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Street Violence as a Political Tool
Tablet ^ | MAY 24, 2021 | Lee Smith

Posted on 05/24/2021 3:41:12 PM PDT by lasereye

The Democratic Party has had a problem. It’s a small, incoherent, and privileged clique funded by billionaire oligarchs to push policies that even mainstream Democratic voters oppose. How to bridge the gap? The solution they chose, which party officials made clear this week, was simple: the way third-world elites always do—by using street violence to keep their clients in line.

This week, pro-Palestinian demonstrators auditioned for the chance to join already established Democratic Party militias antifa and Black Lives Matter by attacking Jews in New York and Los Angeles. Apologists for the violence reason that the demonstrators are angry about the deaths of innocent Palestinian babies under Israeli fire in Gaza so they’re taking their frustrations—admittedly misplaced!—out on American Jews.

That is not what’s happening.

Who knows how many of the activists waving the Palestinian flag as they beat Jews and detonate fireworks in front of Jewish-owned businesses are genuinely Palestinian Americans? Maybe some aren’t even Arab or Muslim, but that’s irrelevant—they are staking their claim to recruit, promote, and represent Arabs and Muslims as an interest group. And so the flag they’re really flying isn’t for the Palestinians but rather for the Democratic Party.

This is all “intersectionality” really is — a branding mechanism to unite the various sects the Democratic Party has gathered under a big and potentially bloody tent. The current-day Democratic Party is a top-down structure paid for by the corporate establishment, led by Big Tech and finance, that appeals to a small class of managers, technocrats, and educators who for a variety of reasons, from self-pity to psychopathy, really do back the party’s most sinister policies—like open borders, designed to impoverish America’s working middle class. The party has lots of money and owns virtually all of the country’s major institutions, from the press to the Department of Justice. What it lacks, however, is voters. So they packed together interest groups and turned them into clients.

The trick is making them all fit. From the outside, for instance, it makes no sense that activists from the LGBT wing show up in support of the pro-Palestinian terror wing. But what might seem to you like hypocrisy actually illustrates the basic premise, which is that these seemingly disparate groups actually do share a goal: upholding the Democratic Party. When LGBT activists are called to demonstrate on behalf of Islamic terrorists, they show up to fly the flag not for Hamas but for the Democrats.

Since the late spring, many have noted that these blue militias have typically avoided laying waste to red regions. And it is strange, if you think the Democrats have mobilized criminals and psychopaths and other semitragic misfits to target those they claim are the true enemies of democracy, tolerance, and brotherly love—the more than 74 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump. Presumably, blue militias know that if they campaigned in rural or even suburban America they would be met by a well-armed citizenry. Still, why burn down their own neighborhoods? Again, here the Middle East is the key to understanding. And if you know anything about that region, you know that the answer is because that’s their job—not to confront their alleged red state enemies, but to remind their neighbors and fellow Joe Biden voters that their security, indeed even their lives, depend on them keeping the faith, no matter how much the party’s pet projects might hurt or offend them personally.

Obviously many of the programs the Democratic Party is pushing are not popular with the people who belong to the interest groups they’re trying to motivate. You hardly need polling to show, for instance, that most African Americans who live in urban areas do not support defunding the police.

Why would Asian American voters support the bias against Asian American students that have been institutionalized by the Democratic Party and its allies in teachers unions and universities? The many years a Korean American mother, say, might spend tutoring her children to ensure they win a place in an accelerated math or science program are now meaningless in districts that have eliminated these programs in the name of “equity.”

Why would the bulk of American Jews continue to vote for a presidential administration like Joe Biden’s that funds Palestinian terror, or whose up-and-coming leadership, like Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, promote organizations that celebrate the murder of Jews? Given a choice, no rational person would defend any of these policies.

Thus the need for street violence, to take decision-making out of the realm of the rational. It’s about fear: Mouth off and you won’t like what happens to your business, your home, your wife, your children.

