How did we get here? By submitting to the intimidation of the left

American Thinker ^ | 15 Sep, 2025 | Patricia McCarthy

[MtnClimber]

In the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the internet is flooded with shock, grief, and horror at what has happened. It was also horrified at the thousands of leftists’ delight and celebration, congratulating the assassin.

Far too many of those who have been thanking the shooter, for reasons that are impossible to discern, seem to think they are the mainstream, that a majority of Americans agree with their ghoulish praise of this murderer.

How is it possible that these thousands, maybe millions of Americans, many of them teachers, professors, nurses, doctors, and of course, indoctrinated students, think that murdering a person with whom they disagree is not only acceptable, but something to be glorified? How did we get here?

We got here by meekly submitting to the aggressive, regressive left, by the dictates of DEI, wokery, and those who incessantly shove the climate hoax down our throats.

We normies, those of us who continue to embrace Judeo-Christian values and object to the left’s tyranny of gender ideology and all the nonsense that entails.

We caved to the imposed racism that is DEI, to their anti-family , pro-all things LGBTQ schemes.

We caved to what we perceived to be the all-powerful and intolerant left.

We let the radical Marxists who teach our kids from pre-school through high school infect them with the anti-American sentiment with which they themselves were indoctrinated. Those who then went on to college were likely to be forever hypnotized by Stalinist/Maoist versions of communism as the prescription for Utopia.

It has been a gross tragedy all around.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: charliekirk; intercession; leftism; liberaltruth

[MtnClimber]

Marxists are doing what marxists do. They are destroyers.

[sauropod]

Yep

[ProtectOurFreedom]

For two generations, we bought their swill that we must be “tolerant.” Our kids learned “tolerance” at home, school and church.

It quickly got to where you had to tolerate anything and everything. If you didn’t, you were ostracized as a bigot and racist.

Of course, all the freaks, weirdos, and perverts bent on destroying society seized upon tolerance and morphed it into “We are normal. You must embrace us. Love is love. Or we will kill you.”

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Perhaps, pygmies editing the Constitution didn’t help.

[Dan in Wichita]

Normal Americans have been submitting to the Left since the 1960s. Actually, it’s been happening all over Western civilization. This explains how we got to where we are today.

[Gen.Blather]

I have no desire to argue with my friend who had a stroke and was subsequently Baker acted. He sounds crazy. But what is the point of arguing? I won’t change him and I suspect his lack of control makes arguing dangerous. If you’re not living with a trans I wouldn’t see the point in arguing. It’s when crazy makes laws that we must argue.

[ViLaLuz]

What does the Bible say about tolerance?
https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-tolerance.html

Understanding what the Bible says about tolerance is crucial for Christians today. Tolerance, as presented in Scripture, is a fundamentally different concept from the tolerance promoted in our society today. While the world advocates for a form of tolerance that demands, without judgment, the acceptance of all lifestyles and opinions as valid, the biblical perspective on tolerance is distinct. The Bible teaches that tolerance is not about accepting all behaviors or positions as valid but about extending patience, love, respect, and compassion toward those we may disagree with. ...

[T.B. Yoits]

From the article: ...teachers, professors, nurses, doctors, and of course, indoctrinated students...

Academia and Medicine - two industries where success is not a requirement. Add in Politics and you'll see where almost all these self-loathing haters gather.

[normbal]

It’s been a long time coming.

The cries of “No Justice, No Peace” back in the days of the lowly negro marching on Selma for their rights was a call to violent action, a terroristic threat, carried out by innumerable street thugs since and the torch is now being carried - and thrown, often - by a new generation of blacks, black-suited ANTIFA Sturmabteilung scum, that is.

[Socon-Econ]

Normal Americans have been submitting to the Left since the 1960s. Actually, it’s been happening all over Western civilization. This explains how we got to where we are today.
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Yeah. My college profs knew how to make Republicans feel like dirt. One reason why I went left myself for a while.

[grumpygresh]

“Our mainstream media capitulated and groveled to the whims of the Obama administration”

They did not capitulate or grovel; the establishment media was the tip of the spear, leading the charge of Marxism, totalitarianism and perversion. They have always been the most heavily indoctrinated.

It’s good to see the FCC actions and Trump’s lawsuits prevailing against them. Even better, the FDA is going back to pre 1997 advertising rules requiring all side effects to be listed and stated on pharmacy ads on TV. That will make advertising for drugs more expensive and less revenue for cable and network media companies. Pharma is the media’s biggest meal ticket.

[Dan in Wichita]

I considered myself a Democrat during my very early adulthood. In 1980 I voted for Jimmy Carter.

What changed me was when my small paycheck was boosted significantly following the Reagan tax cut. I was told only the rich would benefit from Reagan's tax plan. I realized at that moment in time I had been lied to by the Democrats and their media and became an R ever since.

[cuz1961]

How did we get here? By submitting to the intimidation of the left

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I respectfully disagree.

How we got here is,,

the left still has DOMINION over the voting mechanics.

Voter i.d. and hand counted plain language non barcoded paper
ballots or all is lost.

You think the left is unrestrained now regarding murderous tyranny ,?

Next time they gain the upper hand the word unrestrained will be accurate.

If they didn’t want us dead before, they do now.

This is their last chance and they know it.

[tumblindice]

Far left radicals seem to think that losing a job for stating vile opinions is as bad as getting murdered for saying things they don’t like.
This is what we face.