Useless Idiot

26-year-old Luigi Mangione was arrested yesterday at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He was carrying several weapons, which were very similar to the weapons used in the murder of United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson. He also had several fake IDs and a fake passport on him. They also found a manifesto that he had written explaining his motivation to commit such a crime. In it, he expresses a hatred for corporate America and the health insurance industry. Mangione will most likely spend the rest of his natural life in a prison cell. He is what is known as a “useful idiot”.

From all reports, he grew up receiving a liberal education from elite schools. He was valedictorian of his high school, the prestigious Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, and went to receive a degree in computer science from an Ivy League School, the University of Pennsylvania. It is apparent that he did not simply receive an education, he was indoctrinated into a far left-wing ideology by these propaganda factories. And his act to kill Brian Thompson was the end result of that indoctrination. The far left doesn’t merely teach that corporate America or capitalism is misguided, wrong or not the best way to run an economy; the far left indoctrinates their subjects into believing that corporate America and capitalism are outright evil.

There’s a statistic spreading through the internet which states that health insurance companies are responsible for the deaths of 250,000 people in America every year. I don’t really understand how they came up with that number, considering, by law, doctors and hospitals cannot turn away a patient or fail provide necessary medical care to any patient simply because they cannot afford to pay for it. So, if doctors and hospitals turned away 250,000 people this past year because they didn’t have adequate health insurance, and all those people died, that is on the doctors and hospitals. They violated state and federal law. So obviously that’s statistic is highly questionable as pretty much all statistics that people on the far-left use to support their arguments.

So, what did Luigi Mangione believe that he was going to accomplish by murdering Brian Thompson? Did he actually believe that suddenly these health insurance companies would start expanding their coverage? Did he expect that the actuary tables for health insurance would magically change? All he did was murder a person and send himself to prison for the rest of his life. That’s it. And that’s what you get for allowing yourself to be indoctrinated by the far left who labels everyone they disagree with as evil. He thought he was murdering the devil when in fact, he became the devil.

But this is the same thing that happened to Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old who attempted to assassinate President Trump this past July. He had been indoctrinated by the far-left propaganda that told him that Donald Trump was the second coming of Adolf Hitler, and that Trump was the most-evil man on the planet, so he believed that he was being heroic by trying to kill the new Hitler. But the only thing he accomplished was being shot dead by a Secret Service sniper rifle. That’s it. He accomplished nothing else. He is dead. He is in a grave. He was not heroic. He was a monster.

Audrey Hale, the Tennessee school shooter who murdered three 9-year-old school children and three adults, before being killed by police last year, fell into the same indoctrination that Mangione and Crooks did. Her manifesto was filled with pages of far left-wing, anti-Christian, pro-LGBTQ propaganda, which caused her to believe that murdering nine-year-old Christian children was the most moral thing to do, and what did she get for being indoctrinated into that propaganda by the far left? A body full of holes. She accomplished nothing else, other than an early grave, and most likely an eternity in hell.

But that is what the far left does. Not only don’t the people on the far-left care about Brian Thompson or Donald Trump or the three murdered 9-year-old school kids, they don’t care about Luigi Mangione, Thomas Crooks, or Audrey Hale – the people they indoctrinated to commit those heinous crimes. To the far left, those people are useful idiots. The left knows exactly what they’re doing when they call the people they disagree with evil, dictators, and Hitler; when they falsely claim that the CEO of a major Health Insurance company is responsible for 250,000 deaths per year; they know there’s somebody out there like Luigi Mangione who is going to take matters into his own hands. They spread their hate anyway because they want someone like Mangione to commit this murder. They’ll speak out against the murder, but deep down they’re glad that it happened. And the people who commit these heinous acts are the useful idiots. They are tools that the left uses to continue to push their agenda through intimidation and violence. 

Don’t get me wrong, I am not shedding a tear for any of those three people. They made their choices, and they are suffered the consequences of those choices. The shame of it is with his education, Luigi Mangione could have actually done something extremely productive for society. But instead, because the far left indoctrinates people to hate anyone who disagrees with them, or thinks different from them, Mangione will take his elite education from the University of Pennsylvania and the Gilman school, and spend the rest of his life in a 6 x 8 prison cell, helping nobody, bettering society in absolutely no way.

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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.