The MAGA Doctrine

I never heard of Charlie Kirk until he was brutally murdered by a sniper as he was preaching to a crowd. But all of the media noise after his death had me wanting to see what all of the noise was about, so I paid my three dollars to Amazon for a digital copy of Mr. Kirk’s The MAGA Doctrine.
Like Mr. Kirk claimed to be, I am a Christian. Furthermore, I’ve read the Bible. Cover to cover. Twice. And I’m reading it again for the third time. I am a Member of the West Side Christian Church, where I was baptized.
Unlike Charlie, I am not one of those who call themselves “evangelicals” although I often do drop seeds, as Jesus said to do. Also unlike Charlie, I am not a Donald Trump fan. I hold his draft dodging against him; how dare he call himself a patriot? I was against the stupid Vietnam war and my draft lottery number guaranteed that I would not be drafted. But I joined! I volunteered for four years in the United States Air Force. Trump bribed his family doctor to lie for him so he wouldn’t have to serve. Unlike Trump, who was literally born mega-rich, I was born to a US Army soldier who became an electrical lineman after the service, and I grew up middle class.
I pity Donald Trump, but I detest everything about the poor lost soul and don’t understand how any Christian can follow him. He cheated on each wife and bragged about sexual assault. He is a pathological liar, one of those damned arrogant, infuriating jerks who will keep lying to you when he knows you know he’s lying yet insists you believe him despite proven facts. He’s a thief, defrauding people, sometimes legally and sometimes not. He’s a slanderer. He’s an awful human being, but still human.
I especially detest his greed, his and almost his entire economic class’. It is destroying the country I sacrificed four years of my life to serve.
It should go without saying that I have no respect whatever for our criminal president.
As I said, I didn’t know Charlie, not even as much as those he never met who were at his rallies. But I do respect him, if only for his love of the first amendment and the fact that he was a reader; only readers write books (rich aliterates like Trump have others write books for them). I don’t yet know what else of the Constitution he liked, or if he even read it. The president calls the constitutional rule of law the “deep state” and rails against it.
I have read the foreword to Charlie’s book and already I vehemently disagree with him. He says Americans don’t like being told what to do. That is correct. He says “They don’t want their opinions limited...” which is also correct. But “...by social justice warriors, EPA busybodies, or the UN blowhards” shows an incredible amount of arrogance, ignorance and heartlessness. He is saying Americans are against justice? That sounds like something Putin would say! That’s heartless, and hardly what Christ taught. I, on the other hand, am FOR justice.
As to the EPA, Charlie is as ignorant as everyone his age and some older about the environment. Unlike me and the president, Charlie grew up in a clean America like my kids did. I and Trump grew up in disgusting filth. Before the EPA, rivers and streams caught fire! Cars had no air conditioning, but even when it was a hundred degrees Fahrenheit you had to roll the windows up driving past Monsanto in Sauget or the air would literally burn your lungs!
The only people against the EPA are the rich who don’t give a damn whom they harm, America, or its environment, who want their “God given” right to foul YOUR air and water!
“UN Blowhards?” Did this ignorant kid sleep through history class?
He complained about Jimmy Carter advising people to wear sweaters even though he wasn’t even born for two more decades, and Michelle Obama saying people should eat better. Apparently he’s not so much for freedom of speech as he said he was, railing against “the elite class” who are telling them what to do. But what, exactly, was Charlie Kirk ever forced to do by government, except refrain from discriminating against people and fouling our environment?
“At every turn, Americans are told they are breaking the rules, written or unwritten, both legal and moral.” Well, if you’re cited for safety violations or releasing deadly chemicals into the environment you should not only “be told what to do” but tried for their criminality and imprisoned if found guilty.
As to “legal and moral” is he complaining about those people who trash talk Trump for his abominable actions towards women, as well as minorities and US Service members and veterans, whom he calls “suckers”?
Yes, I will speak against Trump’s illegality and immorality as well as the ultimate immorality of Kirk’s murderer.
“Accompanying liberty is a healthy...” (and often very unhealthy) “...dose of skepticism about authority figures and experts who think they know best.” Guess what, Charlie? They DO know best! They are, as you say, experts and authorities who have studied for years to gain the knowledge that you and I lack! Only fools ignore them, often at their own peril. An authority about oil wells will know a hell of a lot more about oil wells than I do. Someone who has studied medicine for eight years knows a hell of a lot more about health than an HHS Secretary with a political degree and a dead worm in his brain.
After the hypocrite spoke of elites he complains about working class voters electing a bartender to congress! How elitist, undemocratic, and disgusting is that despicable statement?
The hypocrite went on complaining about “a government that intrudes into every area of our lives” while being against reproductive rights and queer rights. After complaining about a bartender being elected he complains about “...a media elite that tells us we can’t vote for an outsider presidential candidate.” Odd, I watch all three networks, plus DW and BBC and never once heard complaints that Trump was an outsider. Maybe Fox complained?
So who is this kid who complained about a bartender who lived from paycheck to paycheck becoming a congressman but had no problem whatever electing a man born fabulously rich who has no clue how ninety nine percent of Americans, I.E. “normal people” live?
Wikipedia says “Charles James Kirk was born on October 14, 1993, in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Illinois, and raised in nearby Prospect Heights. His father Robert W. Kirk is an architect who was involved in the construction of Trump Tower. His mother Kathryn (née Smith) is a former trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange who subsequently worked as a mental health counselor.”
Born rich, no chance to fail. He was pathetic. I pity his life and how he lived and I absolutely hate how he died.
He was not a great man. He was a rich gadfly who wrote books convincing working class voters to vote against their own interests, a danger to the America I love. But nobody deserves to be murdered, no matter how wrong they live or endanger our nation as he did.
10/10/2025