When I said that I don't think there is a left as being described by so many on SM, I wasn't necessarily saying that I don't believe that what everyone can clearly see is happening is actually happening.
It depends on what you think is "clearly happening" of course.
By "clearly happening" I mean the ponerization of the left. I take your definition of "clearly happening" to be as follows:
I think that the existential threat to America and Americans comes from the PTB who are instrumentalising "leftist" groups in order to create an ideological clash in American society. If more people took this perspective, especially those conservatives who right now are being encouraged to respond with an anger-based reaction against "leftists", then the threat to America and the American people would be reduced because the anger would be directed at the source of the problem and would, therefore, be less likely to provoke a 'clash' that could be disastrous for all Americans, and benefit only the ptb.
Now I am not going to argue that this situation is not staged by those higher order forces. I believe that is something we can both agree on. However, I do not believe that you can isolate the organic evil that people see and face in their everyday lives away from the PTB and say "do not react to evil in your personal reality, because higher order evil is responsible for it." Myself and probably everyone are well aware of those close to us who cheered on the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and who wholeheartedly embrace a demonic ideology. Perhaps some social media was faked with AI, but it was certainly a fairly common enough sentiment.
I believe that, in accordance with "life is religion", people have to deal with the evil that is presented to them, and each according to their ability. Those who are capable of identifying the higher order need to point that out and keep fanning the flames of awareness. Those who are dealing with it on a lower level are also responsible for their actions or inactions in the face of it.
Simply put, I do not view it as a black and white issue, especially in regards to people outside of the Work living in the "jungle".
Also, you left out the 2nd part of my thought that should have helped to clarify what I was saying, but you left that out for some reason
I wanted to make the point that, if you want to keep forum members from getting sucked into a potential karmic nightmare, that giving out blanket assertions that:
- There's no such thing as the Left as it appears on social media
- Which you've clarified means that there's no threat from the left
- And which I would argue is primarily a pathocratic organization which means it is almost entirely threat
- Maybe there is a threat but they are a minority of the population
- This seems particularly irrelevant if dealing with a ponerized group, which we know is always a small % of the population and has a massive negative impact on society if not reigned in
- And anyone who disagrees is falling for a psyop
My point was, if that was your goal, it would be more beneficial to advise people to be cautious when entertaining any emotions or ideas in the following weeks and not to get carried away with either left or right wing narratives that emerge.
Apologies if you felt like I was mischaracterizing your argument.
In any case, to clarify, what I was saying was that I don't think the depiction of "the left" by many people in recent years and especially now after the Kirk assassination, is accurate. That is to say, the depiction of "the left" as a large enough group of people intending murder or other violence at "the right" to the point of posing an existential threat to American conservatives that American conservatives must deal with in an extreme way.
I'm having issues with dealing with these assertions. What are you basing this threat assessment on?
I think that part of the problem is in determining when a movement is sufficiently ponerized and at what point does a ponerized political movement warrant a crackdown? If it comes out that this assassin WAS a leftist (let's say part of a cell of similar-minded individuals) brainwashed into killing Charlie Kirk because the PTB have been turning the Left into the party of child mutilation, murder and mayhem while calling normal people Nazis for a decade then would that justify a crackdown on these Antifa / sleeper cell types and their political allies?
I understand that your concern is that the crackdown will lead to extremist right-wing control. I don't know. I've been hearing about how normal people are going to turn into Nazis for a long time. It is clear that the higher forces that stage these kinds of epoch-shifting events would very much like that. It is possible - especially with long-term US and Israeli history.
But that doesn't really make the left any less of a threat. It just doesn't have to be black and white.
I think that the existential threat to America and Americans comes from the PTB who are instrumentalising "leftist" groups in order to create an ideological clash in American society. If more people took this perspective, especially those conservatives who right now are being encouraged to respond with an anger-based reaction against "leftists", then the threat to America and the American people would be reduced because the anger would be directed at the source of the problem and would, therefore, be less likely to provoke a 'clash' that could be disastrous for all Americans, and benefit only the ptb.
I would agree that there is clearly a setup for an ideological clash and that immediate anger-based reactions are probably not viable in the long-term. But I can't say that I can confirm that the message of advocating for violence is a universal one by any means. From what I've seen most messages have been to act in honor of the image of Charlie as a peacemaker, to mobilize the government to begin cracking down on the various movers and shakers pulling the strings on the left, and to stop bowing down to Israel.