Posted on 09/14/2025 4:27:08 AM PDT by FreedomPoster
Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling (Warning: long rant)
My liberal friends are completely oblivious about how radicalizing the last week has been for tens of millions of normal Americans. Zero clue.
I’m not talking about people who are “online”; I mean regular, everyday Americans. “Normies.” People who scroll through Facebook posts and Instagram reels from the Dutch Bros drive thru line. Political moderates who have water cooler chats about Mahomes touchdowns and Bon Jovi concerts, not Twitter threads or Rachel Maddow monologues.
Millions of them. Tens of millions. They’re logging on, they’re engaging, and they’re furious.
And I’ll be candid: They blame you guys. They blame the left.
Regardless of whether you believe it to be justified, they think you’re the bad guys here. And they are reacting accordingly.
I can already hear some of you racing toward the comments to start screeching in moral indignation, so I’m going to be blunt: Shut up and listen to what I’m telling you. Your movement will lose any semblance of relevance if you don’t develop some small measure of self-awareness, and—absent someone force-feeding you bitter medicine—you guys collectively lack the humility to do this on your own.
Here are the facts:
Fact 1. Tens of millions of Americans started the week seeing a 23-year-old blonde woman—a young woman in whom virtually every parent watching pictured their own daughter—stabbed in the neck by a career criminal. These people then found out the murderer had been released from jail 14 times over.
Fact 2. Two days later, tens of millions of Americans watched a video of Charlie Kirk get murdered speaking to college students. Millions of these people knew who Charlie was; millions of them didn’t. Upon seeing the video, however, these normal Americans from across the land and across the political spectrum agreed that he was the victim of a terrible, fundamentally unjustifiable crime, and their hearts broke in sympathy for his family. Good people who had never even heard the name Charlie Kirk before wept.
Fact 3. Immediately after seeing the footage of a peaceful young man get shot in the neck, these same people logged onto Facebook and Instagram (remember, we are talking about regular Americans, not perpetually online Twitter or Bluesky users) and saw some of their local nurses, school teachers, college administrators, and retail workers celebrating this horrific crime. Not just defending it, but cheering it.
These are all facts. You may not like the implications of these facts, and we can certainly debate the underlying causes thereof, but, indisputably, they are nevertheless factual statements.
Here’s what it means for you, the Democrats reading this:
These normal, middle-of-the-road, non-political citizens just become politically active. They realized that politics cares about them, even if they don’t particularly care about politics. After watching Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk both bleed out from the neck, they think their lives and the physical safety of their families—the bedrock of human society, the foundation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs—depend on political activation, whether they desire it or not.
These people are now sprinting—not jogging, not walking, but racing—to the right. Because they blame you guys for everything that just happened.
When they see footage of Decarlos Brown stabbing a Ukrainian refugee to death, they don’t see just one demon-possessed man. They picture every university administrator, HR bureaucrat, and DEI apparatchik that ever lectured them about systemic racism, the “carceral state,” or the need to release violent crime suspects without bail in the name of social justice.
They then think back to conversations they’ve had with their cop friends—their buddy from high school who quit the force after getting tired of being called a racist, their friend at the local YMCA who vents about having to release career criminals because Soros-funded prosecutors aren’t willing to file charges—and they realize everything the left has told them over the last five years has been utter bullshit.
And they blame you. Because, even if you count yourself as a moderate Democrat, your party supported the district attorneys, city council members, and mayors that let fictitious concerns about mental health and racial justice supersede very real concerns for their family’s safety.
When these Americans see blood erupt from the side of Charlie Kirk’s neck, they don’t see just a martyred political activist. They think of every extreme leftist they’ve ever met who (1) calls anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton a fascist and (2) constantly jokes—“jokes”—about punching Nazis and “bashing the fash.”
They realize that there really do exist people who wish to see them dead for their moderately conservative political beliefs, their Christian faith, and even the color of their skin. They ask themselves if the violence visited upon Charlie might one day show up on their own doorstep.
And they blame you. Because, even if you’re just a center-of-the-road liberal, you lacked the courage to police your own ranks. You let modern-day Maoist red guards run loose across every facet of society, and what started with social-media struggle sessions has now turned to 30-06 bullet holes.
When these Americans log onto social media and see their neighbors justifying, celebrating, glorifying murder, they realize that some who walk among them are soulless ghouls at best, literally demon-possessed at worst. These people—whether they faithfully attend church every Sunday or only attend with relatives once a year, on Christmas Eve—start talking about things like spiritual warfare. They implicitly understand that no normal human casually celebrates the mortal demise of a peaceful person.
And they blame you. Because, even if you condemned Charlie Kirk’s murder, they probably haven’t seen you condemn those in your own movement who cheered it on. They view you as complicit in allowing heartless fellow travelers to celebrate death, and it repulses them.
For all of these situations, what has your response been? Nothing but bullshit.
In response to Iryna Zarutska bleeding out on the floor of a train, you post bullshit statistics about reductions in reported crime, when everyone who’s ever been to a major urban center in the last decade knows that actual crime has skyrocketed, only for victims not to waste their time reporting it to cops that don’t have the manpower to respond and prosecutors that seek to downgrade as many felonies as possible to misdemeanor citations.
In response to a 31-year-old man taking a bullet to the neck in front of his family, you post nothing but bullshit whataboutism.
> “What about January 6th?” (Honest answer: After you let Liz Cheney spend two years operating a star chamber in the House, combined with countless other failed attempts at “lawfare” against Trump, no one cares anymore.)
