Are we entertained?

 

Another day of gladiatorial combat, or so it seems. Why use that word-- "gladiatorial"? Gladiators refers to Rome, and gladiators weren't "high class". No, gladiatorial combat aren't the stuff of the hoity-toity. Those folks don't get their hands dirty. A gladiator has to get into the pits, so to speak. They have to contend with the nastiest of the nasty. These leftists are a hard-bitten nasty bunch.

A clean-cut, "nice" guy like Charlie Kirk will just get cut to pieces by he nasties. I was thinking that his widow might be doing the Chrisian thing to forgive an enemy for their evil, but this world requires something a bit tougher.

Today's gladiators might be in the NFL. Gladiators were also used as entertainers in the Roman era. So a thought runs through my mind, is all of this just entertainment for the hoity-toities? Well, you get paid handsomely in these days, if you go out and do that kind of work.

But there's a kind of work that doesn't pay. That means it a game in which the participants play for keeps. What exactly are we playing for, in this modern daily combat of the political world?

It's all about the next election. But if the left cared about elections, then why support a gun-man, who takes out an opponent like Charlie Kirk?

Kirk didn't want bullet proof glass, I have read. He knew the dangers, but he didn't want to hide behind the glass. What's the better choice--- to be able to debate the left in the battlespace of politics; or to go to the grave yard as a martyr, who no longer has anything to say in this world? Do his death speak louder than his words? Maybe. Maybe not.

We know what kind of game Kirk was playing... The left plays a different game, and it isn't debate. They'd rather shoot than to debate. That's what it means to approve his shooting.

We can fight that battle on the ground in this world with the words in a debate, or we can fight it with bullets. Evidently the left doesn't believe in debate, so they want to settle this with guns. Yep, the anti-gun left wants to settle this with guns, as opposed to ballots.

If the left forces us to use guns, are we willing and able to meet them on their own terms? We'll see. This also reminds me of what I've seen before, which is a saying-- being right isn't enough. You might have to climb down from your clean and safe spots, and get into the ring that will get your hands dirty. The left seems to think that they can overwhelm you with their force if they cannot overwhelm you with their argumentation. I think you'd better be prepared to do battle either way.

As for me, I don't know if I am ready for this.  That is, if it comes to violence.  I'd like to think that I could do SOMETHING, though.   Doing SOMETHING is a helluva lot better than NOTHING.