Posted on 06/08/2016 10:50:58 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
One Huffington Post writer has taken up the argument that a violent response is the logical approach to the candidacy of presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump
Writer Jesse Benn wrote in a recent op-ed, [T]heres an inherent value in forestalling Trumps normalization. Violent resistance accomplishes this.
In a piece aimed at liberals who have condemned violence at Trump rallies, Benn argued that those who say violence is always unacceptable and counterproductive ignore the history of successful violent insurrection in the US, instead favoring the elementary school version of history in which nonviolence is the only means of struggle thats ever achieved a thing.
Benn wrote that Trump doesnt represent a political disagreement between partisans that could be handled as such, but rather a 21st century US version of fascism:
His calls for a deportation force to expel 11+ million people from the country, his claims that most Mexican immigrants are rapists and criminals, his calls to keep databases of Muslims and to enact a total ban on Muslims entering the country, his rampant sexism, his mocking people with disabilities, and his propensity for lying have brought the already pathetic state of US political discourse to astoundingly precarious lows. Treating this like politics as usual allows it to become politics as usual, and those who do so risk complicity ushering in a new era of fascist politics in the United States....
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
So...why can’t I kill a communist any more ?
Whatever happened to “Violence is never the answer!”?
I SO LOVE the tolerance that the left espouses.
This isn’t intolerance. It’s insanity. Divorced from reality insanity.
At some point one of these violent Leftist outbursts is going to target a Trump supporter who is engaging in concealed carry.
It might actually be exactly that sort of thing Leftist commentators like this are agitating for. But you’ll never see THEM out fomenting or engaging in the violence themselves ...
Ah...
Beck’s The Blaze picks up the trope.
Color me surprised.../s
ETA:
But it’s only a one way street . There is no violent opposition allowed at radical marxist policies.
Advocated violence against political opponents too.
What would the logical response be to anti-American,
anti-Constitution, anti-rule of law people be?
That was how Mussolini gained political power too. Roving gangs of thugs beat the opposition to him out of the populace.
Violence begets violence. But what the left wing fascists don’t seem to realize is that not only are the conservative majority armed to the teeth, but the police are on their side, with a few exceptions in radical leftists cities.
The first Civil War was a terrible thing. I hope we can avoid a repeat, but there are worse things even than a Second Civil War. Perhaps America’s enemies on the totalitarian left should think this through before they start something that cannot be stopped.
The DNC and it’s Party supporters are to be known as the “Anarchist Party” with riots and mayhem as their preferred choice of campaigning in 2016 . Good luck with that Huff-Puff-Blow-Hard Arianna . How tolerant are you idiots any way ???
I’m surprised I haven’t read of new committees of safety or KKK membership drives.
But don’t even call Obama by his given name or you are shunned in society,typical hypocrisy from the tolerant and diversity preaching communists
Liberal: Violence that hurts my politics is bad. Violence that helps my politics is good. They’ll favor anything as long as it benefits them
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