Charlottesville: A Clash of Left vs. Left?

On August 12, 2017, a free speech rally arrived in Charlottesville to stop the removal of the statue commemorating Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Then a group of Neo-Nazis, white knights, alt-right trolls, white nationalists, and other white supremacists showed up. They wanted to protect the statue, albeit for different reasons. Then to counter-protest the white (not “Right”) supremacists, the violent left-wing Antifa hordes with their Black Bloc goons crashed the protest, and all hell broke loose.

With protesters fighting to pulverize or protect the statue of a general who had headed one side of the American Civil War, another civil war broke out. Or at least it seemed that way. The media played up this fight as a microcosm of the political paroxysm overtaking the United States, and that it was President Trump’s fault. However, a grand total of 100 tiki-torchers had marched the previous night, and then a grand total of 600 extremist rioters had showed up the next day.

The (left-wing) mainstream media hyped up this violent clash as a battle between white supremacists on the Right against the anti-fascist Left. Wrong. Both sides are different variants of the political Left. It’s common knowledge that Antifa is as fascist as it gets, using violence and repression to advance their anti-nation, anti-liberty, anti-American agenda. It’s not as well-known that alt-right protesters are actually left-wing agitators, too.

One of the rally’s keynote speakers, Richard Spencer, the godfather of the “Alt-Right”, despises the founding principles of our country, including limited government, individual liberty, and the divine origin of natural rights. Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary “Death of a Nation” brilliantly presented in one interview with Spencer what the founder of the Alt-Right movement has expounded on for years. He is a left-wing statist invested in the ultimate authority of the state, socialized medicine, and the nationalization of public lands. He is a national socialist, but a socialist nonetheless. Jason Kessler organized this “Unite the Right” rally, but he’s actually another left-winger. He voted for Barack Obama.He participated heavily in the Occupy Wall Street Movementand once touted himself as a liberal organizer. The reports of Kessler's left-wing leanings came out within days of the Charlottesville clash last year, but few actually read about it.

This fight between national and international socialists has emerged before. The Spanish Civil War, from 1936 to 1939, served as a dress rehearsal for the Second World War. The Falangists (national socialists) headed by Francisco Franco rebelled against the Spanish Republic, which compromised socialists and communists. (Think “People’s Republic of China”, and you get the idea). Hitler and Mussolini supported the Falangists. The Soviet Union backed the Spanish Republicans. Both sides were composed of socialists, invested in ideas inimical to America’s founding ideals. There were no good guys, but rather a bloody war of national vs. international statism in Spain, nothing more, a clash of ideologies similar to what happened in Charlottesville

What’s going on, though, in the grander scheme? Why the ongoing confusion about left, right, and the mislabeling of different political groups as we witnessed in the tragic violence of Charlottesville?

From grade school to daily news bulletins, our minds are led to see conflicts, political discussions, and even wars as a fight between left and right. This paradigm originates with the French Revolution. During the first sessions of France’s aborted First Republic, the Jacobin radicals sat on the left, and the supporters of the Ancien Regime(the older royal, aristocratic order) sat on the right. Their conflicts focused on who would rule: a king or a collective? The collective won, and with it the tyranny of the Guillotine, relentless riots, and foreign wars. Don’t get me wrong—the French people had every right to rise against royal autocracy which was bankrupting and starving them. But the “cure” proved worse than the disease for the next 80 years until a constitutional republic was established.

The two sides of that political fight did not really discuss the proper (as in smaller) size or scope of the state. Instead, the two ideologies of the partisan divide basically retained a large bureaucratic state, welfarism, subsidies, high taxes and fees as the norm. Individual liberty, limited government, and constitutional rule did not factor into the French Revolution’s initial political reforms. However, those on the Left wanted an absolute reduction of differences, equality at all costs. Consider that Robespierre and his blood-thirsty cronies wanted to abolish all hierarchies and bring everyone under the General Will of the State. The right, whether autocratic of constitutionalist, has never viewed the government as the final end of man.

And as for now: Why is the public still hearing about Charlottesville?

The media, the Democratic Party (the true home of racist, socialist policies, whether national or international), and left-wing academics and pundits are desperate to preserve the lie that these white supremacists are a central part of President Trump’s entourage, the core of the Republican Party in particular, and the motives of American conservatism in general. It’s a brazen fraud. President Trump condemned the violence on both sides last year. He was right to do so, because there WAS violence on both sides, and predictably so. Socialism (national or international) is invested in and defined by force, the use of violence to accomplish its ends. Whereas previous Presidents from both parties would only disparage the violence on the so-called right, President Trump also denounced Antifa, or the Alt-Left, for their violent behavior.

