Charlie Kirk was murdered because he was supernaturally gifted at selling traditional, Conservative values at the retail level. Charlie Kirk was effective. That was very, very threatening to the people whose rice-bowl is chained to the legacy narrative. That is why he was murdered and why the Left celebrated his death.
Some pair-wise comparisons of comparable items in the retail space
Older, dominant modality................... New Modality
Land-line telephone................................iPhone
Company store.......................................Dollar General
Legacy narrative.....................................Charlie Kirk
Commonalities.....................................Commonalities
Coercive.................................................Free-market
Producer-centric......................................User-centric
Not responsive to "customers"...................Responds to customer needs
Wealth pumps.........................................Offers value in exchange
Charlie Kirk's "selling" technique
- Invite the potential customer to tell him what is important to the customer
- LISTEN to the potential customer.
- Rephrase any potentially ambiguous language
- Validate or recognize the potential customer's feelings
- Agree with what he can agree with. This step and the prior step establish an empathy bond.
- Articulate his own views on the topic without denigrating the potential customer
- Focus on one or two points where the views are diametrically opposed
- Reference pertinent data. For instance, talk about outcomes of Native American tribes that receive casino money vs. ones that don't when talking about Universal Basic Income or Reparations
- Observe that the data suggests that his viewpoint produces the most compassionate outcomes for the majority of the people.
- Admit ignorance when the potential customer brings an event that he had no knowledge of.
Most people with a brain appreciated the respect Mr Kirk extended to them. They could FEEL the difference between Mr Kirk's engaging with them on their home-turf and the Legacy narrative's "We will kick in your teeth if you disagree with us" approach.
ERJ, that is an amazing (and I think spot) analysis of his technique. I need to think on this more, because within it is the the core of real discussion on any topic.
ReplyDeleteI will say that the "We will kick in your teeth if you disagree with us" is sadly not limited to legacy media. It often reflects other places that I go. That is one reason that Mr. Kirk was unique rather than one of many.
I think the bear has been poked one too many times..
ReplyDeleteWell done!
ReplyDeleteI immediately looked at the center of the dial for the number. THAT is the exact phone I grew up with...
ReplyDeleteAmerica must come to terms that we have been deeply and thoroughly infiltrated by communism. And Communists have proven repeatedly, millions of times that they have zero qualms about killing anyone who oppose them. And especially anyone who is effective in that opposition . Just like the devil's greatest accomplishment is making people believe he doesn't exist, communism's most useful accomplishment is making people believe we won the Cold war. We didn't. It merely changed locations and methodology.
ReplyDeleteUsing Kirk's death as an opportunity to attack 'the left' - I've only seen Democrat politicians and leaders explicitly denounce this assassination. Please show an example of a Democrat politician or thought leader that is 'celebrating this death.
ReplyDeleteIf you're citing social media accounts of random people, you'd be able to go tit-for-tat when it comes to political violence. Conveniently, when a Democrat state rep is murdered, you used it as an opportunity to spread propaganda and misinformation: https://eatonrapidsjoe.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-news-and-need-for-buddy.html
You won't be, but you should be ashamed.
Gary, if you ask google.com, you can see thousands of examples.
DeleteAnd hundreds of the people who wrote how happy they were about the murder of Charlie Kirk are seeking new jobs!
List of evil doers employment terminated:
ReplyDeletehttps://xcancel.com/ParkerThayer/status/1966199376247926941