09-03-2022, 05:06 AM
In practice the Hard Left provokes the Hard Right into brutal reaction that contributes to further polarization of political life. The Hard Left is thus no counterbalance to the Hard Right. Street fights are not political debate.
It is telling that the American Left was completely absent from the scene on January 6, 2021. It is just as well. It could have done nothing except to become victims and create confusion. All the disgusting stuff was by the fascistic Right (and don't fool yourself: the attempt to keep Donald Trump as President through unconstitutional means is fascistic).
It is telling that the American Left was completely absent from the scene on January 6, 2021. It is just as well. It could have done nothing except to become victims and create confusion. All the disgusting stuff was by the fascistic Right (and don't fool yourself: the attempt to keep Donald Trump as President through unconstitutional means is fascistic).
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.