Now it’s time to denounce the Alt-Right for what they are: small, obsessed with identity politics, racist, or more accurately racialist, establishing race as the foundation of everything in culture and community. They are adamant atheists and confirmed collectivists. The so-called “Alt-Right” is really just a pro-white response to the multicultural Left (special thanks to Michael Knowles and Dinesh D’Souza for these revelations). What happened at Charlottesville was not a clash between Left and Right, but Left and Left, between national socialists—specifically white nationalists—and global socialists and communists, nothing more.

This article makes some excellent points, but also has a number of factual errors, which seem rooted in lack of knowledge of history, and blind acceptance of the shoddy scholarship and cheap-shot polemics of Dinish D'Souza.

The rally was NOTplanned as a "free speech rally", the original stated theme and pretext was "to protect our monuments and our heritage", and as was clearly obvious: it was a White Nationalist event.

It was NOT organized by some neutral free-speech group and then stealthily invaded by the White Nationalists, it was their show from the start.

The theme of "Unite the Right" was created by Jason Kessler (whom some claim is a plant, but which seems unlikely) and was organized on far-right channels and among far right groups. There were no moderate Republicans involved in organizing the event. For instance, it was not promoted on Free Republic. It was promoted on far-right sites "not permitted on FR", like: Occidental Dissent, AltRight.com, League of the South and others of that ilk.

It was the White Nationalist's show from the get go. It was their s*it show, not something that they merely crashed.

Then to counter-protest the white (not “Right”) .. their Black Bloc goons crashed the protest, and all hell broke loose ... With protesters fighting to pulverize or protect the statue of a general who had headed one side of the American Civil War, another civil war broke out. Or at least it seemed that way.

The media played up this fight as a microcosm of the political paroxysm overtaking the United States, and that it was President Trump’s fault.

However, a grand total of 100 tiki-torchers had marched the previous night, and then a grand total of 600 extremist rioters had showed up the next day.

These are very solid points, sadly they are sort of overshadowed by much of the rest of the essay..

So, here he beings with his restating of Dinish D'Souza's tendentious thesis.

It’s common knowledge that Antifa is as fascist as it gets, using violence and repression to advance their anti-nation, anti-liberty, anti-American agenda.

We are getting into the mangling of words, and "fascism" has been so over-used by the Left that's lost most of its meaning. The author is apparently using the word fascist here like the leftists do: a synonym for "really bad". Other wise his claim makes no sense. Why would "fascists" name their group the "anti-fascists".

It would be like Trump supporters naming themselves "Anti-Trump".

The anti-fa are exactly what they claim to be, far Left activists, many with Anarchist and Communist leanings who have adapted the logo and mythos of a legendary Lefitst para-military street fighting outfit from the 1930s.

A redefinition or clarification of who the 'antifa' really are may be needed, but the simple descriptions that best fit them are "Communists", "Anarchists", or simply Leftists.

Leftist groups never dispute that they are part of the left. Democrats admit to being leftists. So do Democratic Socialists. So do Communists and Anarchists. So, it's an entirely appropriate term for all of them.

So, we know the real context to put Charlottsville's violence in. The Communists, who look for any reason to riot, decided the White Nationalist march in favor of General Lee's statue was a good event to riot at. And then, THEY RIOTED, just like they always do.

They rioted because Leftists believe in riots! They rioted becauee they ARE Leftists, whether Communists, Anarchists, antifa, Black Block or Democratic Socialists, and rioting is central to what they do and what they believe. They were acting in good faith with the Leftist tradition, stretching back centuries. (To the French Revolution, where the term "Leftist" began. And where the Leftist riots included mob executions.

Antifa claim to be leftists, and I believe them. And Dinsh should too, and stop muddying the waters by calling them Fascists.

Objectively anyone looking at their movement would have to conclude that they are leftists. Their name is taken from the German LEFT WING group that opposed the Fascists (real, historical Fascists, mostly the Nazis).

Antifaschistische Aktion was the name of this group, and it was an offshoot of the German Communist Party. The modern day 'antifa' have appropriated the name, symbols, flag and rhetoric of this group.

This 1930's logo of Antifaschistische Aktion, the Communist street fighting group has been slightly updated to be used by today's Communist street-fighting group, the antifa.

Words mean things, and as an author and would-be leader of the Conservative movement in America I don't think it's asking too much for Dinish to use them properly and stop calling the antifa anthing besides Communist Leftists.

That would be a huge step up for the forces of sanity, that every time they riot we heard "Communists and united lefists attacked police today in Portland".

But we don't because dim-wits like Dinish are stuck on saying "the antifa are really fascists".

It is absoultely true and not even disputed that Kessler, the organizer of the Unite the Right rally was a Lefist during much of the Obama administration.

