I suspect I am like many right now, still processing the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I wasn’t a huge fan. I wasn’t his enemy. I knew he was out there, doing his thing and sometimes I agreed with him and sometimes I did not. I wish I had watched more of the full videos of his debates, as he was good at it and a happy warrior with it. He didn’t pull stunts, dodge, or belittle his opponents. He sought to change minds, and that takes a different approach.
Clearly he was good at it, and it got him murdered for talking. Those who are now calling to cool down and talk things out need to realize that’s not going to work this time because you murdered the man who was willing to truly talk and engage in discourse.
It’s also because a large part of the public, the “normies” if you will, who are not terminally online and such, not only saw Charlie assassinated before their eyes (how many millions have now seen the videos?) but they also watched as their neighbors, doctors, nurses, and teachers ripped off their masks and openly celebrated the death of someone simply because he talked and had beliefs that a bit over half the country hold. The normies realized that those people truly do want them dead and would celebrate their death just as they did Charlie’s death. And, this comes on top of Iryna’s death in Charlotte, which reached them and horrified them even before Charlie’s political assassination.
They have seen behind the masks, and are repelled by what they saw. They are catching on to the manipulation and outright lies being arrayed against them. They believe their lying eyes, and that’s both a good and a bad thing. It’s good in that they are waking up and facing reality.
It’s also bad in that this is a group where there is a LOT of anger out there. They have seen friends and family (or even themselves) cancelled for the made up ever-changing ‘sins’ of the woke. They saw their lives turned upside down during COVID. And then, cancel culture and control doubled down again. They have seen us go from a high-trust moderate-crime society to a low-trust high-crime society, and they are not happy about that either. The amount of anger out there frightens me, and I know it scares others too. That’s why several of us have been hammering away at the ‘keep calm’ and related messages. It is only going to take one idiot being idiotic to release that anger.
I honestly thought for a short time that the idiot who assassinated Charlie had done that. Thankfully, at least for now, the majority of the public (and let’s face it, the true progressives are less than a quarter of the population, like not even an eighth I suspect) is doing the normie version of rioting, looting, and burning: getting people fired for being uncivilized jerks. Unlike the woke, it’s not over made-up imaginary sins; rather, it is for the true sins of no impulse control and being willing to murder their fellow citizens simply for holding a different opinion. That’s not acceptable under the Social Compact (which I fear went out the window an couple of decades ago, along with having a high-trust society), nor is it theologically acceptable to Christians and a number of others.
On top of that, the normies are now having to think about things a number of us already have been thinking about. Will I or my family receive sub-optimal medical care simply for our beliefs? Will our schools target our children over our beliefs? (the answer is yes BTW). Et cetera et cetera et cetera. They realize that such people are a direct threat and responding to it in the nicest way they can — for now.
Thing is, the woke have never had consequences applied to them before. They have been coddled, protected, and shielded from even a harsh word, much less real-life consequences to employment and such. Why, that was only for the great unwashed, the victims of their cancel-culture antics, not them. They are not happy at having consequences apply to them, which sadly does up the ‘stupid-doing-something-stupid’ odds. Now that they are seeing their normal obfuscation via the media isn’t working, yet more are getting upset and scared. Which, again, ups the ‘stupid-doing-something-stupid’ odds. Then, add in that all the lies they are telling are getting the majority even angrier, and ramping up the trantifa contingent, well…
Seriously, pray. A couple of days ago, I started handing it over to God, as “ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” I think we will skate the razor’s edge once more, hopefully without really bad things happening. I expect further bad things; but, the reaction of the majority to the assassination gives me some hope, and a reminder that the woke are a small but vocal minority. They have held an outsized grasp on power, but it is slipping.
One thing I will recommend is that if you are on anti-social media of any type, and you are connected to anyone calling for war, especially now-now-now, disconnect. Unfollow, unfriend, mute, even block. Do the same to those spreading disinformation, quit giving them attention as they thrive on it and often get paid (openly or otherwise) for it. I may also cut back on my time online, as I have a lot of things to do, for both my future and for the pilgrimage. Those I can do something about. So, I will work on them and trust in God for the rest.
