On Leaving the Left

It's heresy and the cult will shun you

If you must leave your friend group for the sin of asking questions, maybe, just maybe, they are not really your friends.  If they are cheering the death of Charlie Kirk, or even quietly, but smugly, saying, well he deserved it, then maybe, just maybe, they are not really good people.  If you say nothing and do nothing, so that you can keep your so-called friends, then maybe, just maybe, you are also not a good person.

There is an expression:  The Right looks for converts and the Left looks for heretics.  My advice, give them both what they are looking for.  On the Right, you will find true diversity.  The only kind that matters, a diversity of ideas.  You don't even have to go full right; just dip your toe in the water.  You will be welcomed.  You will find encouragement.  And no doubt, you will find new friends.

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Politics By Different Means

Where are we?  And what happens next?

I would really like to not have to find a new home for this website.  It has taken me long enough to learn how to use the Blogger system.  I would rather not spend the time necessary learning a new system.  So I would not want Google to view this post as a call to violence or incitement to any type of physical conflict whatsoever.

But politics is a type of conflict.  In fact, perhaps the most noble and healthy type of conflict:  The conflict of ideas.  Well noble and healthy so long as that is where it stays.  But when people start getting shot and killed, that is no longer the conflict of ideas.

So what is it?

Is it murder?  Undoubtedly.  Assassination?  Surely.  But I would say that it is also the ultimate form of censorship, right?  It is difficult to have a conflict of ideas if one side has been silenced by death, and fear of death.

But is it war?  And if it is war, when did it start?  Here is another question:  When does the conflict of ideas become the war of ideas?  When when does the war of ideas become just war?  Surely assassination is a signal.

We all know the Clausewitz quote:  War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

Is that where we are today?

I think the answer largely depends on what happens next.

But surely we can extend Clausewitz:  Assassination is the continuation of politics by different means.  Although martyrdom is risky for the perpetrators.

I am reminded of another quote:  Before you can have peace, you must first have victory.  I am not sure where this came from, but I first heard it from Rush Limbaugh.

So can we have peace without more bloodshed?  And if so, how?

I think it is possible, but it would necessitate the complete collapse of the ideas of one side or the other.  Is that a realistic goal?  Looking at all the current 80/20 issues, one might argue that we are there already.

Yet, as a nation, we remain pretty much 50/50 divided.  80/20 issues or not, half of us are still voting for people who support the twenty percent side of numerous policy issues.

So if it will take complete collapse, we are not there yet.  And besides, there are still many 50-ish/50-ish issues to be dealt with.  There are even some 20-60-20 issues, right?

Point is, outside of the academy and traditional media, I do not see a coming collapse of ideas.  Now or in the foreseeable future.  And each side's supporters are not going anywhere.  We're all still here, and as we look around the world, really, there's no place to go.

So then the question becomes:  Can we live indefinitely with the status quo?  With the sharply divided culture?  Today, it is really two countries in one.  And it is not peaceful and it is not trusting; not anymore.

We are a society that has lost good will towards people we disagree with.  We lost our good will and we lost our civil discourse.  Sadly, I think that is an honest and fair way to describe it.

So here is the choice before us.  An indefinite, non-peaceful, non-trusting status quo.  Or war, and assuming victory by one side or the other, maybe followed by peace.  As with our first civil war.

Two bad options to choose from.  I suppose an optimist would argue that it is possible that the status quo will improve, and we might return to good will and civil discourse.  But I just don't see it.

So where are we?  And what happens next?

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More Bluesky on Charlie Kirk

More love from the Left.  Look, I really don't mind what they say.  But as I have noted before, what you believe defines who you are.  You are what you believe.

URGENT. FYI.

After Charlie Kirk, on the sky app there are people asking for the next person to be targeted. These include JK Rowling, Matt Walsh, Trump, Ben Shapiro, Libs of TikTok, Elon Musk, and Andy Ngo.

I took as many screenshots as I could. pic.twitter.com/CnZmmJAjvh

— Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 (@babybeginner) September 11, 2025

You can tell a lot about a person by how they react when someone dies.

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) November 27, 2016

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Bluesky on Charlie Kirk

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Missed Trump, Got Kirk

Who is next?

Make no mistake about it, they want to kill you.  And me.  And anyone else who opposes their radical agenda.

Now, who is they?  Well it is not just those two guys with guns.  Have you listened to how the left talks these days?  They rage and they condescend.  Often they are angry and radical.  And most importantly, they are intolerant of any views differing from their own.  They do not want to engage in honest debate; they want to cancel and banish.  And if they cannot do that, well, then what?

And the smug moral superiority that they all seem to share.  Surely this encourages the whole leftist spectrum to act more radically.  I mean, they are on the correct side of history.  And we on the right are evil.  Just ask them.

Their moral superiority is a form of self-deception.  And lack of confidence in their principles.  But they are too self-assured to question their own views.  And yes, anyone on the left who does question will be banished; it is for this reason that the thoughtful people on the left, such as they are, keep quiet.

I once told a leftist friend of mine that I see more intellectual diversity on the right than on the left.  She laughed at me.  Of course.

