The West is entering what may be its darkest chapter since the fall of the Roman Empire. For decades, the Left has been quietly chipping away at the pillars of our civilization--faith, family, reason, beauty, the rule of law--all time-tested virtues rooted in common experience, and the necessary building blocks of greatness. They've worked very hard, spending trillions of dollars, to replace these virtues with an egocentric post-modernism that prioritizes nihilism, chaos, debauchery, hatred and elevates the most mentally ill among us to the status of renowned thought leaders.
At least a decade ago, the Left realized that Constitutional principles were a massive inconvenience--repealing centuries-old amendments became mainstream thought. Attacking our founding ideas didn't really work, so they attacked the men who wrote them. When that also didn't lead to any great political success, they simply started lying about everything, all the time. The Left simply does not care about truth. They have long been animated by Marcusian ideas, such as the notion that tolerance of "repressive" speech is "inauthentic" and the open advocacy of violence against the "repressor"; that even math, science and reason are agents of repression; that the social fringes should conquer and rule despotically; and that every individual can determine their own reality.
Over the last several years, the endorsement of violence on the Left has grown increasingly popular. Last year Donald Trump was shot. Then a CEO was killed by a radical who the Left immediately canonized. And now Charlie Kirk is dead. A man whose offense was encouraging open and honest discourse between Left and Right to avoid violence, was in the end a victim of an assassin's bullet. Ominously, we must consider the probability that our collective will to discourse across political boundaries died with him.
With respect to everything Charlie fought for, American simply cannot continue like this. Any conservative commentator knows that the next open-air event they attend could be their last. Among the millions of homicidal Leftists, only one has to have the motivation and a clean line of fire to silence a major political voice. The fringes of both major parties equate political power with survival. Distrust deepens on a nearly daily basis. Debate and dialogue have failed because each side now has a completely different value system, with near-zero overlap, with each philosophy diametrically opposed to the other.
Without common principles, what is there to debate? When the Left is at war with the philosophical foundations that built the society they live in, how is peace possible? When the Left's political leadership attempts to import tens of millions of the "social fringes" into the country to create a new political base as their existing coalitions disintegrate, how can compromise still be an option? And if peace is not an option, what then do we do?
Assuredly, President Trump will continue the difficult but necessary work of smashing the Left's hold on American institutions. But we all know Republicans won't stay in office forever, and when Democrats come back, they're going to double down on all of Trump's tactics to try to reclaim the power that he's dislodging them from. This will continue to create escalation and erode trust in our institutions. Things are going to get much worse. All of this tension isn't suddenly going to cease in a grand compromise. Its going to lead to violence in the streets, war or a National Divorce. The last of these options may be our only chance at a bloodless revolution.
In the 1940s, Pakistan broke off from India because Hindus and Muslims simply could not co-exist. But I've never heard of a Hindu suicide bomber or a Hindu-plotted 9-11 attack. Muslims, it seems, have a hard time coexisting with anyone. When you live by an ideology that hates every other ideology and calls for violence and subjugation against outside groups, those groups will eventually cast you out. After years of sectarian violence that killed millions, the partition ended up creating lasting peace and stability.
That seems to be the problem with the Left today. They're not going anywhere. They're not going to become any less homicidal. And they're not interested in finding common ground with the Right. The only peaceful solution to stop further escalation now may be to break off the blue states from the United States and let them do as they please. The alternative is almost unthinkable.
As a final note, even if Charlie's movement to maintain open dialogue with the Left ultimately proves fruitless, he was right that violence is no great alternative. He was also right that we are in the trenches of a spiritual war for the soul of the United States, and that God will determine the victors; no matter what happens, we should strive to maintain the high ground, as Charlie did.
