Jack of Harts

You may remember demonstrations of the last few years where they chanted, “We’re coming for your children.” They meant it then and they mean it now. The simple fact is, based on statistics, that the more Leftist someone is, the fewer children they have. Some of it is just biology. Adam and Eve make kids. Adam and Steve do not. Some of it is social. They tell us that the planet is dying, so having kids is a terrorist act against the planet. Or they tell us that the responsible thing to do is not to start a family until you have gone to college and secured a good job, and so many people wait until they are financially secure to look at having kids. And by then, they are on the tail end of the biological clock. Older mothers have more complications, not just themselves but the kids. Children born of mothers in their 30s and 40s have far more health complications than kids born of mothers in their teens or 20s. That’s statistics. That’s, dare I say it, The Science.

So while an increasing number of Leftist families don’t get together until their late 20s at the earliest, often waiting until their 30s or 40s, Religious families often get started in their late teens or early 20s, because they are taught that the best thing they can do for the world is to have children and raise them up to take care of it. To make it better. And instead of having one or two children in their 30s or 40s, or just going to a foreign country and adopting a kid or two, they are having three or four or five kids, starting in their late teens and going through to their mid to late 20s. Their kids are graduating and starting a new life while their parents are in the prime of their lives in their 30s and 40s, 50s at the lastest, and they have healthy examples of moderately strong, fit, and active parents to take into their adulthood.

That’s why the Leftists chant, “We’re coming for your children.” They are literally breeding themselves out of the population. They have to take our children if their movement is going to survive into the next generation.

That appears to be what happened last week. The young man who killed Charlie Kirk had a good upbringing from everything we can see. A good Christian family who raised him up to being a functional young man who left the home to go out and learn how to do a job that would help him make a home and a life. That was him two years ago if the pictures and other things we see are accurate. And over a period of what looks like two years, they groomed him into being the kind of kid that inspired the meme about kids coming home from college and hating their families and everything they grew up liking.

And according to the evidence that has come out so far, they came for him, they took him, and they twisted him into the kind of person who would feel good about shooting a man who’s crime was saying things they hated. When they say “We’re coming for your children,” this is what they mean. They want to take our children and replace them with people who hate us just as much as they hate us. Someone who will cheer when someone kills us.

Charlie Kirk is not the only victim of this assassination. The first victim of the assassination was the former bright young boy that pulled the trigger. And the next victims are his own siblings who grew up with him, and Charlie Kirk’s children, and so many other children and young adults who saw the voice of their generation shot because he dared to say things that other people hated.

We have to make our children the kind of people who will build a better world for the children to come, and we have to make them mentally strong enough to resist the grooming of the Leftists, or the children to come will grow up in a far worse world than the one we grew up in.

Seeing the reaction on the Left to last week’s assassination of Charlie Kirk makes moving forward an interesting challenge.

So many people in trusted positions rejoiced and celebrated the assassination and many of them are just being fired. And they are broadcasting both their celebrations and their dismay at being fired. Teachers. Health Care workers. Security officials. Government employees. Okay, so not as many people trust them anymore. But people from all over the work force are reporting that coworkers are giddy about the assassination and that makes them worried about the people they work with.

The problem is that when people see other people celebrating the killing of another person, it really does change how people look at them. Now most people understand that self-defense is a good reason to kill, but Charlie talked. He went onto college campuses with other kids his age and talked to them about difficult topics. Most people know that talking isn’t violence.

But today people are seeing where it leads when they say that “words are violence.” And they see actual violence perpetrated against words. And they see Leftists celebrating that violence because Charlie Kirk said things they don’t like. And these same people consider how many of their own thoughts are things that the Leftists have said are violence in the past. And that is when people see themselves in Charlie Kirk. When they realize that the Leftists really do want them dead and will celebrate when they die.

Knowing that a significant portion of a major political party wants them dead is a major gut check for most people. They tend to start looking at the whole party differently. And if reports are accurate, many many people are not liking what they are seeing. Many people are terrified by what they see.

Some people say we need to talk about it. But Charlie was talking. And Leftists are telling us that is why he was killed.

It is difficult to move forward and talk to people when those same people are saying that if you say things they don’t like they will rejoice and celebrate when you are killed for it.

