Message to my peers on the Left:
We allow ourselves to fall down the rabbit hole, when we try to justify or even condone the violence and vandalism committed by some, back in May.
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We allow ourselves to fall down the rabbit hole, when we try to justify or even condone the violence and vandalism committed by some, back in May.
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We lose the moral high ground, when we start to justify the burning and looting – even the taunting of and the attempts to physically provoke those policemen who were not bullying or intimidating protesters.
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In addition, when we try to label “our” violence and destruction “righteous“, it is nearly as hopeless an intellectual gambit as is the attempt to prove to members of a different belief system that our religion is better than theirs.
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IMO, the crucial distinction between what occurred on January 6 and what occurred in May is the following:
January 6 was planned, was plotted, was telegraphed by an elected official and his henchmen. What occurred in May was not.
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January 6 was planned, was plotted, was telegraphed by an elected official and his henchmen. What occurred in May was not.
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Moreover, those who voted for Trump knew they were voting for a bully who is capable of inciting everything that happened on January 6 - if not more.
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Their November vote meant that they either supported or condoned his bullying. That only magnifies the horror of January 6, in my eyes.
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