The thing I find most shocking (well, actually I don't) is how Liberals like Tibs are so intentionally or unintentionally blind. One only needed to pass a basic parenting course to realize this cause and effect and how actions lead to reactions.
If a child whines and cries for something and gets it, the child will continue to whine and cry to get her way.
If a child swings at another kid, likelihood is the other kid will swing back.
When a child stoops in his behavior, those around him are likely to stoop in theirs.
I like to believe much of this began with Harry Reid. Harry was the first to truly try to weaponize a rule in Congress to "get his enemies." Then it was exacerbated when Obama used arrogance in his White House, making claims like "Elections have consequences" as a taunt to his political opponents.
What did they expect was going to happen as a result? They stooped. They lowered the bar. They changed the rules to fight dirty. Did they expect Republicans wouldn't do the same?
Sure enough, when the time and opportunity came, Republicans used the nuclear option Harry Reid began. Republicans stooped to their level.
Now fast forward to the past 4 years. Never-ending stooping and lowering the bar. Attacks on the President non-stop. The way Kavanaugh was treated in his confirmation hearings. Last year, the never-ending riots that the Left whole-heartedly refused to condemn and in fact supported. They excused the violence. While calling Trump gatherings super-spreader events, maligning them, they called BLM marches, protests, riots "necessary" and minimized the COVID risks. You can find countless, never-ending examples of the bar being lowered in the past 4 years, of stooping.
The question is, are Democrats stupid, or is this by design? I think the latter but that is my opinion. Regardless, no one can or should be surprised that Conservatives are now protesting. We've been told and shown that's the way to effect change. And after seeing a year of condoned violence, who can say they didn't see this coming? The media said for a year it was acceptable. It was only when the polls were getting closer that Dems finally said "violence is inexcusable (half-heartedly).
We all knew this was going to happen. We can all see why it is now happening on both sides.
The issue is the selective outrage that Tibs and his leaders all show right now...."My violence is justified, yours is not."
The right side of history? I laugh. What you're saying is "join my violent movement, yours is the wrong violent movement."
Yep.
I know quite a few people who are Lefties. Not all are as far Left as Tibs, Flog and IQ21, Ditzburgh and the like. Most are just left of center - which, from my experience - shows they are compassionate about human life and want the best for everyone, even if it means that they give up a little bit. I can see the idea behind it.
You have plenty. You could easily give up some to help others who are not as fortunate.
While this is true, it also diminishes the value of a person who has either worked for or inherited an amount (regardless of that amount). It also places more of a value on the person who has not risen above the hardships they faced in their lives.
That's not to say that those on the right are not compassionate. Not at all. I know just as many people who'd give what they can to someone in need on the right as I do on the left.
I have no issue with those people.
The jackasses of the Left (see the above, bolded) will paint anyone to the right of their beliefs to equate with those to the far reaches of the Right. Both sides have extremes. When this grouping or profiling occurs, those on the Right will respond in kind. Thus, all of the Left is now full-bore Commie (such as those above, bolded).
It should also be considered that those who are full on Left are also the same who support all 5,367+ genders and feel that all races *except white, asian and especially not orange* have a harder life than other races (white, asian and especially orange). In order to set the life scale equal, the white race must give monetary awards to the groups deemed to have a harder life. Yet while they themselves do not personally contribute their hard-earned income to some fictious fund, they want the government to do so. The only way the government can do this is by racial discrimination, taxing non-white, asian and orange.
Thus, these people are calling for governmental segregation.
It should also be considered that those who are full-on Left are also the same who support all 5,367+ genders and feel that all races *except white, asian and especially not orange* can also be found as being either beta males or butch fem-nazis who hate all aspects of the male gender (but embraces the 5,366 others). These people also want to legislate against anything they deem as "patriarchy", finding as such in common, every day words such as "awoman", "womyn" and the like.
These are the people that are 100% unreasonable. See the above, bolded.
As said above, I know plenty of people on both sides of the political spectrum. It does help keep me grounded. I do not believe that all things on the right are right, nor are all things on the left evil. However, I do believe Leftism is evil, as peculiar as that is.
Yet, what I see in MY circle of friends, idiots and an ogre, is that people who lean more conservative just want to be left the **** alone. they don't want their taxes raised - to give money to the 5,366 genders that have somehow just sprung forth, nor do they want the government infringing in their every day lives. they also value life itself. While this is not to say that the left does NOT value life, the left is the side that is called "baby killers" since they sponsor abortion.
it should also be considered that the left hypocritically called American soldiers returning from Vietnam "baby killers" yet somehow want to align themselves with veterans and champion their cause. Their hypocrisy knows no limits. Nor does it know shame.
On that topic, I'm against abortion in certain aspects. Most aspects. I see a baby, a zygote, what have you as human life. That one life might be the person who figures out sustainable energy, how to save the planet from "climate change", how to get the great barrier reef to regrow, etc and so forth.
in conclusion, i do believe that there is intelligence on both sides of the aisle. I also see the raging hypocrisy in a leftie calling a Trump supporter a mindless jackass while they're hanging on every word uttered by Nancy Pelosi as she chews her dentures.