I’m going to leave you with some reads I’ve enjoyed or at least appreciated over the last few days. There are more I should link, but… Read this and this from the Bugscuffle Gazette; this one in regards Kipling from LOdlO; and, this one from Holly Math Nerd. Some good food for thought there.
As always, Be Prepared. Keep your family and friends close, and your things where you can find them in the dark.
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You may enjoy the post Charlie reaction/ article from Salem’s Zito
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3808706/the-awakening-few-see-coming/
“Thing is, the woke have never had consequences applied to them before. They have been coddled, protected, and shielded from even a harsh word, much less real-life consequences to employment and such.”
This.
Which, to some degree, may be the fault of the Normies. We saw the technicolor hair, the piercings and expanse of tattoos, the claiming of radical sexual orientation, and decided, “it’s children playing at….something” and went about our complex, and somewhat stressful, lives. What we should have done is slap it down – figuratively – at the outset. Complain to the Home Depot store manager about the blue-haired employee who cannot tell a 2X4 from a Cocker Spaniel, write to Target HQ to inform them their new multi-gendered bathroom policy has you spending money at Walmart and Amazon, not Target and encouraging your friends to do likewise, refusing to send your kids to a university that doesn’t just condone but encourage Wokeness, accepted the daughter, or son, who proclaimed to be Of A Different Gender, not just voting against incompetence and evil but campaigning for sensible and responsible individuals in government (not to mention actively working to reduce the power, reach and authority of government at its base), and so on.
Nope, we trudged onward, continued shouldering the burdens of everyday life and shrugged off the Woke, Leftist, anti-human, completely irrational Bravo Sierra espoused by the demented, the mentally ill, and socially forlorn, and Now Here We Are. Hole dug, deeper, and climbed into to permit deepening it some more.
The result is a martyred advocate of peace, a dead refugee from strife seeking a new life, with who knows how many other lesser and unnoticed casulties along the way.
We own this. Fixing it will require work, greater than the work that we did not do to prevent it. We will need strength, wisdom, perserverance and the Almighty’s gracious help to climb out of this abyss; it is a task we can neither ignore nor defer but tackle head on.
Iggy
Agree. They mistook a wish not to immediately confront their idiocy as cowardice on our part — and that simply spurred them to greater extremes of wokery. (Fueled on their part by a sense that this is the Olympics of Virtue Signalling.) Our silence also convived them that they were the Truly Correct and Holy Thinkers and that we are as evil as they have always believed.
Getting the wokesters fired from their jobs is a necessary first step. More lasting will be the purge of the education juggernaut which is the factory to indoctrinate the young — just as it was always intended to be in the Long March Through the Institutions.
Well said Sir! Well said.
I’ve been suffering a storm of pain from multiple autoimmune conditions – asthma, eczema, allergies, and rheumatoid arthritis. All these things have a common cause – your own body is treating you like an enemy.
The Left has been treating America, and normal Americans, like that. They have been lashing out at EVERYTHING as though it constituted a mortal threat to their existence.
They cure is the same for these Leftists as for me – interrupt the cycle of assault with an overwhelming reaction (in my body’s case, heavy doses of steroids). For Leftists, fast consequences – loss of job or right to stay in the country, civil lawsuits to compensate those they have harmed, and criminal lawsuits to hammer the point home, that their actions have consequences.
Interesting analogy and good food for thought. Thanks!
Iggy, you nailed it, too.
And, do understand it’s a worldview you’re fighting against. It’s not just some crazy people with unwarranted authority. It’s a worldview of hedonism (all the sexuality stuff, and other things) and transhumanism (the idea of becoming whatever you want to be – overcoming Nature and Nature’s God – by sheer force of will and the progress of technology). And there are a LOT of people who believe it to some extent, and are very comfortable with it, as long you exclude that extreme bit and that one over there. Those are the “population” among which the extreme ones hide.
Those are also the ones that Kirk was convincing. And that’s why they were threatened by him.