The Frightening Violence of the Left

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   Readmikenowposted 2 days ago

   During the last few months the violence of the left has been put on full display.  A health care executive is executed outside his hotel, Tela's are firebombed, IVF clinics are torched, Governor Shapiro's house in Pennsylvania is set on fire.
   
   The common thread in all of these incidents is they were all committed by the left.
   
   Two Israelies are murdered in cold blood outside a museum in New York and the murder is a leftist from Chicago.
   
   Watch Jessie Waters show the scary truth of the left.
   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p98whinjLUw
   
   In Florida, a woman is charged for attacking a 72-year-man because he was wearing a MAGA hat.
   
   https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-woma … g-maga-hat
   
   I worry the left is so unhinged, so detached from reality, their violence behavior will only get worse.

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      Willowarborposted 2 days agoin reply to this

      And because a handful of magas did this, you are ALL violent and hateful? Please advise ..
      
      
      Should we recount the numerous examples of right-wing violence in recent history?

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         Readmikenowposted 2 days agoin reply to this

         Nothing, I repeat nothing, you could post would even come close to the deaths, billions in destruction caused by the George Floyd riots.  The left owns this. 
         
         Should I mention all of the "free palestine" violence on college campuses?
         
         What I posted was the violence of the left in just this past year, I didn't even list all of it.

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            Sharlee01posted 2 days agoin reply to this

            You're right—and it’s important to say it plainly: nothing in recent memory compares to the scale of destruction, loss of life, and chaos brought by the George Floyd riots. Billions in damages, communities burned, lives lost, and to this day, many still won’t acknowledge the full cost. The left owns that.
            
            And yes, the “Free Palestine” violence erupting on college campuses deserves far more attention. We've seen intimidation, destruction of property, and even professors justifying hateful behavior under the guise of activism. It’s gotten out of control.
            
            What you listed is just a slice of the violence from the past year, and that alone is staggering. The fact that it’s being minimized or outright ignored by so many only proves your point: too many people are fine with political violence, as long as it comes from their side. That’s a dangerous mindset, and it needs to be called out loudly.

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            Willowarborposted 2 days agoin reply to this

            I think that the idea of "the left" being a homogeneous group is quite ridiculous.    If you insist on believing so, then all Maga supports and is represented by the most violent of the j6 miscreants.  Can't have it both ways.

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   Sharlee01posted 2 days ago

   Mike,  I agree with your concerns, and I’ve been struck by the same pattern—acts of violence increasingly brushed aside or even rationalized if they’re seen as serving a certain narrative. What’s deeply troubling is the shift from protesting against injustice to excusing injustice as long as it fits the "right" cause. That’s a dangerous place to be, morally and socially.
   
   When two Israelis are murdered in cold blood outside a museum, and barely anyone mentions it, when silence replaces outrage simply because the victims don’t fit the preferred narrative, it tells you something about where we are. Violence is being filtered through a political lens, and that’s unacceptable.
   
   The political left once stood for civil liberties and peaceful protest. Now, far too often, some seem to believe that violence is a legitimate tool if they feel their side is morally justified. That’s not progressivism; that’s fanaticism.
   
   If the roles were reversed, we all know the national reaction would be different. And that double standard is part of what’s fueling so much division today.

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      Readmikenowposted 2 days agoin reply to this

      Shar,
      
      I'm always amazed at the things the left can rationalize.
      
      There have been many, many stories of people being attacked for wearing a MAGA hat.  An act of free speech the left doesn't like so they feel justified in violence because of it.
      
      I know people who have had the left leaning members of their families not come to their house to visit because they were a supporter of President Donald Trump.
      
      I know writers who have had editors end writing relationships because a writer supported President Donald Trump. 
      
      I know a person who had her attorney of 15 years end their relationship because my friend voted for President Donald Trump.
      
      It is so disturbed.
      
      Now the left justifies anti-semitism and vehemently support illegal aliens as well as men in women's sports no matter how badly it hurts them politically.
      
      "Among the American public overall, the Democratic Party’s favorability rating stands at just 29% – a record low in CNN’s polling dating back to 1992 and a drop of 20 points since January 2021"
      
      What is disturbing is such information doesn't phase them and they continue to double down on political positions that are unpopular with the American public.
      
      It is a bizarre thing to watch.

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         Sharlee01posted 2 days agoin reply to this

         You’re absolutely right,  it’s disturbing on so many levels. My own 8-year-old grandson was verbally assaulted by a grown woman at Kroger's just for wearing a Trump hat he was so proud to receive. She hurled vile names at him,  an innocent child, while his mom quietly got him out of there, heartbroken. No child should be subjected to that kind of hate simply for expressing joy in something they believe in. And yet, to some on the left, it seems that kind of reaction is now not only justified but encouraged.
         
