Making Sense of Insanity
My prayer is that when I die, all of hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.
-Charles T. Studd
What a week.
Bleeding From the Neck
One used a knife, and the other a hunting rifle.
Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee, was murdered in Charlotte by a criminal who had at least three felony convictions and 14 prior arrests. The murderer said, “I got that white girl,” as he walked away. Bystanders witnessed the attack and did nothing. One even filmed her last moments. The video was chilling. Mainstream media covered up the story. It’s emblematic of the real problem of crime, activist judges/DAs, and broken cultures in our major cities.
And then Charlie Kirk. The loss of Charlie as a public figure hits particularly hard.
I have friends and family who were close to him. More than that, it’s a loss for the nation and the world. What he meant and symbolized– a peaceful Christian, willing to have a respectful conversation with anyone. Then, to see the reactions of people gloating about his death.
Talking to friends over the past few days, they feel sick. They’re sad for our country and what it means. Charlie touched so many people. He was the best of the conservative movement. For the political right, Charlie Kirk was the biggest influencer, best fundraiser, best organizer, best cultivator of youth and talent, and the best debater.
Many gloated over his assassination. Saying he had it coming. No healthy human celebrates the assassination of a peaceful person.
Conversation
The left promotes policies that lead to misery and human suffering. Yet they act like they have the moral high ground.
The more we have conversations, the more people realize the right is… right. It’s obvious. This is what the left believes. The leftist apparatus is creepily dystopian when you zoom out. It’s why the left fails in long-form. Leftist long-form media talks at the listener instead of engaging in a back-and-forth exchange of competing ideas. They can’t debate.
Producers of open debate shows say they can’t get more democrats to join because leftists want control over the questions and editing. This speaks volumes.
Charlie pushed back on far right ideology. He was as moderate as conservatives come. He went on Newsom’s podcast. Even when Charlie vehemently disagreed, he was always respectful. My friends say this is true to the man he was. They killed the moderate conservative, 31-year-old father of two.
Left vs Right
Charlie Kirk was upstanding family man murdered in cold blood for his political opinions. Since he was assassinated, I haven’t worried about riots, burning cities, "autonomous zones," or violence in the streets. His vigils were heartfelt tributes.
In the Summer of 2020, a career criminal died in a police interaction with, worst case, a negligent and careless cop. The evidence now overwhelmingly points to Floyd’s cause of death being a fentanyl overdose. And yet, it birthed a political movement.
Our leaders failed us. University presidents and board members displayed their cowardice to the world. No one stood up to tell the children they were wrong. Veritas lost.
Politicians kneeled, media organisations held minutes of silence, stadiums and public streets were painted, statues torn down, and billions were given to BLM while their supporters burned down American cities and killed people to "fight racism.” There’s not a shred of evidence that George Floyd's death had anything to do with racism.
It’s like watching the pro-Zionist rallies versus the free Palestine ones. One is peaceful and positive; One is negative and destructive. It’s really as simple as that. It’s not surprising that free Palestine protestors have attacked vigils of Charlie.
Fascists
The left called the mainstream right fascists over and over again.
“Say the wrong things and you might get killed” gets tacit or explicit support from the left. They call us nazis and racists and evil, and then act surprised when one of their radicalized soldiers kills us.
The left says how evil the right is and assumes the worst intentions of them. The right calls the left sick, naive, and idiots. You don’t kill people who are sick, naive, idiots. You pity them and educate them.
Our culture is fractured… we’ve been saying this for a long time, and now we’re seeing the downstream effects of the left’s socialist, Godless, nihilism.
Charlie Kirk was the moderate right figure who represented having a conversation. He used to be more of a firebrand when he was younger to get attention, and had since mellowed out. But what he represented to millions of people was the act of having a conversation. A civil debate. The left killed him and cheered. People who work at “news organizations” like TMZ were literally heard cheering. The far left was ecstatic.
Domestic Terrorism
Canceling people over their opinions is a slippery slope. Canceling people for actively cheering on the assassinations of American civilians is a different story.
There’s a new line that’s been crossed. 2020 lockdowns not allowing people to go to loved ones' funerals outside, BLM riots, Trump assassination attempts, Luigi, and now Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Political violence is here. It’s trending up with massive support.
The last time we had political assassinations was in the 60s. Then, politicians got better at not getting killed in the 70s. Violence escalated until we got better at catching them, and it became clear that it hurt the causes of those who were violent.
Former Weather Underground extremists from the 70s became esteemed college professors. They still held their extremist beliefs and have indoctrinated a new generation. The left is calling for more assassinations.
Some on the left have condemned the assassination of Charlie. Let’s wait a couple of weeks and see when they start calling Trump and the right a threat to democracy and fascists again.
The center-of-the-road leftists lacked the courage to police their own ranks.
Shame
Until people on the left actively shame the far left, kick them out of their tent, and turn them into authorities when they conspire to break the law– it doesn’t mean anything. We know they won’t. Look how Pelosi and other leaders acted during the riots of 2020.
People on the right exile their extremists. People on the left accept them because the left doesn’t have principles. It’s all about power and rationalizing emotions.
If you’re on the left, your allies support assassinating innocent civilians. These are your brethren. This is who votes with you. The mob that celebrates the cold-blooded murder of citizens. No wonder they ally with Islamists.
The right would never have David Duke speak at an event. They kick him out and denounce him. The left lies saying Trump and others support the far right even after they denounce them a dozen times. Meanwhile, the left has DSA members speak at their conferences. Mainstream left politicians are openly endorsing Zohran. The left tolerated the cancer, and now it’s eating their entire party. It doesn’t matter that there are Ezra Klein’s on the left speaking of abundance. It’s a joke, which this piece breaks down.
Acceptance
It’s not a feature of the right in the US to be violent. It has always been a feature of the far left, and that’s coming back. Assassination is becoming normalized by a large segment of our society. 10% of people consider Luigi, the disturbed murderer of the United Healthcare CEO, a hero. Process that. A third of college students are open to using violence to stop speech.
Many of us need time to heal and mourn the loss of Charlie. He wanted to be remembered for his faith. I’ve never seen so many group chats be so solemn. As one friend put it, “They didn’t kill an extremist— they killed the free speech Jesus guy with a beautiful family.”
The side that calls their political opponents hateful and violent shoots them and then tells them to stop being hateful and violent. The far left wants us dead, and the moderate left isn’t going to stop them. Calling for peace and unity doesn’t solve this.
This is reality. Some have known this for a while. It’s like in a movie where a character is saying a horrible catastrophe is coming. No one believes them. Everyone is in denial. Then something so drastic happens that denial is no longer an option. It’s in their face. The robots have become sentient, or the zombies ate their neighbor. It’s shocking. The moderate right is feeling this shock. They have to accept reality. The first step is acceptance.
Once we accept that reality, we must act.
The events of this week are vile. It boils my blood. Anger isn’t good or bad– it’s energy. Use that energy to effectuate change. At a minimum, speak your mind. Be truthful. It may offend some people– that’s their problem. The only way to move culture and the Overton window is to take action. More to come.