In line with some of the speculations in this thread that there might be a broader and/or more complicated agenda at play that isn’t that obvious:
What if what has happened is part of a broader agenda that involves furthering the trend to “the right“ that we have noticed not only in America in recent years? And/or an aggravation of that part of society? Maybe, step by step, things are being arranged/pushed in that direction and the Kirk assassination is serving as one of several key elements in it? And maybe one of the ways in which this push manifests in some if not many on “the right“ is to go way too far, for example in a dogmatic fundy way and/or putting the blame squarely (in a black and white fashion) incorrectly just on one or a number of groups. The “warning“ of the C‘s comes to mind that paraphrasing, “the right has similar problems/tendencies“ and that what the Nazis did was just a dry run.
Yes. I saw a video from Revolt TV, and Charlie Kirk still had a pulse at the hospital while videos of braindead dime-a-dozen left-wing zombies celebrated it. They want us to be focused on hating "the left," instead of the root cause of the ills in the world that created "the left."
It strikes me that part of the problem is in viewing the divide between psychopathic political ideology vs normal people as being "left vs right". This leads to the condemnation of normal people as "dangerous right wingers" when they are giving what has been asked for. The truth is that out here the left has suffered negative selection for about a decade, leaving mostly personality/character disordered or otherwise pathological people as adherents.
It is possible that normal people overreact, and no doubt that's part of the plan. But to say that this ramified network is not real or not a threat when they have been indoctrinating and mutilating children / young adults, advocating murder, and carrying out the wishes of their dark overlords with glee is itself "falling into the left vs right trap" but on the side of this ratified network.
Now is it the ultimate enemy? No but it is one of its many manifestations at home, at work and in politics.
But what type of power? Professors, those who groom their elementary school children, HR departments that decide if you get to have or keep a job? I think this needs more fleshing out.
Fire and brimstone-themed post this evening.
The American "right wing" has been largely responsible for enabling Israel to be founded, and to viciously colonize and ethnically cleanse the middle east. War in Iraq also can be laid at their feet for similar reasons. And that is to say nothing about the massive surveillance apparatus which has flowered since 9/11, which looks to be receiving its crown jewel with the all-pervasive vacuuming of data by Palantir. They will never get a pass as to being the "ponerology-free party," and I am shocked that anyone who lived through the 00's could think so.
An old regular of the SOTT radio show hit the nail on the head with saying there hasn't been a really effective left wing since the birth of neoliberalism in the Reagan/Thatcher era, which broke the back of the trade and labor unions. Ever since then inequality has just gone up and more and more power has been concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer people, more jobs offshored, more immigration, and technology and AI only enhance this trend.
Occupy Wall St was a flash in the pan which did scare the elite, but did not have sufficient prior collectivization of interests to be weaponized coherently. Since that the PTBs were in overdrive to vector the left straight into pathology with racial and SOGI (sexual orientation and gender identity) grievances.
An actual united front among the progressive and traditionalist demographics to, for example, dismantle the Federal Reserve or Blackrock, would actually be a powerful threat to the elite, and that is why the C's said America is headed for destruction when that class consciousness and solidarity failed to materialize in the wake of 2008. Instead we got the false consciousness of X-ism and Y-phobia, Scoffield exegesis and Tailgate party-tier nationalism that said America could do no wrong, militarily or otherwise.