Like, diametrically opposite?
People disturbed by things like project 2025 should become more active at local or community level politics, even to help with volunteering in small ways. You are your community and vice versa, we all have a collective responsibility of sorts.
Interestingly, many local positions are often staffed by incumbents or people who run unopposed.
Because there’s no money in it and no money behind it. Never will be either. Unfortunately.
Such “equally opposing forces” are purely media creations - there are no such things in actual politics. For instance, there is no such thing as a “far left” - it was purely created by liberal media to be a neat (but entirely fictional) “equally opposing force” for their shitty “both-side-ism” narratives.
Oh, there is definitely a far left. They’re just not doing the same kinds of things that the far right are doing, and they’re smaller by an order of magnitude.
By American standards, the Stop Cop City people are a ‘far left’ group; they’ve used violence (property damage, arson) in order to bring attention to their cause, and to try and prevent an injustice. OTOH, unlike the state’s actions against the far right, which is mostly just shrugging their collective shoulders, action against Stop Cop City has been pretty brutal.
By American standards, the Stop Cop City people are a ‘far left’ group;
That’s not “far left.” That’s just plain old bog-standard left - whether in the US or anywhere else.
action against Stop Cop City has been pretty brutal.
Again… just common-or-garden variety treatment the left has always received from the forces of the status quo - nothing “far left” about it.
There’s no such thing as a “far left” - and it’s critical that we push back on these kinds of propagandistic framing devices liberals love to use to demonize the left and provide cover for the right. I don’t think leftists realize how powerful and dangerous this basic type of propaganda can be.
That’s why I qualified it as far-left by American standards.
We’ve had far-left in the past, but student terrorist movements were largely left behind in the 70s.
Oh there’s an opposing force alright. It’s not quite legal, there’s a lot of blood involved, and currently is not justified. However, if it ever starts happening I think we will see it happen at some point.
I know there are some “liberal gun owners” out there… But I don’t think they’re in for a good time.
