You have illuminated the essential difference between ultra-leftist crazies and a modern era "moderate democrat".
The crazies are screaming in your face that they want to stomp you and your family into mud, hand your daughter over to MS-13,
cage your son and turn him over to pedophiles.
The "moderate democrat" wants the same things but doesn't want to admit it - for now.
About the same difference between a “radical” moslem and a “moderate” moslem.
The “moderate democrat” wants the same things but doesn’t want to admit it - for now.
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Same with “moderate” muslims.
They want the infidels killed and sharia instituted worldwide just like the jihadis.
They just lie about it.
The problem as I see it is that you don’t have moderate democrates even if they generally keep quiet and out of trouble, I know people who used to be independents or moderate democrats who have been radicalized by the media. These people, some of whom have voted for republicans in the more distant past will now raise a fist to redhen. I’ve heard these ‘soccer mom’ types use some very hateful and even violent words for people like Sarah Sanders and Kellyanne Conway. The don’t just say the crazy words, they actually feel that these people are social traitors on part with Nazi, and they have zero historical perspective on the difference between policy positions and Genocide.... because CNN actually brainwashed them to. They think Obama care was a wonderful compassionate savior to the American people, and when I try to tell them that mostly all it did was mandate over-priced and scarce hard-to-maintain policies by penalty of the IRS and did nothing good for most people that they couldn’t do for themselves if they chose too, they ask me where *I* get my information, but can’t really argue with me except to bring up subsidies for the poor. These are the people who actually think that child seperation was a brand new thing, never happened before, and it’s cruel and intolerable. They never gave a whim or care about those children until MSNBC told them too. And they are ANGRY like they are programmed to be.
So, are middle-aged suburban housewives going to be mowing down Americans in some future civil war just because they have been radicalized? No. But it’s easily conceivable to me, given their lack of ability to critically analyze the emotionally charged “information” they are being fed and the radical state of reactionism they have cultivated, that they would be willing to support such activities financially or otherwise, should things ever escalate to that level some day.
I know this sounds like loony conspiracy crap on it’s face, but I think segments of the media are fomenting a fanatic level of anger and hatred among formerly moderate people, and they are doing it knowingly. I don’t think they want civil war though. They want everyone who doesn’t agree with them to be suppressed. They don’t want to come to bloodshed, they just want the oppression necessary to achieve their vision. Of course, they don’t even see it as oppression, nor do they think it’s hate. No matter who angry, irrational, and violent their side gets, they actually believe this is some sort of existential war.