         What we’re seeing is more than political disagreement; it’s a twisted moral lens where good is vilified and destructive ideas are glorified. There’s a psychological rigidity on the far left that turns politics into identity and disagreement into a moral offense. That’s how you get people cutting off friends, disowning family, and attacking strangers in grocery stores, all in the name of “tolerance” and “justice.”
         
         It’s a deeply bizarre shift. When basic decency is tossed out because someone supports the “wrong” candidate, we’ve moved from political discourse into ideological fanaticism. And somehow, the cruelty gets brushed off, even applauded, by people who think they’re on the side of virtue.
         
         It’s past time we call this behavior what it is: toxic, irrational, and completely out of touch with the values they claim to stand for.

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            Readmikenowposted 31 hours agoin reply to this

            Shar,
            
            I don't like saying this but the left is busy promoting antisemitism and a hatred of Jews on a level we've not seen for over 80 years.  They refuse to protect Jewish students on college campuses.
            
            I scratch my head and wonder how this could be happening.
            
            The democrat leadership even promotes antisemitism.  It is actually kind of frightening.
            
            What has happened to the democrat party?  I just don't recognize it anymore.
            
            Here is an interesting article that makes the point.
            
            "Democrats’ fight against hate crimes vanishes in the face of antisemitism
            
            or the past few decades, Democrats have consistently demanded a strong response to the rising number of hate crimes motivated by race, ethnicity, ancestry or sexual orientation. Among other things, they have insisted on universal condemnation of the crimes and vigorous enforcement of federal laws that criminalize hate crimes.
            
            Spurred by the brutal hate murders of James Byrd Jr., and Matthew Shepard in the late 1990s, the Department of Justice has prosecuted hundreds of these cases in recent administrations, including 70 convictions by the Biden Department of Justice as last September. As chief counsel to the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee years ago, I was involved in the push for stronger enforcement. It was a central part of the Democrats’ civil rights agenda.
            
            But now the Democratic Party has an antisemitism problem on its left flank, and its tune has changed a bit. Leftist professional organizers have mobilized student groups and mobs elsewhere to attack, harass and obstruct the free movement of Jews — all of which are crimes.   
            
            Many openly support Hamas and the October 7 civilian massacre, calling for the destruction of Israel and for the repatriation of Jews to places like Poland. One student leader at Columbia asserted that “Zionists don’t deserve to live” in a livestream video. (University officials took no disciplinary action until the video was widely publicized.)   
            
            Of course, the spike of over 8,873 antisemitic incidents of assault, harassment and vandalism in 2023 — a 140 percent increase from the previous year — was somewhat predictable. 
            
            Numerous progressive groups like the Democratic Socialists of America (which counts among its supporters Democrats in Congress) and local chapters of Black Lives Matter celebrated Hamas’s genocidal attack as an act of liberation. A progressive Columbia professor called the attack “awesome”; one at Cornell was “exhilarated”; a Stanford instructor segregated Jewish students in an apparent slander of Israelis for being imagined “colonizers.” Democrats have largely looked the other way and declined to namecheck any of these bigotries. 
            
            What would Democrats say if paid organizers incited mobs to attack Black students, impede their movement and publicly demand their repatriation to Africa? What would they say if college professors and their curricula slurred the ancestral heritage of Hispanics? They would rightly be outraged and would insist on maximum legal consequences against the perpetrators. 
            
            In the case of Israel and the Jews, the left’s concern about racism seems less urgent and more qualified. Few if any Democrats have insisted on federal criminal prosecutions for the more than 1,500 reported antisemitic incidents on college campuses since the Oct. 7 attack, though hate crime laws specifically identify violence, intimidation and harassment on school campuses – including impeding free movement, as has repeatedly happened to Jewish students — as a federal crime.   
            
            Democrats seem to have lost the plot here. Fighting bigotry when it benefits only your favored voter groups is not fighting bigotry; it’s a cynical and opportunistic appropriation of a cause for narrow political gain that deprives you of any moral authority on the subject.  
            
            https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-right … isemitism/

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               Credence2posted 28 hours agoin reply to this

               Well, Mike, just how dumb do Conservative/Rightwinger types believe that everybody is?
               
               1. Democrats have been accused of Anti-Semitism throughout much of the conflict between Palestinians vs the Israeli government. Yet in spite of this, the majority of the Jewish population here would not touch the GOP with a ten foot pole. They are not going to be easily deceived. It is more about pro-Palestinian rights rather than anti-Semitism. I wrote a college term paper 50 years ago highlighting Americans cultural bias in favor of Israel found in textbooks, print media, etc. All at a time when it seemed clear to me even then that the Israeli government was not negotiating with the Palestinians in good faith. I, with other marginalized groups in America, will take the side of the Indians over the Cowboys, most often.
               
