Hello, welcome to another episode of Real Politics.

I am your host, Phiras Badaad.

Today I'm going to be talking about the martyrdom of Charlie Kirk,

what it means in general for the West,

why it's important, and to try to find a way forward, the themes that

I'm going to touch on are not going to detail the mechanics of the murder or the killer.

We all know what happened.

Charlie Kirk was shot while he was debating, while he was

doing what he loves, including professing the word of God and explaining the importance of Christianity

to young students. He was shot by a leftist who had a transgender boyfriend and it was in large part the result of the

vilification of the even the center right as being Nazis, fascists and so on. So that's not the part

that I'm going to cover. What I'm going to cover is a little bit

about why the worldview of the left is so wrong and if there is some space for compromise.

And I want to emphasize the importance of compromise from the beginning. I'm going to read for

you a small segment from Thucydides, from book three of Thucydides

Part 82. Let's start with that. During seven days, the Corcheans were engaged in butchering those of their fellow citizens

whom they regarded as their enemies, and although the crime imputed was that of attempting to put down the democracy,

some were slain also for private hatred, others by their debtors, because

of the monies owed to them. Death thus raged in every shape, and, as usually happens at such times,

there was no length to which violence did not go. Sons were killed by their fathers,

and suppliants dragged from the altar or slain upon it.

So these were people trying to pray to be saved.

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