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We saw the same thing during the Kavanaugh protests. The protestors were able to gain access to several locations in Federal buildings that they weren't suppose
by adventured 6y ago
We saw the same thing during the Kavanaugh protests. The protestors were able to gain access to several locations in Federal buildings that they weren't supposed to be in. Nothing was changed to improve security, rather stupidly. During both Kavanaugh and the BLM / Antifa protests members of Congress were repeatedly threatened with death and or general physical violence (eg Rand Paul, a pacifist, being surrounded by a hyper violent mob and having to be shielded by half a dozen police officers as the mob tried to attack him and his family), little appears to have been modified to adjust for the atmosphere of increasing partisan violence that is enfulging the US. It's obvious what that's going to inevitably result in unless some appropriate security steps are taken. The partisan violence will get dramatically worse this decade as the sides split further apart. Some people foolishly think Biden is the end of it; Trump was only a symptom of what's happening, which is the beginning of a cultural civil war (the two major political sides in the US have absolutely nothing in common now), and increasingly intense acts of violence will go along with that.
- 8note 6y agoTrue pacisfism isn't not congruent with his capitalist leanings. Rand Paul is someone who's very ok with the police beating up and killing black people, so it makes sense that they'd be yelling at him
- dhruvdh 6y agoI would say that both sides do have common ground, where common ground is lacking is mostly between politicians and the lower/middle class.
- wolverine876 6y agoCan you cite bases for these claims and characterizations? Nobody has stormed the Capitol and violently disrupted Congress since the war of 1812, as I understand it. Certainly I've never seen anything like it. I don't agree that the protests described are remotely the same, nor with the characterization of the summer protests as "BLM/Antifa". I saw plenty of massive BLM protests, zero Antifa except occasionally on TV. It's like calling Redmond WA the town of Microsoft / Joe's Diner. The idea that it's both sides and civil war is coming is certainly a claim of the militant right wing that seeks violence. Nobody else says it that I know of.