It was an edgy phrase in a movie twenty years ago. “This is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.” But it was just entertainment, right? Just another Hollywood director slyly protesting Republicans in his movie. Comparing them to Hitler and Fascists and all the ists that Hollywood accused Republicans of being. But it wasn’t really important, was it? That was just a Hollywood thing. They are crazy. The rest of America was smart enough not to believe the idiot. Right?

Well, it’s twenty years later now, and Democrat leadership, the Main Stream Media, Hollywood, and even the government when it is under their control have spent the last twenty years calling anyone to the right of the Stalin a Nazi. A fascist. Literally Hitler. Racists. Sexists. All the ists. Dozens of Republican legislators have been shot over those two decades. One was beaten half to death in his own yard. Assassination aimed at the Supreme Court. The President has been shot. Normal everyday Republicans have been shot dead on the streets while walking out of Republican rallies by protestors who decided they wanted to see their political opponents dead. Because they believed what they were told. And who wouldn’t shoot Hitler if you had a chance? And how many cops have been shot dead while sitting in their police cars?

It was only a matter of time before a Republican in politics that we know by name would died of something that wasn’t an easily explained random mugging, car accident, or sudden onset cancer that killed them in a few weeks. It was only a matter of time before we saw a major Republican die on camera, live, where all of us could see. That was almost Trump last year. He turned his head. The bullet hit his ear instead of blowing his head apart on live camera. The assassin still killed a firefighter. And Democrats applauded. They said the firefighter deserved it because he was a dirty fascist who went to a literally Hitler rally. And Democrats went online and shamed the dead shooter for not being a better shot and killing Trump like he should have. But nobody knew the guy’s name. He was just the random fascist firefighter who deserved it, so the applause was muted. The real target had been missed.

This week was different. A big-name political Republican that almost everybody has at least heard of over the last decade was shot on nearly live TV. The footage of his neck being hit and blood spurting out hit the internet in between seconds and minutes. Everyone who wanted to see, and a whole hell of a lot of people who never wanted to, got to see Charlie Kirk die on camera in living, red, pumping color. I have not seen it. That was my choice. I’ve talked to people you have, and the look of shock and horror in their eyes is enough to tell me that I don’t want to look at it right now. I’ve seen the reaction of the youth of this nation to seeing one of their leading voices die before their eyes on screens in their hands. And I have watched video of one of the kids in the crowd jumping and dancing with joy at the fact that Charlie Kirk had died a few feet in front of him. And I’ve watched Democrats across the nation cheer the fact that he is dead. Laugh at it. The applause has been… thunderous across social media and the main stream news. How many people have you seen say “he deserved it.” “He said things.” “He brought it on himself.” “Well, if he’d only kept his mouth shut.” And they’re the ones that are just trying to be a little quiet. The loud ones are not so quiet and are a lot more direct.

In a recent poll, fifty-six percent of self-described “left of center” people said that killing Trump could be justified. Fifteen percent said it was COMPLETELY justified. Only forty-four percent said it was not justified at all. Only fifty percent said killing Musk could be justified. Only eleven percent said it was completely justified for him. But here’s the big problem. There are between two hundred and three hundred MILLION Americans. Based on simple math, there are at least one hundred million “left of center” people. If half of them think it could be okay to kill the political opposition, we are talking about fifty MILLION people in America who could justify it to themselves. Over ten million who already believe it is completely justified to kill the political opposition. After that, they’re just debating names. A few more support killing Trump than support killing Musk. But that’s just a matter of degrees.

No poll I know of asked if killing Charlie Kirk could be justified. So I can’t tell you the exact percentage that do think it could be. But it is some percentage of fifty million people who think it COULD be justified. And there are a lot out there right now who are justifying it. “He deserved it.” “He said things.” “He brought it on himself.” “Well, if he’d only kept his mouth shut.” “He shouldn’t have worn that dress to that part of town.” It’s victim blaming. It’s justification. And their applause is thunderous.

This is how liberty dies. This truly is a Turning Point. Will the last vestiges of our Republic die in the next few years, to be replaced by an all powerful Empire? Or will we be able to resist the darker urges and take a better path? Will we be able to reform the Republic and make it healthy again? I don’t know.

But there are millions of people out there perfectly willing to justify killing us in defense of their Democracy. They will proclaim that they have save Democracy even as they take the route to Empire, as they kill all the evil other guys who stand against them. And they speak with thunderous applause at the death of evil Count Doo…. ahem… Charlie Kirk… Charlie Kirk. Their applause at the death of Charlie Kirk is… thunderous.

This is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

If we let it.