Like most Americans I had never heard of Charlie Kirk until he was shot. Terrible stuff to be sure.

But I wonder if the media’s complete obsession with him after his death might turn out to be no less terrible.

Most Americans are sad that he was killed the way we’d be sad that anyone was killed.

But the wall-to-wall coverage and complete inescapability of his name and image since his death is absurd. It suggests he was the most important person who has ever lived–either good or bad. As if everyone must either mourn him or revile him.

I have never heard of the guy, so how am I supposed to eulogize or criticize him?

The right-wingers talk of holy war in his name. The leftists suggest he brought it upon himself.

Just wild stuff.

Its as if the entire world is trying to force you to pick a side– you must either canonize him or demonize him.

Except they aren’t the entire world.

At all.

Not even close.

These are two fringe groups that do not speak for the majority of Americans. Yet their messages are amplified a million times a day across every conceivable channel in an endless churn of frothy chaos.

We all know where this is going to lead.

The noise is the problem. The noise is what killed Charlie.

And the noise has gotten noisier.

But no one– except for the Czar–is going to tell you that.

No one is going to tell you the Truth.

And you know why right?

You know what drives the noise don’t you?

Emotional predators.

Predators. Every one of them.

They see you there. Wondering. Asking, “what should I think about this?” Ready to be imprinted upon.

And they come for you. Breathless and hysterical.

The talking heads. The cable news. The emotional predators. The Gmork of our day.

Hoping to make you feel something.

Anger. Fear.

Whatever.

Doesn’t matter.

Just something.

Because once they make you feel they’ve got you.

You’ll come back for more. And they know it.

And you do.

And they just keep scooping it out.

Its a form of masturbation really.

Stimulate the audience. Get them to their peak, if you can.

And they’ll keep coming back for it.

Getting off on it.

The political parties play the same game.

They can’t lead.

They accomplish nothing (and sometimes even less than nothing.)

All they can do is get you angry, or scared.

Make you feel because they can’t make you think.

Anger and fear are better motivators anyway.

They can’t make you think but they can make you hate the other side.

But there is no other side. We’re all just Americans.

So they make you hate Americans. 

And that’s what they do. Every day.

And now they ALL have a tool they can use to get you mad or scared.

A tool they can use to make you hate.

And they are ALL going to use it.

And they are.

But that’s only going to make things worse.

Turn it off folks.

Just turn it off.

Watch some Deserve to Win podcast episodes instead. 🙂

I will say this–and only this– about Charlie Kirk.

It sucks he got shot, but anyone who is trying to change the world– and I think he was– knows that’s always a possibility.

That’s life.

If you can’t handle those stakes, then you weren’t meant to change the world.

That’s how it is.

That’s how it always was.

If I sacrifice my legal career and move forward with a Congressional run as the first step to dismantling our current BROKEN political system and replacing it with the one the framers actually gave us in the Constitution–a system that serves ALL Americans instead of just co-conspirators in some rigged political game– you think I don’t know there’s a chance I eat a bullet?

Of course there is.

But you know what our national motto really means don’t you?

What “In God We Trust” actually means right?

Chat soon.