Political Assassination

A Selfish Means to Selfish Ends

The goal of a political assassin is not to further their cause; it is simply to satisfy their hatred. They define a person (or people) as representative of everything they hate, and then they destroy it. Perhaps, they may think, if there’s nothing left to hate — if they can eliminate the object or cause of their hatred — then they can finally feel peace. Or perhaps, they may think, they can make a name for themself, thereby endowing themself with (destructive) purpose and imbuing their life with (twisted) meaning. Or perhaps, they may think, they can at least make other people suffer just as they have.

The man who assassinated Charlie Kirk had no beef with Charlie personally. How could he, having never known Charlie? No, Charlie was simply the embodiment of everything that man hated about his own life and the world. And how convenient that so many hatable things came packaged in one public, conservative body.

The assassin’s goal was not to relieve the world of the chains of free speech and family values; it was to free himself of the chains of his own misery and contempt, to eliminate the incessant reminders of his crippling inadequacy, to alleviate the unbearable weight of his awful being. And under different circumstances, becoming aware of such an existence may inspire compassion and intervention from others. But under these, it inspires only anger and contempt.

The public assassination of Charlie Kirk perfectly represents the radical liberal ideology of our time: a miserable, selfish person aimed solely at validating his distorted sense of self did so at all costs and by any means necessary, disregarding everyone else in the process. In doing so, he confirmed himself everything that he feared he was and knew that Charlie wasn’t: a disgrace — an outcast and a wretch, incapable of self-reflection and self-improvement, unwilling to participate in society and as such undeserving of inclusion in it.