Stop pretending this is a problem shared equally by both sides. The more liberal you are, the more likely you are to justify political violence, whereas the opposite is true on the Right.
The left is now a revolutionary movement - socialist, Islamist, Woke - and believe violence is acceptable to further the revolution. With few exceptions, this is the future of the Democratic Party. Socialists and progressive Democrats like Bernie, Warren, Ro, the Squad, have embraced the revolution and are fueling it. For so-called mainstream Democrats, it is cynical political calculation that lasts only until they are no longer useful to revolutionaries.
yessir! often things disguised as descriptions are wishes and desires. They want and need Trump etc to be evil incarnate so they can be attacked and destroyed w a good conscience.
We have to be willing to enter the fire to save our future for our childrens....How many people snuck out of Cuba? Because Florida is so close and Castro didn't care.
Still Communist,,people still escaping,,,Imagine that was your life? Hell in a cage..Yet heaven only 60 miles northwest...Miami...Those people knew that it could be death from sharks..they did it.
An excellent article, Batya! It brings to us a painful truth. Political violence is predominantly only on one side these days, the left. Liberals and progressives are more likely than moderates or conservatives to say political violence is justified. This isn’t the “peace, love and understanding” left of the 1960s and 1970s, this is the modern day left who’s all about using any means necessary to achieve their goals. Hasan Piker has openly embraced crime and the murder of the rich. The left celebrated Luigi Mangione for murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. A Bernie Sanders supporter shot Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise at the Congressional Baseball Field. Antifa attacks conservatives and anyone else they disagree with, riots, attack ordinary people and members of the press, doxx people, threaten people, show up at their houses, and have shot Border Patrol agents. BLM and Antifa set fire to cities and rioted in the streets after the whole George Floyd hoax. Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Hamas protesters marched across the streets of America and college campuses chanting for the genocide of the Jewish people, the destruction of the state of Israel and celebrating the horrific events of October 7th.
THREE count em’ THREE assassination attempts have been made on President Trump. I thought it was crazy Gerald Ford was almost assassinated twice, Donald Trump sadly, broke that record. It’s like the 1970s all over again with all this far-left political violence. The SPLC happily funded the KKK, the National Socialist Party of America and other odious groups to go around causing chaos. They were behind Charlottesville as well it turns out. This is NOT to say political violence from the right never happens. But it is not in any way, shape or form proportionate to the political violence that comes from the left. I seriously had someone I used to follow on Instagram DM me last night after I chastised her for saying “there comes a time when political violence is justified”, “Trump was literally about to start World War 3. Don’t you think he should be taken out by any means necessary?” No, no I don’t, and I disagree with him on many issues. Doesn’t mean he needs or deserves, to be gunned down. I promptly unfollowed her and will never speak to her again. I’m an independent moderate who votes for folks from both parties. I am on the left on social issues and often disagree with the President on policy in this area, but I would never want him or members of his family to be killed.
"The left celebrated Luigi Mangione for murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson"
Not caring the Luigi Mangione was a trust-fund wealthy kid enjoying life in Hawaii while Brian Thompson was a self-made man whose father was a blue collar worker at a grain elevator in the Midwest.
Plenty of leftist violence back in the 1960s and 1970s. JFK killed by a communist. RFK killed by a Palestinian who said he did it become RFK supported Israel. The Weatherman. The urban riots that were far worse than the BLM riots. Violent antiwar riots. Manson. The attempts on Gerald Ford, one by a political leftist and the other by a Manson girl. Angela Davis. The Symbionese Liberation Army. The Black Panthers.
Remember its Flower Power,,,not flowers, or peace and flowers...The command not invitation....Be sure to wear flowers in your hair,,if you are going to San Francisco..
What they are saying is if you are not with us don't come..IF you are not with us then you are against US...They whole 60's was that..Read the lyrics and speeches...Now they are violent because they expected the takeover should have come already.
If you’re on the left on ‘social issues’ then you are holding the bag for them.
Once you decide you can k*ll an innocent baby, the next step is ‘we need to get rid of disabled, old, ______”(just fill in the blank with ‘those with whom we disagree’).
Once you are willing to take a baby’s life, then you’re willing to molest, groom, mutilate said baby/child.
So no.
You cannot be against ALL violence if you are okay with violence against babies.
You’re just trying to make yourself look/feel better.
