The Hourglass of Hate

In a way, you have to feel sorry for Leftists.

There appears to be a cultural, spiritual and political revival percolating after Charlie Kirk's assassination. That upsets Leftists - they hate traditional families and faith, and they really hate the prospect of not getting back their precious power.

Assume for now Charlie's assassin planned and executed the whole thing completely on his own.* If that's the case, you just know the Left is cursing its bad luck.

Yes, the second most effective political figure on the right is gone, but millions of common-sense conservatives are now energized and activated:

Normal People: "They killed Charlie! This is the last straw; we are taking our country back!"

But who are "They"? You can almost hear anguished Leftists blurting out:

Leftists: "We didn't do it! It was some rando in Utah. We don't even know where Utah is. It's not fair this is causing us to get run over!"

Conservatives correctly believe violence is the responsibility of the person who committed it. Presumably, this horrible murder has been solved, so why does it still matter?

You know.

Picture an hourglass. At the small neck in the middle is the actual assassination. That was a hideous but contained event - the responsibility of the shooter (and any accomplices).

But what drove him to do it? That's where the top bulb of the hourglass comes in. It represents all the unhinged rhetoric that fed the assassin. The constant refrain of "hater," "Fascist," "Nazi," etc. not only ginned up hatred for Charlie (and the rest of us), but it gave the shooter permission to kill him (anyone would willingly go back in time and off Hitler, right?). In fact, it's not ridiculous to think the murderer expected to be considered a hero (look at Luigi and his sick-o-phants).

Everyone who called conservatives in general, and Charlie Kirk in particular, one of those names contributed to what happened.

As did everyone who preaches trans ideology, which claims that not believing a man can become a woman is "erasing" those who are pretending they can. "Words are violence!" (uh, no they're not).

As did everyone who took Charlie's comments out of context. People trying to generate clicks or subscriptions or donations or votes or foot soldiers think it's a game to misrepresent something someone on the other side said or did. It's not a game; it's evil (and sometimes it's slander and/or libel).

And the Left has to own that.

The bottom bulb represents those who took the side of the assassin after the fact.

Even if the shooter had been conservative (suggesting that is just ridiculous gaslighting, FTR), blood is still on the hands of the Left because they adopted the killing. They rationalized it. They celebrated it.

The event itself was hideous but isolated - presumably one evil person doing one evil thing in one evil moment. It is done; we can't bring Charlie back. But the environment that created and fed that evil and the ideology that cheered it are huge, on-going problems we need to address.

Both the preliminary and ex post facto culpability for this demonic event lie mostly with the following:

• the MSM,

• social media and

• our education system.

Charlie was doing all he could to fix those hellholes. Let's do all we can to pick up where he left off.

*At this writing, my guess is this was a lone monster - a creature from the black lagoon that is our current culture.