who took the blame
“Minutemen, the John Birch and Patrick Henry societies.”
And those groups have been responsible for how many assassinations to date?
I totally disagree.
The left is a political beast. They see politics as a means to control, power and, finally, meaning for their lives. To them, the entire world is politics and they have very much to gain by adapting this worldview.
Conservatives are fundamentally different - one, they are individuals who view involvement in politics as a necessary evil as they seek to prevent the statists from encroaching further into their personal lives. Two, they are fundamentally realists - willingly enternalizing what they can plainly see is a lie is incompatible with their worldview.
Where a conservative politician be attacked I would surely be inclined to make some initial assumptions based upon my political bent, after learning the facts I would adjust based upon the reality. But I hope I would NEVER allow what I knew was untrue to skew my mind as a good chunk of the left is doing today. That would be insane.
“the Minutemen, the John Birch and Patrick Henry societies.”
Lots of people don’t remember these three groups. The “Minutemen” especially as these are not the same as the group with the same name today.
It's like the Black Congressman who said something to the effect of “back in the day we had murders which were unfortunate, but we didn't have the Internet or talk radio. If someone said something, the other person had the automatic right to come on and defend himself.”
So, like, um...m...m is or isn't the vitriol spewed over the Internet and talk radio responsible, or what. If you had the same things happen before all that was available, then what? The nut cases had to attend the local nut houses to get hopped up on hyperbole? I'm SO confused.
I cry foul, the minutemen didn't exist in 1963.