The division in the United States, the ideological and political division, has reached an untenable level. With one faction growing increasingly comfortable with confrontation and violence as its preferred method of conflict resolution, we are slowly reaching the Rubicon of fracture. We simply cannot continue down this path without threatening a rupture in our society that will end the Republic as we know it.
The political assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk was a lethal byproduct of a society that has allowed itself to be manipulated by ideological and political charlatans and opportunists, and desensitized to violence on the whole. This has resulted in our one faction in our communities becoming jadedly divided to the point of accepting violence.
It’s quite difficult to deny this as a fact. Kirk, whether you agreed with his positions on any number of issues, made his name by engaging in the debate arena; in appearances and on platforms where he would use words, not fists, knives, or guns, to persuade his ideological and political opponents. Sometimes he would succeed, and sometimes he would fail. But he and his supporters never—ever—devolved to violence of any sort.
In fact, between the two opposing ideological and political factions facing off in the United States—and this is true of the divide endemic in the free West—only one faction has come to embrace violence as a chief tool in conflict resolution: the neo-Marxist-inspired Left. Where it is rare to hear of a conservative group taking to the streets in protest, it is even rarer to hear of a group from the ideological Right committing acts of violence.
Conversely, whenever today’s toxic-Left doesn’t get its way—whether it be in losing an election, a piece of legislation passing into law that they oppose, or a Supreme Court decision not going their way—they not only take to the streets in protest, they employ—literally—the likes of Antifa, BLM, and any number of special interest protest groups to wreck havoc and execute violence in the streets.
And just a little over a year ago, the toxic-Left’s embrace of lethal violence as conflict resolution took center stage in Butler, Pennsylvania in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, culminating on September 10, 2025, with the assassination of Charlie Kirk; a husband, father, a God-fearing Christian, and, by all accounts listening to people who actually knew him, a good human being.
Yes, social media enables faceless bravado, often with inaccurate or outright false information, facilitating typewritten and sometimes verbal confrontation. And yes, our news and entertainment industries (slowly morphing into one in the same) pump visuals of violence and carnage into our heads, now in a 24-7-365 dosage to the point where we are numb to even the most horrific scenes imaginable. But these are only the outlier poisons that have delivered almost half the nation to believe violence—and lethal violence at that—is an acceptable way to settle their differences.
The prime culprits, the main poison, in our society, who move people to violent confrontation, are the political and ideological charlatans who shop identity and grievance politics to fuel their opportunistic gain. Until recently, their performative-art politicking was meant to stoke discontent and resentment to harness the people’s anger in hopes of motivating them to donate to their political campaigns and activist NGOs. The more outrageous the accusation and the more bloodthirsty the rhetoric, the more potent the manipulation, and the greater the gains. After all, as faithful followers of Marx, Engels, Gramsci, and Alinsky. The ends justify the means.
Prime examples of this ideological and political manipulation include:
* Joe Biden (2024): “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”
* Daniel Goldman (2023): “He [Trump] is not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy, and he has to be eliminated.”
* Maxine Waters (2018): “If you see anybody from that [Trump] Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gas station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
* Ayanna Pressley (2020): “There needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there’s unrest in our lives.”
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