The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(09-04-2020, 04:22 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Are the law enforcement people they're fighting with KKK and Neo Nazi's? Personally, I think they're trying to take over a city and prove at point to whoever cares or pays by wearing down a local police force that's restricted from brandishing and using their guns. Whoever they are, whatever their motivation be it good or bad, they're making the entire Democratic party look powerless and bad in front of Americans who don't live in a bubble. Hint...You can't with die hard Democratic - Progressive voters alone.

That’s exactly why I don’t think they are acting with Antifa motivation.  Apparently, some of the anti fascist people have decided that some Trump supporters are as fascist as the KKK and Neo Nazi, and have began responding to violence with violence.  I just think if you are going to use the self defense defense, you would be better off sticking around for the police to get there.  This guy seemed unsure of his actions enough to flee.  

The red rural militias that have recently started attacking the Black Lives Matter people believe black lives do not matter, and wish racist policy to continue.  Some on the blue side will meet violence with violence if they have to.  I am dubious about non lethal stuff like fireworks or paint ball guns which are attempts to escalate.  I believe both factions have a right to use weapons to protect themselves, their family, their neighbors, to defend their community and enforce the law.  That’s how the founding fathers intended things to work.  But when you are brandishing weapons to make a political point or leaving your home areas to instigate things with others on their home ground, you have crossed a line.  If in such cases if you draw a weapon you had best clearly not be the instigator.  There are certainly those ready to respond to violence with violence, to lethal weapons with a more lethal weapon.

Those you refer to as Americans are within a bubble.  The progressive time ended with the Southern Strategy.  There were more people with racists motives wanting to hurt the workers than there were workers living on the poverty line.  Not sure that is true anymore.  Old values disappear.  We’ll see.