This is not good. What’s worse is none of the larger parties is willing to control their extremes who think more ideologically and are incapable of dialing down without the needed negative feedback loop from their donors and larger party figure heads pushing back.
one set of political extremes has 3x the budget of the us marines and is a paramilitary that operates above the law. the other political extreme are some skinny vegan teenagers in black clothes. no no both sides.
I think you vastly underestimate what "skinny vegan teenagers in black clothes" are capable of to an almost comically ignorant level. Not only is it a complete misrepresentation of the average "antifa-er" it also mischaracterizes them (perhaps deliberately) as an incapable force.
You would probably benefit from reading about the link between prominent activists in these circles, and for example, the sandanistas and other violent socialist/communist groups. Or the link to the USSR via the DDR where antifa as we know it came to be. The black bloc is a clear and present danger to the citizenry in the same respect as the paramilitary you refer to.
Not sure how it is in the US, but antifascist groups in Europe, including the term "Antifa" are far older. The origins go back into the 1920s to Marxist and Communist groups that were fighting the then-fledging fascist movements in Italy and Weimar Germany. (Also heavily influenced by the Spanish Civil War)
Later in the 70s, left-wing groups who saw themselves as part of the civil-rights movement adopted the name to fight against neo-nazis and old nazis that were still in power after the war (often with plenty of help by conservative circles in Europe and the US). Many of those groups saw themselves as Marxists and some where sympathizing with the Soviet Union, or might even have received support from there. But the "idea" was their own - or, if anything - came from the US, through the civil rights movement.
I don't know much about the modern Antifa groups in the US, but I imagine they, in turn, got "inspired" by the groups from the 70s.
Well the extremes are quickly becoming the norm on both sides. Fuentes is making the rounds, just recently on Tucker's podcast. The talking points on the right are increasingly becoming that the left needs to be absolutely crushed. Mayors/governors arrested, etc. The idea that Trump is being nowhere near extreme enough is very much being discussed openly. Pundits are all decrying the immanence of civil war. If you go deep right you find communities are VERY actively prepping and gathering like-minded individuals together.
The left meanwhile is busy attempting to cover up massive fraud under their watch (Minnesota,) voting in self-proclaimed socialists or those who vow allegiance to other countries entirely and shutting down any conversation that does not maintain their simulacrum. If you go deep left you find communities are gleefully celebrating the murder of their opponents and are also actively buying arms (often for the first time in their lives.)
Meanwhile the middle is getting slammed by layoffs.
Not only the right. Remember there were two or three actual attempts on the candidate for the presidency and one of their influencers was shot dead. Plus you have outburst from Maxine, ol’ Joe miss Occasionally Cortez and others calling for people to take to the streets and to take up violence… sorry but it’s both doing this. Calling anlmost any conservative who isn’t a Neocon a neo nazi doesn’t help quell things either.
I don't even know what you are talking about so no. And also if it's happening why do I even need to make the equivalence, I'm sure you're right. It's happening, that's the point I was trying to make. The extremes are now the norm and in the open. Both sides are equally to blame.
Nick Fuentes is extreme. Democratic socialism is not extreme, no matter how hard conservatives might try to paint it that way. There is no equivalence here, and "both sides" are not equally to blame.
And other than Mamdani -- a middle of the road democratic socialist who would find himself at home in any Scandinavian country -- I’m not sure what "self-proclaimed socialists" you’re even talking about.
