The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(01-15-2020, 10:56 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(01-15-2020, 10:29 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(01-15-2020, 09:58 AM)David Horn Wrote: As far as I know, there are no warmongers itching for blood and soil on my side of this tiff.  Antifa is a pale antithesis of the white power types, and I actually see them around.  And no one on my side is trotting around carry assault rifles everywhere.  Can you say the same for your side?

There were some militants off on a tangent of the Black Lives Matter front that were shooting cops for a time.  You can't entirely forget that.  (You can't forget the racist cops going around shooting blacks either.)  In general, you are correct though.

Note: I edited my response wile you were responding, so they are bit out of kilter.  I do agree that there are always fringe actors who take things way too far, and the leftist fringe is no exception.  The real risk is establishing false equivalency (i.e. bad actors on both sides).  Sometimes, you have to keep score.

But is the equivalency false if there really are fringe bad actors on both sides?

But the main line actors are far more forgiven if they renounce the own side’s bad actors. Conservatives can renounce their racists. Progressives can renounce legislation from the bench, attempts to change culture by force when they do not have the supermajority votes to amend the constitution. (There really is a legal right to own and carry weapons.) That is the sort of thing that would have to be done to bring the two factions together, to allow them to live in the same reality, to share a common set of values.