Well said. I'm not holding my breath until anyone on the left agrees with this article though. If there are any decent human beings on the left, they should hang their heads in shame, point to this article and ask "What is wrong with us? Why do we act like this?" Because it's all true.
They never will, they will call it extreme right propaganda..Only way to kill communism is to remove all the communists..teaching giving them ultimatum...If its war then we all know the means. How many American women killed by illegals in the last 2years? No one cares
Yes Dan---"IF" there are any decent hman beings on the left...this article should wake them up. But if there are good people still DSemocrats, ,ostlikely they are afraid to speak out--except for John Fetterman. Who could have guessed he would turn out to be the most principled person in the Democrat party.
We need to tell the truth, instead of pretending. Thank you Batya. Violence has been encouraged, justified, and celebrated by the Left and all its useful idiots.
There are sinister forces, foreign and domestic and backed with a lot of money, whose primary tactic to regain power is to sow discord, chaos and hatred among the people to the point where political violence is not just tolerated but embraced. They will put forward stupid ideas, like "Trump didn't have a plan going into Iran", when in fact, the Pentagon has been planning/gaming this since 1979 or that "Trump thinks he's a king", when he clearly is not. The useful idiots will believe it and shout it in the streets. Even if they don't believe it, they will act as if they do and will work themselves up to smash you in the head with their "Peace" sign.
There is definitely a double standard in legacy media on the political violence. Can’t imagine if a democrat candidate for President was repeatedly targeted by assassins or a democrat figure like Charlie Kirk , or supreme court liberal justices that there wouldn’t be a non stop tirade about right wing extremism destroying democracy. Instead they platform lunatics like Hassan Piker justifying terrorism and assasination as some sort of f’ed up morality. Pathetic
The Left always gets a free pass with political violence and violent threats. Remember Kathy Griffin's 2017 video of Trump's severed head? That's what passes for "comedy" on the Left, or maybe they view it as "intellectual analysis".
It is their sick fantasy they want,,,they would dance if they saw it ----just like the Arabs in brooklyn and Paterson on September 11th..This is the real world,,most of human history is war and death.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is a mental health epidemic in this country. As per Sam Harris and countless lefty intellectuals, lying to accomplish the goal of getting rid of Trump is a virtuous, acceptable strategy because the orange man is Hitler and is “a threat to our democracy”. Violence, the next rung up in the TDS ladder for the same rational is also spiritually/ethically /emotionally correct. The NY Times, CNN, msnbc, cbs etc all are enablers and participants in this ‘mass formation psychosis’. Government of Iran needs to win the war against Donald Trump to show how deranged he is, so they say. He has broken the collective minds of what I or any other reasonable thinking person several years ago would have said is impossible. His national presence has created a hive mind of disturbed individuals, a flock of erratic lemmings some with blue hair, nose rings, some very normal looking who went to Cal Tech who should be now payed attention to closely. They’re capable of anything.
They don't see this as violence,,they see War and know they are conducting it to overthrow the US and institute Marxist government,,socialist paradise,,warmth of collectivism,,power it taken by force...Republicans are standing in their way,,Americans are asleep. How long have they been saying,,,stolen land, bad to the bone,,birth of America a crime...They believe the declaration and constitution is bad because it was done by white christians ....We are starting to resemble the Jews from 1930s Berlin,,,asleep and in denial...If we preach peace and be nice they will stop and go away...NOT
This Cole Allen was an exceptionally bright person, having graduated from CalTech and worked at JPL. Yet, he was taken in by the corporate media leftist brainwashing techniques, which infected his mind to point where he justified committing murder, and he probably believes he’s right to do so. Something I call a “dumb smart person.”
The left is now a revolutionary movement - socialist, Islamist, Woke - and believe violence is acceptable to further the revolution. With few exceptions, this is the future of the Democratic Party. Socialists and progressive Democrats like Bernie, Warren, Ro, the Squad, have embraced the revolution and are fueling it. For so-called mainstream Democrats, it is cynical political calculation that lasts only until they are no longer useful to revolutionaries.
Just remember that they don't kill you because you're a Nazi, they call you a Nazi so that they feel entitled to kill you.
yessir! often things disguised as descriptions are wishes and desires. They want and need Trump etc to be evil incarnate so they can be attacked and destroyed w a good conscience.
The comment I was replying to has been deleted.
