I've been giving this some thought, over the past few days. Antifa and the left came first, and sparked a counter movement, the alt right. Both groups embrace identity politics and a collective ideology, separated only by color. The alt right is organizing, and will become an even stronger presence even as the left attempt to erase history by pulling down statues and other historical monuments.
Have we gone mad? We argue precisely because we do NOT want to physically fight. There is no middle ground. Shutting down speech only entrenches warped ideologies better left to die in the bright light of debate. We're doing it wrong, when we believe punching a Nazi is better than speaking to a political opponent.
This can only end badly for all of us. I bleed for America. My home. My resting place. My sanctuary. We must stand up against violence, whenever it rears it's misshapen head. Call it out. Speak against it.
We must use our words, because if we don't. Words become swords. They always have, and always will.
J.
Maybe a few hundred people to a few thousand people in each state have gone mad. The media covers it and makes it look like it is millions across the country.
Soros funds a lot of what Antifa does, the same people show up at different states and do the same crap.
I don't see the alt-right really going anywhere or Antifa being anything big.
Some states have anti face mask laws and make you take them off if you are protesting anything. They did that to antifa and they didn't start anything because everyone can dox them since it is all on vid.
We just need some better laws to make us all safer. When people all go out in hoods of the KKK or black face masks, they feel like they can get away with stuff. Take away their anonymity and they won't do anything for the most part. That is how I see it at least!
I take your point, the alt right exists directly in response to the far left. They are conjoined evil twins with little to separate them. My big thing is the way free speech is being demonized. If someone says welfare is ultimately destructive, the immediate response is to use shaming language against the speaker. Words like: Racist, Bigot and Misogynist are routinely used to derail debate; the speaker is left to defend their personality which diverts attention away from the argument.
If men say divorce and the court system is malignantly stacked against them, no one listens. We have an epidemic of middle aged white male suicide and drug use. Why isn't anyone listening? Because men's issues are marginalized in the media and ignored in the courts. The education of men is so far gone as to leave them indoctrinated into thinking they are all potential rapists but for lack of opportunity. That they are all flawed women, ultimately disposable in the bright female future.
This sort of thing unravels civilization my friend. We already see the white population being bred out of existence. Don't believe me? Google demographic winter. See for yourself. I see wagons circling. The races polarized more than ever. I see economic stagnation, underpinned by civilization wide promotion of useless degrees and an orgy of student debt that may never be repaid. I see a looming recession that will shatter the expectations of a generation of mis-educated and under employable youth sharpening their barista abilities and living in one bedroom apartments, unwilling and unable to continue the species.
All of this, driven by toxic ideologies. Communism. Fascism. Third wave feminism. MGTOW. Will we drown ourselves or will we rise as a species? Only one way to find out. We have to talk about it. Openly. Honestly. Or we will set fire to the foundations of modern life, burning away centuries of progress, civility and culture searching for Pyrrhic victory where we all loose.
My two cents.
I agree with almost all of your points here, but I am not so sure it just an unraveling, I would contend it has been intentionally engineered. You might like my recent post and the appendix of articles that are very relevant to your discussion here.
I'll take a read. Thanks for linking me up. If not unravelling, then deliberate and cynical. The future holds much suffering friend. We can't avoid the next recession. We won't escape economic reality even though we desperately want to. It's a storm, barreling towards us and we're messing around on Twitter.
I'll keep prepping, tho. No matter what they say...
J.