Liberal America has a political violence problem chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/c…
There have been no right-wing groups storming campuses and flinging feces at speakers we don’t like; no tea party mobs destroying property, assaulting police officers, paralyzing major cities;
... and no GOP senators calling colleagues murderers just weeks after a political assassination attempt.
From Portland to New Haven to Washington, the violence we’re witnessing is largely a product of the hard left, and the reaction from mainstream liberals — mostly silence, dismissiveness, equivocation — means it will continue to flourish.
To move toward a less violent and hyper-charged society, we must be clearheaded about violence where we see it, and not avoid the subject. We must condemn it without conditions.
If you think Republicans are murderers, you’re an extremist. If you’re trading in that kind of rhetoric just to shut the other side up or raise a buck, you’re giving cover to extremists.
And if you object to political violence but fail to speak out, your weakness is causing our society to fracture.
It’s time for liberal America to speak out against violence and the rhetoric that incites it.
It’s time for liberal America to speak out against violence and the rhetoric that incites it.
