Where do We Go from Here?
The next steps the Right needs to take in light of the assassination of Charlie Kirk
Like many on the internet content sphere I had something else planned to talk about at the time of this post. The world seemed less formidable before September 10th. That week politics seemed a bit like social media. A facsimile of real life without the grittiness of reality. The tragic events of the past few weeks have shaken me of this notion. I think it shook a lot of you as well judging by the conversations that I’ve had. In light of these events, we should reconsider our approach. Reconsider our words. Maybe even reconsider our outlook.
For those of us who once thought poorly of Mr. Kirk in the past, this horrible murder made us take stock of our words, spoken and unspoken. For me personally, I regret the dismissive attitude I had of him. I regret the casual dismissal I had of his views and his seeming simplicity. I regret it and I feel deeply ashamed that I spoke unkindly of him, even if not on a public platform.
Like many of you I received word of Mr. Kirk's death as a shock. Mr. Kirk was a mainstay of conservative politics. Always present, always engaging, but always there. A comforting, if sometimes disagreeable, presence to those of us further to the right of him. The image of his blood spraying out from his body is one that I can never forget – something I never want to forget. I never want to again forget the price of freedom. I never again want to forget the price which one man paid to prove all the vacuousness of the Leftist appeal to tolerance once and for all.
It’s practically "passé" to say things like “the democrats are the real___” (“racists”, “sexists”, "bigots" and so on). Mainstream conservatism made its bread and butter on trying to get the Left to their own hypocrisy.
It didn’t work.
If nothing wakes up my friends in the mainstream Right on the utter moral bankruptcy on the Nihilistic-Left, then I’m afraid nothing will. Mr. Kirk was a moderate and his death was celebrated as if Hitler himself had walked from the grave and had been killed again.
We witnessed a young father of two young children get brutally slain in front of a crowd and on live stream and the reaction from many Leftists was to cheer and celebrate. There can be no hope for people while they remain in such mental bondage. Those who cheer the death of the innocent cannot be reasoned with, cannot be negotiated with, and certainly cannot be made to see that they are hypocrites. I am reminded of a quote by C.S. Lewis,
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.1
Our Nihilistic-Leftists interlocutors dance and cheer and laugh with the full approval of their own darkened minds. Are you really going to convince someone who looks at blood with glee that they are hypocrites? Do you really think they care? My answer is simply that we have to give up on trying to convince the hardened minority of Nihilistic-Leftists. We have two incompatible visions for the future. For the Nihilistic-Leftist, speech is violence and the sacredness of trans rights is so sacrosanct that its protection must begin at the point of the sword. There can be no negotiation with this kind of ideology – only pursuing its suppression.
There are ways of nonviolent domination that we must employ to completely and totally delegitimize and discredit Nihilistic-Leftism. The truly shocking thing was how often these people celebrating Mr. Kirk's death were in positions of authority, like teachers or even lawmakers. Thankfully, there have already been good moves made to remove them from power. For starters the firing wave that sprung up from Right-wingers finally using the Left’s tactic of cancellation against them. Like the harpies of Zeus, the Right must hound these unrepentant Leftists until they submit or remain outside the levers of power.
So where do we go here? Do we respond blood for blood? This is not a new issue. When 12 men saw their risen Messiah, they came up against the entire world system hell-bent against their entreaties. Ignored, mocked, ridiculed and slain they stood against the hatred of the world.
For you will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing a holy service for God.
(John 16:2 NLT)
This message of love and peace to one's enemies was preached when the followers of Jesus numbered in the tens and hundreds. How much more should we heed the message when he has such a great cloud of heroic witnesses to the power of nonviolence? There have been many things that have disheartened me over the past few weeks but one thing which has given me hope is the outpouring of love. The love from Mr. Kirk's friends, the public at large, and even former opponents …. The ghoulish displays of Leftist joy are being met with swift reprisals.
We do not have to resort to violence or the never ending cycle of reprisals and killings that have consumed other peoples and nations. Mr. Kirk was a man of peace and we ought to follow his example. There is a reason why he was assassinated. His tactics were becoming too effective. The assassin's bullet was as clear a signal of the intellectual bankruptcy of the Nihilistic-Left as could ever be shown. This does not mean that we let our enemies win. It means that we fight with every available means. Our Jesus enjoins his followers to be “Wise as Serpents, yet gentle as doves” a theme I hope to expand on at a later time.
But for right now, for the next few hours, the next few days, concentrate your hearts and minds on the words of Jesus. Really contemplate what it means to pray for those who persecute you, to love and not to hate. Mr. Kirk was a man of peace and only such love and outpouring of good can come from an innocent man unjustly murdered. Pray that we all leave such a legacy.
You have heard the law that says, ‘Love your neighbor’ and hate your enemy. But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike. If you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much. If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even pagans do that. But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect. (Matthew 5:43-48)
C.S. Lewis; God in the Dock; Essays on Theology
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Yeah… But all of that does not tell us where we’re going to go as a people, as a nation, and even as a rational individual. That’s the issue we need to address. How does an individual see themselves as a part of the global conflict of Irrational versus rational individuals. That is the question and no one is even attempting to answer that question.