Tom Paine 1949
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It seems like the Trump fanatics have long been screaming “Civil War!” ... and now increasingly predict it whether Trumps wins or loses.
Notice the liberals and “progressives“ here at USMB and most everywhere almost always seek to tamper down the hysteria. We are neither armed to the teeth nor are we supporting anarchistic street violence, looting or vigilantism. The subliminal but obvious thirsting for bloodshed — all this comes from the extreme right, people who support this President, who himself thrives on spreading fear and wants more violence on the streets because he believes it will help him win.
The average rightwing male Trump fanatic is of course not yet actually physically provoking violence, but he does talk it up. There are, however, plenty of criminal elements, and young would-be cops / actual vigilante types, even Turner Diaries type extremists who want a race war that African Americans would lose. These types are now showing up at angry BLM demonstrations to provoke fights, and some even infiltrate troubled areas to start fires and initiate looting, shooting guns, and provokIng cops.
There are of course — as always — basically nihilistic white and black criminal elements that look to take advantage of chaos in the streets. They can hide in any movement. This is nothing new. But today in the U.S. we see something new and rather more ominous: open and popular support for vigilantism, and a lusting for bloodshed among an aggrieved “law and order silent majority” of politically motivated Trump supporters.
All this should be rather obvious to otherwise sane and sober people reading these USMB threads ... but apparently it is not.
Notice the liberals and “progressives“ here at USMB and most everywhere almost always seek to tamper down the hysteria. We are neither armed to the teeth nor are we supporting anarchistic street violence, looting or vigilantism. The subliminal but obvious thirsting for bloodshed — all this comes from the extreme right, people who support this President, who himself thrives on spreading fear and wants more violence on the streets because he believes it will help him win.
The average rightwing male Trump fanatic is of course not yet actually physically provoking violence, but he does talk it up. There are, however, plenty of criminal elements, and young would-be cops / actual vigilante types, even Turner Diaries type extremists who want a race war that African Americans would lose. These types are now showing up at angry BLM demonstrations to provoke fights, and some even infiltrate troubled areas to start fires and initiate looting, shooting guns, and provokIng cops.
There are of course — as always — basically nihilistic white and black criminal elements that look to take advantage of chaos in the streets. They can hide in any movement. This is nothing new. But today in the U.S. we see something new and rather more ominous: open and popular support for vigilantism, and a lusting for bloodshed among an aggrieved “law and order silent majority” of politically motivated Trump supporters.
All this should be rather obvious to otherwise sane and sober people reading these USMB threads ... but apparently it is not.