Gustav Bjornstrand wrote:For this reason my contention stands: I say that we are witnessing activism on the part of the Left-Progressive class which is beginning to border the sort of activity that they condemn. They condemn 'fascists' while they use the precise methods of those they condemn.
"Border on"?
Short of burning actual people at the stake, they've done everything they claim to deplore. They've burned books, suppressed dissent, denied the right to free speech, persecuted a homosexual for his political opinions, wrecked and stolen personal property...
This isn't "anarchic" or even sensibly "leftist," as either of those things would suggest some kind of intelligent philosophical awareness: it's the petulant behaviour of spoiled fools. The "Black Bloc" seems to have no other membership requirement or ideological commitments than that a person show up in a black outfit, with face concealed so as to prevent arrest for the crimes they hope to perpetrate. They are then to be allowed to do whatever they wish, without getting hurt or arrested for it.
And the media will cluck and spin the story to, "See what Trump made us do now?"
It is not a marginalized group that is 'protesting' but rather it is the System itself (systematized policy) that is resisting different strains of idea which it is frightened by or which it hates.
No, you're right: they're far from marginalized. They're disproportionately middle-class white males, apparently. Even the female leftists associated with them are overwhelmingly white, middle-class and privileged. (Think of Ashley Judd rallying "the troops" while wearing a pearl necklace: how funny is that?) And I think you're overcomplicating them a bit; they're hardly representatives of a "system,"...unless maybe we include the mental-health and daycare systems.
Notice that absolutely NONE of this took place when Obama was elected for two consecutive terms. So say what we will about the American Right, they don't seem to be petulant losers. I don't know why, but for whatever reason, they seemed not to see a need for burning cars and smashing windows, or for ranting about their body-parts in Washington and threatening to blow up the White House.
What is going on now pretty much tells us as much as we need to know about the intellectual, moral and maturity level of the American Left.