I believe everyone deserves the
right to be heard. So I'm posting this. -SJ Otto
From It's Going Down":
The deep state isn’t coming to save us. Trump
isn’t going anywhere and it seems clear that the elites have no desire to
remove him. Meanwhile war and another economic collapse lay just on the
horizon, as violence, intimidation, and threats from the far-Right seek to
attack anyone who isn’t loyal to the billionaire king. As tens of
thousands mobilize in Hamburg ,
Germany against
neoliberal capitalism and as both repression and resistance at home heat up,
progressives and liberals must ask themselves a simple question: what
side are you on?
In recent days, the mainstream media has been rocked by the
story that Donald Trump has yet again shared social media created by the white
supremacist Alt-Right, and secondly that neo-Nazis from within that movement
have begun to threaten journalists
and their family members for reporting on the story.
Only several days before, liberal and progressive groups
organized protests to demand that Trump be impeached and were met in numerous
cities by Alt-Right counter-demonstrators who used violence in an attempt to
push them off the streets. In San Diego , members of the
Alt-Right carried flags with racist symbols and attempted to surround
protesters, in LA and Philadelphia clashes broke out, and, in Austin , the far-Right attempted to block the march’s route.
The targets of the Alt-Right weren’t just the black bloc,
anarchists, or antifa–they were anyone who dared to come out that day and voice
their displeasure with the president. Ironically, despite the permitted rallies
hardly even being disruptive, in the months leading up to them, far-Right conspiracy
theory websites such as InfoWars claimed that they would lead to
violent riots backed by the Democratic Party in an effort to play up hysteria.
“THE TARGETS OF
THE ALT-RIGHT WEREN’T JUST THE BLACK BLOC, ANARCHISTS, OR ANTIFA – THEY WERE
ANYONE WHO DARED TO COME OUT THAT DAY AND VOICE THEIR DISPLEASURE WITH THE
PRESIDENT.”
This fear mongering was then kicked into overdrive with the shooting of Steve
Scalise by James Hodgkinson in Virginia, as the Right used it as a
vehicle to pump up fears of
“left-wing violence.”While at the center of this demonization are
anarchists and antifascists, as the recent viral
NRA video shows, the target has widened to the entire Left,
including liberals and progressives.
All of this is taking place against an immense backdrop of rising far-Right
violence, murder, and arson attacks, which have been almost completely
ignored by both the media and the Trump administration. This
violence is also growing in the midst of a massive campaign attacking the
working class, pushing through repressive measures that defile civil liberties and the right to protest,
slash taxes on the wealthy and regulations on the environment, and move
billions in services and healthcare out of the hands of the poor and most
vulnerable and into the pockets of the billionaires, CEOs, and 1%.
At the same time, the Trump administration has launched a
campaign to gather voting information from all states in order to launch a
countrywide version of Cross Check, the same system that struck millions of
mostly Democratic black and brown voters from the rolls in 2016. Heading the
campaign is Kris Kobach,
who is both the Kansas
secretary of state as well as the legal counsel of the Federation of
American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a white nationalist think tank.
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