Posted on 09/13/2025 11:35:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Another day, another public execution. The talking heads on television and Twitter tell us not to worry too much: America is still strong. They repeat this sentiment after every waking nightmare. These horrific events are not the norm, they say. They’re just the actions of a few people on the “fringe.”
But what is the American “fringe”?
The “fringe” tried to incinerate the country in 2020. The “fringe” tore down statues of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. The “fringe” control the universities and has spent years indoctrinating kids with discriminatory dogmas. The “fringe” created the policies that let violent, mentally ill men prowl the streets and kill refugees. The “fringe” killed a healthcare CEO at sunrise in December. The “fringe” tried to kill Donald Trump last summer. The “fringe” killed Charlie Kirk on Wednesday.
The “fringe” celebrated everything that was destroyed and every life that was taken.
The “fringe” is a bunch of very normal people I went to high school and college with, who have spent the last three days cavorting and reveling over the death of a man they never met and whose actual beliefs they likely cannot articulate, let alone rebut. These are not incels or idiots; they’re ostensibly educated people with jobs and families and degrees. And yet they’re possessed by an ideology that apparently prohibits them from accepting the sanctity of every human life.
The “fringe” is not on the fringes. It’s everywhere. It’s taking over the country.
And yet for years, well-intentioned voices have told us that the madness we see online is somehow unreal – that the internet is not real life. It may be true that the internet cannot replace real life, but it can certainly destroy very real, meaningful parts of life.
And it’s succeeding, especially in its pursuits to rot the brains of young people. To say that the radicalization we’re seeing is a “fringe” issue is to simply admit you have no idea the scale of the problem; it reveals you do not know what’s happening to young people online.
If you’re a Boomer, or a “not very online” person, you won’t understand the extent of the problem. That’s not a criticism. It means you’re probably doing something right – you’ve not witnessed the effects of online addiction. You’re not seeing the kinds of vile images and videos and calls to arms that create the world’s Luigi Mangiones and their disciples. But just because you’re not seeing radical, politically insane, very subversive, and dangerously attractive content online all day doesn’t mean others aren’t.
More and more of my friends are becoming openly Bolshevist or sympathetic to nihilistic authoritarianism, every month. This isn’t because they’re reading Lenin or Marx or Marcuse. No, they don’t read at all. No one does. Their minds have been captured by algorithms that exist solely to weld their eyes to their screens. Those algorithms feed them craziness to intrigue the scroller, and, with enough time, that craziness starts to feel normal to the addict, who then goes seeking crazier content, which the algorithm gladly supplies. This cycle replays millions of times across the country, every day. And then, before you know it, you have millions of people rejoicing over the death of a civilian who’d broken no laws.
Refusing to acknowledge that these screechers are destroying the nation’s harmony is a refusal of duty. The very insistence that these people are fringe has allowed this scourge to grow to the size it has now, where it can take lives and endanger the democratic process.
It’s also made social media a more miserable place (which it was always destined to be). That has in turn made social life in America more miserable. Anyone still insisting that these forces are marginal is naïve or complacent, or speaking with their hands over their eyes. Perhaps they’re afraid of what they’d see if they peeked through their fingers.
Because the “fringe” has already infiltrated real life, real America. They were educated in our schools, and they now teach our children. They tyrannize the public square. They swing clubs when they cannot win debates. They disrespect our gods. They ransack our churches, and, like the barbarians of old, they do not speak our language. They speak only the language of violence and convulsion. And they are not “fringe.”
No Restraint from Hate and Lust.
Short answer? Obama.
Or the demonic influence of Satan.
But I repeat myself.
More people are starting to see. The fringe has become the mainstream. The madness is what the Elite want for us. If we can hold them to account and make people realize that the burning cities, the riots, the cancel culture, the assassinations and assassination attempts, and all the rest are all coming from the center of the Leftwing, then we really will see a change.
It’s false to look back and say “Obama was normal”, “Hillary was normal” or “Why did things get crazy in the past 5 years?” No. It’s been crazy for a long time, and the Democrat leadership is directly responsible.
