Jack4freedom
Governor
I have read and heard of these extremist activists for decades now and I have certainly never approved of them or supported their actions. I have also read and heard about nutbag lunatics who bomb abortion clinics and back shoot doctors at their homes. I saw scumbag Bill O’Reilly incite some of these morons including a guy who killed a doctor on national TV a few years back.The extremist leftists would be those I’ve discussed here many times. Those who formed “war rooms” and sent Lexus car parts and vinyl siding to my home when I dared to write a letter to the editor of The Oregonian as a young father...those who threw glass bottles at my head for having the audacity to stand in a line to see Jeane Kirkpatrick speak on campus at The University of Washington. Those who firebomb Hummer dealers, who vandalize Oregon Health Sciences University researchists’ private homes for conducting medical breakthrough research that sometimes involves animals. Those who toss blood (or paint) on a lady who wears fur. Those in the streets of Portland who routinely shutdown free speech, as well as any ability to commute home from work. Those legions of gong-banging weirdos who won’t let a conservative speak on a campus...or who themselves cause a university to shut down such appearances...who cause giant security details to be required.
I was born and raised in two very blue states. My formative years were spent in the crucible of the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front. These people are not “liberal”. They are not tolerant. They are not pluralist nor do they value diversity in any meaningful sense. What they are is an amalgam of hyper-political, uber-dogmatic, orthodoxy-demanding, absolutist doctrinaire leftists.
My conclusions are not borne of ignorance. I’ve lived among them most of my life. Then, in founding and operating my business, I’ve logged more travel - both international and domestic - than most career State Department officials.
My father-in-law is a career Navy man and is a born and raised Rust Belt Democrat. He shakes his head at what the left looks like. He’s no Trump fan (nor Bush before him), but he is a normal, well-adjusted family man. He’s a moderate-liberal. I know many who are far more liberal than he...who also can’t abide the leftist stuff. They call it out plainly when they see it - just as I do if/when I see hostile extremism on the right.
There is no question leftism is foundationally nihilistic. They actively recruit misery and despair. What’s more, they deliver it every chance they get. The cause demands it.
I have heard of and read about morons throwing blood at people for wearing furs too. And I have encountered crazy idiots in Eastern Washington and Idaho who live in fortified bunkers, stockpile weapons and teach their children to hate other people. A guy I grew up with and played baseball with is one of them now. I went up to visit him 10 years ago and was shocked at what he had become.
There are definitely extremists out there from both the so called left and the so called right. I have lived here in LA for most of 56 years now and I know hundreds of people and have encountered thousands more in business and in public. 99.9 percent of them are sane responsible people. It has been my personal life experience that there are a hell of a lot less intolerant, extremist lunatics out there today than when I was coming of age back in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. I support holding anyone from either of these fringes responsible for their actions.