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The Progressive Left’s Descent Into Barbarism
Can we re-civilize our society?
There often comes a moment in the pursuit of a noble but hopeless cause when the idealist discards both ideals and human bonds, embracing barbarism in the name of a higher purpose. The progressive Left has reached that moment in its moral decline. Once self-styled protectors of the marginalized, progressives now push their opponents beyond the margins—and beyond the pale. Their cause is the defense of victims, yet some have victimized their adversaries to death, while others have mocked and abused the dead afterward. Champions of compassion have mutated into purveyors of hatred. Whether these perverse reversals have penetrated the sect’s own consciousness, I cannot say.
Possibly, the Left’s belief system made its descent into barbarism inevitable. Progressives long ago cast aside God, religion, and other transcendental restraints. The moral order and conventional rules of a supposedly oppressive society mean less than nothing to them. What remains is hedonism and the will to power. In the Internet age, both find expression in rituals of demonization—destroying those whose opinions offend them, whether through harassment by a digital lynch mob, coerced confessions and firings, or, as in the cold-blooded killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, outright political assassination. It is the same principle aimed at the same end: hate the haters more brutally than they hate you.
Kirk’s murder can be blamed on an unstable individual. The reaction is harder to explain. Many progressives seemed blind to the horror of the crime; many more rushed to strip the victim of his humanity, cheering the extermination of a 31-year-old father of two as if it were a touchdown for the home team.
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The media, as ever, played the role of institutional enabler in the progressive slide into barbarism. On X, Bluesky, and Instagram, users staged standing ovations over the snuffing out of a human life. Maybe the surge of hatred overwhelmed the safety algorithms—but think back to 2020. What would have been the fate of anyone who applauded George Floyd’s killing or urged further violence? Those posts would have been flagged and deleted in a nanosecond, their authors banished forever to digital hell. By contrast, those who defiled Kirk’s corpse online under their own names clearly felt safe, and in terms of platform tolerance, they were right.
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The psycho-political pathologies unleashed by Kirk’s assassination should not have surprised us. The signs were already evident. Polls show that 55 percent of those who identify as “left of center” say that killing President Trump would be justified.
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But much bloodshed and horror can occur short of civil war. We haven’t yet reached the madness of 1971–72, when leftist groups carried out 2,500 bombings and murdered police officers. But such violence can erupt quickly and persist for years. Today’s information environment makes it easy to track the movements of controversial figures, turning incitement into personal, targeted threats. In one possible future, anyone with a political opinion will be forced to cower inside a coffin of bulletproof glass.
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Talk of re-civilizing society sounds farfetched; hatred is as addictive as fentanyl, and potentially even more destructive. Such collapses of human feeling as we have seen can only leave us in wonder—and despair.
Yet, we should never underestimate the power of decency or forget the vast moral resources available to us as Americans. Our history has been the record of our overcoming—with the forces of division, often at the crisis point, tamed by the better angels of our nature. That process may have already begun. In a remarkable gesture, Erika Kirk, a young widow, publicly forgave her husband’s assassin. Such generosity is improbable, but it reflects the finest impulses of the American spirit and shows us the way to higher ground. After a season of barbarism we can, if we choose, inaugurate an age of forgiveness.
Commentary:
The radical left is the Democrat Socialists of America. It is no longer the Democrat Party. They own it and frankly can’t control it. The important word here is control. The DSA only care about controlling everyone and everything in this country!
Taking liberty on Orwell's "Animal Farm", Can we re-civilize our society?
The simple answer is Yes!
We can also re-domesticate feral hogs if we capture and feed them and provide medical care, nurture them. And, sterilize the mostly-male recidivists. Strong force, even violence may be required with the feral hog population, probably about the same with us.
Once good people have had enough, things could get pretty darn dicey..and fast.
From my meager interface with folks in general, they’ve just about had enough of the black-robed, communist, foreign tyrants, known as “judges”, already.
There will be no re-civilizing society without a turning back to God.
Turning Point USA is proving it. That is why Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
