guest wrote: ↑Mon Jun 24, 2024 11:38 am
How many are there here in the US? 70,000,000? 7,000,000? 70,000? And how would you come up with that number? CNN and MSNBC are not good sources since they're dishonest in much of their reporting on things that actually matter.
Are there any/many left wing fanatics who are willing to commit political violence? Are there as many of them as right wing fanatics willing to do the same?
The religious fanatics trying to use the government to enforce doctrine are a sizable minority. I am confident they are a minority as those supporting choice are winning elections and have since Roe was overturned. The conservatives have lost the women’s vote. The bigots in response to the election of the first black president combined with the religious fanatics to elect Trump. They may have had some help from the elites. The Republican financial strategy is tax cuts for the rich and deficit spend. If you put off your problems until future generations, you can buy a few terms. The combination got them enough votes to elect Trump, who was until recently ahead in the polls. That is a big number.
But few are looking for violence since the insurrection. That number would be ridiculously small right now. You would have to compare a near zero number to the government law enforcement people. On the left, only Antifa was into violence, and they existed to protect non violent protesters from people like the KKK, Neo nazi, Proud Boys and other racist groups. As those are in jail or essentially inactive at the moment, so is Antifa. How hard is it to protect BLM peaceful protests when the BLM protests have stopped?
But the law enforcement people are still there.
So the important number is whether Biden or Trump comes out ahead. As an S&H fan, I can see that as a referendum on crisis. Are there enough people wanting the old ways to continue resisting change, or is it time tp accept change and go for a high? Do people want the violence of the Trump years? Do they want aggressive religion, bigotry and tax breaks for the rich? That question is being polled by any number of organizations. It won’t be firmly decided until November.
Can the main stream media be trusted? It would be a lot better than trusting Fox. Murdoch before settling the defamation lawsuit admitted his position was to tell the audience what they wanted to hear. That way lies audience share, which amounts to money. That seems to be the ethic of most conservative media, lying for dollars. Destroying the country for profit. I wouldn’t put that past some of the MSM, but they do it a lot less.