10-06-2016, 11:29 AM
(10-06-2016, 10:24 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(10-06-2016, 09:06 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: Considering Clinton's totalitarian tendencies, the idea that the western left is less fond of totalitarianism than the western right seems absurd.
You are engaging in a vile stereotype. It is true the Western Leftists are Statists. But what they are not are Statists who want the state to be completely lawless and brutal, operating completely beyond any sort of Constitutional norms.
It's the left that wants to strip the second amendment of any meaning by reversing Heller and McDonald. It's the left that wants to strip corporate newspapers of first amendment protection by reversing Citizen's United. The right cares much more about constitutional protections for citizens than the left does.
Quote: In general, Western leftists are not oriented toward violence and many are unarmed. Meanwhile, the Revolutionary Right, are not only heavily armed but are also prone to application of such arms toward violent means. Does all of this escape you?
"Violence" and "totalitarianism" are not the same things. Right wing militias are armed for protection against the state, not in order to enforce state power.
But even with respect to violence, let's not forget that it's the left wing that's actually got snipers assassinating people, as in Dallas.