The Partisan Divide on Issues

[David Horn]

(01-12-2021, 07:36 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(01-12-2021, 04:27 PM)David Horn Wrote: Actually, I wasn't, but none of the protests got as testy as this one ... not by a long shot!  More to the point, none of the others tried to overthrow an election. Most were just noisy.  None got a handwave like this one either.  Capitol Police were intentionally undermanned, an issue that will be investigated I'm certain.

What do you mean by they weren't as testy? The siege of the Federal Court in Portland and the ICE building/facility in Seattle were more testy and drug on for months as others were protesting and establishing autonomous zones and others were clashing with more extreme Right Wing groups. Dude, it would take more than a thousand people who were mainly unarmed to over throw an election that 160,000,000 people participated in. All a group that size could do is disrupt and make a mockery of a bunch of worthless politicians like it did. You want to know what I think, I think the reputation of the American right which is much better than that of the Left was exploited by a group of ruffians who surprised an unexpected group of lighter security last week. Now, they'll never say it or admit one group is viewed as better and less of a risk than the other but I bet that's what happened last week.

There was a lot of violence in both Portland and Seattle, but no one gave it a handwave.  People were arrested and prosecutions will proceed.  In some cases, agents provocateur were involved, some being Proud Boys or Boogaloo Bois.  Follow the local press for details if you're interested.  But the Capitol insurrection is at a whole different level, because it was an attempt to disrupt the government of the nation -- an act clearly defined as sedition.  That POTUS was an active participant is how we got where we are right now.  Trump has finally gotten Republicans angry enough to throw him under the bus.