Long-time readers may recall how I latched on to Bleeding Kansas as the closest historical parallel to the situation we found ourselves in. Bleeding Kansas took place in the run up to the Civil War, where the Kansas-Nebraska act enabled settlers in the Kansas territory to determine whether their newly-formed state would be admitted to the Union as a slave state of as a free state.
What better way to gain your favored outcome than to essentially flood the territory and instill violence to an unprecedented degree? None other than John Brown of Harper’s Ferry fame led the charge for the abolitionists.
I haven’t touched on Bleeding Kansas lately but in the last two days I’ve heard Tim Pool and Robert Barnes separately make the same analogy, so it seems to be gaining ground as a historical parallel.
The topic of slavery in the day bent minds like today’s transexual cult (and abortion). Normally sane individuals would lose all sense of morality in support of a single issue. The issues — slavery then, trans now — instill a cultish adherence for the true believers to treat as “others” those who disagreed with their point of view. (Slaves, too, where “othered”; how else to describe their treatment?)
“Othering” is the gateway drug that gives moral space for individuals to perform acts they would otherwise never consider because they believe that they are morally obligated to do so. They believe they need to assassinate them because to not do so would be amoral.
Charlie Kirk, in the warped view of the trans-loving lunatic in Utah, was a real danger. Kirk, in his mind, had to be taken out. How this person’s mind was twisted is easy to explain when you see the constant drumbeat of conservative othering that takes place for years in schools, in media, and cultural outlets (Hollywood), fueled by NGOs and government funded Leftist groups.
We’re in an assassination culture founded on othering — a decidedly Leftist phenomenon. It reveals itself in ways that are pertinent for the time, always stoking fear drummed up by propaganda. In Germany, it was the “othering” of Jews — dirty, unsafe Joooos. In Bleeding Kansas, in the 1850s, it was slavery, and was a precursor to the Civil War. It indicated that the US was on a collision course—a true House Divided. After the Civil War, it was embodied in the KKK.
Today, it’s rooted in a myth — that gender is fluid, the ultimate narcissistic expression that I, and not my Creator or even my predestined biology, can determine my gender. It’s nihilism at its root.
Are we on a straight line to another Civil War? I think not, if only because it’s more straightforward to undercut the philosophical basis of trans (if you can call it that), where in the prebellum era, slavery was rooted in economics, wealth, and cultural status.
But that doesn’t mean that trans adherents will just slither away. Once radicalized, it takes time for the cult to unwind and, even then, they tend to find new outlets (n.b., Bill Ayers who went from a militant 1970s Weather Underground bomber to Obama’s ghost writer). With today’s social media, however, the blast radius of radicalization is far greater. So the potential for another issue to be the vanguard for the Left’s next proclivity is an ever present concern.