It’s been a while since I’ve written anything. And I don’t feel like I have a lot to add to this conversation that others more eloquent than me have already said. After all, I wasn’t Charlie Kirk’s target audience. He seemed like a nice enough guy. I just never got into his world.
And it’s appalling. Because a wife lost her husband and his children lost their father. And for what? Because he was trying to have a dialogue about the issues facing the United States today? That’s one of the basic reasons that this site exists, because we wanted to provide a viewpoint from the political Right. And frankly, Charlie Kirk was nicer than I am. He was surely more successful than we have been here at changing hearts and minds. And so he was martyred. And yes, he counts as a martyr. The viewpoints he espoused that got him killed were fundamentally driven by his Christian faith.
And in his death we have seen the complete depravity of the political Left in this country. People celebrated a cold-blooded murder. Because he didn’t share their politics. The Democrats and the Media are doing their best to pretend otherwise. But for years they’ve called us every name in the book. Their favorite is to call us fascists, when we are not fascists in any meaningful sense of the word. It is a lie. But then again, when you look out over the internet and see these monsters gleefully celebrating the murder of a man who just wanted to have a conversation, is it any surprise that they would smear those who disagree with them with a libel that has no basis in fact?
I am encouraged that normal people are seeing this crap show and realizing that we have a problem in this country. That one side of the political aisle has completely lost it (and just to be clear again, it’s the Left). Kirk’s death, and the absolutely grotesque reaction to it from the Left, has reached normal people in a way that we never could have. Their eyes are opening up that maybe the people the Left has called fascists or extremists are neither. That maybe we are just husbands, fathers, wives and mothers who have thoughts about the best way to run a country and to order a society. That we aren’t out to hurt anyone.
But even in the aftermath, when ordinary people have reacted in shock and horror to the left-wing celebrations at a gruesome murder, they haven’t apologized. They haven’t done anything to disassociate themselves from these lunatics. Members of Congress booed and hissed at the suggestion of a moment of silence. These people have shown who they are. Believe them when they show you that they hate us and they want us dead.
All that we can do is our best. We must try to honor God, and fulfill our duties to our families. In the wake of this travesty, I felt like I needed to write this if for no other reason than to stand up and say that I will not be silenced and I will not be intimidated by this. Charlie Kirk is dead today, and all the positions he held that he was murdered for are positions that I am in agreement with him on. If it was up to the online Left, my daughter would also never get another hug from her daddy. They accuse us of being the ones to lack empathy. But we aren’t the ones looking to murder people because we don’t agree with their world view.
It’s time for there to be some accountability for the hateful rhetoric of the Left. They can’t be allowed to spend years vilifying us and then pretend that we’re all one big country together when something like this happens. There needs to be repentance. They need to seek forgiveness. And they need to stop the whataboutism. Charlie Kirk is dead because they falsely called him a fascist.
And if this goes on and there’s not a reckoning, there’s no telling who they will kill next. It could be any one of us. Because they hate us, they want us dead, and they have now made it clear they won’t stop until they succeed.
