Posted on 10/03/2025 10:44:46 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
With each passing day it becomes more obvious that the left has become incapable of rational debate or political compromise, and must now embrace the only tools available to it: intimidation, coercion, and political violence. Whatever liberals might believe about their progressive politics, today their program is based not on persuasion or representation, still less on open-minded rational inquiry or practical solutions to problems. It’s based on force.
The assassination of Charlie Kirk last month is of course emblematic of what the left has become. Kirk was murdered for speaking out against transgenderism. Dissenting from that ideology in particular is intolerable for the left because it encapsulates an ideal of total liberation — even from nature itself. But there are plenty of examples just from the past week of the left resorting to violence, or threats of violence, to advance their cause.
Call it the assassin’s or rioter’s veto — the last tactic of a liberal project that has reached an intellectual and political dead-end in the aftermath of Kirk’s assassination.
Consider the cancellation of a Federalist Society event scheduled for Oct. 7 at New York University Law School, which cited “security reasons” and fears that anti-Israel protesters would disrupt it. The event was to feature conservative legal scholar Ilya Shapiro discussing his new book, Lawless: The Miseducation of American Elites.
Shapiro is Jewish, and has been critical of campus anti-Israel protests in the past — the same sort of protests NYU officials anticipate on Oct. 7, and which, according to reporting from The Washington Free Beacon, the school is apparently unable to control. And yet, as the Beacon further reported, the law school “is slated to host a seven-hour symposium on ‘social entrepreneurship, impact investing, and sustainable development’ that same day.” They don’t fear riots over that event, but...
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The Right: defend truth and defeat the Left.
The Left: destroy the Right.
Asymmetric warfare.
The Left just KNOWS that they are right.
They also KNOW that we are all sub-human fascists.
Why would they bother to debate? They just want to kill us. Because they think that’s the moral thing to do.
The Left is really doing nothing more than testing to verify if they’ve moved the Overton Window enough to embrace violence without consequences. It’s those consequences or lack thereof that are driving this dynamic. Given the systematic corruption of public prosecution and the judiciary in general, the suspicion that consequences have been removed successfully from the equation is probably understandable. The return of consequences is the primary reason they hate Trump with such a passion.
Strongly suggest people read some of the news articles from the 20's and 30's.
If you want to you can go back further back to Andy "Ol' Crook" Jackson and the violence his loony proto-leftist followers were dealing out to people who opposed his wiping his butt with the Constitution.
It keeps on happening, people keep on acting like it is something new. I guess that is why they want us disarmed and with no historical education.
The article is too generous. The Left has embraced violence since at least the 1960s. The 60s bombings. Occupy Wall Street. BLM.
They killed Charlie Kirk not because he was wining over hardened leftists, but that he was winning over the unconvinced and the ignorant who hadn’t been completely indoctrinated.
He was undermining their recruitment centers and so they killed him.
False. They never had rational debate to abandon.
It was then when they started the political bombings in America.
The party of the KKK predates 1900 by quite a bit.
Also before the KKK they went to Civil War rather than engaging in rational debate.
Exactly. Shooting Christian children is “love” because those children will not grow up to be haters
There never was any compromise in “You’re a NAZI!” It’s a charge it’s not debate.
The Left offers License to Sin. It costs them nothing and earns ardent followers who will never leave the Party which absolves them of guilt.
Last voluntary act is never pretty
The left has become incapable of rational debate
Exactly.
Thomas Aquinas once stated that “impurity inevitably leads to violence. “
They can’t win a debate so that leaves them with censorship, or in Charlie’s case, assassination.
It needs a name - just like the J6ers got.
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