There *was* political violence, from the left, 30+ years ago [View All]

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I guess the last example of it I can think of was Jonestown, or maybe Hinckley and Squeaky Fromme if we add the "nutballs who could tangentially be associated with the left". There's nothing magical about being liberal that makes us immune from going down that path, it's just that we're in general a lot more bourgeois than movement conservatives today are (and these demographics were sort of reversed back in the 1960s).

But that's why the "both sides do it" crap is disingenuous: the left hasn't done it for 30 years. A lot of the conservatariat is trying to come up with examples of leftist violence against people (there's still some anti-property violence on the fringes) in the US and that's why they have to keep going back that far. Or, then again, maybe they're still mentally stuck back then.