Posted on 03/22/2021 1:22:58 PM PDT by PoliticallyShort
The narrative is here, and it doesn’t like you very much.
In recent remarks before members of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee, the chief of the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency claimed that domestic extremism has become “part of the cultural mainstream.” Former DHS official and USA Today contributor Elizabeth Neumann agrees: “Far-Right Extremists went mainstream under Trump.”
“Extremists have gone mainstream,” echoes journalist Zahra Ahmad. “Lawyers, realtors and every-day folks make up their ranks.” Ahmad cites a figure suggesting a quarter of Americans hold “ideas incubated by white nationalists.” Not to be left out, NPR warns that white extremism “seeps” into the mainstream. The Atlantic says the mainstream has gone extremist too. A study by the Chicago Project on Security and Threats warns that most January 6 “insurrectionists” were mainstream to the extreme:
They work as CEOs, shop owners, doctors, lawyers, IT specialists, and accountants. Strikingly, court documents indicate that only 9 percent are unemployed. Of the earlier far-right extremist suspects we studied, 61 percent were under 35, 25 percent were unemployed, and almost none worked in white-collar occupations.
The Chicago Project is led by Robert Pape, a University of Chicago academic best known for declaring that Islamic extremism plays no role in suicide bombings and who once urged a U.S. government-identified front group for the terror organization Hamas to purchase copies to promote his book. So it’s an open question whether Pape and company can actually identify extremism when they see it.
But what does it say about America’s elites—security officials, academics, and media personalities—that they are all convinced that those holding the prevailing attitudes and values of our society are a dangerous threat? And a threat to whom?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanmind.org ...
I consider anyone NOT an enemy of the DemocRATs an enemy.
Start treating people like the Enemy and they will start acting like the Enemy.
So far, I think people are still in disbelief and shock. They cannot believe as good citizens, they are now not welcome in their own country.
I assert that two kinds of people legally reside in the USA. One group are Democrats and the other group is Americans.
Democrats are Democrats first and foremost. Americans are of many other parties or none, They are Americans first and foremost.
That is all.
This is going to be the worst civil war ever, because, whoever wins will have no forgiveness for the losers and there will be no place for them to go.
But AOC and antifa and BLM are not extremists?
The article doesn’t define extremism. Guess its just,you know, generic extremism
Stop calling them Democrats and call them what they really are Communists. It is no longer the Media but Communist propaganda. Don’t let them define the language
boom
No, we are not welcome by the communists, but guess what, they're not welcome in OUR country.
demonize ostracize criminalize
right out of the totalitarian playbook
Exactly, spread the word. They are Communists, period.
There are two parties in the US. Americans and Communists.
I saved this quote from somewhere:
“Historically, authoritarian regimes use fictitious tales of sedition as the pretext for crushing their political rivals and cowing their citizens into submission. Propaganda organs parrot the regime’s party line while less compliant media are censored.”
Oh.
Meanwhile, The Party, Rinos and most at FR expect the sheeple to just keep voting. As if it matters.
When you’re not posting old news, how about a donation?
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I agree. We are extreme in supporting the Constitution.
Hi.
In the fwiw department, everyone bleeds.
5.56mm
I wonder what phycologists think about people making stuff up and then actually believing it, and then preaching it to others as if they’re an expert?
‘Journalist’ Zahra Ahmad - an Iraqi-Irani raised in Michigan.
We need to start stripping citizenship from idiots who know nothing about our Constitution.
Actually, the new thing is that antifa and blm are the military arm of the democrat party.
50 years ago the weather underground and the black panthers were beyond the pale for both republicans and democrats
If the people you're trying to label as extremists are part of the cultural mainstream then it follows that the extremist is really you, not them.
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