Politi befinner seg utenfor Robb Elementary School i Uvalde, Texas, etter skytingen der den 24. mai 2022. Foto: Dario Lopez-Mills / AP / NTB.

Etter at USA igjen er blitt rystet av en skoleskyting, nå i Uvalde i Texas, har massakren nok en gang utløst den sedvanlige debatten om våpenlover, skriver pastor Andrew Isker. Men samfunnet er til de grader fiksert på det som skjer i øyeblikket, at de færreste spør seg hvorfor disse forferdelige hendelsene er et relativt nytt fenomen i USAs historie, konstaterer han.

Isker er ikke i tvil om at det finnes sosiale grunner til at det har skjedd så mange skoleskytinger: Mange unge menn i USA vokser opp med håpløshet og oppløsning uten å oppleve kjærlighet eller knytte bånd til faren, lokalsamfunnet eller landet, skriver Isker hos Gab News.

De unge skoleskyterne er etter hans oppfatning et akutt symptom på et sykt land:

You must understand that school shooters and other mass shooters are an extremely acute symptom of the disease that horribly afflicts the American nation. You live in an incredibly sick society, and since you are born into it and live in it every day, you go about your life mostly unaware of just how dreadful things really are.

Dette henger sammen med at vi i dag er ekstremt opptatt av det omgivelsene anser som den ene store tingen i øyeblikket, hevder han. Ukraina-krigen og koronapandemien kan tjene som ferske eksempler. Konsekvensen er uansett at vi mister forbindelsen til fortiden, mener Isker:

It is imperative for the people who manufacture the inversion of reality that you perceive everything through the lens of the now. This is why “The Current Thing” has such memetic power: it attacks reality distortion at its source, where obsession over what is, right now, cuts you off from any sense of historical perspective.

Når fortiden glemmes, faller det heller ikke naturlig å spørre seg hvorfor nåtiden er så annerledes. Hvorfor var det ingen skoleskytinger for hundre år siden, da våpenlovene var enda mer liberale?

Det er opplagt, sier Isker, som mener at dagens USA er en fabrikk som produserer psykopater:

Modern American society is a factory for psychopaths. The young man in the North American Continent is planted in a field fertilized by atomization, loneliness, and hopelessness. Many have never met their father, and most do not have anything remotely close to a “good relationship” with him. Most have no meaningful connection to the community in which they live, nor even the nation they inhabit.

Dermed står de heller ikke godt rustet til skolelivet. De blir utstøtt og søker tilflukt på nettet:

In school, they are social outcasts, driven to niche internet communities for the only semblance of human interaction in their lives. They are marinated in hardcore pornography from before they have even reached pubescence. They know (or at least perceive) that they will never know the love of a flesh-and-blood woman. They are on the kind of pharmacological cocktail that any premodern society would only ascribe to witchcraft and demon possession.

Restulatet er at de ikke har noenting å leve for, konkluderer Isker, som med tanke på det høye antallet unge menn i denne miserable situasjonen ikke spør seg hvorfor det forekommer skoleskytinger, men snarere hvorfor de ikke skjer mye oftere.

USA er rammet av en åndelig tomhet som makten har påtvunget gjennom sine sosiale eksperimenter de siste seksti årene, hevder Isker:

America is an incredibly sick nation. There is a spiritual sickness that pervades everything like a dark cloud. The people who dominate every institution in our nation have held this power for at least sixty years. For these sixty years, they have treated this nation as a grand social experiment.

Langs veien er mye havnet i grøfta, det være seg familien, tilknytningen til lokalsamfunnet, industrien, samholdet, lov og orden:

They have made the natural family, the very bedrock of human civilization, an antiquated, outdated institution that we have progressed beyond. They have financialized and commodified all of human life, uprooting people from their homes and extended families, and making them mercenaries chasing after a rapidly devalued dollar. They have exported the industry of the nation impoverishing the heartland of the country and leaving them to languish in despair.

Det er enkelt å si seg enig med Isker om disse tingene. Men spørsmålet er om det ikke går over stokk og stein for ham. Pastoren ser nemlig noe bortimot djevelsk i det som er skjedd: Makten liker at befolkningen rammes, hevder han:

They actively cheer the deaths and replacement of the hated population, while at the same time denying this was ever their intent.

Isker går så langt som til å anklage presidenten for å være så ond at han hygger seg over massakren i Uvalde:

This despicable man, and the legion of sociopathic ghouls arrayed behind him, are clearly overjoyed that there is a classroom full of young children lying dead in Texas. They don’t actually care about the anguish of parents who will never see their child grow up. Their deaths are merely a political prop for the most evil people on the planet.

Isker ser dette som en naturlig forlengelse av en slags sadisme som fikk myndighetene til å innføre lockdown og påtvinge vaksiner:

It is hard to fully comprehend just how totalitarian such designs are. But these are the very same sadistic freaks who successfully locked those 330 million people in their homes for weeks or months, and then (mostly successfully) restricted their ability to provide for their families if they refused to get an extremely dangerous mRNA injection that does not even accomplish its intended purpose.

For maktmenneskene er befolkningen bare laboratorierotter som ikke tjener til noe annet enn å beholde makten, hevder Isker. Vanlige mennesker har i henhold til denne tankegangen ingen annen eksistensberettigelse.

Tilgi ikke makten, for den vet hva den gjør, konkluderer han:

This did not happen by accident. These people are motivated by a deep hatred of humanity. Like the geriatric that currently occupies the Oval Office who well represents them, they simply do not care how much people suffer. You might think the progressive is merely mistaken, deluded by ideology. This is not the case. They have had more than sixty years to see the full extent of human misery their ideology produces when applied to the healthiest and most prosperous conditions. They know what they are doing.

Iskers tekst illustrerer mange amerikaneres forhold til makten: De forholder seg til myndigheter med sunn skepsis og motvilje, men er ikke nødvendigvis så treffsikre i sine mistanker eller anklager. Når motparten ender opp som en slags satan i menneskeskikkelse, er det i alle fall ikke noe særlig rom for dialog.

Pastoren kaller da også motparten for fienden:

But what is to be done? The utopian bugmen that dominate our nation must be overcome. You must personally re-capture the same spirit of Christian America that built a great nation. You must do all within your personal sphere of influence to rebuild the things that our enemies have destroyed.

Han kan ikke desto mindre gi noen gode råd:

You must rebuild churches dominated by liberals and weak-willed conservatives. You must rebuild neighborhoods and communities with people who, like you, love the nation that their great, great-grandparents built and who want to worship the same God who gave them such strength. You must devote your life to both retaking what institutions you can, and creating alternatives for the institutions you can’t.

Motparten er visst kreft også:

It is not simply enough to decry that the libs have ruined everything—of course they have, they are like cancer!

Det er naturligvis ikke noe bedre den andre veien heller. Den logiske konklusjonen på slike motsetningsforhold er enten segregasjon eller borgerkrig.