Because unlike you, we believe there IS a connection between what the leaders and major propagandists on each side are saying, and what their followers do.
I don’t know what Bernie Sanders wants, nor do I know what Donald Trump wants. I’m not a fucking mind-reader. All I can go by is what they publicly say and do.
When Trump and Fox and numerous GOP politicians say that Dems and the news media aren’t merely wrong, but are the enemy, there’s no equivalent in what Bernie Sanders or any other major Dem leader has said. You can always nutpick and find someone on the Internet who’s said just about anything, but by and large, people on the left don’t demonize those on the right - unless ‘describing things they’ve actually done’ is ‘demonizing.’
But the thing is, people kill enemies.
And when Trump and Fox and numerous GOP politicians spread the message that the refugee convoy (still nearly a thousand miles from our border) is composed of gangs and Middle Eastern terrorists that are preparing to invade our country, and that Democrats and the Jewish financier George Soros are behind the whole thing, that creates a fictitious but dangerous world view, one where it makes sense to send bombs to Soros and Dem politicians (already defined as the enemy) and kill the Jews who are behind this assault on our country.
There’s no even remote equivalent to that on the left.
And that is why
And that was before last week, so now the grisly total is up to 49 of each.
And going the other way, you’ve got one lefty injuring Steve Scalise.
If this is merely a human problem and not a political problem, how the hell did it get so lopsided?
This conversation feels like the one at the beginning of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, where Guildenstern gets increasingly agitated as the streak of coin flips coming up ‘heads’ extends into the seventies and eighties, and Rosencrantz says, “Getting a bit of a bore, isn’t it?”