Luigi Mangione, Suspected Assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Appears to Be Another Misguided Leftist
Incredible: Following a week during which a group of privileged, overly-online leftists praised the assassination of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson, the NYPD has apprehended a suspect . . . who appears to be a privileged, overly-online leftist.
In the coming days, we will uncover more about Luigi Mangione, who was reportedly found with a ghost gun and a silencer related to the crime, along with multiple fraudulent IDs and a manifesto stating, “These parasites had it coming.”
Mangione is a graduate of an elite Baltimore private school costing nearly $40,000 a year and the University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained two notable technology degrees.
According to sources in law enforcement familiar with Mangione’s online presence, he followed anti-capitalist and climate activist agendas.
Although sources hint that his personal motive for the murder relates to how the insurance or healthcare sectors treated a sick family member, it’s worth noting he also shared a notable quote from “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, who lamented that “antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual’s internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.”
Whether or not an insanity plea will be presented, there appears to be a shared delusion between the assassin and his online supporters: the belief that the US health insurance industry is deliberately malicious, justifying violence against its leaders as a rational response.
It’s well-known that navigating healthcare financing in this country can be perplexing and frustrating. However, the left’s fixation on a government takeover as a panacea for all issues, along with the vilification of dissenters, reflects nothing but misguided arrogance.
The reality is that health insurance in this nation is complicated by a range of government-imposed expenses and regulations.
Moreover, socialized medical systems in countries like Britain and Canada often require patients to endure waiting periods of months for specialized care or essential tests such as MRIs that most Americans receive within days. Individuals in those nations who can afford it commonly seek services from the private sector.
There is no such thing as limitless “free” healthcare, yet many of our most educated individuals seem to think otherwise.
The fact that only one among them has reportedly taken the “logical” step of killing an innocent person based on this ideology does not diminish the alarming nature of the thoughts held by those who praised his actions afterward.
