Author Larry Correia wrote:
A friend of mine who is a political activist said something interesting the other day, and that was for most people on the left political violence is a knob, and they can turn the heat up and down, with things like protests, and riots, all the way up to destruction of property, and sometimes murder… But for the vast majority of folks on the right, it’s an off and on switch. And the settings are Vote or Shoot Fucking Everybody. And believe me, you really don’t want that switch to get flipped, because Civil War 2.0 would make Bosnia look like a trip to Disneyworld.
There is a reason for it being a switch for the Right.
The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of men who wanted to be left alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know that the moment they fight back their lives as they have lived them are over.
The moment the men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror, true terror will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the men who just wanted to be left alone. – Author Unknown
The difference is, on the Left, the dial is deliberately adjusted by each individual for zirself. On the Right, the switch is flipped for them by the Left.
RIP, Charlie Kirk.
My hope is this does not come to fruition. My fear is that it does.
I’m not sure the right are the people who want to be left alone any more. Then again, maybe the *people* are, but the Republican politicians are doing anything but leaving people alone. I some cases it’s the opposite of what their constituents want but they choose party over their people and the country. Like anything else, it’s a spectrum that your writing rarely acknowledges.
@Rick Pali
I’m not sure when the Republican party last represented the “right”
Many folks on the right or conservative axis hold their nose and vote R because the alternative is objectively worse.
Sort of like: I will eat the vegetable lasagna MRE over starving, but that does not mean I want to eat the vegetable lasagna MRE