Posted on 09/15/2025 2:31:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I’ve written before about preference cascades — where large portions of the public, often a majority, conceal their views for fear of punishment, only to reveal those views when some precipitating event takes place. Classic examples include the fall of Communist regimes, like Ceausescu’s Romania, where even Ceausescu himself thought everyone loved him until shortly before he was stood in front of a wall and shot.
Usually those happen in one direction. But in contemporary America, they’re happening in two.
The murder of Charlie Kirk at the hands of a leftist gunman has revealed that many, many more Americans — and even people elsewhere around the world — supported Charlie and his views than was commonly appreciated. New Zealanders in London danced a Haka in his honor; crowds gathered all over the United States, as well as in Rome, London, Germany, and Israel.
Charlie’s views — uniformly disparaged by the press as “far right” — are in fact mainstream, generally held by the majority of people. His assassination has caused people to step forward, and realize that the normal-American community is a huge majority.
As Jonathan Turley writes:
Charlie was brave, and he was brash. He refused to yield to the threats while encouraging others to speak out on our campuses.He was particularly hated for holding a mirror to the face of higher education, exposing the hate and hypocrisy on our campuses. For decades, faculty have purged their ranks of conservatives and libertarians. Faced with the intolerance of most schools, polls show that a large percentage of students hide their values to avoid retaliation from faculty or their fellow students.
Charlie chose to change all that. TPUSA challenges people to engage and debate them.
People are getting the courage not to hide their views, which is problematic for the left,...
(Excerpt) Read more at instapundit.substack.com ...
I don’t think the dam picture is accurate.
However, I DO want retribution. I want any sicko in education, health work, military and law enforcement drummed out immediately. Let them work at coffee shops, bagel stores, bookstores or wherever they can be kept from the young, ill and vulnerable.
For the 20% or so who were cheered by the demise of Charlie Kirk (and are obvious now that the 80-20 balance was revealed), they’re there, they hate you, and they’re not going anywhere.
Whatcha gonna do?
Not one single taxpayer $ to fund any degrees that require even a single freshman or sophomore course in the Social Sciences.
Wonder how many of the people celebrating Charlie’s death even knew much about him? Or were they just told some Nazi who like Trump was murdered?
Kind of like Stephen King falsely claimed Charlie was for stoning gay people.
The rest of the Preference Cascade/s keywords, sorted:
The best place to start is in Administration. It has absolutely exploded, and that’s where all the mischief is—all kinds of associate deans or whatever, DEI Coordinators who have changed their job titles but not their mischief and perfidy, etc.
Greenspan noted that the microcomputer heightened white collar productivity and eliminated middle management—except in government, education, and bureaucracy.
Go back to a Dean of Students, the University Bursar, and eliminate the rot.
Universities actually have fewer teaching faculty, as they have gone to independent contractor instructors, non-tenure track, whom they can exploit.
Bookmark.
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