The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(06-18-2020, 01:37 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(06-17-2020, 11:27 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(06-17-2020, 11:14 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Unlike what classic Xer says, two sherriff and federal officers were murdered in northern CA by a member of the far right boogaloo movement which wants to start a civil war.

Nitpick:  The Boogaloo Boys believe revolution is the only way to renew an establishment out of hand.  In this they are following the path of Stalin and Mao, which most consider discredited.  The Republicans are the establishment out of hand.  I'm not sure both deserve the same label, or if so it is a weird label.  I also think Classic can't tell the Black Lives matter from the Boogaloo Boys, or pretends not to be able to tell.  He has been arguing for racist violence, while both the protesters and the Boogaloo Boys are against it in very different ways.

Add to that, the RW media are incenting their viewers/listeners/readers to defend their homes and families from Antifa.  There is a large and coordinated effort to trigger a race war, but why is the question.  Who gains from this?

The media gets a bogus way to hype up their followers and sell media? As far as I know the Antifa is against fascists. They show up primarily to counter KKK and Neo Nazi demonstrations, and both of those are laying low these days. I imagine somewhere in the mass of protestors are a few Antifa members, but why bother to advertise? They would be pushing another complementary theme. But this doesn't stop right wing media from misrepresenting the views of a group on the perceived opposite side. The righties get to feel good about their right to bear arms and defend themselves from tourists and other imaginary threats?

But racists are also about feeling superior to somebody. Proving themselves superior to tourists is as good a way of being superior as any? Support your right to be a bully?