Has any poster here who holds progressive-liberal or left-leaning political views come out and simply condemned the increasing use of violence to shut down speech, target people supporting politicians the left doesn't like, and prevent people from even hearing someone express their views?
After the riots at Berkley instead of a condemnation of this behaviour I saw a lot of excuses, conspiracy theories and anything but simple rejection of this behaviour. So it looks like people on the left are happy with an increasingly violent political environment in the US and in Western societies. We've seen the rise of subtle forms of violence in doxxing, blacklisting, deplatforming, attempting to have people fired for their politics, and so on, and now we're at street violence.
Where does this end?
Unless cooler heads prevail, we're moving to either (1) a violent response from the left's political opposition, with possibly street battles, rival gangs of political opponents targeting each other and the neutrals and moderates, and so on; or (2) some kind of 'leftist revolution' where their political opponents are forced from power, and any pretense at having a society where differing politics are allowed and even given a chance to flourish if people support them is quashed.
Neither alternative is palatable, and while leftists might think that (2) is quite OK, and all the 'conservative' people should shut up and get out of the way, history tells us this:
the Revolution eats it's own.
When a group of people have assumed power to overthrow the old order and build (by force if need be) a new society based on their new political philosophy, the group kills off some of it's own members, usually when someone even more extreme takes over. The French Revolution; the Russian revolution; the rise of Nazism; revolutions in Latin America are just some of the examples. If you're a leftist who is happy with the current way things are heading, you may be cheering on your own doom.
Do you really want a world where violence and force is the way people get their political beliefs enacted in society?
After the riots at Berkley instead of a condemnation of this behaviour I saw a lot of excuses, conspiracy theories and anything but simple rejection of this behaviour. So it looks like people on the left are happy with an increasingly violent political environment in the US and in Western societies. We've seen the rise of subtle forms of violence in doxxing, blacklisting, deplatforming, attempting to have people fired for their politics, and so on, and now we're at street violence.
Where does this end?
Unless cooler heads prevail, we're moving to either (1) a violent response from the left's political opposition, with possibly street battles, rival gangs of political opponents targeting each other and the neutrals and moderates, and so on; or (2) some kind of 'leftist revolution' where their political opponents are forced from power, and any pretense at having a society where differing politics are allowed and even given a chance to flourish if people support them is quashed.
Neither alternative is palatable, and while leftists might think that (2) is quite OK, and all the 'conservative' people should shut up and get out of the way, history tells us this:
the Revolution eats it's own.
When a group of people have assumed power to overthrow the old order and build (by force if need be) a new society based on their new political philosophy, the group kills off some of it's own members, usually when someone even more extreme takes over. The French Revolution; the Russian revolution; the rise of Nazism; revolutions in Latin America are just some of the examples. If you're a leftist who is happy with the current way things are heading, you may be cheering on your own doom.
Do you really want a world where violence and force is the way people get their political beliefs enacted in society?
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