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It’s Time for a National Conversation About Left-Wing Violence
The Daily Signal ^ | 15 Dec, 2024 | David Harsanyi

Posted on 12/17/2024 6:14:55 AM PST by MtnClimber

Even before we knew the targeted killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione was politically motivated, many leftists were justifying, celebrating, and rationalizing the shooting. There’s a real debate going on in some quarters of the progressive Left over whether slaying CEOs is a bad thing. And it’s unsurprising.

Of course, if any MAGA professors or journalists were online publicly defending the killing of perceived political enemies, there would be thousands of wringing hands lamenting the menacing rhetoric of conservatism. And rightly so.

But the unhinged demonization of the health care insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and Big Oil are now the norm. A generation of college students has been indoctrinated into believing the profit motive is killing people when the opposite is true.

And there’s a clear ideological continuum between those who rationalize the shooting of a CEO and rationalize the murder and rape of Jews by Palestinian terrorists and rationalize the burning down of cities for “social justice.”

One expects Mangione’s writing will be largely indistinguishable from what a person hears from elected progressives and pundits. Yet few will ponder why a seemingly rational Ivy League-educated engineer decided to become a hitman.

Instead, the public is incessantly warned that white supremacists are gathering in the shadows, readying to spring their coup. So dangerous were these alleged impending “major civil disturbances” in 2023 that the Justice Department created a new category of extremists to “track and counter” the “anti-government or anti-authority violent extremism.”

When Black Lives Matter rioting enveloped the nation, causing billions in damage, destroying thousands of lives, one could barely get anyone in the media to admit it was even happening. To the Left, parents who protest school boards over critical race theory and mask mandates are “domestic terrorists,” but those who burn down cities are “mostly peaceful.”

The Left has been prone to violence since Year Zero. In the early 1900s, the United States was awash in communist and anarchist bombings, culminating in the deaths of over 30 people on Wall Street in 1920. Most cultural depictions of the ’60s upheavals were of a genteel, peace-loving movement, but it was imbued with extremists, as well. By the 1970s, left-wing terrorist groups such as the Weather Underground were setting off bombs at the Capitol, police stations, the Pentagon, and state attorneys general offices. In an 18-month period between 1971 and 1972, there were an amazing 2,500 bombings in the U.S. by leftist groups.

Worse, then as now, violence was often ignored or idealized by the “intellectual” Left. When I was young, self-style socialists would sometimes commemorate mass murderers such as Che Guevara or Mao Zedong on T-shirts...SNIP


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: armthestudents; armtheteachers; brianthompson; falseflags; leftism; luigimangione; nodefenselesszones; unitedhealthcare; whatishisfrnick

1 posted on 12/17/2024 6:14:55 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

How many people have marxist governments killed?


2 posted on 12/17/2024 6:15:06 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Violence is a political tool because it works. The only way to stop it is to be violent in return.


3 posted on 12/17/2024 6:19:45 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: MtnClimber

Hell, they could barely contain their glee over the last two attempted assassinations.


4 posted on 12/17/2024 6:22:37 AM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: MtnClimber

Right after we have a National Conversation About Left-Wing Treason.


5 posted on 12/17/2024 6:38:35 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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6 posted on 12/17/2024 6:40:55 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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To: MtnClimber

Over 120 million and counting.


7 posted on 12/17/2024 6:55:30 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Carl Vehse

And may those conversations happen pronto.


8 posted on 12/17/2024 6:56:25 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Gen.Blather
Yes....

‘violence is the descent into barbarism…there is no culture where there are no standards to which men have recourse…where there are no principles of legality…where there is no acceptance of certain final intellectual positions to which a dispute may be deferred….when these are lacking, there is barbarism…’ Ortega y Gasset

9 posted on 12/17/2024 7:01:28 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: MtnClimber

What about the “Weather Underground”? Leftist terrorists from the 1970s that eventually converted and penetrated democrat politics, former members and associates whose peak political influence during the Obama administration.

Rather than overtly commit marxist terrorism, they decided to get clever and actually go underground.


10 posted on 12/17/2024 7:03:45 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: No name given
Complicit is the MSM for many decades, but only getting worse as they become marginalized by alternatives. Their lies by omission give away their closet radicalism. They almost never use the terms "far-left" or "alt left" even though they will use such terms about non-leftists at the drop of a hat. It is all about trying to normalize lefism/marxism while making moderate views seem radical. Otherwise known as moving the 'overton window'.

If you ever had to interview closet leftists, the trick wouldn't be about trolling them with non-leftist positions to see how they react, because they have long practiced moderate dissimulation. The method would be scoring them for how many times the avoid or omit classifying or categorizing leftists or marxist events/individuals as such.


11 posted on 12/17/2024 7:13:53 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: MtnClimber

Left wing violence is little different than Islamic violence...just accepted as something that happens.


12 posted on 12/17/2024 7:29:42 AM PST by Democrat = party of treason
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To: MtnClimber

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13 posted on 12/17/2024 7:42:46 AM PST by Chuckster (Friends don't let friends eat FARMED FISH.)
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To: MtnClimber

bkmk


14 posted on 12/17/2024 10:58:49 AM PST by sauropod ("You didn't take a country. You only won a football game!" - Dan Dakich Ne supra crepidam)
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