Dems Silent As Violence Against Republicans Escalates

[Chris]

You have to speak up against violence or it will escalate.

Dems Silent As Violence Against Republicans Escalates

What will it take before virulent Trump-haters admit that their increasingly violent rhetoric is putting lives in danger? Attacks on Republicans over the past few days show that the time for the left's reckoning is drawing near.

In case you haven't heard — which would not be surprising, given the general media blackout on such events — attacks on Republicans are increasing and increasingly dangerous.

In just the past few days:

A California resident attacked California GOP congressional candidate Rudy Peters with a switchblade. Witnesses said the assailant was spewing profanity-laced remarks about Trump and the Republican Party.

A Republican Party office in Laramie, Wyoming caught fire — in what officials suspect was arson — just days after it opened.

A deranged driver repeatedly rammed his truck into a local Fox News affiliate in Dallas, Texas.

Also this week, a leftist threatened to commit mass slaughter at a "Make America Great" event at Trump's hotel in DC. "I am coming with a gun and i expect to get numerous bloodstained MAGA hats as trophies," the unnamed Twitter account holder tweeted.

Breitbart started collecting examples of attacks on Republicans and Trump supporters in recent months. Their list is now over 550. In the past couple days, someone spat at a Hispanic immigrant woman wearing a Trump hat. A black man got kicked out of a bar for the same offense.

Then there are the repeated calls — either explicit or implicit — to attack Republicans coming from prominent journalists, politicians and celebrities.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough...

Also this week, Broadway celebrity Carole Cook...

The reaction to all this from the liberal press and from peace-loving Democrats? Silence at best, cheers at worst.

This is striking, and strikingly hypocritical. ...

[Common]

Theyve been violent since trump won the primary, even our liberals on this forum avoid admitting the left is violent and try to put that on the right.

[Chris]

Theyve been violent since trump won the primary, even our liberals on this forum avoid admitting the left is violent and try to put that on the right.

It's like many things they put on the right, falsely so, racism and Nazism two others, though they lump them together.

[littlejohn]

Hi,
A couple of thoughts on this;

I don't know whether the street attackers are Democrats. For the sake and intent of the thread though -- will proceed as if they are. It wont substantially alter the content.
I'm not sure it is correct to describe democrats as "peace loving." Democratic Party and its Presidents have shown they are "opportunistically so" but will pop a cap in your ass as fast as any Republican Party President -- thus the street attackers are not out of line in the "hypocritical" sense.

For now, political change requires violence, or a believable threat thereof. Cultural change requires either violence or violation. In every realistic strategy, pawns with strong feelings are needed to create the collateral for propaganda. If they don't exist they are easily created. This is all very normal. Nothing personal.

[Chris]

Hi,
A couple of thoughts on this;

I don't know whether the street attackers are Democrats. For the sake and intent of the thread though -- will proceed as if they are. It wont substantially alter the content.
I'm not sure it is correct to describe democrats as "peace loving." Democratic Party and its Presidents have shown they are "opportunistically so" but will pop a cap in your ass as fast as any Republican Party President -- thus the street attackers are not out of line in the "hypocritical" sense.

For now, political change requires violence, or a believable threat thereof. Cultural change requires either violence or violation. In every realistic strategy, pawns with strong feelings are needed to create the collateral for propaganda. If they don't exist they are easily created. This is all very normal. Nothing personal.

Of course they're not the peace lovers they pretend to be.

Violence will only create a government with greater monopoly on violence.

[MMC]

And yet the Right still holds back and shows tolerance.

[Captdon]

The left has little ability to change our society without violence. The American people don't like them. They are depending on historical apathy to win back one house of Congress.

In 2020 they are going to continue their downward spiral. They need something besides their ides because their ideas are un- American. The violence is to be distracting the voters.

The Democrats seem to be operating in a vacuum. They think they can do whatever they want with impunity. They actually believe they can fool the deplorables.

[Tahuyaman]

You have to speak up against violence or it will escalate.

Dems Silent As Violence Against Republicans Escalates

Democrats are encouraging this activity.

[Beevee]

It's amusing watching deplorables argue among themselves on how much culpability is owed to Democrats, while at the same time ignoring that the White House floor is sinking into the swamp Trump claimed he would drain.

[Tahuyaman]

It's amusing watching deplorables argue among themselves on how much culpability is owed to Democrats, while at the same time ignoring that the White House floor is sinking into the swamp Trump claimed he would drain.

No one is arguing about it. The swamp so to speak has taken over through generations. It can’t be purged essentially overnight.