Honestly, this post should have fallen on 187, as it is about the death of a political player. Yesterday Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I want to start by saying that I see no place in public discourse for physical violence. That being said, the way this is being spun and ultimately the threats being made by our President are not helping matters. In fact, what is being done as a result of this or what is being suggested in the very least by those with power is nothing short of a gag rule on political discourse from the so-called left.
Trump argued that he would go-after groups that shout down right-wing speakers and compare them to Nazis. He argued that doing so is promoting violence against the right. In short he’s trying to stop what people say about the right because the comments are divisive and derisive. So… what about what is said about the left? What about the violence that is foisted on those groups. Pelosi’s husband gets beaten near death by someone who doesn’t like her politics and they sweep it under the rug with a giggle. A right-wing activist gets got and he gets the medal of freedom posthumously?
This is America.
We aren’t a serious country anymore. What we are is a country that is becoming increasingly polarized through the aid of technology and the isolation that it brings. We weren’t one America before Obama and since then there has been a rise of people trying to take us backwards to a moment where they lived in the comfort of faces that looked like theirs and the ‘other’ was still the ‘other’ and not part of a larger melting pot that, honestly, nobody ever seems to have wanted.
We cannot ignore the fact that we live in a country founded on these divisions and that we’ve relied on some version of the other and some version of the haves and have-nots to keep a relatively small group of people in power. We’ve long relied on these tricks and, again honestly, on the stupidity and the financial weakness of the masses to keep this whole thing going.
Now we are working to change the rules and reinforce keeping this shrinking group in power and doing so by tagging on those on the fringes of these rising minority groups who are looking to be seen and be accepted by a majority that is growing ever smaller and weaker. I wish I had time to say more….