Here's the thing.
Big rallies draw lots of kinds of people.
Mostly peaceful, but passionate voices.
They also bring out crazies.
The more passionate the rally the more likely the crazies will falsely believe they are empowered to act out the chants and slogans all around them.
Big rallies draw lots of kinds of people.
Mostly peaceful, but passionate voices.
They also bring out crazies.
The more passionate the rally the more likely the crazies will falsely believe they are empowered to act out the chants and slogans all around them.
The Capitol Riot had a contingency of well-known instigators, fantasy revolutionaries and very real actually dangerous people deluded into believing they were there to save the country, oh, and lots of white supremacists and Nazi LARPers and so on.
We shouldn't shut down all political activism and rallying.
But we must have better security and better organized rallies.
We have to be aware of the people who show up and pay attention to rising passions.
Our leaders must balance passion with measured reason.
But we must have better security and better organized rallies.
We have to be aware of the people who show up and pay attention to rising passions.
Our leaders must balance passion with measured reason.
It doesn't matter what the left does.
We have to better handle this. Otherwise any time any group of conservatives or libertarians or Republicans will be labeled a potential terrorist event.
Our government has the power to target and intervene on terrorism plotting.
We have to better handle this. Otherwise any time any group of conservatives or libertarians or Republicans will be labeled a potential terrorist event.
Our government has the power to target and intervene on terrorism plotting.
It should be obvious by now that the media will eagerly exploit any rally this way.
It doesn't matter if 99 out of 100 people are standing with their hands up as Rick Santorum reads the Federalist Papers out loud. 1 guy yeehawing around with a gun will bring the National Guard.
It doesn't matter if 99 out of 100 people are standing with their hands up as Rick Santorum reads the Federalist Papers out loud. 1 guy yeehawing around with a gun will bring the National Guard.
We can't live in fear.
But we just have to be smarter.
Strategic.
Overly cautious.
And we have to stop the stubborn notion we are going to be reliving 1776 against an oppressive Democratic government.
Be reasonable.
That's all we have.
But we just have to be smarter.
Strategic.
Overly cautious.
And we have to stop the stubborn notion we are going to be reliving 1776 against an oppressive Democratic government.
Be reasonable.
That's all we have.
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