YES,,we must answer with a Freedom revolution
We have to be willing to enter the fire to save our future for our childrens....How many people snuck out of Cuba? Because Florida is so close and Castro didn't care.
Still Communist,,people still escaping,,,Imagine that was your life? Hell in a cage..Yet heaven only 60 miles northwest...Miami...Those people knew that it could be death from sharks..they did it.
An excellent article, Batya! It brings to us a painful truth. Political violence is predominantly only on one side these days, the left. Liberals and progressives are more likely than moderates or conservatives to say political violence is justified. This isn’t the “peace, love and understanding” left of the 1960s and 1970s, this is the modern day left who’s all about using any means necessary to achieve their goals. Hasan Piker has openly embraced crime and the murder of the rich. The left celebrated Luigi Mangione for murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. A Bernie Sanders supporter shot Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise at the Congressional Baseball Field. Antifa attacks conservatives and anyone else they disagree with, riots, attack ordinary people and members of the press, doxx people, threaten people, show up at their houses, and have shot Border Patrol agents. BLM and Antifa set fire to cities and rioted in the streets after the whole George Floyd hoax. Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Hamas protesters marched across the streets of America and college campuses chanting for the genocide of the Jewish people, the destruction of the state of Israel and celebrating the horrific events of October 7th.
THREE count em’ THREE assassination attempts have been made on President Trump. I thought it was crazy Gerald Ford was almost assassinated twice, Donald Trump sadly, broke that record. It’s like the 1970s all over again with all this far-left political violence. The SPLC happily funded the KKK, the National Socialist Party of America and other odious groups to go around causing chaos. They were behind Charlottesville as well it turns out. This is NOT to say political violence from the right never happens. But it is not in any way, shape or form proportionate to the political violence that comes from the left. I seriously had someone I used to follow on Instagram DM me last night after I chastised her for saying “there comes a time when political violence is justified”, “Trump was literally about to start World War 3. Don’t you think he should be taken out by any means necessary?” No, no I don’t, and I disagree with him on many issues. Doesn’t mean he needs or deserves, to be gunned down. I promptly unfollowed her and will never speak to her again. I’m an independent moderate who votes for folks from both parties. I am on the left on social issues and often disagree with the President on policy in this area, but I would never want him or members of his family to be killed.
"The left celebrated Luigi Mangione for murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson"
Not caring the Luigi Mangione was a trust-fund wealthy kid enjoying life in Hawaii while Brian Thompson was a self-made man whose father was a blue collar worker at a grain elevator in the Midwest.
Plenty of leftist violence back in the 1960s and 1970s. JFK killed by a communist. RFK killed by a Palestinian who said he did it become RFK supported Israel. The Weatherman. The urban riots that were far worse than the BLM riots. Violent antiwar riots. Manson. The attempts on Gerald Ford, one by a political leftist and the other by a Manson girl. Angela Davis. The Symbionese Liberation Army. The Black Panthers.
So, you’re trying to blame Israel?
Say what
Remember its Flower Power,,,not flowers, or peace and flowers...The command not invitation....Be sure to wear flowers in your hair,,if you are going to San Francisco..
What they are saying is if you are not with us don't come..IF you are not with us then you are against US...They whole 60's was that..Read the lyrics and speeches...Now they are violent because they expected the takeover should have come already.
Leftwing violence is real and present; rightwing violence is bought and paid for by SPLC and other progressive groups.
Jeff Keemer, all my life the violence has ALWAYS been done by demonicRATS. And I’m old.
You’re just brainwashed.
I think you're misinterpreting what I wrote, neighbor. BTW, I'm old, too.
If you’re on the left on ‘social issues’ then you are holding the bag for them.
Once you decide you can k*ll an innocent baby, the next step is ‘we need to get rid of disabled, old, ______”(just fill in the blank with ‘those with whom we disagree’).
Once you are willing to take a baby’s life, then you’re willing to molest, groom, mutilate said baby/child.
So no.
You cannot be against ALL violence if you are okay with violence against babies.
You’re just trying to make yourself look/feel better.
Three attempts are all that we KNOW about.
Well said. I'm not holding my breath until anyone on the left agrees with this article though. If there are any decent human beings on the left, they should hang their heads in shame, point to this article and ask "What is wrong with us? Why do we act like this?" Because it's all true.
