, expensive jewelry dangling, and the finest in branded clothing.
They have yet to learn that material pursuits can never, let me repeat that never, provide real, soulful, happiness.
The rest of these single females who are leading “lives of quiet desperation” are chasing a ghost of a husband, a man they’ve been conditioned to want, and who provide a laundry list of demands to be met to gain their “special” hand in marriage.
This “Prince Charming” must be over six foot tall, have a mid-range six figure occupation, cater to her every need, and be the greatest lover since Valentino.
These single females appear to want to deny any connection made with the average Joe they met at the bar over the weekend should he fail to meet this criteria. They place no value on that “sizzle”, or “connection” one can feel when meeting “the one”, they are seeking a check-list, not a meaningful relationship.
As the years go by, and their “soul mate” doesn’t appear, their bitterness toward life increases. Oh, and by the way, the term “soul mate” is indicative of the disease. There is no one single person “just for you”. There are many people with which you can connect, find happiness, and share life with, however, you must be willing to allow anyone entry. You cannot place a list of demands upon an unknown stranger and expect them to fit through your keyhole of demands immediately. Life is an adventure, as is finding a mate. Some things just cannot be scheduled.
The worst part of viewing these videos is learning that so many are teachers, these miserable people are in charge of education our youth. It is impossible for a teacher to instruct daily, and for them to prevent their own personality from leaking into the lectures.
I know this to be true, and so I wonder what even the next generation thinks as they view this miserable single female creature fomenting evil thoughts about the classroom such as “joy, joy, joy Charlie Kirk is dead”.
Do you want that in the same classroom as your child, or grandchild?
Somehow our nation has produced two generations of miserable female humans.
If the desire to go online and post to the world your own “happiness” over a man being assassinated, then this should be a severe wake-up call for yourself.
This should be your point of no-return.
Charlie Kirk was all about God, the Bible, finding religion, connecting with our higher power, and living the moral life.
I’d guess a mid-thirties female, proud of her multiple abortions, miserably single, and who embraces the hatred of the Far Left is as far from the message of Charlie Kirk as one can get.
But they are the ones who need Charlie Kirk the most. The ones his message would have benefitted the most.
If only they weren’t so severely self-absorbed making their make-up tutorials, and posing on Tik-Tok to listen, they might have found the real path toward the “happiness” promised in our Declaration of Independence.
I am doubly-sad today. First that Charlie Kirk has been murdered, and we’ve lost a good man, a good family man, and one preaching the right messages. And second, that the target market that needed that message the most, has not only failed to listen, they actually think mocking the message is the answer.
In the great comedy “Animal House” Dean Wormer tells a Delta pledge, “fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son”.
Well, I speak to two generation of women out there in America when I say, “single, miserable, and bitter is no way to go through life, dear”.
Find the way American woman, find the way.
I can tell you this, if you’ve made a video mocking Charlie Kirk, you aren’t on the right path.