In 1938, then-British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was trying to hold a very fragile European peace together and decided that negotiations and concessions would be enough to satisfy all parties involved and stop the bloodshed that had just a handful of years previously, taken the lives of millions across the globe. He, along with French leaders, decided to give in to Germany's leader, a guy by the name of Adolf Hitler, and give him the Sudetenland on his word that he wouldn't continue his aggressive expansion.
Chamberlain returned home shouting, "Peace in our time." Hitler returned home saying, "What a bunch of idiots. Gas up the Luftwaffe."
Chamberlain suffered from a delusion that has plagued humanity's "nice guys" throughout history. It's the same sentiment that caused millions of people to think John Lennon was an American Gandhi... or that Gandhi was actually a good guy.
It's the idea that compassion is the ultimate social virtue. That love is all you need, and we all should just get along. You'll often see these people paraphrasing Jesus or cherry-picking things he said out of context and using His name to reinforce their own misguided philosophies.
Compassion is, in my opinion, one of the most abused virtues in the Western world.
At the beginning of this year, I penned a piece titled "I'm All Out of 'Compassion" in which I effectively swore off caring about the plight of people trying to come into this country to escape their miserable countries of origin. I especially didn't care anymore because too many of them come here and begin turning our communities into the very places they left behind. American women and girls, in particular, were being assaulted, raped, and killed. People were dying left and right because of the drugs flowing across the border thicker than the Rio itself.
As I wrote then, if you were to rip off the mask of "compassion," you'd find it was old man leftist guilt all along:
Compassion is easy to abuse, because it opens the door for another emotion; guilt. The left preys on the feeling of guilt incessantly. You're supposed to feel guilty for living in the most advanced and comfortable nation on the planet. You're supposed to feel guilty of your wealth, your full belly, your technological prowess, and even the negative fallout from the practice of your God-given rights.
Guilt has been used by the left to brainwash people and get them in line to vote for Democrats in hopes that this guilt will be absolved.
Which brings me to a suggestion I'd like to give to the entire Nation, and possibly the Western world.
Don't just kick performative compassion to the curb; make a greater effort to openly have pride in Western civilization. Realize that you have absolutely nothing to feel guilty about, and that your contributions to it, whether that's getting a job, paying taxes, or even having children, are the continuation of the greatest and most successful experiment in human history.
Stop letting leftists and foreigners point out the flaws and pretend that these are the only things that matter. They don't. That's like pointing at the cracked toe on the Statue of David and declaring the entire legendary work of art is ugly. It'd be like pointing at the tiny freckle on Sydney Sweeney's chest and proclaiming she's "mid" because of it. Likewise, judging an entire civilization by its flaws is intellectual malpractice.
And what's more, doing so opens the door for actual flaws to set in. You think the Somali day care scandal that allowed them to rake in billions of our taxpayer dollars illegitimately came about because they're so good at organized crime that the Italian mafia takes notes? No. The only reason it exists is that some "compassionate" leftists thought it was only right to avert their gaze as crime happened under their noses because doing so eased their Western guilt and made them feel morally superior.
You think Charlie's murder would've happened if Western civilization had embraced the truth and weighed his points honestly instead of calling him a Nazi every five minutes as it funneled victimhood narratives toward the LGBTQ+ community in the name of "compassion?"
I'm tired of the suicidal nature of the Western left infecting everyone else with its "good guy" disease. I think, across the nation, we should aspire to be a lot less "compassionate" in 2026 and be a lot more willing to create and defend the West as our ancestors did.