These twitters are revealing, but not surprising to anyone who has previously investigated him.

The Unite the Right rally was in 2017, so the question is at what point, between his Leftist views of 2012 and his role setting up the White Nationalist Unite the Right rally in 2017 did his views change so radically? Why did they change so radically?

And equally important, was his massive switch in viewpoints sincere, or is he, as some have speculated, a paid Deep State operative whose real goal was to create a massive "shit show" to further animosity, social distrust, and defame Trump?

From the tweets we see that in 2012 he as still an Obama-loving leftist. And still in April, 2015 he's praising Obama and John Kerry, without a spec of reservation.

In 2015 he was 32. What leads a 32 year old man to go from an outspoken Obama supporter to a White Nationalist?

His Wikipedia bio contains this information:

In November 2016, he revealed lewd and offensive tweets made by Charlottesville vice-mayor and councilman Wes Bellamy. Bellamy, who is also a teacher at Charlottesville's Albemarle High School, first drew criticism from Kessler when he called a press conference to call for the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville in March 2016. In December, Kessler began circulating a petition demanding that Bellamy resign or be removed from office.[10] During the ensuing investigations, Bellamy voluntarily resigned from his teaching position at Albemarle High School in December 2016.[11]
In January 2017, while attempting to gain signatures for his petition Kessler was arrested for misdemeanor assault after punching a man in the face. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 50 hours of community service.[12]

So, he had some major events happening and his real political activism began in 2016. What were the events around that? Who was his antagonist? Who is Wes Bellamy?

Wes Bellamy, former Vice Mayor of Charlottesville

Per Wikipedia:

Wes Bellamy, Biography
Bellamy moved to the Charlottesville area in 2009 to work for the National Ground Intelligence Center. He left that position shortly afterwards and began teaching in Albemarle schools. [3] He established the Helping Young People Evolve in 2011 and soon afterwards entered city politics.

Bellamy is still on the City Council of Charlottesville. What were the tweets that Kessler brought forward, that forced Bellamy out of his teaching job?

We find in this article (linked as #14 on his Wikipedia bio) that Kessler discovered and was infuriated by Bellamy's tweets which, per the article: "Homophobic, sexist, anti-white language abundant in Charlottesville vice mayor's tweets"

. Let's look at a few of them:

“I DONT LIK WHIT PEOPLE SO I HATE WHITE SNOW!!!!! FML!!!!” he tweeted in Dec. 2009.
“Word...RT: TAXSTONE: Eat it while she asleep if she moan it aint rape,”

Several tweets also linked white women to rape accusations, and one retweet said white women “smell like future assault charges n deli meat.”
OK, so is it possible a fully indoctrinated liberal, Obama supporting young adult -- someone who grew up believing in equality, anti-racism, the plight of blacks suffering from discrimination, could make a hard turn in his political beliefs as a result of encountering a blatantly racist black man who holds not one, but two, very important positions of authority in the city you have lived your whole life in, and further is supported by the (mostly black) city establishment and (mostly black) city voters even after his horrific comments are made public by you?
Is that possible? Or, is it more likely the CIA/FBI recruited him and set him up to pull off the Charlottesville shit-show?
The non-conspiracy theory seems extremely adequate to explain his change in views. In fact the far-right is full of people who were once liberals who had some sort of awakening. Their is a term for it "taking the red pill" or being "red pilled". There are many red pills on many topics.
The first use of the term was by Men's Rights Advocates, many of who had been deeply screwed in divorces, and who came to see the "feminist" movement and "woman's rights" as completely wretched movements. They became "red pilled" on questions of gender, and many as a result re-evaluated their entire political outlook and became right-wingers (often Libertarians of a particular sort).
Occam's razor suggests a similar path of radicalization for Kessler.

Now, if I can figure this out, or at least make a very plausible educated guess about Kessler's background, where is Dinesh, and why isn't he explaining any of this, but instead insisting the Kessler is really a leftist?

Is he lazy? Did he actually interview Kessler?

I don't know. But when someone with a huge platform continues, over and over again to make simple mistakes...

(and, lets face it his campaign contribution cheating was a simple mistake, which led to his felony conviction, overturned by Trump's presidential pardon. It probably was an unfair prosecution, but it was also a obviously completely unforced error and lapse of basic ethical behavior)..

has he learned nothing from this?

Or is he a glib hustler, who doesn't really care about the truth as much about making a splash and feeding his audiences half-truths that they might enjoy.

Sadly, my own view of him has soured considerably over the years and I no longer value or really trust his opinions, I find that very often he's playing fast and loose with the facts, or is torturing history and logic for his own reasons.

He is not a reliable guild for true conservatives, who have always placed a very high value on truth and fairness.

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