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I've been at the CPAC convention in Dallas over the past few days, and I'm not sure if it's that most people went to Turning Point USA's America Fest instead or what, but the event is relatively empty. There are just not a lot of people wandering around, either. It could be that TPUSA effect, or because it's a midterm year and not a big general election year, but there are not a lot of politicians in the house, mostly just media personalities. And those who are speaking from the main stage have been steadfast in their message that the conservative movement must come together.
The CPAC crowd is largely in the Boomer age group, with a handful of younger people. A large group of Iranians is also here, staging their advocacy for the return of the monarchy of Iran and the overthrow of the IRGC and the theocracy that has ruled their nation since 1979. There doesn't seem to be a substantial amount of division among the crowd, despite how much we hear about conservative fracturing online. Trump is not here and I haven't seen any notable politicians leaving it to feel a bit out of touch with national power players.
Meanwhile, while American conservatives are trying to figure out how to coalesce and move forward as a movement, trying desperately not to lose the midterms, Spain has executed a woman because she's depressed. Or rather, they allowed her to commit suicide with the government's help. When she was a teenager, she had been removed from her family and placed into government care. She was put in group housing, where she was raped by African migrants.
It was so brutal that she tried to kill herself by jumping off a building. Instead, she ended up paralyzed. She found herself so miserable that she decided to opt for euthanasia. Her family tried to fight it as the government helped her move ahead. The word is that her organs were slated for donation to other people. Her father tried to prevent the government from killing his 25-year-old daughter, but his legal challenge failed. Now her family is without her, and while the killing was meant to cure her depression, all it did was end her life.
"I was very clear about it from the beginning," she said in an interview days before her allegedly consensual killing. "None of my family is in favor of euthanasia. Obviously, because I'm another pillar of the family. I'm leaving, and you're staying here with all the pain.
"But I think, all the pain I've suffered over the years... I just want to leave in peace now and stop suffering, period. And a father's, or a mother's, or a sister's happiness doesn't have to come before a daughter's happiness or sadness of a daughter's life."
This is an insane view, and a government that claims to help by killing young women, that claims to be compassionate by telling them they have no reason to live, is not a government that should have jurisdiction over any human beings at all. Between abortion, transgender sex changes for minors, euthanasia, and demeaning parenthood, we are living in a death cult. Life has inherent value. Death does not. The conservative movement must coalesce around life. Nothing else truly matters.
Libby