How is this going to fit in with that ‘BOTH sides need to dial it back’ narrative?
Why did he kill the Republicans?
The problem isn’t the rhetoric… exactly. The gunman CHOSE to kill Republicans. He alone is responsible for that choice.
But this level of sustained hate is not something we have seen recently in America.
What is driving it?
In any part of the world, there is a step that has to happen BETWEEN being civilized and being violent.
The ‘enemy’ (whoever it may be) must be de-humanized.
They aren’t merely a person who disagrees with you. Not someone who holds ideas that must be opposed. They are — personally — an enemy to be hated.
The obvious example is Hitler, blaming the Jews for Germany’s problems, and feeding hatred toward them.
Lenin stirred hatred of the ruling class. And led a bloody revolution.
France stirred hatred of the Church and the Aristocracy … and we saw the Reign Of Terror.
Islam stirred hatred of ‘infidels’ who can — among other things — be lawfully captured and sold as slaves.
Liberal intersectional politics fails without a villain.
It’s the white person. Or the man. Or the heterosexual. Or the Christian. Or the
Constitutionalist. Or the Republican.
These things coalesce into a very specific hatred. The kind that turns a HUGE percentage of ordinary Americans into the Devil personified.
READ: http://clashdaily.com/2017/06/dear-cnn-heres-10-quotes-libs-calling-violence-conservatives-news/
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