What we’re seeing is the streets’ version of “cancel culture.” If you’re in book publishing or academia or Big Tech and you buck the party’s consensus, even by accident, they’ll take away your job. It’s bad, and maybe even a little Stalinist. But it’s getting off relatively easy in comparison to what’s happening in the streets of our cities, where gangs are employed to target Americans on behalf of a political party whose policies appear to be designed to destroy America.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; bidenvoters; democrats; israel; palestinians

1 posted on 05/24/2021 3:41:12 PM PDT by lasereye
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To: lasereye

It’s simpler.

Destroying Western Civilization unites them.


2 posted on 05/24/2021 3:47:15 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (GMO opponents who took the covid jab are now GMOs themselves.)
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To: lasereye

bttt


3 posted on 05/24/2021 3:47:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: lasereye

There is a word for it. Terrorism-The use of violence or the threat of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals.


4 posted on 05/24/2021 3:56:24 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
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To: lasereye

“...This is all “intersectionality” really is...”

It’s insurrectionality.


5 posted on 05/24/2021 3:59:50 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: lasereye

Our very own Matt Bracken made a good analogy in his broadcast on Modern Survivalist broadcast on youtube. He pointed out that the BLM, Asian hate crimes, etc are merely the “spike proteins” of the communism being pushed by the globalist leaders.
These assorted causes, some in direct opposition to each other such as gays and moslems, are all being used to infect the body of the USA with the communist virus.


6 posted on 05/24/2021 4:00:39 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: lasereye

Great article. Thanks for posting. This tends to reinforce what I think we all have concluded regarding the uncontrolled Antifa/BLM burning and looting.


7 posted on 05/24/2021 4:03:23 PM PDT by Ben Hecks (Don't Google it - Duck it!)
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To: lasereye
"whose policies appear to be are designed"

Fixed it.

8 posted on 05/24/2021 4:04:07 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: DesertRhino

Oy vey!


9 posted on 05/24/2021 4:04:22 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Paladin2

EXCELLENT correction!


10 posted on 05/24/2021 4:06:49 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: lasereye

This is what community organizing is all about.

Burning Looting Mobs


11 posted on 05/24/2021 4:15:35 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: lasereye

ANTIFA bump for later....


12 posted on 05/24/2021 4:29:14 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: lasereye

Street violence is one of many tools the left employs that we fail at.

One problem is that conservatives seem fixated on the idea of millions of gun owners and and CW3. The problem is those are nuclear options. As the USA has found several times, having the best ICBM arsenal in the world doesn’t help you win many actual wars.


13 posted on 05/24/2021 4:35:41 PM PDT by Renfrew
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To: lasereye

$oro$


14 posted on 05/24/2021 6:12:16 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Uncle Miltie

It’s simpler.

Destroying Western Civilization unites them.
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THIS. People need to understand THIS.


15 posted on 05/24/2021 6:13:21 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Ben Hecks

Great article. Thanks for posting. This tends to reinforce what I think we all have concluded regarding the uncontrolled Antifa/BLM burning and looting.
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their violence works A. Because the media/social media promotes it as social justice. and B. the federal gov doesn’t punish those who do it.


16 posted on 05/24/2021 6:14:35 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: lasereye

The Democratic Party has been using violence almost since its inception. In the 1800s it was the KKK, in the 1900s it was union goons and now it’s Antifa/BLM.


17 posted on 05/24/2021 6:43:57 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: lasereye

Street Violence as a Political Tool = Hitler/NAZIS


18 posted on 05/24/2021 7:12:21 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: lasereye

The DemoNaziCommie power brokers use street violence just like the original commies and Nazis did in Russia and Germany, respectively


19 posted on 05/24/2021 7:54:58 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not created, they're excreted." Cicero 2000 years ago)
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To: lasereye
The Dem Party has always been a criminal enterprise. They are just not bothering to hide it anymore. They are thinking they are immune since brazenly and openly stealing the 2020 presidential election. But...


20 posted on 05/25/2021 2:55:04 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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