Why The American Left Gave Up On Political Violence

Since A Want has gone missing, I thought I would step in his place for a moment to let you all view a nice article from WAPO.

I'm starting to see this theme now in the MSM and Social Media. That's right, our violent leftist friends aren't violent at all. The "what you're seeing isn't real" defense is being played up again. Let's see if this will continue to backfire on the Democrats.

Don't Believe What You Are Seeing

My favorite part of the article:

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Although the American left’s transition away from violence was as much a strategic choice as a moral one, the seeds of violence are still embedded in its historical consciousness. That is why lone-wolf attackers like James T. Hodgkinson , who shot and critically wounded GOP Rep. Steve Scalise during a baseball practice in June, and occasionally violent groups such as antifa, which have clashed with right-wing protesters, are worrisome. But they are not the same as their counterparts on the right. Antifa is mostly anarchist in nature; its members are suspicious and dismissive of the left’s embrace of government institutions. More important, it is loosely banded, disorganized and low scale. Brawling on campuses, throwing rocks or vandalizing property is reprehensible and illegal. But it is incomparable to the scope and breadth of organized violence demonstrated by the extreme right

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You see folks, the left is NOW the moral group here. Interesting. Do we constantly hold them to the same moral standards the right has to embrace? If so, the Alinsky tactics won't work. Dems LOVE to push the fact that, because they have no morals, it is OK for them to be heathens.

Second, notice how the guy that shoots up a baseball field full of Rs is now a "lone wolf", but the Nazi last week all of the sudden represents every Trump voter. Nice!

The last lie is how ANTIFA, which is magically showing up all over American to silence opposition is, in fact, not well organized. However, the 200 Nazis that showed up last week....well that's a fine-tuned killing machine that has been burning cities, attacking Hillary supporters, and killing people every weekend. All those lawsuits now against cities that allowed ANTIFA to attack innocent civilians aren't real either. That was really the Nazis!

I hope they keep pushing this. I really do.