               2. The Hamas attack was both dastardly and savage, but it was fortuitous for both Netanyahu and Trump. It allowed Netanyahu an excuse to end the “Palestinian question” permanently and scatter the Palestinians to the 4 winds. It allowed Trump who could care less about anything outside of Anti-Trump, to use the attack as a pro-Israel gesture to attract the Christian Right, who sees Israel and its existence as some sort of biblical command of sorts. After all, according to Trump in 2017, the anti-semites in Virginia were “good people”. This is a constituency that is as loathsome as Trump is, but is a powerful voting block of support.
               
               This is just what it has always been, trump and the promotion of his agenda with no holds barred and no level of decency observed. It’s simple, Trump feigns being concerned about anti-Semitism when its so called perpetrators are assumed to be from the left, but if they come from the Right, they are good people….
               
               He is using this nonsense as a general attack against liberals and what the pin headed Right see as their advocates. Thus, his ridiculous campaign to hallow out major universities and places of learning, not too hard to connect the dots, now is it?

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                  Readmikenowposted 16 hours agoin reply to this

                  Good opinion piece with no proof to confirm any accusation.
                  
                  The left has put blinders on and refuse to accept the violent, antisemitic group it has become.  They've taken over liberal college campuses and intimidate Jewish students.
                  
                  We are lucky to have President Donald Trump who is actually working on doing something about it.
                  
                  As far as I'm concerned this is a very realistic message for ALL democrats.
                  
                  "Democrats seem to have lost the plot here. Fighting bigotry when it benefits only your favored voter groups is not fighting bigotry; it’s a cynical and opportunistic appropriation of a cause for narrow political gain that deprives you of any moral authority on the subject."

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                     Credence2posted 11 hours agoin reply to this

                     As far as I'm concerned this is a very realistic message for ALL democrats.
                     
                     "Democrats seem to have lost the plot here. Fighting bigotry when it benefits only your favored voter groups is not fighting bigotry; it’s a cynical and opportunistic appropriation of a cause for narrow political gain that deprives you of any moral authority on the subject."
                     
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                     I think that this message could apply to Republicans equally if not more so. What you say Democrats are becoming the Republicans always have been.
                     
                     My opinion of course, and you have yours with no more credibility than you give mine.

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               Sharlee01posted 26 hours agoin reply to this

               You're absolutely right, and sadly, you're not alone in feeling this way. Many of us are alarmed by what we’re seeing. Antisemitism isn’t just being ignored by the left; in many cases, it’s being tolerated, rationalized, or even encouraged under the banner of “social justice” or “decolonization.” The Democratic Party that once prided itself on civil rights and fighting hate seems to have abandoned those values when it comes to Jewish Americans and Israel.
               
               We’ve watched in disbelief as Jewish students have been harassed, locked in libraries, doxed, threatened, and physically attacked on college campuses. Incredibly, university administrators, many of them aligned with progressive ideologies, have remained mostly silent, hesitant to apply the same zero-tolerance policies they would enforce immediately if this behavior targeted any other minority group. It’s as if Jews are the only group for whom protections are negotiable.
               
               The numbers speak volumes. The ADL documented over 8,800 antisemitic incidents in 2023, a 140% increase, and yet we’re not seeing the national outrage or coordinated federal crackdown that typically follows hate-based violence. If these attacks were targeting another group, the Justice Department would be on high alert. But instead, much of the left chooses to excuse or minimize the hatred, especially when it’s cloaked in anti-Zionist rhetoric.
               
               Let’s be honest: antisemitism has become acceptable in certain progressive circles, especially when it's repackaged as anti-Israel activism. But there's no moral high ground in cheering on terrorism or calling for the annihilation of an entire people. We saw members of Congress, elected Democrats, refuse to condemn Hamas after the Oct. 7 massacre, and in some cases, try to both-sides the slaughter of civilians. That’s not nuance. That’s cowardice.
               
               Let’s be honest: antisemitism has become acceptable in certain progressive circles, especially when it's repackaged as anti-Israel activism. But there's no moral high ground in cheering on terrorism or calling for the annihilation of an entire people. We saw members of Congress, elected Democrats, refuse to condemn Hamas after the Oct. 7 massacre, and in some cases, try to both-sides the slaughter of civilians. That’s not nuance. That’s cowardice. And worse, some within the Democratic Party don’t just tolerate these radical ideologies, they actively support them and feed the fire right from our Congress. Whether through inflammatory rhetoric, refusal to denounce hate, or aligning with groups that openly praise acts of terror, these officials have become part of the problem. They’re not merely silent, they’re complicit.
               
               Fighting hate isn’t a partisan issue, or at least, it shouldn’t be. But if Democrats only stand up against bigotry when it suits their narrative or voter base, then they’ve lost the moral clarity needed to lead this country. And they’ve lost people like us who once believed they actually meant what they preached.

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