Thank-you; I was not thinking of lone-wolf violence when writing that; my mind's eye was on militias (def: *organization* for committing violent acts) and mass-actions like protests.
Of course, I also forgot antifa, but I'm unaware of any actual hospitalizations from them, much less murders. I don't think they've ever been more-armed than…
Thank-you; I was not thinking of lone-wolf violence when writing that; my mind's eye was on militias (def: *organization* for committing violent acts) and mass-actions like protests.
Of course, I also forgot antifa, but I'm unaware of any actual hospitalizations from them, much less murders. I don't think they've ever been more-armed than sticks? Or planned actions beyond showing up at other demonstrations.
You mercifully didn't open the can of worms as to whether all Islamic terror is left-wing by a right-wing definition: it's against imperialism. The American political left-wing was basically forced to sign off on the Iraq War so that they could disassociate themselves from terrorists. They were called "soft-on-communism" for decades, and knew they had to get way out ahead of the accusations of "soft-on-terror", "terrorist sympathizers", etc. Obama didn't close Guantanamo, it might have cost him ObamaCare.
For what it's worth, I think we can say that the current state of the far-right militia movement — that is, actual paramilitary groups with proper command structures — is probably less than it was in the 90s. Now we've got a lot of militia cosplaying.
And yeah, like I wrote, we also need to realize there's more than single axis. Yes there's left/right extremism, but also religious/environmental/animal welfare/etc extremism (which may or may not be left/right)
Thank-you; I was not thinking of lone-wolf violence when writing that; my mind's eye was on militias (def: *organization* for committing violent acts) and mass-actions like protests.
Of course, I also forgot antifa, but I'm unaware of any actual hospitalizations from them, much less murders. I don't think they've ever been more-armed than sticks? Or planned actions beyond showing up at other demonstrations.
You mercifully didn't open the can of worms as to whether all Islamic terror is left-wing by a right-wing definition: it's against imperialism. The American political left-wing was basically forced to sign off on the Iraq War so that they could disassociate themselves from terrorists. They were called "soft-on-communism" for decades, and knew they had to get way out ahead of the accusations of "soft-on-terror", "terrorist sympathizers", etc. Obama didn't close Guantanamo, it might have cost him ObamaCare.
For what it's worth, I think we can say that the current state of the far-right militia movement — that is, actual paramilitary groups with proper command structures — is probably less than it was in the 90s. Now we've got a lot of militia cosplaying.
And yeah, like I wrote, we also need to realize there's more than single axis. Yes there's left/right extremism, but also religious/environmental/animal welfare/etc extremism (which may or may not be left/right)