I've been noticing a big shift in attitude on the right after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Right wingers have realized that it doesn't matter how moderate they are, how much they debate, how many points of logic they may win over their opponents, how much they capitulate on any number of issues, how nice they are...they'll (the moderate normies) get murdered too, and our enemies will call us every name in the book (racist, Nazi, etc.) and dance on our graves.
This feels like a "screw it" scenario, where a whole lot of normies on the right are done being nice, are embracing the names the left calls us, unironically, and have entirely stopped being nice or fighting fair. There's even large groups of right wingers, even normies, who are ready for violence. Essentially, the moderate/mainstream/normie position is dead, and it died with Charlie Kirk.
I've been experiencing this in my own life, too, even at work, hearing conversations I'd never thought I'd hear from political normies. For example, hearing people talking about, and be disgusted by, the murder of Iryna Zarutska, even though that story was extremely censored.
I'm curious, have y'all noticed anything similar in your own lives?
I've seen that contingent as well, the people who are doubling down on their naive sense of "good", when their version of "good" requires everyone and everything they love to be murdered and destroyed.
For Christians to be saying that, means that they're completely inverting God, truth, and goodness. God is not the God of death. He is the God of life. God does not command us to lay down and die, to let our families, community, and peoples be enslaved, conquered, and killed. Abiding in truth does not lead to ruination and death, it leads to success and life. If someone's "principles" require everyone and everything they love to die, then their principles are fundamentally and abhorrently wrong. If a Christian's view of Christianity, of God, and interpretation of scripture is like that, they aren't just wrong, but have inverted God, Christ, Christianity, and the Bible to its complete antithesis.
However, I'm seeing this death cult of the "good" people dwindling fast, because regular people are seeing how utterly absurd it is to demand everyone lay down and die for their "principles". We don't want our loved ones to die. Even most normie right wingers don't want to see their loved ones murdered, which is why, in my opinion, we're seeing this shift. Regular people are seeing that no matter how milquetoast and nice we are, it'll never be enough, and our enemies want to kill all of us.
Wow.
> meaning how fighting against people is bad
Wow wow.
> weakness played off as a virtue.
"God is dead, and we have killed him."