It is rather telling how some of the responses to your spot-on, if brief, history of this complex issue are creating a platform of their own imagination as they start to write, then spend another several paragraphs supporting that imaginary platform.
Saying that “Alt-left” and “anti-fa” and BLM have been violently protesting for a year or so before the Nazis came crawling out of the sewer is like saying a woman protested before she was being raped, after she was raped. Saying that those groups created violence before the supremacists and Alt-right monsters even appeared is deeply ignorant.
BLM, anti-fa, the so-called “alt-left” protest because of blatant oppression that has been in place for decades. (See beatings of minorities by cops, beatings and killings of gays and trans people, the persisting racism of industry, etc., etc.)
This “president,” by hooking onto the latent anger of a segment of our population that has been simmering in the rural fly-over for generations, while they watched their whiteness and privilege fade into the progressive agenda of freedoms and rights for ALL Americans, particularly being led by a black president, has incited and inflamed their ignorant, hateful, racist, ill-informed, backwards and very dark ideology and given them some sick kind of “permission” to crawl out of mommie’s basement, stop at Home Depot for a patio torch, load up their stockpile of deadly arms, some even breaking out the white pointy hats and sheets, and run into the streets and use the freedom of speech our forefathers thought deeply about before securing it for ALL Americans, to torment and hate and persecute entire segments of our population with vitriol and intended violence.
No, the left protesters did NOT invent violence, you ninnies. You sound like a fifth-grader who broke his brother’s nose, telling his mother, “But HE started it!”
When Infowars and Breitbart and Alex Jones and FOX “news” and even the idiot in the White House support an agenda of exclusion, removal of equal rights under the law, reduction in social services for the poor, seclusion from an evolving global economy, the removal from our military of 15,000 brave soldiers who lay their very lives down to serve this great country, the peaceful and growing progressive population will stand up and resist the tyranny and authoritarian ideology being foisted upon America in the name of profit and ego — that damned, childish ego of his — and fight back against the audacity of hate groups and Nazis and supremacists and oppressors.
You’re damned right we’re angry.
