Response to an FB Friend’s post.
I DON’T think the apt word is "managed." But by whom? I believe this is how things are in these days of internet communication's bombast (and confusion), that is easily reinforced by the current eerie divide. I didn't know or never paid attention to Charlie Kirk (though I read more than a dozen news sources on a daily basis). Then he was shot! Now I know.
At least on my homepage, the Left's reaction was a lot louder than the Right right after the fact. Almost all my feeds were Left-wing applause. Of course, the Right also has their own "influencers" who took advantage of the ruckus. Boom! Clicks there, shares here; Jimmy Kimmel by instinct swallowed the feed as a primetime TV magnet (as he asked for a larger ABC payday). I mean, I wouldn't know Mr Kirk if not for this frenzy. Now he is the Right-wing poster boy.
Of course, (traditional) politics will ride that wave like a slick surfer. Charlie got this "significance" because of that noise not really because of him (alive) as a MAGA guy. Honestly, if you ask me what side really upped his "stature," no brainer. The always-boisterous Left.
Who "managed" this? The same power that continually stokes the classic “divide and rule” pitch. I guess. Yet the Left bit it more than the Right. I may disagree with them a lot but the Right is traditionally solid as a transparent ball. But the Left today? I don't really know. I feel alienated by the same group that I was part of most of my adult life. They actually don't know that they have been self-destructing. They are not even in one page on the subject of war. They rally more as 1 in regards Luigi’s lone-wolf crime or Mr Kimmel’s “firing” or the hate rabble-rouse per Charlie than the end of Israeli obliteration of Gaza or the end of the Ukraine war. They even call me MAGA because I don't hop in the hate-Trump cool. What ignorance! ☮️☮️☮️
Visual credit: Youth Today.
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