How Not to Be a Political Radical

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1. Those who use violence to try and bring about social change are political radicals. BLM, Antifa, the Alt-Right, and what I will term Radical Trumpsters see violence as a valid means to achieve their particular ends. It doesn’t matter what their ends are because even they don’t see them as valid enough, or their arguments for them as strong enough, to stand up in the marketplace of ideas. Instead of convincing people they have to rely on coercing people. Instead of the democratic process they desire tyrannical control. Therefore, instead of freedom they deserve prison.
2. Those who excuse rioters from their side are political radicals. No, they weren’t mostly peaceful protesters. No, we didn’t have a summer of love. No, that wasn’t an elaborate Antifa scheme. The radical left did horrible things and were defended by a lot of people. Now the radical right has also done a horrible thing and they should not be defended at all. Thankfully, very few people are. The good thing about always condemning riots, no matter who’s engaged in them, is that one avoids being a hypocrite.
3. Those who use horrible situations to increase their power are political radicals. Corperations are using this opportunity to increase their censorship power.

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Maybe they have a right to that power, maybe they don’t. Either way, the way they are using it, to appease the radical left who have been calling for this all along, is irresponsible, at best.

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The radical left sees their political opponents and the people who voted for them as Nazis who need to be silenced and reeducated through the guiding hand of big government and their subsidiary big tech. But here’s a general rule to follow: if you wouldn’t like your opponents to decide you are evil and to silence you, don’t try to silence your opponents because you think they are evil. Then again, political radicals don’t believe they should have opponents in the first place, and that, fundamentally, is what makes them so dangerous.