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trailmonkee

(2,681 posts) Wed Jun 14, 2017, 11:47 AM Jun 2017

I have a, not so good, feeling about this one...

angry people get the even angrier when their own tools of hate are used against them. This will be seen as an attack on the right by the left - nothing can be helped there.

a good example.... if you can imagine a scene where there is a standoff of heavily armed police and a group throwing stones and hurling insults... and suddenly someone starts shooting from the crowd of stone throwers...

what happened today might be seen as first shots fired, at least by the uberhaters and the heavily armed.

i personally will be careful to not fight hate with hate... avoiding the haters might be a good move at this time.

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I have a, not so good, feeling about this one... (Original Post) trailmonkee Jun 2017 OP

The GOP are already blaming the Democrats. Lint Head Jun 2017 #1

Maybe hurple Jun 2017 #2

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)

1. The GOP are already blaming the Democrats.

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Wed Jun 14, 2017, 11:52 AM

Jun 2017

hurple

(1,306 posts)

2. Maybe

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Wed Jun 14, 2017, 12:00 PM

Jun 2017

They should look at their own rhetoric... When you dehumanize a group to the extent that they feel endangered, they WILL fight back, whether the actual threat-level is real or imagined.

And the right-wing hate machine has spent 40 years doing everything in their power to de-humanize the left among their true-believers.

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