Chaos in America

I listened to part of the podcast (10:33 an on some). Shocking!

The march on the capitol was also part of the theory of group think and mob mentality we have seen in various riots in cities across the USA and other countries, burning parts of cities and businesses that had no part in the original issues that were supposedly central to the protest.

Having supporters around a person, enforces what they stand for is powerful and motivates some people to continue to be disruptive. I even saw this happen with kids in the group home where I worked for a couple of years. One decent kid became disruptive when accompanied by another group-home resident. It was a pattern repeated many, many times. We even had a rule that when a resident went to some places he had to go alone.

Even the Mormons and Jehovah Witness go out in pairs to encourage each other.

Reading these reminders of what people are capable of doing holds no surprises for me. One need only remember the soviet gulags, the Chinese re-education camps to name just a couple. Here in the U.S. there are numerous examples of seemingly normal people doing despicable things daily. One that comes to mind is the Judge Rotenberg Educational center that was recently ordered to stop EST on its mentally and emotionally handicapped residents, a practice that had been in place for 49 years, in spite of being condemned by the UN and other organizations as torture.
Now we are seeing the calls coming forth from members of the liberal establishment and the MSM in the U.S. to ostracize and punish conservatives and those who voted for or supported Trump. Some liberal members of the government are calling for re-education centers for conservatives to deprogram them from their dangerous beliefs regarding what constitutes freedom or speech or thought. Some liberal MSM are asking that conservative media be de-platformed so that only progressive ideas can be allowed.
Is it really surprising that guns and ammo is being purchased like there is no tomorrow? We will see if Biden can keep the members of his party who foster these ideas under his control or if troops will increasingly become a fixture in the democrats political platform and to what extent "boots on the ground" will become an acceptable means of governing.

I'm not a publicly political guy, I tend to understand where most people are coming from except at the crazy fringes. I think the US has drawn a line in the sand concerning the First Amendment in the right place, the Brandenburg standard for incitement. I watched a documentary on Ira Glasser, long time Executive Director of the ACLU, and his take on the First Amendment was interesting. I'll paraphrase but he said that it took him a long time to be ok with the right to free speech because there's no getting around that one person's freedom of expression is another person's hate speech and that it's largely in the opinion of the listener. I'm fine with leaving that line where it is.

I live in Portland. We had 165 nights straight of leftist violence. At this point, I am not particularly affected by spicy air, because tear gas and OC vapors have been so common. Antifa are primarily rich kids. They show up and they don't go away because they don't need to work for a living. They don't understand things like insurance doesn't cover every loss, or that Lincoln was a civil rights leader, and I have no idea why they destroyed the beloved moose statue, but, all that aside, I have become desensitized to the street violence. I HAVE to be desensitized to it, because there's not anything I can do to change the Dunning Kruger mindset of the people around me, and it doesn't make any sense to be upset about things I cannot change.

This flipped on January 6. I was there. By the time I got to the Capitol, everything was in motion, so there wasn't much I could do but sit back and watch. The irony was not lost on me that the same people that supported the attack on the Supreme Court, the same people encouraging the burning, looting, assaulting, and murdering, were now under siege by people they likely expected to just eat their shit sandwich. Throughout the day, I helped one police officer that was dragged into the crowd to safety and tended to a woman that was trampled, and likely had a broken hip or femur. I was there until 6, when the grand finale of flashbangs and tear gas were actually debilitating, and the yellow vested Capitol Hill police backed up by Virginia CHPs took the steps.

All this is politicized. Officer Sicknick was not hit by a fire extinguisher. He died of medical complications rumored to be a stroke, but he was not in the group that the fire extinguisher was thrown at. The excessive use of force on both sides was appalling. I saw lumber scraps from the construction thrown at the cops. I saw indiscriminate use of rubber bullets. Ashli had no weapons, and the officer that shot her in the neck still has not been identified, nor will he be charged, which are just more evidence that Trump supporters are legally lower on the social justice scale than farm animals.

Anyhow, getting to the point, we are being forced by the complacency of the left to get used to this barbarism. BLM is run by a woman that successfully bombed the Capitol in 1983. Obama started his political career in the parler of two convicted terrorist bombers. This spiral into barbarism is just a logical societal step in leftist ideology, as I see it.

I don't know. One thing I will say is a lot of people don't even know they drink it.

Antifa claims to be opposed to fascism. Anti-fascism and anti-racism are koolaid terms. The belief is, they are opposed to something bad, and therefore anyone not following THEIR anti-fascist definition or anti-racist definition is therefore automatically fascist or racist. This is quite the Dunning Kruger problem.

In Seattle's CHOP, we had about 5000 participants over three weeks, and two murders. Do the math. Annualized, the CHOP murder rate was twenty times any American murder capital. All murder victims and surviving shooting victims were black, which is a statistical anomaly showing the leftist racism plain as day. CHOP was literally insurrection, taking part of America by force away from America. Facts fuck feelings.

CHOP=Seattle Capitol Hill Occupied Protest