Beyond disturbing

By now you have likely heard about the incident of young "activists" following Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) into a public restroom. 

🔴BREAKING: Blanca, an AZ immigrant youth confronts @SenatorSinema inside her classroom, where she teaches @ ASU. "in 2010 both my grandparents got deported bc of SB1070...my grandfather passed away 2 wks ago & I wasn't able to go to Mexico bc there is no pathway to citizenship." pic.twitter.com/JDZYY2fOD2

— LUCHA Arizona (@LUCHA_AZ) October 3, 2021

This all stems from Sinema (as well as Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin of WV) not wanting to support another $3.5 trillion in spending, much of which is to fund radical leftist programs. 

Regardless of the merits of the legislation Sinema opposes, this goes beyond the boundaries of civility and decorum. Yes, Sinema works for Arizonans and thus she answers the state's citizens. But to harass her while she's engaged in a private activity (i.e. using the restroom) and then broadcasting it for millions to see is disgusting, deranged and flat out wrong, This shouldn't be that difficult for anyone to say, yet the guy elected President in large part because of his "decency," "competence" and "compassion" couldn't bring himself to give an unqualified condemnation. 

 

President Joe Biden condemned activists cornering Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema in a bathroom over the weekend and filming the encounter but dismissed the tactics as common and "part of the process."

“I don’t think they’re appropriate tactics, but it happens to everybody,” Biden said of the people who confronted Sinema on Sunday. “The only people it doesn’t happen to is people who have Secret Service standing around them. It’s part of the process.”

Somehow if the key players were changed up (i.e. the elected official was someone who supported far left causes and was harassed by those who opposed such policy), the reactions might be a tad different. 

Charles C.W. Cooke of National Review presents such a scenario. 

I can hear the rhetoric now. Change a handful of inconvenient details, and this incident would be cast as an attack on “women,” on “the LGBT community,” and on “our democracy itself.” Put the motivating criticisms in the mouth of Tucker Carlson, instead of Chris Hayes, and the episode would be widely held as “the logical endpoint of the climate of hatred that has been whipped up.” Attribute the passion to a MAGA type instead of a progressive, and it would be said to “evoke the painful memories of January 6.” Noting the event, the Washington Post concluded that it was “representative of the dissatisfaction that many Arizona Democrats — and Democrats across the country — have voiced over Sinema’s resistance toward the reconciliation bill.” Is there anyone alive who believes that the Post would have been this sanguine if the roles had been reversed?

As an independent thinking, openly bisexual female, Sinema becoming the first Democrat in thirty years to win election to the U.S. Senate out of Arizona would be something leftists could normally hang their proverbial hats on. I mean, look how many boxes she checks on the "intersectionality scorecard." As it turns out, most proggies would prefer that this particular female would robotically submit to the party's demands.  Oh the irony is rich indeed. 

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