They never will, they will call it extreme right propaganda..Only way to kill communism is to remove all the communists..teaching giving them ultimatum...If its war then we all know the means. How many American women killed by illegals in the last 2years? No one cares
Well said Operator Dawn!
thank you Gitch,,,say where are you east west north or south,,,I'm Northeast unfortunately
Ohio PA border.
I was their once,,for one night,,loved the people ...are you a girl
Sorry,,,Gitch sounds to me like the movie Gidget
Yes Dan---"IF" there are any decent hman beings on the left...this article should wake them up. But if there are good people still DSemocrats, ,ostlikely they are afraid to speak out--except for John Fetterman. Who could have guessed he would turn out to be the most principled person in the Democrat party.
We need to tell the truth, instead of pretending. Thank you Batya. Violence has been encouraged, justified, and celebrated by the Left and all its useful idiots.
Spot on. Thank you for your clear- headed thinking and very thoughtful commentary.
This shit needs to stop, all I have to say.
Ditto.
There are sinister forces, foreign and domestic and backed with a lot of money, whose primary tactic to regain power is to sow discord, chaos and hatred among the people to the point where political violence is not just tolerated but embraced. They will put forward stupid ideas, like "Trump didn't have a plan going into Iran", when in fact, the Pentagon has been planning/gaming this since 1979 or that "Trump thinks he's a king", when he clearly is not. The useful idiots will believe it and shout it in the streets. Even if they don't believe it, they will act as if they do and will work themselves up to smash you in the head with their "Peace" sign.
I think Trump had certain goals and left it to his War Department to come up with the plan.
Sure he did, Jeff. Things are going great. ;)
Yeah....former Fox News weekend host and Secretary of Culture War, Pete Hegseth. Great choice.
Weird that Trump is the only POTUS to ever use the word "Reign" when describing past presidential administrations.
There is definitely a double standard in legacy media on the political violence. Can’t imagine if a democrat candidate for President was repeatedly targeted by assassins or a democrat figure like Charlie Kirk , or supreme court liberal justices that there wouldn’t be a non stop tirade about right wing extremism destroying democracy. Instead they platform lunatics like Hassan Piker justifying terrorism and assasination as some sort of f’ed up morality. Pathetic
The Left always gets a free pass with political violence and violent threats. Remember Kathy Griffin's 2017 video of Trump's severed head? That's what passes for "comedy" on the Left, or maybe they view it as "intellectual analysis".
It is their sick fantasy they want,,,they would dance if they saw it ----just like the Arabs in brooklyn and Paterson on September 11th..This is the real world,,most of human history is war and death.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is a mental health epidemic in this country. As per Sam Harris and countless lefty intellectuals, lying to accomplish the goal of getting rid of Trump is a virtuous, acceptable strategy because the orange man is Hitler and is “a threat to our democracy”. Violence, the next rung up in the TDS ladder for the same rational is also spiritually/ethically /emotionally correct. The NY Times, CNN, msnbc, cbs etc all are enablers and participants in this ‘mass formation psychosis’. Government of Iran needs to win the war against Donald Trump to show how deranged he is, so they say. He has broken the collective minds of what I or any other reasonable thinking person several years ago would have said is impossible. His national presence has created a hive mind of disturbed individuals, a flock of erratic lemmings some with blue hair, nose rings, some very normal looking who went to Cal Tech who should be now payed attention to closely. They’re capable of anything.
They don't see this as violence,,they see War and know they are conducting it to overthrow the US and institute Marxist government,,socialist paradise,,warmth of collectivism,,power it taken by force...Republicans are standing in their way,,Americans are asleep. How long have they been saying,,,stolen land, bad to the bone,,birth of America a crime...They believe the declaration and constitution is bad because it was done by white christians ....We are starting to resemble the Jews from 1930s Berlin,,,asleep and in denial...If we preach peace and be nice they will stop and go away...NOT
This Cole Allen was an exceptionally bright person, having graduated from CalTech and worked at JPL. Yet, he was taken in by the corporate media leftist brainwashing techniques, which infected his mind to point where he justified committing murder, and he probably believes he’s right to do so. Something I call a “dumb smart person.”
Academia has been training left-wing activists and providing no moral guardrails. The survey provides the evidence.
This looks like the run up to the Spanish Civil War.
The path to wisdom is paved with reality.
good job batya!