I agree with your assessment of the political climate. Hence my distaste for "debate". I conclude then that claims of "Charlie just wanted to talk to them" are as disingenuous as every other claim by political influencers.
Or they are optimists. I'm not going to fault a guy for trying, nor crucify him when he goes into hostile territory on the regular to do just that. Arguably, it was working: Gen Z is more right leaning than ever, and if there wasn't a mainstream normal young conservative voice out there, I can see it being a lot less pronounced.
I think the Overton window in the last 2 years have shifted even faster and harder to the right than even 2014-2022 to the left. Unless major shifts happen I don't think the GOP needs to worry about gerrymandering at all for midterms, but do it anyway. If the election was now they'd probably lose 25% of their congress entire power or more.
Definitely going out to talk to/at people is brave. I can accept that he was an influencer with a strong emotional following but I am not his target audience and am left nonplussed. Doesn't condone the murder, though.
I didn't know much about him but I've seen multiple interviews since the assassination, and I would say he seems to generally want to connect with the young people that talk to him. The one I saw that stood out to me was a college student girl who said she knew she was Trans at 13. After talking a little he said he wanted her to be comfortable with her body and not resort to medication and surgery to make herself feel better. He let her speak, listened, and responded in a compassionate way that she listened to. I wouldn't call it a debate but a discussion.
I'm surprised he already hasn't. He's gotten the same treatment as Tulsi where both MSM and left politicians have treated them like shit before and after teaming with Trump.
"Facts and Logic" should become the same type of meme as "Thought and Prayers". And your reply was exactly what I was looking for
This is all that needs to be said by leftists to be able to have a country. You can't live in a country where half the country justifies the murder of the other half.
I don't know if one can pinpoint a specific year or presidency as to when that became impossible. I think it's been a gradual process as the federal government began assuming more power unto itself, thus leading to national politics becoming more important than they should be. As issues such as abortion and the size of government got taken away from the local level and all became issues of national import, national politics became all consuming and the stakes started becoming too high.
Like you said you can’t pinpoint exactly when this started but if I had to guess I’d say post 2010 at the very least. This is when the internet become popular with non nerd types and as well when a lot of the more insane leftist poltics and ideas were being born.
Temp ban of, I guess 5 more days? 130 or something users banned for taking HHH bait in the Kirk thread and HHH himself. There's a list in the first locked thread and maybe there's a link to it a few pages back.
political violence started when someone convinced 10 of his friends to kill the tribe chief for more mammoth meat and a pass at his wives. America has had political violence from the start, literally. However, after the period of polarization and violence eventually one side wins and an overton window is born. After the 60s the "left" won. That win was cemented by Ronald Ragan, who set the bounds for the right-wing. Eventually the left kept winning, until a bunch of spergs online helped Donald Trump win. Donald Trump wasn't apart of the intelligencia, so he wasn't given the proper training as to what positions a right-wing person could hold.
x 13 x 6 x 3 x 2
Back in the 1980s people used to watch network TV. There were politicized evangelicals who were pretty hateful. There were also shows with pundits screaming at each other. There was Lee Atwater stirring racial shit on behalf of Reagan. George HW Bush won on Kinder Gentler America and the Clintons were later criticized for taking baby steps on divisive issues. There were guys like Limbaugh on the radio though.
