Posted on 01/10/2024 4:25:42 AM PST by MtnClimber
The ongoing spate of antisemitism and anti-Israel protests sweeping the country following Hamas’s attacks on Israeli civilians last October are just the latest example of how the Democrat establishment has lost control of the radical left-wing activist class it has fostered and egged on for years. With a major election now less than a year away, the escalating extremism of these activists could cost Democrats big at the ballot box.
After Hamas’s terrorist attack left more than 1,200 innocent civilians dead, most elected Democrats – with notable exceptions like “Squad” members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar – condemned the violence and called for solidarity with Israel. But many of these same Democrats have since backed down from that stance amid fierce backlash from their far-left base, which has not only excused Hamas’s brutal actions, but even celebrated them.
While the mainstream media has been reluctant to report on it, this unrest stemming from the militant antisemitism on the left only seems to be increasing despite attempts by the Democrat establishment to quell it.
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On January 6, for instance, as the press engaged in their annual campaign of smearing Donald Trump and conservatives as “insurrectionists,” anti-Israel leftists blocked a major interstate in Seattle, causing traffic to be backed up for six hours. The same day, another anti-Israel protest caused major gridlock on Chicago’s famous Lake Shore Drive.
A few days before those incidents, on January 3, left-wing protestors shut down the California General Assembly. Anti-Israel protestors also attempted to disrupt New Year’s Eve celebrations in New York City and Boston.
Elected Democrats have been largely powerless to stop or even discourage the alarming spike in antisemitism from their own supporters. On November 29, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer grudgingly acknowledged that the recent incidents of antisemitism were mostly coming from “people that most liberal Jewish Americans felt previously were their ideological fellow travelers.”
The backlash from the left against President Joe Biden, who has wavered in his support for Israel but also has not openly endorsed Hamas’s actions as his left-wing base wants him to do, has been severe. Polling evidence shows that young voters are abandoning Biden in droves over his refusal to demand Israel stop its war on Hamas. In perhaps the clearest evidence that Democrat leaders have lost control of their base, even young White House staffers are in open revolt against the president over his stance on the war.
While many Democrat leaders and corporate media pundits have expressed alarm over the anti-Jewish radicalism of the left-wing activist class – in between excusing leftists’ calls for genocide – the liberal establishment should hardly be surprised.
Back in 2020, following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Democrats and the legacy media openly encouraged the chaos that gripped American cities for weeks – violence that was far more widespread and deadly than the heinous antisemitic demonstrations on American streets today. Democrat leaders like Chuck Schumer, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren all marched in anti-police protests that later turned to riots, while the Democrat Party embraced the imagery and themes of the radical Black Lives Matter movement at their 2020 convention.
Despite the George Floyd riots causing more than $1 billion in property damage and leading to dozens of deaths, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X, “The whole point of protesting is to make people uncomfortable.” The Democrat establishment tacitly endorsed this sentiment, signaling to their activist base that violence was acceptable so long as it is in support of a left-wing cause.
In 2020, that cause was the “Defund the Police” movement and so-called “racial equity.” In that case, Democrats were able to largely escape the blame for the violence and destruction caused by their activists with help from their media allies.
But nearly four years later, it seems the radicalism of Democrats’ activist class has finally caught up to them and is costing the party big with everyday Americans. However, after years of telling fierce partisans that they are accountable to no one and nothing except the edicts of woke ideology, Democrats have created a major danger for themselves and the country that they are powerless to do anything about.
If liberal activists are indeed waking the rest of the country up to the growing extremism of the modern Democrat Party and setting the stage for an electoral wipeout this November, Democrats will have no one to blame but themselves.
I can tell you for sure that this is true.
I have extended family who are calling it the “Palestinian Genocide”
They will never vote for a Republican but might decide to stay home.
It is disturbing that those I love are being turned into radicals.
I don’t watch sportsball, but I’m going to gear up for this one as if I did. Plenty of snacks and beverages, invite a few friends over. The two guys from American Ninja Warrior should call the action. Better still, the MST3K crew.
That you do. Gear up like you’re watching the Superbowl. Mind the splash damage, though.
“Mind the splash damage, though.”
We are far enough away to be relatively safe but close enough to see the rosy red glow in the eastern sky.
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The Left controls the Democratic Party.
Jews thought the leftists would go after them last.
Some lessons have to be learned more than once.
And what's so amazing is that the Left was built by Jews. They marched in Selma, the have supported the Democrats forever, they have supported liberal causes vigorously.
Then, boom, they were discarded to the point that some people on campuses and elsewhere have called for their extermination.
They may be abandoning him now but once election day rolls around they will vote for him in droves.
They never had control. They made a deal with the devil.
A Biden victory in just the few states that count will seal a hundred years of Democrat rule. The Liberal Progs with RINO allies will dominate the political scene. All elections will be a sham —with victory always known in advance. The Question is now—what will American People? I know, turn on “Dancing with the Stars” and settle in on the couch. We do not deserve to fly the American Flag. But, do not worry, they New Government will give us a new flag, lots of color, all inclusive, and a right and proper replacement for the racist banner we have now.
Democrats need to take a full course in the history of the French Revolution. Democrats are defiantly ignorant fools. There’s only one way this thing can play out. Democrats lose control of their thug class, thug class takes over and kills them all and goes on a murders spree, then a strongman steps in to restore order.
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