The Left’s favorite alleged killer, Luigi Mangione, is getting off-Broadway treatment this June, just 20 minutes from where UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down, execution-style. It’s the same tired liberal playbook: shifting blame for violence from the perpetrator to society.
While the creators insist Luigi: The Musical “doesn’t glorify violence,” they appear to justify it by “examining how violence is not just the act of individuals, but of elite institutions,” through “neglect, indifference, and lack of accountability.”
This institutional-blame framing isn’t new. A similar liberal sleight-of-hand is used during conversations about urban violence. When a minority commits a crime, the Left blames mythological systems of oppression, as if the perpetrator had no agency or his hand was forced by society. In Mangione’s case, the Left was quick to blame those greedy capitalists — the same ones responsible for lifting more people out of poverty than people who starved to death under socialism.
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Through a weaponized bastardization of empathy, the Left has convinced itself that attempts to solve societal problems outside the “progressive” — code for socialist — orthodoxy are, in fact, violence. The Left will hand a homeless person cash he’ll use to overdose on fentanyl, in the name of compassion, and then oppose job-creating policies that could actually help him stand on his own feet.
So, because the health insurance industry doesn’t just magically erase everyone’s medical bills, this is seen as “neglect, indifference, and lack of accountability” — or “violence” according to the Luigi musical creators. The problem is caused by government meddling in healthcare through overregulation, and the solution according to the Left is … for the government to meddle in healthcare.
But the question should not be about why the circumstances surrounding the healthcare industry led to Thompson’s murder, or even why the Left’s proposed solutions would only exacerbate those issues, but rather why young people and liberals in particular are becoming more inclined to justify or normalize political violence.
Polls tell the story. In the wake of Thompson’s murder, a plurality of young people believed the killing to be at least somewhat justified. Shortly before Charlie Kirk was killed, allegedly by a college-aged assassin, he highlighted a poll showing 49% of left-wing respondents believed it was at least partially justified to murder Elon Musk, and most believed it was at least partially justified to murder President Donald Trump. After Kirk’s killing, 70% of liberals believed it would be at least somewhat justified to kill Trump, and just 51% of all young people believed that violence is never justified.
How did we get here? Answer: radical left-wing indoctrination from K-12 all the way through college. Young adults are being programmed with a “love”-branded version of hatred, an ideology that says “we’re the good guys, and anyone who disagrees with us is a Nazi — and who wouldn’t want Nazis dead?”
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With how much anti-Israel propaganda exists on campus, it’s no wonder that 46% of young adults believed Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks, during which over 1,200 Israelis were killed, and many were raped, tortured, and kidnapped, were justified.
If they can justify Islamic terrorism, why not healthcare vigilantism?