Most of what Charlie Kirk promoted were ideas that up until 2010 or so could have come from either party, and he was killed for it, for talking to young people at universities, for letting them know that the brainwashing that their professors work so hard to instill isn't how things are, that there are other ways of seeing the world.
The infection is at all levels, judges will continually release monsters onto the streets while destroying good people's lives with sentences that don't make any sense. DAs refuse to prosecute crimes unless it fits their agenda, universities are indoctrination centers, your children are at risk of being mutilated, drugged, groomed, raped and the system refuses to protect them.
Schools are run by ideologues that are working hard to make sure that even the smallest children are exposed to filth from an early age, and God help the parents if these monsters mange to get into the children's head, they will work with the system that is supposed to protect them to take them away from you and convince them that you are evil.
The police (at least the good ones) are powerless, they can arrest the criminals over and over but if the DAs and judges refuse to do their job, they will eventually realize that what they do is useless and stop caring.
The tech platforms that we depend on spy on you, censor you, and can even decide that you are not allowed to earn a living anymore because of your beliefs.
The politicians don't work for you, they work for whoever will pay them the most special interest groups. Besides, they are all the same, doesn't matter which side they claim to be working for. They continually import millions of people every year that put a bigger strain on the resources that should be there to help you and your community, not to mention the millions of criminals that will rob, rape and kill you and your loved ones (and will help "vote" these people into power). And let's not forget the millions of people they bring in who follow a violent religion that actually wants to get rid of the rights women have, all the while telling you that it's your religion that is the problem
Owning guns makes little difference. They can destroy your life without the need for violence. Even when they don't win the elections, they have infiltrated everything else that gives them any power over you, tech, media, education at all levels, the judicial system, even religion in some cases, they control the narrative your friends and neighbors believe in, they can make accuse you of everything they do and most normal people will believe it.
And even if you do everything right, you somehow manage to succeed even though it's all stacked against you. You work hard because you believe you can make a difference, your message is a positive one, you want the dialogue between both sides to continue, for both sides to see each other as human to avoid violence. Then some freak that has been completely broken by the lies kills you in cold blood in front of your friends, family and the whole world to see.
It's not that both sides are too far gone, the reality is that one of the sides has been resorting to violence for years, under the guise of protesting, burning down businesses and homes. Hell, they even have their own (global) paramilitary group that openly says they want to kill you, and the media will cover for them at every chance.
I sort of hope that the people who say that this will all be "forgotten" in a week are right, but I doubt it. This was a political assassination, and that should have some kind of impact. I hope it's a positive one, but when the other side just wants to see you dead, when they laugh about it smugly while saying horrible things about your children, when they lie and claim it was your side that did it, I find it difficult to find any sort of common ground, and I doubt I'm the only one.
I genuinely hope there is a way out of this, because even though I am angry, the only other alternative would be escalation, and would guarantee that our children grow up in a world full of fear and death.