Beyond The Pale

 

While the assassination of Charlie Kirk is the latest and perhaps most notable event in a never-ending cycle of killings, what is most chilling is the response from those who hated his message.  But this has become a pattern. 

 

The cold-blooded murder of an insurance executive is met with cheers from the crazy crowd, and the assailant becomes a folk hero.  A madman attacks children attending morning mass at a Catholic school and the tragedy immediately becomes a politicized moment for gun control while denigrating those who simply ask for prayer.  Even those who died at Camp Mystic are fair game for those who never miss an opportunity to make it about their agenda (climate change) or worse yet to mock the Christian faith of the families who lost children and grandchildren in the flood.  And now we see people on Tik-Tok gleefully singing “they shot Charlie in the neck” and mainstream media vultures opine that just maybe Charlie had it coming.  These are sick people.

 

To be clear I don’t think these “celebrations” of death or callous efforts to politicize tragedy are exclusively left-wing behaviors.  But it seems clear enough that ever since Trump came along in 2016 and MAGA began its march to control all three branches of the federal government, many on the Left have decided to say and do “whatever it takes” to fight back.  If the shoe were on the other foot, I expect the far-right loonies might respond similarly as we saw on January 6, 2021. But for now, we are where we are and too many on the left are celebrating the death of those who have different ideas about what America should be.

 

We have lost our way in a maze of irreconcilable differences. There are simply too many fundamental issues where there is no common ground for compromise.  Our republic is broken.  States are divided; counties and cities are divided.  Not all, but more than enough Americans no longer share common values and with that it is becoming increasingly difficult for people to live under the same flag.

 

All of this will not end well, but it will end.  What will be left of America and what it will look like only God knows.  Some of us still hope and pray that He cares.