Laura Ingraham Praises ICE Agent Who Threw Democratic Candidate To The Ground At Protest
Laura Ingraham Praises ICE Agent Who Threw Democratic Candidate To The Ground At Protest

Laura Ingraham Praises ICE Agent Who Threw Democratic Candidate To The Ground At Protest

Why is it ok for rightwing figures to openly call for violence?.
Until the rest of society stops making an exception for rightwing people we are fucked.
For one, adults act like kids are too stupid to experience nihilism about the permission we give ONLY to certain people to openly call for violence at the highest level and then panic when said kids turn "mysteriously" to simplistic hateful ideologies that are less dishonest about the reality of societal collapse happening around them.
We're entering all-out cultural war. The divide between left and right is irreparable and inconsolable, thanks to Mr. "No more wars"
The right is angry that the left doesn't feel sympathy for their favorite dead Nazi and will use every tool they can to shut it down, but will then turn around and praise actual political violence against anyone left of Goebbels. The left dreams of existing as a developed, functioning society but has to put up with a violent narcissistic ex in the same apartment who blames them every time they punch another hole in the wall ("look what your trans friend made me do!"). Centrists think the abuser and the victim just "have to talk it out" and will turn a blind eye to continued abuse. There's no coming back from this divide, we're so fucked as a species
This is rather generous to Democrats and does not give them enough credit for how much they have failed America in all of this.
The same people are still in charge and will fail us again if they get a chance which apparently they will. Unwilling and unable to be popular enough. Their reason for being lies and crushing any popular reformers that spring up.
Not like an abused wife at all. Like a couple of dirty cops playing a good cop bad cop routine.
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
With fascists, the only standard is a double standard.
Because they’re insincere.
Society isn't; they are. Society (read: people) is just too feckless to do anything about it.
I think this moment is typified specifically by societies collapsing from their political centers becoming too divorced from reality, policy and rationality to identify the difference between a peaceful leftwing movement on one hand desperately ringing the alarm bells and on the other hand open calls for political violence and terrorism by the rightwing.
If the center continues to blindly follow fascism because it is more palpable to them than actually taking care of people there isn't really anything leftists can do but hope there is a limit that exists to all of this.
The crux of the problem is centrists lazily allowing rightwing movements to be openly violent because it is easier than addressing how existential of a problem this is for a peaceful society. Centrists consider it divisive to address the violence of the rightwing, and this cowardice will undoubtedly destroy us.
Another way of stating this is that the center of societies have allowed the social contract to be shattered by the rightwing while instead focusing on tone-policing the left in its rhetoric trying to warn about it.
Centrists would rather keep normalizing catastrophe as part of life than try to avoid it or mitigate it with bold, visionary moves. Most centrists I have met seem disgusted in some subconscious way by leftwing ideas at a superficial level, even if you can get them to admit a leftwing idea is valid or promising they will fundamentally always recoil from the concept of actually implementing leftwing ideas, at a basic level this is just not something many centrists can stomach it seems.
The reason? The realm of political possibility has been defined by the rich to fundamentally exclude leftism, thus there is a necessary imaginative resistance to applying our vision to denied horizons that is utterly invisible to the centers of most societies I am speaking about here. Centrists don't seem to question the fact that they themselves have acquiesced to a full 360 degree horizon of only rightwing futures no matter what direction we head.
As a rule it feels like centrists see practical policy that has been thoroughly combed over by experts as naive, wishwashy and handwaving when leftists do it. However when rightwing fascists spout violent nonsense they literally just came up with that second, well we outa here em out right? We should at least try it to be fair right?