{"id":35907,"date":"2016-09-07T00:30:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T03:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=35907"},"modified":"2016-11-24T21:00:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T00:00:17","slug":"mikey-weinstein-a-bitter-harsh-left-wing-version-of-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/07\/mikey-weinstein-a-bitter-harsh-left-wing-version-of-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey Weinstein: A Bitter, Harsh, Left-Wing Version of Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Believe it or not, Michael “Mikey” Weinstein has been immortalized in theatre. In 2008, Steve Cosson wrote “This Beautiful City<\/a>,” a play about Colorado Springs and the Evangelical community. Mikey Weinstein is portrayed\u00a0in that play, and he’s touted it whenever its been in production.<\/p>\n

The American Theater Company’s Youth Ensemble<\/a> put it on this summer in Chicago. As part of their experience, they visited Colorado Springs and saw New Life Church, which also plays a prominent role in the play, and they met Mikey Weinstein.<\/p>\n

While Weinstein was probably holding out for Bruce Willis, he was played instead by ATC actor Max Dizon:<\/p>\n

\"dizon1\"In an August interview with the cast<\/a>, Dizon explained what it was like to meet the man he was portraying [emphasis added]:\u00a0 <\/p>\n

The conversation with him with him was…fantastic. Even though it was it was mostly him just kind of going on multiple different tangents after I would ask, like, a small question.<\/p>\n

I was kind of getting annoyed because he wouldn\u2019t stop talking<\/strong>…but at the same time, I\u2019m just like, \u201cHe\u2019s answering all my questions before I even ask them…\u201d<\/p>\n

Talking with Weinstein, that was an amazing experience…to see his perspective and why he had such a harsh rhetoric.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For those who have dealt with Weinstein before, that description rings very true. Talking to Weinstein is like pulling the string on a toy — Weinstein starts down his talking points (regardless of the question) and goes on a long, meandering and often irrelevant monologue, paying no mind to the person to whom he’s speaking. That monologue will probably also be unoriginal;\u00a0just about anything he says you can find verbatim online from his prior diatribes.<\/p>\n

Dizon unapologetically\u00a0described Weinstein as having “harsh rhetoric” and then followed it up with more detail [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n

When I just read through his monologues…I thought that he would be like a left-wing equivalent of someone like Donald Trump<\/strong>. But when I met him and when I had that discussion with him, he \u2014 he wasn\u2019t as harsh as I took him to be…<\/p>\n

There was still that sense…like he had a grudge<\/strong> and there\u2019s still that sense of bitterness against religious conservatives<\/strong>, but he had a very good reason to be so harsh, considering…the only way to have your voice be heard is to scream as loud as possible and hit things<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a fascinating observation by a seemingly impartial observer. Dizon says that Weinstein’s words made him seem like a harsh person. In fact, Dizon compared him to a liberal version of Donald Trump — something that surely makes Weinstein cringe.<\/p>\n

Dizon also says Weinstein was “bitter[] against religious conservatives” and he\u00a0came from a world where you had to “scream as loud as possible and hit things” to be heard.\u00a0That’s an amazingly astute picture of one Mikey Weinstein — a harsh man motivated by bitterness, not principle or liberty.<\/p>\n

It seems meeting Weinstein softened Dizon’s view slightly, though that apparently came from the belief that Weinstein had a reason<\/em> to be a harsh, screaming, violent person — not because he wasn’t<\/em> one.<\/p>\n

In a somewhat tragic note, notice Dizon never said anything<\/em> noble<\/strong> or virtuous<\/strong> about Weinstein. He didn’t say anything about defending religious freedom, the Constitution, or standing on principle. He didn’t say Weinstein’s words or actions were admirable or noble, nor did he indicate they had needed value in society today.\u00a0 In fact,\u00a0Dizon didn’t say anything positive about Weinstein at all<\/em> — not\u00a0one word\u00a0of praise.<\/p>\n

In essence, the kid playing Mikey Weinstein on stage described the real-life Mikey Weinstein as a bitter person who hates religious conservatives and throws\u00a0tantrums.<\/p>\n

That<\/em> is Weinstein’s immortalized legacy.<\/p>\n

But Mikey Weinstein’s failures in life can serve as a cautionary tale for others:<\/p>\n

For what do you<\/em> want to be remembered? If someone portrayed you<\/em> in a play, what storyline do you think they’d see? Do you think they’d see the same life theme you do?<\/p>\n

Are you going to be immortalized as an embittered, get-off-my-lawn, hate-filled cynic, or will you be known for the love of Christ?<\/p>\n

What’s your <\/em>legacy?<\/p>\n

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