It’s Time to Make Things Right

Some people are late to the conversation. Some think that there’s still room and time for dialogue, despite the fact that half of the country was prepared to vote for a senile dementia patient, Joe Biden, because the media convinced them that the alternative, Donald Trump, was Hitler. When the Democratic Party — the one complicit in covering up Biden’s health issues — finally replaced Biden with cackling Kamala Harris, who maintained the lie, half of the country was still willing to vote for her — again, because, as CNN and MSNBC and the various other outlets assured them, the alternative was Hitler. Despite this, there are some among us who believe that there is still time and space to reason through differences, still a chance at ‘peace’ and ‘unity’ — popular phrases and buzzwords serving to weaken the resolve of the righteous and as shields for the wicked once the violence has already been done. 

By all accounts, it’s not just that these ideas won’t work; it’s that they tend to protect those who’ve made a habit of violence, calling us ‘Nazis’, or ‘weird’ if they’re feeling generous — thinly-veiled language barely concealing their interest not in defeating us at the ballot boxes but in eliminating us from existence. After all, that’s the ‘reasonable’ way to handle Nazis, right? 

It is in just this way that their political leaders incite violence, either explicitly by calling for it or through inflammatory rhetoric amounting to the same; yet they turn around and call for ‘peace’ and ‘unity’ when they are finally called to account for their crimes, and they still have the audacity to fancy themselves ‘tolerant’ and ‘inclusive’. 

Again, it’s not just that ‘peace’ and ‘unity’ can’t work here; it’s that one party insists on attacking the others, and the others justifiably don’t want anything to do with them. 

Thus, it appears that the only viable option remaining, so far as talk is concerned, is to freshen up on French and tell the insane to “f#ck off” every chance we get. And let me be clear: the insane are the people who have a disclaimer, a qualifier, a gotcha, an excuse, or some wiggly, whiny reaction (i.e. “Well, he was controversial…”) to such overt displays of evil as the assassination of Charlie Kirk. 

People too often say, even now, that violence isn’t the answer. Well, yes, it is, when you’re dealing with mobs who don’t care about life, liberty, or property, and who carry out their own forms of violence with virtual impunity — because violence is their preferred language, so to be heard by them we must speak it. This is especially so in the event that their enablers continually elude justice.

Yes, violence is not only acceptable in these cases; it’s necessary. I cite John Stuart Mill and Ecclesiastes in my 2024 treatise Death by Socialism to bolster this point: war is an ugly thing, but it’s not the ugliest of things… there is a time to kill and a time to heal. Needless to say, the time for reason isn’t even in the rearview mirror anymore.

Today being September 11th, it is important to note that 9/11 remains (and will forever remain) a defining moment of my life. Among the various dates of particular meaning to me throughout the year, September 11th is a date that I never forget to mark on my mental calendar; it’s a time when I remember to reflect on the 2,977 men and women who perished, their families and loved ones, and the ways in which our lives forever changed. This September 11th, we once again had the heartache of having lost an American at the hands of evil, another father, husband, and this time one of the strongest patriotic voices in America. As with September 11th, I intend to never forget the sorrow and significance of September 10th, and we all must do the same so that we never forget just how much we’ve lost to evil, just what it means to be an American, just what it means to care about something other than ourselves, and just what it means to stand up for what’s right. 

Like countless millions of other Americans, the news of Charlie Kirk’s assassination has completely broken my heart, and the footage and memory of those public moments between him and his children, him and his wife, are heartbreaking. The footage of Charlie’s casket being carried from Air Force Two makes this all the more real. 

This is not a game, not a TV series or a YouTube production. A flesh-and-blood human being, a daddy, a father, a man of God and a special soul, was brutally assassinated. The sadness is beyond description, especially when considering the weight of the loss suffered by two little children who loved their daddy and rushed into his arms whenever they saw him. Any good and loving parent knows just how precious this is, and just how evil it is that all of this was quickly taken away in an instant by an assassin’s bullet — just how evil it is that some people under a certain political persuasion either don’t care or find amusement in this. This is evil. Those who describe it in any lesser terms are the types who can’t be bothered with definitions or can’t be held to them; and, whether they realize it or not, they are not just accessories to evil but evildoers themselves. 

All of this is so very hard to swallow, not just because of the man we lost, his indelible influence on young and patriotic Americans, and his unrealized potential, not just because of the family torn apart and the futures forever changed, but also because of what it reveals about what we are apparently expected to accept about the people among us who don’t care nearly as much as they should, who don’t care at all, or who are gleeful at the loss. Our continued presence in society is enough to imply acceptance; it is enough to suggest that we will continue to manage in a society of evildoers who not only wish death upon us, or people like us, but do so openly and without hesitation — and that is precisely the message sent in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a man who practiced and championed civil discourse among all. Our survival, in the truest sense, relies on harnessing our righteous anger and our determination to tolerate no more. Indeed, so much more than our survival depends on it. 

My hope is that all true-blood Americans will stay angry long enough and will be prepared when the time for reckoning finally comes — and let it come in our time so that our children and theirs might eventually know peace and sanity in theirs. The sophists and brainwashers who’ve instigated this, who’ve for so long called for violence against us Patriots, parents and independent thinkers, who’ve made countless jokes about murdering President Trump and bringing violence to conservatives and MAGA supporters, mustn’t be allowed to get away with this; they mustn’t be allowed to start the fight, and to succeed in their stated mission of bringing death into our ranks, without consequences, and they mustn’t be extended any mercy for their flimsy condolences now, just when they’re called to account for the violence they’ve condoned or flat out encouraged all this time. 

They need to know that we’ve been listening and that judgment day is upon them for what they’ve said and what they’ve caused. And, as true-blood Americans, we need to assure them that our first priority is justice and that their rhetoric around ‘unity’, their shield in their moment of need, won’t protect them anymore — we don’t want their company, and we don’t associate with evildoers. The time for reason has long since passed, and so too has any chance at peaceful reconciliation. The Left has made sure of this. It’s time to make things right!