Trump and MAGA are wonderfully normal. That’s what America is supposed to be. Two parent families, good jobs with good wages, America First, secure borders, no endless wars, no transgenders, people who believe in God. That’s normal. The Left looks at that stuff and just thinks “Nazi”. The country needs to reject the poison of the Left and embrace what is normal.
Democrats: Fringe
Moderate Muslims: Islamic Extremists
The fringe are just the left’s foot soldiers.
The educational system from pre-school through post graduate education is a brainwashing enterprise to mold minds to be leftist.
A young person is hurt and in emotional pain if they say they love America and do not think their parents and others who vote for conservatives are like Hitler, and then get shunned, ridiculed and rejected by everyone else at school.
Not invited to parties. Not being asked on a date. Laughed at.
Rush used to say of the “adult” GOP politicians: All of us have a human need to feel close to others and have them want to be with us and approve of us. When asked to sacrifice that to be a conservative and risk getting ridiculed and labeled a menace, it feels better to reach across the aisle, say moderate things to get along and then to vote with the Dems on legislation. People yearn to be liked.”(slight paraphrase).
This is what happens to a society that’s rejected God.
Those C19 poison vaxxx have disarranged many peoples brains and minds. Same for the 65 childhood vaxxx children get plus all the mind drugs such as for ADD. Some teens even snort their good buddies anti-ADD drugs to get high They have very strong marijuana and edibles these days. They can find THC to vape.
How did regular people become so radicalized?
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Romans 1:28. God gave them over to a depraved mind.
I think the majority of people just want to be left alone to live their lives. Nothing wrong with that until we realize that most have no core beliefs they are willing to die for. Without those you compromise instead of challenge. It starts with small things but before you know it, you’re in over your head. You wear a mask, you use the correct pronouns, accept that climate change may in fact destroy the world someday, you never challenge things you know are incorrect - like men can become women. That’s how we got here.
It’s over simplistic and there are other factors but that’s the heart. Our institutions have changed. When John F. Kennedy was assassinated, most of the media, our courts and even our universities still represented core American values. Today, the left controls most of those. As a result, they have an outsized influence that helps to foment the hatred and the lies (speech is violence, silence is violence).
People like Charlie Kirk are fearless because they know this life isn’t the end. Their faith informs their beliefs, worldview and lifestyle. Those who put their faith in Jesus will live again. The left, mostly, has a materialistic, godless worldview. It’s a handicap. When their beliefs are challenged and they lose the argument of ideas, force is all that is left to them. You can’t pray and ask God for wisdom. You can’t pray and ask for a change of heart. You are left with enforcement by power when your ideas are rejected by the majority - even if it has to flow out of the barrel of a gun.
In the short run, the left will win (at least according to most believing Bible scholars) at least in this life. But it will be a short victory. All will stand before the judgement seat of God to give an account of their life. We need the faith and courage of Steven, the first martyr of the Church and of our friend and martyr Charlie Kirk. We must pray for that kind of courage, humility and for our nation to be healed . As much as it depends on us, we try to live at peace with all men. But we don’t compromise on God’s Word - knowing that we might not see the hoped for results in our lifetime.
Short answer? Obama.
Along with decades of 24/7 MSM and throughout an education system that started as soon as possible and only ended after the influence of graduate and law school faculty members. *
* See 1st grade classes where on day 1 students were instructed to place their parent-provided learning aids on a center table and they were redistributed "fairly".
And Conservatives have been too trusting of our institutions so we are surprised that our kids are radicalized at the university after their first semester.
I’ll give you fringe: how about Joe Biden appointing the crossdresser Richard Levin as the US Secretary of Health.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Levine
Or appointing the freak Sam Brinton to a position in the Office of Nuclear Energy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Brinton
Or appointing flaming degenerate homosexuals and transgenders into the United States military.
Somebody gave them a megaphone that fits in the pocket.
The answer is: “Democrats“
What do I win?
MANSIONS OF THE LORD
Since 1775, over 5 MILLION of us have paid the ultimate price for the America the Founders toiled to leave us and we’re now THROWING IT AWAY?
WHY DON’T WE JUST PISS ON THEIR GRAVES?
https://youtu.be/_WDrbbtaO0E
Bkmk
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