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2017-08-27 Home Front: Culture Wars

The real threat to our republic is the Orwellian Antifa

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[The Hill] Over the past few months, we have finally entered the fully realized historical revisionism promised in George Orwell’s "1984," in which the motto, "Who controls the present controls the past. Who controls the past controls the future," was central to shaping the book’s dystopian world. In the book, history was continually being rewritten and re-promulgated to meet the political necessities of the moment. There was no history to be remembered, let alone lessons to be learned.

For all the talk of Trumpian bluster or exaggeration, there is only one group that seeks to systematically and violently achieve its goals here in the United States on a broad scale: the so-called "anti-facist" movement, now commonly called "Antifa." And the goal? It’s not "anti-facist" or "anti-racist" as they attempt to portray themselves. It’s the systematic elimination of free speech, free assembly, and free thought via any means necessary, including violent protest, the media and Orwellian revisionism.

It is the imposition of a perverse type of intolerance based on Marxist and Chinese communist values that, it turns out, is far more welcome and pervasive within the Democrat Party of Sens. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) than neo-Nazis, the KKK and white supremacists are in the Republican Party. The gunman, James Hodgkinson, who shot Rep. Steve Scalise and four others in Alexandria was a habitual Antifa website visitor and advocate and Sanders volunteer. Even Democrat vice presidential candidate, Sen. Tim Kaine’s (D-Va.) son has been identified as an Antifa activist.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-27 07:28|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 The real threat to your republic is all powerful hereditary, bureaucracy.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-27 08:09|| 2017-08-27 08:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Nah, its those who enable and cover for them. They're just the pet pit bull for those funding and encouraging their brand of limousine communism.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-08-27 08:10|| 2017-08-27 08:10|| Front Page Top

#3 ban masks, bandanas, and facial concealment and these riots would cease

Posted by Frank G 2017-08-27 09:10|| 2017-08-27 09:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Masked rioters should be shot without warning.

Posted by Silentbrick 2017-08-27 09:32|| 2017-08-27 09:32|| Front Page Top

#5 It all goes back to critical theory.

I came across it during my doctoral studies and after researching it, determined it to be the wellspring of our current problems.

The teaching of critical theory is a paradigm in post graduate studies. It is the birthplace of ethnic and gender studies and the breeding ground of black lives matters, antifa, and others. No coincidence as so many of the 60's radicals went into academia when the Viet Nam war ending and they didn't have an excuse to demonstrate.

I suggest all of my fellow rantburgers do some research on critical theory. Sun Tzu did say "know your enemy"

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-08-27 11:07|| 2017-08-27 11:07|| Front Page Top

#6 I suggest all of my fellow rantburgers do some research on critical theory. Sun Tzu did say "know your enemy" Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom

One of the reasons you'll see a Salon, US News, or NYT article here from time to time.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-27 13:25|| 2017-08-27 13:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Comments #1 and #2 have it.

They'd be simple to deal with if they didn't have the backing of people who can take everything from you and throw you in prison(or shoot you with no fear of prosecution).

Posted by charger 2017-08-27 14:31|| 2017-08-27 14:31|| Front Page Top

#8 PS It figures the guy who wrote this blinkered analysis was a Dubya advisor.

Posted by charger 2017-08-27 14:33|| 2017-08-27 14:33|| Front Page Top

#9 re #3: Frank, as I understand it, Virginia law already makes wearing a mask at a demonstration a felony. In a sane world, the Virginia State Police would start by rounding up all the masked Antifa people.

Of course, we no longer live in a sane world. Gov. McAuliffe (spit) ordered the state police to stand down. And the mayor of Charlottsvile ordered the city police to stand down.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2017-08-27 15:16|| 2017-08-27 15:16|| Front Page Top

#10 trump fans should have freedom rallies in cities with conservative mayors and with harsh restrictions on violent protestors (hopefully with 8 year sentences). Antifa will no doubt manage to get themselves arrested and the problem will slowly resolve itself.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-08-27 19:00|| 2017-08-27 19:00|| Front Page Top

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