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(05-31-2017, 09:08 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: In all seriousness, I think a lot of people in this country feel disenfranchised. I'm not just talking about sour grapes over the Electoral College situation, but how many people feel like their elected officials represent them? Left or right, there are a lot of people that feel like they are being left out of the conversation and that number continues to grow.

Now, here is something that may surprise people on here, given that I am essentially a communist to some on the boards, the violent left doesn't surprise me for these very reasons. I have talked on here before about the neo-liberal movement and how that has moved the Democrats to the right. That has put folks on the left in the position of having no viable representation. It's why they latched onto Bernie so much. Social democratic policies are gone in our government when they used to be the standard for the Democrats thanks to FDR. Now, I;m not a democratic socialist like Bernie claims to be (there are differences), but even I feel like there is a lack of politicians representing my views which were, at one time, what the Democratic party was all about. So when you go even further out on the left it isn't surprising that anyone feels disenfranchised.

I can't explain much at all about the far-right, I don't know what is going on there when they get violent.

The more extreme ones seem to have a sense that you have to threaten to show your strength.

They didn't like Obama because he talked to much and didn't do anything.  He went on an "apology tour" versus taking on the "European elites" like Trump did.

Personally I don't get it, but I never did get the guys that had to prove they had the biggest swinging appendage in the room.  

And frankly listening to some right wing sources over the last week I think they feel that ANYONE who disagrees with them or doesn't want to fight them is an "elite."

Again, those seem to the more extreme...but they are the loudest.