Mark my words, they will use this incident to push for gun control.  Just imagine, kill a right-wing activist with a gun and then argue that we need to get rid of guns.

It is the hypocrisy of the left, about everything, that we all notice.  John Kerry and his private jets; Hillary Clinton and her many guns.

So this is, I believe, a true turning point.  Things will either get radically better or radically worse.  I cannot predict which.  But I know one thing for sure:  Hold on to your guns.  You might need them.

One final thought on this.  Murder is the ultimate form of censorship.  The left will be all too happy if we on the right stop talking because we are afraid that we too might be shot.  In the leftist mind, the ends absolutely justify the means.  And I think, to some extent this will work.  Tucker, Candace, Elon, Ben Shapiro, Megyn Kelly; what are these people, and many others, going to do now?  I notice Brandon Tatum also holds Kirk-style events on campus.  None of these guys, no matter how famous they are, can afford Secret Service level protection.

The left will be all too happy if theirs becomes the only narrative:  Yes, yes, this is terrible, a tragedy, see we told you about guns, etc.  But yes absolutely, we need to trans kids in schools without the knowledge of their parents.  See, no one disagrees with that.

They're giddy tonight.
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DarkHorse on a Dark World

Fake experts and fake women

I started paying attention to Bret Weinstein at the time of the woke kerfuffle at Evergreen State College back in 2017.  But what I could not have known at that time was that it would be Weinstein and his wife, Heather Heying, who would largely guide my family and me through the Covid era.  I will always be grateful for their honesty in an immensely dishonest time.  There were others of course, but Weinstein and Heying did the heavy lifting.

Along with their Covid analysis, their commentary, on the public health universe, big pharma, the trans-agenda, and many other topics in which our expert classes have failed us, has been nearly as valuable.  It was Weinstein and Heying who introduced me to the scourge of institutional capture and the idea of a shadowy Goliath.

If you look at the world today, the chaos that surrounds us, the complete incompetence of government and its institutions, and the mission failure of our education establishment, I urge you to start watching DarkHorse.  This episode, Number 293, is a fine place to start.

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Carlson and Knowles

Hateful menopausal ladies and their gay sidekicks



Like Richard Dawkins, I am an atheist and a cultural Christian.  Really, is there any other legitimate choice?  I mean, you can be a Christian or a Jew, but if not, what are your choices?  No matter what you may think of other religions, they are all objectively inferior to Christianity and Judaism.  All of them.  Certainly the modern religion of puritanical leftist ideology is detrimental to human understanding and progress, and individual mental health.

I say this as someone who stands back from the Christian church and looks at it and also looks at the alternatives.  As an objective observer, it is impossible to believe that Islam offers a preferable life path.  Let's murder all the gay people?  And anyone who might leave the faith?  Please.  I mean, they reason like angry toddlers.  And even if I, as a Muslim, would not do this myself (note, because of something beyond my own religious convictions), I support, directly or indirectly, those who do.

Let us be serious and stop pretending that there are redeeming qualities in the Islamic faith system.  Say it with me:  My apostate friends and family, and my gay friends and family, and any and all apostates, from any religion, and any and all homosexuals, should not be put to death.  If you cannot say this publicly, your convictions are inferior.  Period.

And I say this as someone who is, at best, ambivalent about gay demeanor and behavior, and honestly about gay people themselves.  Ambivalent at best, and sometimes quite a bit less generous than that.  However, I do not think that they should be killed.  No genuinely moral person does.  And no genuinely moral religion calls for such.

But here, I only use Islam because it is the largest alternative to Christianity.  This logic applies to all non-Christian, non-Jewish religions.  Asian religions may not murder apostates, but they tend to be morally ambiguous.

Certainly there are questionable elements in the Christian and Jewish faiths as well.  But I submit to you, dear reader, that they are the best of the many alternatives.  Certainly as Jews and Christians practice their respective faiths today.  And whether you are a believer in the Divine, or not, Christianity and Judaism do allow each of us to pick and choose what to practice and believe without fear of, well, death.

So as a moral person, your choices are:  Be a Christian, be a Jew, or be an atheist and a cultural Judeo-Christian.  That's it.  And yes, if you were born in India or China or Saudi-Arabia, this admonition still applies to you.  I mean, what are the alternatives?  Be an atheist and a cultural Muslim?  What does that even mean?  Again, okay, you, yourself, do not murder the apostates.  Perhaps it is more plausible to be a cultural Hindu.  But I submit if you are an atheist and a cultural Hindu and a moral person, you have been greatly influenced by Judeo-Christian ideas.

Anyway, all of this to merely explain that even as an atheist, I can appreciate a discussion of the role of the Church in our culture.  And how I would rather live in a culture dominated by Christianity than any other religion.  Most especially the religion of puritanical leftist ideology.  Just look at the United Kingdom to see a society where the role of the Church is now, basically, nonexistent, replaced by leftist ideology and Islam.

I have said this before, and I will say it again, almost all people, including most atheists, need faith in something.  And if it is not going to be Christianity, it is most likely going to be something significantly worse.

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