OPINION - At a recent Town Council meeting, we witnessed a public comment that stripped away any pretense of civility. What should have been a reasoned disagreement over renaming a building in honor of a slain conservative leader became something else — angry, mocking and ultimately descending into a poisonous invocation of Hitler. It was less an argument than a performance of outrage.
Such moments expose a deeper cultural fracture. Progressives treat disagreement not as part of democracy but as an offense against their ideological code. To oppose them is to commit heresy. Their politics have become a substitute faith, one that sanctifies resentment and condemns belief in God, tradition or the moral order that grounds civil society.
For conservatives, this divide is no longer a mere difference of opinion. It is a clash between two incompatible moral visions: one grounded in gratitude, faith and duty; the other in grievance, disbelief and perpetual rebellion. We will continue to extend civility, but it will be civility under duress, offered to those who no longer recognize its worth after having forfeited any claim to it.
