Posted on 08/19/2017 5:46:11 PM PDT by EdnaMode
President Trump, in part, was right. There is blame to go around for the unrest in Charlottesville. There is fear, intolerance, demonization and growing hatred on both the extreme left and the extreme right. But despite what Trump has claimed, repeatedly, in his public statements since the tragic events there, the willingness to employ organized violence to achieve political goals remains a signature quality of only one side. And it’s not the left.
Extremism on the left is real. It can be seen in attempts to stifle the free speech of conservative speakers on university campuses (as at Middlebury and Berkeley); in the belligerent attitudes toward corporations and capitalism expressed, for instance, by some fringes of the Occupy Wall Street crowd and anti-globalization protesters; and among anti-Zionist movements that peddle conspiracy theories (such as the contention that Jews control U.S. foreign policy) to delegitimize Israel. Yet all of this falls well short of the methodical, organized and strategic violence and incitement embraced by right-wing extremists, whose leaders profess faith in the necessity of the fight. Nothing the left can do today even comes close to that — and hasn’t for decades.
Although the American left was never as fully at ease with revolutionary violence as were its European counterparts (who were reared on Robespierre and Marx), it often took up arms. Labor unions battled constantly with railroad barons, industrial tycoons and mining bosses during the Gilded Age. Even while outnumbered and outgunned, usually by private armies that enjoyed the backing of law enforcement and state militias, workers fought in bloody clashes that left dozens dead on battlefields such as Chicago’s Haymarket Square (1886) and West Virginia’s Blair Mountain (1921).
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The greatest lies are being written by this rag. It is an absolute desecration of truth and rationality.
Gave up like Baltimore, Dallas, Ferguson, Chicago, Trump rallies, Pigs in a Blanket Fry like bacon....
Same response!! The left and Post have truly lost it and blatantly lie and deceive! No turning back at this point
I assume this writer has never been in downtown Portland, Oregon. Home of the Antifa - at least of a lot of them.
Must be satire.
The Washington POS.
Where was the BARF alert? One of the most ridiculous things I have ever read.
Six police officers were ambushed this weekend.
I am willing to bet that not one of them was shot by someone on the right.
This person needs to either stop or start taking drugs.
Yeah I was thinking of adding a barf alert.
Maybe they forgot the sarcasm tag?
It’s amazing that anyone believes them anymore.
Why the American left gave up on political violence
When did that happen?
Five minute Bill Still video which explains a lot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmgazEMvKU&feature=em-subs_digest
My bat is a hickory sledge hammer handle
I guarantee not even the “American left” buys this BS.
But they’re happy the Post was stupid enough to print it.
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