> “What about Mike Lee making a dumb joke on Twitter about some guy in a mask in Minnesota?” (No one outside of Utah, DC, or Twitter knows who Mike Lee even is.)
> “What about Paul Pelosi?” (That’s not comparable to Charlie Kirk getting shot, and we all know it. And, again, Paul who?)
> “What about regulations on assault rifles?” (That’s not going to get you very far when one of these killers used a knife and the other one used a common hunting rifle.)
In response to teachers, healthcare workers, and thousands of other liberals cheering on Charlie’s murder, it’s nothing but more bullshit and misdirection.
> “It’s not THAT many people celebrating!” (Yes, it is. Everyone has seen it on their Facebook and Instagram feeds.)
> “I thought you guys didn’t support cancel culture.” (We don’t cancel people over their opinions; we’re more than happy to see people lose their jobs—especially their taxpayer-funded jobs—for actively cheering on murder, though. If you can’t see the difference, that’s your own shortcoming.)
All bullshit. Not even smart bullshit, but stale, mid-grade, low-IQ bullshit. Ordinary Americans see right through it, and they don’t like how it smells.
You probably don’t like hearing this. But you need to hear it.
Because I’m right, and, as you reflect on this, you know I’m right. The ranks of my political movement gained millions of righteously angry new members this week. We have a mandate to ensure these crimes never happen again, and that’s exactly what we are now going to do.
If you want to keep a seat at the table as we do so, you’d better clean house and start policing your own.
But hearing them shut up altogether is one positive. Maybe they are truly engaged in some retrospection. Especially the one with the "No Kings" sign. You know who you are.
Exactly. Add her IQ to Sean’s IQ = still only 2 digits.
Correct.
There is an important term I recently learned that applies here.
Stochastic terrorism
MSNBC, many Dem leaders, many other fake media operations and personalities are stochastic terrorists.
Stochastic terrorism is a form of political violence instigated by hostile public rhetoric directed at a group or an individual. Unlike incitement to terrorism, stochastic terrorism is accomplished with indirect, vague or coded language, which grants the instigator plausible deniability for any associated violence. A key element of stochastic terrorism is the use of media for propagation, where the person carrying out the violence may not have direct connection to any other users of violent rhetoric.
I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of these buttholes calling me, and us, a Nazis, racists, etc.
It has been going on a long, long time.
Quite.
Why tell them what they are doing wrong?
Let them fail out loud
I didn’t see it this “article” the first time, so I applaud the repetition.
Now, certainly, the widespread and vective-infused celebratory reactions to Kirk’s assassination on Bluesky, Academia, MSLSD, and related loser platforms from despicable human beings is noted. I mean, it is awful. As a matter of intellectual rigor, it would be informative to see research identifying which of these people are virtue-signaling/“if I don’t say nasty things I won’t get invited to the next party” sheep, influencers, paid provocateurs, peaked-in-high school losers, and legit murderers-in-waiting.
That research would be interesting. But it almost doesn’t matter. I have heard of left-leaning youngsters being stunned at the assassination. The graphic video “helped” quite a bit; it’s where we are in life. The sentiment of the leftish youngster was “I may not have liked the guy, but I didn’t want him to be killed.” That kind of clarity and honesty hasn’t been heard for some time.
These youngsters may not care what the research tells us. They see a grisly assassination, then see their friend cheer about Kirk’s death, and unfriend them. I would LOVE to see the ebbing and flowing of social media follower stats in light of this saga. Indeed, a restaurant in Cincinnati just lost a ton of its business after a co-owner went on a Kirk-bashing social media rant. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4340106/posts
One final note: whataboutism is poison. The merits of arguments and baseline philosophical bedrocks are what win the day.
I hope you are right. Haven’t seen any evidence of it but hope you are right.
I certainly have seen evidence of an alarming number of people across academia medicine law enforcement military and politicians applaud his death and encourage more
Very scary to me.
Thank you for the ping
Thank you, Brother.
Left? Who? Identify these EVIL individuals. The are anti-civilization. They do not have ss protection. It’s WAR. We the people, in Order to form a civilization, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity...
“ These people are now sprinting—not jogging, not walking, but racing—to the right. Because they blame you guys for everything that just happened.”
I hope that he is correct. The leftists in this country, which includes Democrats and their willing accomplices in the legacy media, have certainly inspired crazy/evil people to do evil things.
“ God help us if ‘normal’ people get their info from these two landfills.”
But many do.
Well said.
I must’ve missed it the first time. The author is right about everything.
“ Stochastic terrorism”
I understand the meaning of this term, but have never knew that it had a title
before. Anyone on our side: politician, pundit, blogger, etc. should start using it so that everyone learns it.
The only change I would make is instead of *radicalizing* I would say galvanizing. We are not radicals but we certainly to have new resolve.
I found a post on Amir Tsarfati’s Telegram account where some woman who had never heard of him, picked up a Bible and started reading it for the first time ever. She said, she can’t put it down and said all the answers are in there.
Please Lord, let this happen world wide and bring about a great spiritual revival!
What comes to my thoughts:
Abraham Lincoln
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
Steve Scalise
I am also going to include Martin Luther King
He stated that a man "should be judged by his character, not by the color of his skin"
THAT is conservatism.
And, of course, Donald Trump.
I don’t think it’s low IQ.
Intelligence and moral character are not connected.
These people are not low IQ. They have COSEN evil and embraced it.
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