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A Brief History of the Assault on Conservatives as ‘Violent Extremists’
American Thinker ^ | 16 Aug, 2021 | Janet Levy

Posted on 08/16/2021 4:10:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The attacks on, and the maligning of, conservatives or those who advance narratives not favored by the Left has reached unimaginable proportions.

The assault on conservative Americans began several decades ago with attacks on traditional principles and values. Belief in individual liberty and responsibility, free enterprise, and the rule of law was willfully conflated with “right-wing extremism.” Pride in America, a desire to protect our borders, and opposition to illegal immigration was branded as xenophobic. Championing the constitutional right to bear arms was decried as gun-crazed zealotry. Belief in religion, natural law, and the sanctity of human life was maligned as backward and anachronistic.

This vilification of conservatives has coincided with a deliberate shift from the real threats: radical Islamic and leftist groups. Islamic terrorist attacks have been declared as having “nothing to do with Islam” or excused by spurious claims that the perpetrators were mentally ill or misunderstood religious doctrine. When a military psychiatrist massacred 13 people in Fort Hood yelling ‘Allahu akbar’, it was dismissed as “workplace violence.” And the violence, arson, destruction of public property, and killing of citizens and police officers unleashed by Antifa and Black Lives Matter (BLM) during the ‘Summer of Love’ are described as “mostly peaceful protests.”

Top Democrats haven’t shied away from embellishing the false narrative of a serious domestic terrorism threat from “right-wing extremists.” On his campaign trail in 2008, Barack Obama demeaned working-class voters hit hard by job losses, saying, “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion, or antipathy to people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” His statement aptly served the purpose of pillorying conservatives.

Ironically, when elected in 2009, President Obama’s first speech was to members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Cairo.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism

1 posted on 08/16/2021 4:10:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Communists have killed about 150 million of their own citizens who did not agree with them. Our leftists are still in the minor leagues.


2 posted on 08/16/2021 4:10:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
Our leftists are still in the minor leagues

But many are waiting for the call up to the Show.

3 posted on 08/16/2021 4:12:35 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: MtnClimber
Trump won 2020 in a landslide.

RINO-controlled state legislatures gave the Steal to Potato Joe on a platter by their refusal to enforce voter ID or hold a forensic ballot/machine audit before electors were seated.

If everyone with an (R) after their name had been a true conservative, Trump would still be president and the Democrats would not now control the Senate.

The way to defeat Democrats is to vote out every RINO who must face a primary in 2022, especially in the state legislatures. Rinse and repeat in 2024 and beyond until every RINO traitor is purged.

4 posted on 08/16/2021 4:26:46 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: MtnClimber

I was watching the live CBS feed recorded when JFK was assassinated.

The FIRST people that old commie Cronkite blamed was “extreme rightists.”

Turned out to be one of their own. Commie and globalist dupe Lee Harvey Oswald, though it’s unlikely that he fired the fatal head shot.


5 posted on 08/16/2021 4:32:08 AM PDT by Westbrook
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To: MtnClimber

Give them time...


6 posted on 08/16/2021 4:46:35 AM PDT by ExTxMarine (Diversity is tolerance; diverse points of views will not be tolerated.)
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To: MtnClimber

BLM = Khmer Rouge
CRT = Cultural Revolution
Next Stop: The Killing Fields


7 posted on 08/16/2021 5:34:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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