Posted on 10/30/2018 5:03:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
In a word, “no”.
well, much of the extreme left loves to use violence and intimidation... to scare the rest of us
... to force their way into power
... to keep power
any study of the National Socialist party in the 1930’s bears this out
also many communist dictatorships have been pushed into power this way
Not even close.
I truly enjoy Pat Buchanan‘s take on things. I was but a boy, only 10 years old in 1968. But I remember the events that occurred that year. We were living in Washington DC, at least in the suburbs, in 68. I still remember why we had to be afraid of going into DC.
I still remember my older brother coming home and announcing “They shot Martin Luther King! They shot Martin Luther King!”
And now? Despite the organized chaos and violence brought to us by leftists, Democrats, and the media I find that life in the US is better than it was 50 years ago.
I remember RFK shot.
I disagree in a sense. That was a pretty good list for 1968, but we are in different times now. So much of what happened in 1968 was in great part due to opposition to the Vietnam War.
What we have here is total opposition to the election of Trump and the ensuing rise of violence against Republicans, Conservatives and anyone else the Left hates.
Make no mistake the Left and the MSM are colluding to push the meme of Hate and Violence.
What we are seeing right now is the beginning, the election cycle of 2020 is where we will see all the Leftist elements in full force and there will be violence, a lot of it.
I fully believe that if the Left and the Democrats lose next Tuesday, as I think they will, the extreme elements will see violence as the only alternative to opposing Trump, Republicans, Conservatives, Independents, and anyone else that doesn’t support the Progressive Agenda.
The next two years may be as terrible and messy as anything we have seen since 1968, a throw back to the unstable times as observed in Western Europe in the 1960’s a 70’s.
We will all have to vigilant.
“I knew 1968; and 2018, you are no 1968.”
I was in my late 20s,30s during the sixties——and remember everything.
It all turned me into a conservative.
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What we have here is total opposition to the election of Trump and the ensuing rise of violence against Republicans, Conservatives and anyone else the Left hates.
For that very reason, it's a smaller group.
In 1968 students were up in arms about the possibility that they'd be sent to Vietnam.
You don't get that many people getting upset about more purely political questions.
Yes, I know that not all college students were radicalized back then, but still, those who were were, proportionately, a larger part of the population than today's leftists.
The next two years may be as terrible and messy as anything we have seen since 1968, a throw back to the unstable times as observed in Western Europe in the 1960’s a 70’s.
It could be like America back then, but not Europe. What you see on the left now is mostly negative - they hate Trump. In that regard, it's like American leftists hated Johnson or Nixon. European radicals in the '70s and '80s thought that they were going to remake the world through violent action. Left-wing radicals were more of a problem there than they were here. While you do hear more about socialism now than in the recent past, I don't think you have that kind of strong faith in it that there once was.
We are going to have to wait and see how this goes. The real problem as I see it is the MSM, if they are really going to go full tilt boogie and promote violence as a credible reason to oppose Trump, Republicans, and Conservatives.
The real Hate is coming from the Left and the MSM. If I had to blame someone for the Jewish killings I would have to start with them. They have pushed a 90% Negative atmosphere on Trump since his election as if we are in the last days of the Weimar Republic.
While I was driving home from work today, I had a rather sad, but unfortunately true line of thought.
Given the utter hatred out there concerning ideology, political belief, and the like, the opportunities for violence seems to be escalating to levels I’ve never seen before. One of these days, someone’s bound to have it up to ‘here’ with someone else’s views on whatever, and they’re gonna act out. I dare say, someone’s going to get killed.
Piss off the wrong person....
Worse in the sense that the republic has shifted much further to the left in the last 50 years. As for the level of current disruption...compared to then...NO.
MAGA
The murders,threats, and other criminal activities in '68, were against the police, armed guards, and just regular folks. So was about 99% of the IN YOUR FACE attacks on people.
Yes, MLK was murdered, as was RFK.
OTOH...today, GOP office holders, those in this administration, the president and ALL of his family members, and even someone just put up to be a Justice have been harassed, confronted, smeared,condemned, sent Ricin through the mails, hounded 24/7 in every kind of media, and worse.
It's difficult to say just WHICH year is "worse"; though '18 isn't over yet.
One thing to keep in mind, AMERICA WAS STILL AMERICA in '68, as that was the year that the damned STINKING COMMIES began their slow destruction of this nation's traditions, culture, manners, morals, education system, and the accepted meaning of many simple English words.
The radicals of 1968 are now the establishment and they know better than to allow the type of dissent they participated in 50 years ago. They learned their lesson well and are fascists that will kill those that partake in that type of protest and lawlessness all those decades ago.
I can see why this was a question. In 1968, many institutions that were held in reverence failed. Government forcing youths to fight a war with no existential threats, political and racial assassinations, loss of religion.
Today, we are seeing many institutions held in high regard fail. Examples: FBI, news media, NFL, ESPN, Facebook, medicine corrupted by pharmaceutical influence, pedaphile priests, biased scientists, Supreme Court justice vetting, fake Nobel prizes, ineffective UN, mass shootings twice per month.
Luckily we’re not as violent as 1968.
“You don’t need a weatherman to know which wsy the wind is blowing” Bob Dylan
bump
You obviously STILL don’t understand the Nam War; sadly, nor what ‘68 was REALLY about.
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