Comments on: The drumming-up of hatred against Republicans is escalating

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 12:54:28 +0000

To the extent conservatives are considered evil, is there a cohort on the left which thinks conservatives may/must be physically assaulted? It’s okay to punch a Nazi, right?
If so, the more the left demonizes the right, the more of such violence we will see. And then what?
To the extent there are some reasonable people on the left, not extreme left, would their putative concern for fairness, for goose/gander, for equal application of the law, be overcome by a concern for “taking care” of these evil people who pose such a terrible threat? You have to cut some corners in an emergency, right?
So I look at J6 and find my question answered.

Went to a discussion group where some of the folks were jut-jawed satisfied that Trump had been busted trying to steer a Secret Service vehicle, apparently to the Capitol. Got him now, by golly. When informed the SS was prepared to swear under oath no such thing had happened, their disappointment was obvious.

By: Paolo Pagliaro

Paolo Pagliaro — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 06:44:41 +0000

The establishment feels being under scrutiny, knows its own sins and is scared.
That’s all, combined with the entitlement they cultivate assiduously.
“Democracy” is the last of their thoughts.

By: om

om — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 04:37:55 +0000

Try punctuation.

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 01:45:40 +0000

If they already have that mindset and those resources what do you think they will do with them

By: om

om — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 01:06:21 +0000

Vlad thought the Ukrainians would not fight or would fold. Our leftist betters may have their own equal misconceptions about we evil conservatives. They have never bothered to learn anything of us beyond a caricature, not so with us and them.

By: neo

neo — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 00:30:33 +0000

David:

Actually, it makes the argument meaningless. Just about everyone thinks his or her position is correct and that they are fighting the bad guys. The right thinks it as well.

The question is who is closer to reality.

By: neo

neo — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 00:27:28 +0000

David Foster:

Nor are we the people as well-armed as the government forces.

By: David Foster

David Foster — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 22:21:55 +0000

Geoffrey Britain…”“Dehumanize, demonize, and destroy. Classic devil’s strategy. It worked against Jews, Indians, and Africans. Why not republicans? People never learn.” joe smith

“Republicans are armed versus none of the above.”

Indians were certainly armed, if ‘Indians’ here refers to American Indians, and for the most part they put up a pretty good fight, although they weren’t as well-armed as the government forces.

By: David

David — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 22:18:36 +0000

Neo,

You wrote of many on the left that “…they think they are fighting evil with necessary tools.”

Isn’t that exactly what the vast majority of the members of the NSDAP thought they were doing?

And if so, doesn’t that make present day leftists the moral equivalents of Nazis?

By: Dave L.

Dave L. — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 22:17:37 +0000

I find it interesting that there are 69 comments, and nobody has mentioned Krauthammer’s Law of American politics: “To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.”
? Charles Krauthammer, Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes, and Politics

I have no idea when Mr. Krauthammer first put forth that thought, but I know I first encountered it around 20 years ago. Which is to say, the belief by those on the Left that conservatives/Republicans (not even close to 100% the same group, but there is overlap) are evil is not new by any means.

What’s new is that they feel so free in to express it openly. You got glimpses of it before, going all the way back to Hillary’s “vast right wing conspiracy”, to Obama’s “bitter clingers”, and back to Hillary’s “deplorables.” Also expressed in calling conservatives racist, sexist, misogynist, homophobes, transphobes, Islamophobes, etc. And they borrowed some of the language of the GWoT about ‘Muslim extremists’ to come up with the term “right wing extremists” (which, as far as I can tell, is flexible enough to cover anyone to the right of Leon Trotsky), because, well, everyone knows extremists are bad, right? Except when they’re violent left wing extremists like Antifa. Those are fine.