Both Sides Are NOT The Same

 I was talking with a person a few days ago about a variety of things. And in that the topic of the killing of a Right Wing Hate Speecher that has recently happened came up.

And the person I was talking with said something along the lines of, There are a lot of people celebrating the death of NAME and I think that is messed up.

After they had said their piece I stated, again, something along the lines of, I am one of those people. I think that this person reaped as they had sowed. That they had called for violence and death against anyone who they thought was different. And they got the thing that they had wished on others.

They reaped as they had sowed.

As a set up for the next piece of dialog, a few months ago there was a person who went into the home of a very famous politician in order to kill this person. When they could not find the politician they took the politicians spouse prisoner and then proceeded to beat this spouse almost to death with a hammer.

So the next thing out if this persons mouth was I hope that you said the same thing when POLITICIANS SPOUSE NAME was almost killed. And I asked why is that. And the reply was because they engaged in insider trading. And my response was So what?

And there it was. Another "Centrist" trying to paint the picture of Both Sides Are Equally To Blame. Equally Evil.

That is a narrative that is being heavily pushed by those who are trying to camouflage the evil that is being pushed by the Right and this current administration. After all, if both sides are equal then there is nothing to condemn. Is there. Classic What About Ism.

Well, No. They are not equally Evil. The Right has become evil, the Center, AKA Democrats, are trying really hard to be "Balanced" and have forgotten how to fight, and the Left has been sidelined very effectively.

Let us start this process by talking about the Evil that is the Right side of the Political spectrum.

And I do say Evil. Because they have become comfortable with denying Basic Civil Rights to large groups of People in this country. They have become comfortable with the Dehumanization of large groups of People. They have become comfortable with people being openly Kidnapped by Secret Police, and Human Trafficked to Concentration Camps. They have become comfortable with people they disagree with being Beat and Killed by people that they do agree with.

They want to make the Civil Rights gained by our Black American Brothers and Sisters evaporate and be as if they never existed.

They want to deny the Right of Woman to Control their own Bodies. They want to basically make Woman a subservient class of People. Subservient to White, Christian Men of course.

They want to deny the Right of Trans Gender People to exist at all.

After decades of decrying Shariah Law in Muslim countries they have finally become openly Christian Nationalist. IE, they want the Christian version of Shariah Law for the United States. And Religious Rule, whether in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, or any other Religion, always leads to Persecution and large scale Death.

They have also made I.C.E. into a Secret police Agency that is not answerable for anything. We know that people in ICE custody have died. They are not using any Due Process in the slightest. Secret Police. Just Like the Schutzstaffel (SS) and the Gestapo.

All of this while Gas lighting people like me with accusations, that are actually Confessions, of doing all these things.

They are Dehumanizing People like me who are in the Center or Left side of the Political Spectrum. And after one Dehumanizes another then it is real easy to Justify the Torture and Murder of those People.

Everything that they are doing is about Persecution, Suffering, and Death.

That is Evil.

Now to the many transgressions of the Center of the Political Spectrum. AKA Democrats.

From the 1968 to the 1972 Democratic Presidential Primaries the Democratic party began and finished it's divorce from the Labor movement. They lost their connection with the Unions and began to focus more on other issues. Issues which needed focus, no doubt about that. And, when they left Labor, AKA the Working Class and/or Middle Class, they lost most of their ground forces that had been winning them elections for a long time.

They also stepped up their fund raising efforts among the Wall Street "Elite". Another words, they stepped up their efforts in an area that the Republicans had already locked up pretty tight. Which, as you can probably guess, impacted their Public Policy and Campaigns.

And they became the "Reasonable" party. The "Centerist" party. And instead of standing on issues that would actually be in contrast to the Republican party they began just being a less awful version of Republican. And they started a very long, and now successful, process of completely losing any identity at all.

And they became all about controlling the "message". Whatever they decided the message was. They also began this long, and completely unsuccessful, campaign to "win back" disaffected Republicans. They learned the completely wrong lesson from the "defection" of the "Reagan Democrats" of the 1980's. These folks were the racists who used to be the "Solid South" of the Democratic party going to where Racism was ok now in the Republican party. There was no way that they were going to be "won" back unless the party went back to full racism.

So they fell into the trap of being on the opposite side of Republican "wedge" Issues. Issues designed to drive wedges between Republicans and everyone else. And most, if not all, of these issues were actually coded language for racism and suppression of other minorities.

Like Woman, Immigrants, any Latino/Latina people, Gays, pretty much anyone who is not White, Male, Christian, and Straight.

So, instead of standing really for anything they became the party that was the either less awful version of "Law and Order" racism, less awful sell out to the Corporatist, or in "opposition" to the wedge issues used by Republicans.

In other words, they let the Republicans completely define the arguments and reacted to those arguments. Because they were incapable of defining any arguments for themselves. Because they had lost their identity and were not able to come up with a new one.

And the more they lost control the more they tried to keep control.

So now we get to my side of the political spectrum. The Left. AKA Progressives. AKA Liberals.

A long time ago each party had a Liberal wing and a Conservative wing. During the 1960's this was not an issue for the most part. Both parties tried real hard to not allow either side to have too much power. Both parties tried to be somewhat Centerist and able to Govern effectively.

In the 1970's that began to change.

It started with the Republicans. After making a home for former Democrats, the "Solid South" racists, they began to demand much more Ideological purity from it's candidates and members. And when Reagan completed the marriage of the party with the Christian Nationalists it ramped up even further. And when Reagan repealed the Fairness Doctrine in broadcasting and unleashed Right Wing Talk Radio, and then Fox "News", the tail really started wagging the dog.

As talk radio and Fox "News" were the ones who defined what it meant to be "Conservative". And the way they held their audience was by going further and further into the weeds of Fear, Hate, and Blame. Conspiracy theories of the worst sort. And, seeing as they were completely aligned with the Republican party, and the party aligned with them thinking they could use and control them, the party went further and further into the weeds. With the tail wagging the dog. And now the tail is the whole dog.

 And they demonized Woman, as Feminazis, Liberals, as Libtards and Communists/Socialists, Gays, and anyone else who did not fall into ideological lockstep with them.

And the 4th Estate, AKA the News Media, was so scared of being called the Liberal Media that they never called out this shit. They completely fell down on the job. And instead of actually reporting the news they just regurgitated talking points with no reflection, context, or any other actual news. And claimed that all these points were equally valid. Complete crock of shit.

Meanwhile they did not actually report on Science, claiming that everything was a theory and that people who were pushing corporate naysaying with no evidence were just as valid as Peer Reviewed Scientific Studies that had withstood rigorous testing.

So here we are, the Right having descended into being totally Nazi, the Center having become spineless control freaks who do not really believe in anything, and the Left having been sidelined as dangerous extremists, which they are not by the way, we are in the midst of losing what is left of any freedom we might have had before.

So no people, both sides ARE NOT the same. And any What Aboutism that you want to spout is a complete crock of shit.

Stand up people. We are out of time. And we are truly in the time where if you are Silent then you are on the side of Evil.

There is No More Time.

It Is Now.