A specialist department in the White House is devoted to controlling the news. It's a fine art. Luckily for them and unluckily for us, there are also a lot of other people in the news services and out in America and even out in Russia who are on their side eager to add their voices to the political megaphone. Some stories critical of the administration need to just go away. The Epstein business may have been buried but the corpse won't lie down. The assassination of Charlie Kirk is grist for their news mill. Here is an innocent young man with ideals and a young family who was shot in the middle of a political gathering at a university. His assassination will be the fault of left-wing, university Marxists, liberal DEI individuals who don't understand what the real America is about. Sadly, the young man and his family are victims to the whole right-wing construct behind the implementation of Project 2025. The right wing media has gone full monty on using the opportunity to excoriate liberals, abortion lovers, communist lovers, muslims, Jews, scumbags like George Floyd, that "not good person Martin Luther King," the Jews in Hollywood etc... etc... etc.... This is a tragedy The President and his supporters can exploit and he is is clinging to it like a drowning man.

Charlie Kirk rose to the top of the Republican pole amazingly quickly. The message he emphasized perfectly were ideas promoted by Project 2025 and he changed his tune regularly to fit in and so attract more funds from fat cat American donors who hate control and love the market. Charlie's income went from $65,000 a year to $300,000 within few months and then the funds and bookings, the offers just kept coming. So he rode the bandwagon, he became the innocent sacrifice. A life snuffed out by a gun crazy individual in a society which equates freedom with license. We'll find out, eventually the idiot who killed him. And it doesn't really matter. The U.S. is awash with guns and maniacs schooled on the internet who can barely read and write and wouldn't be able to distinguish a Marxist from a follower of the Seven Mountain Mandate. My heart grieves. He is such a carefree, if naive, optimist. He urged youth to "speak up, act boldly, and shape the future rather than wait passively." A wonderfully attractive message.

If you read the majority of Kirk's writings, you'll get the sense of his simple notions where there is little ambiguity or background; it's a clear black-and-white case. Here are the issues: "Learn relentlessly. Knowledge is the fountain of freedom," he said. He believed it. He preached it without any education himself. He obviously enjoyed the popularity and the fame. In the new life, with money at his disposal, a nice new house, a wife, and young children, everything was going well. What he never understood was the Machiavellian nature of American politics, which is internecine and dirty as most politics are. He was unschooled in the realities of the political world. He had never stood for office or was tested by the political system in the US. His naivety became his downfall and his family bears the consequence. And they and we have lost a good son.

Those who facilitated his rise to celebrity status will make the best of the situation but never have to take responsibility. This is the nature of our political world. And it has never changed. His rhetoric was described as divisive, racist, and xenophobic. He acknowledged that he was unpopular with this brand of conservatism, but he argued that disagreement is a healthy part of our system. Disagreement is, of course, healthy, but when it comes to violence and the ubiquity of guns and the willingness to use those guns for political ends, then both sides of the coin - conservative and liberal - need to join together to defend our system of government from extremists. Turmoil is only in the interests of a small minority who want to exploit and grow their power. It was ever such.