I was about to post the same thing.

Its a fucking charade. a desperate downward theatrical spiral to show who can be the most ridiculously "True to the cause" because the person/persons who show the least effort will inevitably become the out group.

It is not just about being a traitor or not. This attempt at declaring this guy a martyr is basically trying to prove you are one step more extreme than him on a meta level so you can absorb his influence and supporters to your being.

It's like seeing those crying people in North Korea after Kim Jong Il died, it went on for months and was so over the top theatrical. It's how indoctrination works. The most extreme view becomes the line which if you don't exceed excludes you from the group and makes you a target.

The thing is, he's a nobody. But it only takes one of the cultists tearing their hair and making him out to be a martyr for the next to try to outdo it to show how even more patriotic they are, and it snowballs into this moronic shit where you get hundreds then thousands then tens of thousands then hundreds of thousands then millions of people basically canonize some random asshole.

They've lost all grip on reality.

I will donate a jar of piss. I'll piss in a jar. And then figure out a way to transport that.

What happens with that, and Kirks grave, is beyond what I can control. Do with it as you will.

This is correct, and it’s legitimately insane to me that the Nazis themselves never see it.

In fact, they will completely deny it afterwards.

I recommend reading They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-1945 by Milton Mayer. This is my favorite quote but the whole book was eye-opening:

When I asked Herr Wedekind, the baker, why he had believed in National Socialism, he said, “Because it promised to solve the unemployment problem. And it did. But I never imagined what it would lead to. Nobody did.”

I thought I had struck pay dirt, and I said, “What do you mean, ‘what it would lead to,’ Herr Wedekind?” “War,” he said. “Nobody ever imagined it would lead to war.”

Kirk was so unpopular I'm willing to bet singles and EPs are being written as we speak

No strategies even necessary, they are all on board with the fanaticism. They don't even need martyrs, they demonize the left constantly, it's like with narcissists- they accuse you of shit constantly and feverishly, and the one time you actually do happen to be guilty of something that is judgment day and proof of everything else they made up about you.

It's how witch processes go, it's how holocausts go, it's how fascism always goes.

He saved the affordable care act with his thumbs down mavrick move. I'd say that qualifies