>Leftists have been acting very unhinged lately; it's giving me George Floyd 2020 vibes. And conveniently, it’s happening right before the midterms. Leftist elites have been funding this anti-ICE hysteria ahead of the midterms, just like the 2020 “Summer of Love.” They know how to activate their base and get votes; they’ve been doing it for decades. The Democrat Party relies on havoc to gain power.
>This is why China will win in the end. China would never allow an activist group to go against the government; they would be dead. That’s why some form of authoritarianism is good; because it keeps order. Meanwhile, leftists in the U.S. are basically enemies from within, constantly obstructing what’s best for the nation and they want open borders.
I agree. It's no longer protest. When you have people driving around trying to trail cops, doing their utmost to hassle them, going around with whistle and noisemakers and carrying guns... it is no longer the definition of simply public assembly. This is active disruption of the government and a form of insurrection. One which cries out and gaslights every time it gets put down but is undeniably anti-government. Really just a form of war without the guns, but only because they know they would lose in a direct conflict.
I can't believe the state authorities are allowing this vacuum to happen. A strong state would jail everyone who interferes with the police so boldly. That's a basic defining requirement for the concept of public order. We can deal with civil rights and freedoms later, the state project has always rested on a monopoly of violence and if there is no powerful authority to put down a unruly strike then it's not much longer for the world. I can see why the government wants to avert the showdown. Why it's doing a gut check and may be running extensive collection operations to see exactly the extent of sympathy. But when the chips are down, if you don't have the ability to send federal forces to a city out of fear and therefore allow violent assembly and active attacks on police. What does that say about the future of the country?
And really, like my earlier point: would these same so-called protesters have given a damn about one of us? Would they have carved out a place for us to have the special political right to object to their rule? Of course not. Our tolerance is a one way street that is constantly taken advantage of. Every single right, or privilege, or land claim we give away will never be given back. The same faction here who talks as if they're the world's moral authority would like nothing more than to see our leaders shot, our spokesmen arrested, and our followers persecuted and pushed out of the public square. We cannot keep playing the game that there's a both sides, there's a fair and balanced solution, or that decorum and civic traditions are here forever. The potential for true insurgent or totalitarian violence coming from the left is a hundredfold more dangerous than whatever the last sixty years of the (so-called) far right may have begot. There are people who want nothing more than to sacrifice their lives for the cause like moths to a flame, and who instead of hesitating when one among them gets shot decide to double down. If you're an ICE agent, say, how do you negotiate with someone who wants to kill you if you ever put your gun down? I can't see that, the truly hateful incitement is largely one-way.
I know the republicans are not naive to these things. They obviously must know we can't play this make-believe game of fair is fair anymore. But it does disturb me that we're not having a robust, silent-majority style immune response. Something that definitively shows the body politic is vigorously prepared to eject these invasive agitators out.