The riots in Virginia: we're still investigating (or I hope they are) exactly what happened, and how. But in general, it looks like the Left took advantage of a protest by the White Race Extremists (to call them something besides Extreme "Right', since in the U.S. context, the extreme "Right" is Libertarians/Leave-Me-Alone types; Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, in other words, whereas Neo-Nazis are Fascists, a different monster altogether).
- It's just a propaganda move, and very old hat, at that:
- Stage a riot...
- Make it big news...
- Use it to pillory your political enemies...
- Drum up some very negative "narrative" on them (to use a modern word, "narrative" for propaganda).
- Actually, as this is all in Saul Alinsky, one just needs to read him for the details.
Meanwhile, sympathy for "white fringe" groups — or at least some of their arguments — is growing and NOT decreasing, mainly I suppose because in the manner of large numbers of people who have been lied to for decades, the average Joe and Jane Americans, especially in the Rust Belt states (many of them being very ethnic themselves, as in being Irish, Polish, and so on) simply are not "buying it", i.e., not believing what they're told to buy: the "narrative". (NO ONE buys that now except maybe the U.S.'s very, very badly educated university students and old-Left hangers on.) And let's not forget tens of millions of white Southerners who are not racists but who are disgusted at the removal of their history, a sort of "1984" kind of thing that removing all these statues represents. That angers a lot of people, indeed. People who are armed to the teeth, btw.
I actually know something about that because I worked for years in textbook editing, being a writer, editor, proofer, and so on for a number of companies, one of them huge. It was probably the most wicked work I ever did (and at various times I had to take jobs in sales, mind you). After reading one of our middle school-level textbooks' sections on the American Civil War, you'd think the South fought for slavery, yes, and only that, while the northern armies were made up entirely of freed Blacks and women (honestly, we reported on a number of women who dressed as men and volunteered). Space in a textbook is a premium, and remember that most of the pages were taken up with pictures and maps.
Also, Robert Mueller's investigation into "the Russian Connection" is falling apart; see:
https://www.thenation.com/article/a-new-report-raises-big-questions-about-last-years-dnc-hack/
(and everyone please note that that is The Nation reporting this!), and foreign events (the Norks just backed down from launching missiles at Guam, as of today, at least) along with good domestic economic news, is all threatening to make President Trump look good (horrors! /sarc :) so any ol' thing that the Left can blow up is something they'll try to do.
As for Charlottesville, no matter what Trump says, it'll never be enough: https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/08/14/what-do-the-media-really-want-from-trump/ precisely because these other things are making Trump look somewhat good, the Left is all the more desperate to make him look bad. They'll grasp at anything now to do that.
In other words, another day, and more of the same, more or less.
But what it represents — most importantly — is the slow corrosive acid that is breaking apart the social contract in the U.S. Martin Luther King (a Republican btw) was after getting American Blacks admitting fully into that contract; modern Black (and Left) radicals simply want to destroy it altogether. And unfortunately, the eight years of President Obama merely poured a eight-years worth of acid down into the cracks that were already there.
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