Just to avoid confusion here. The day of the inauguration there was violence around Washington and actual anarchists who turned up to cause trouble. The next day, the day of protests with the massive crowds etc, there was
no violence and no arrests in Washington(which is amazing for a protest of that size.
So I think people are getting wires crossed on that one.
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Originally Posted by Pierre
It's the same the world over, liberals and the far left are the most dangerous, anti- democratic, anti- freedom of them all.
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What is anti-democratic about the protests?
Incidentally I think extremists of either persuasion are dangerous. They need to be authoritarian in order in control people and implement change. It's usually too difficult to do so otherwise as you need to compromise with a wide range of opinion in a democracy. So both fascist Germany or Communist Russia had to oppress political opposition and the press. I would also point out there are plenty of people who've murdered others or committed terrorist acts in the name of far-right ideologies. Just last year we had a member of Parliament killed by such a person.
It's up to both sides to disassociate themselves with such people and not to assume it's only a problem the other side needs to worry about. But I don't think we should judge wide groups of people by their most extreme elements either. I think people would get along much better if they did that. Especially since once you've put people into such buckets then it's harder to empathise with them as individuals.