I don’t get involved in politics. I am political. I have my beliefs. I don’t get involved in the back and forth. The ping pong views of us against them mentality. I don’t care what party you are with or who you voted for. We are Americans. We are free to vote for who we want and believe in any platform that fits our lives.
A 31 year old father of 2 little babies was shot while he was at work today. In front of 3000 people. And now in front of the nation. A father was eulogized by the President of the United States, who announced his passing. I run to Instagram to see what his private life looked like. I scan his wife’s Instagram specifically. They were at the Hotel Del Coronado playing in the sand just several weeks ago. A normal family. He wasn’t wearing his political party on his shirt. He wasn’t preaching on a Coronado corner. He was sitting in the sand with his baby Hazel and covering her feet in the sand.
Several years ago my son Parker spear headed the Turning Point USA chapter at the University of Arizona as Vice President. My best frined Mikey went to many of his rallies. My childhood friend Tammy relentlessly worked the campaign for Turning Point. His name meant so much more to them than to me. He was an employer and a peer to them.
When you are in the spotlight you are within the pinpoint to the critical masses. Even today I saw a post that said, “But now can we worry about school shootings”…ya, we are fricking worrying about that, too! We are worrying about ALL of it. That is why a 31 year old father of 2 little girls mattered to us. He wasn’t gunned down for what he said on stage. He wasn’t gunned down becasue he was so hated by so many. He was gunned down becasue he was EFFECTIVE. He stood by his beliefs in God and family and ‘the greater good’ and the younger generation listened. He stood out on platforms such as X and Youtube and Twitter and TikTok. He spoke the language of the 20-30 somethings by posting on their virtual newspapers. He captivated a generation that would someday be OUR leaders and managers and restaurant owners and, yes, politicians. He reached the generation that would be our leaders.
And then he ws killed. A mother is left wondering how she will raise her children and how she will bury her young husband. Parents are mourning the death of their 31 year old child. So, yes, don’t worry, we are still worrying about all the other crap filled things that happen in our world. Yes we still DO CARE about the people who don’t make the headlines. Atleast most of us do. We are just going to have to do it without a voice as strong as Charlie’s. Maybe some of you should have listened to his message a little closer… maybe instead of killing the messanger you can search for the message he was trying to tell us all.
