The Canonization Of Charlie Kirk

 

The Left is outraged at worst, or vexed and disgusted at best, about all the conservative and Republican outpouring of grief, praise and celebration of the life and advocacy of stellar, assassinated Charlie Kirk. It could well lead to Charlie being regarded, in religious, cultural, and political circles, henceforth, as St. Charlie, and I applaud that.

 

He was a decent young man who engaged the opposition in debate and dialogue. Anyone could come up to the campus microphone—all opinions were expressed. He wanted change through the ballot box, to increase conservative alliance of the young by peaceful means of conversation and dialogue.

 

He was not misogynist, fascist, racist or transphobic. Applied to Charlie, even now posthumously, was the classical Left’s tactic that immediately and wholly, either you renounce all conservative opinions, or, if you hold onto them, you are evil personified, misogynist, racist, fascist, or transphobic. You are a hating, hateful moral monster to be shunned socially, jailed for hate speech, and relegated to second class status under even a soft Leftist dictatorship, which the Left craves to inflict upon America.

 

Charlie rejected this Leftist false dichotomy of roles imposed upon conservatives, he refuted eloquently and in a courteous, principled manner, this black and white fallacy.

 

I am old enough (I was on the school ground, probably a 3^rd grader, when someone came out and said JFK was killed.) to remember how JFK, Martin Luther King and RFK were canonized, and even King, now has a federal holiday. The liberal political culture of the 60s and 70s made that possible, and as these slain liberal leaders were celebrated and canonized, that is laudable, and almost no one back them objected.

 

To demonize the political canonization of Charlie Kirk, today, by liberals and Leftists, seems to me to be highly hypocritical, but likely they are not aware of  their inconsistent thinking and reaction to the political murder recently of Charlie, a conservative icon, and remarkable recruiter of young people away from postmodernist and nihilistic values.

 

Let us celebrate the death and loss of this wise, fine young man, and let the political canonization develop. He likely will not be accorded a national holiday, but perhaps the state of Arizona can commemorate Charlie’s life with a state holiday.

 

What we must learn from Charlie, regardless of our chosen side of the raging political and cultural war underway, is to allow free speech and opposing views, without violent clashing, assassinations and terrorist responses to view from an opponent that we dislike.

 

We must remain peaceful and civil, and fight it out verbally, and seek to gain ground each for our own sides at the ballot box. That is what Charlie lived, practiced, and would have wanted us to adopt as our political path forward, not ushering in American Civil War II.