(08-16-2017, 05:24 PM)The Drifter Wrote: What's Next? Book Burnings?, Throwing political opponants in the gulag? Re-education Camps? Where does it end?

What we're seeing today is nothing more than "1984" coming to fruition, albeit a few decades later than he had predicted.

First it's the Confederate and founding father's monuments.  Then it moves on to whatever offends them next.  Heck, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were written by old white guys who owned slaves, so let's just go ahead and toss that on the ash heap of time and start from scratch with a progressive doctrine of group think.  If you don't agree with the group, you will require reeducation or termination in the event you're simply not open to being indoctrinated.  

Once they've finished in erasing our history from view, and rewriting it in a manner that they deem to be acceptable, they'll move on to the next target, which is clearly religion.  We can't have people worshiping some entity that isn't approved by the group think mentality, so either surrender your beliefs and embrace their viewpoint, or it's off to the camps with you.  The group will tell you who/what your god is, and how you will be permitted to worship.

It's funny because progressives always tell us how they're more inclusive and accepting of others, and how they're the big tent political viewpoint, but the reality is, their identity politics is the reason why they've lost so much electorally over the past decade.  They've forced their views on all of us whether we agree or not by executive order and judicial rulings, bypassing the normal method of adopting laws.  When someone disagrees with their viewpoint, rather than debate the merits of their position, they focus on destroying the opposition by using whatever means necessary, and that does occasionally include violence.  For the most part, up until very recently, the right hasn't really responded to their antagonism equally.  You haven't seen conservatives burning down communities, trashing college campuses, or looting the streets of cities because an election didn't go their way, or because they don't agree with what our leaders are doing.  Conservatives don't want to tear down monuments they find offensive.  Even the most radical right wing groups aren't out there tearing down statues of Martin Luther King Jr. or other prominent civil rights figures despite the fact that apparently, neo-nationalists would clearly be offended by any tribute to someone with a skin tone other than their own, right?

Liberals are the "tolerant" left...as long as you agree with everything they believe.  If you don't, they will burn everything down you represent, they will attack you in the most public and personal ways, and they will work tirelessly to end your existence if you won't bend.  While that sounds extreme, all you need to do is look at incidents like the bakery in Missouri I believe that was cherry picked by a media outlet because the owners were conservative Christians.  When the daughter of the owner was asked if their bakery would bake a cake for a gay wedding, she very politely said that they would not, but that they would refer the couple to someone who would.  That was nothing more than a dog whistle being blown by the left to unleash the hounds, and they went about trying to not only destroy the livelihood of this family, but they went after them personally.  That story has been told over and over again around this country any time progressives are offended.  Ann Coulter is scheduled to give a speech at Cal Berkeley, so the progressive students are given free reign to trash the campus and attack supporters of her speaking there.  Campus police stood down at the behest of the university president, and nobody was arrested for the widespread vandalism and physical assaults that were witnessed by the campus police.

The tolerant left.

It seems to me that with this latest press to remove monuments and symbols, we've actually seen this mindset before.  When the Taliban took over in Afghanistan, they systematically destroyed religious artifacts dating back thousands of years to erase the history.  ISIS did the same thing throughout the Middle East, destroying churches and other places of worship, trashing graves, and basically trying to remove any reference to the history of countries like Iraq.

Antifa is nothing more than the American Taliban, and with the anarchist movement, you can include BLM, Occupy, and any other of the dozens of progressive activist groups that are only too happy to use violence to achieve their end goal.  The funny thing is that these leftist groups are nothing more than a bunch of meat puppets, and they have no idea that they're being used like useful idiots by the people who really want to see a complete collapse of this nation.  They're all funded in some way, shape or form, by George Soros and his globalist group.  Not a conspiracy theory.  Follow the money.  It's well documented.  These groups may start out with one intention, but they're quickly taken over by operatives who are being paid to push a specific agenda, and they know that they're dealing with people who will pretty much follow whatever they're told because, after decades of being trained like cattle in government indoctrination centers, their herd is incapable of thinking for themselves.  They have been fully indoctrinated into the group think that festers throughout the progressive world, and they're like Pavlov's dogs when the bell is run, doing whatever their masters want them to do.

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