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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

I see this crackdown on Trumpism more as a response from the state because it was threatened than a response from the left. There may be many on the left who cheer this on, but it is not directed by those on the far left. This is a response from the state. The state does not care about your right of free speech if there is an attack on it. The state will protect it's power structures no matter what.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I guess you are the author of the article?

Honestly, you are asking all the wrong questions. Trump on Twitter / Facebook has been a massive right wing platform for years and they were basically forced to suspend his account now as those capitol hill riots were a direct challenge to the peaceful democratic transition process. That is on a whole different level than those black-live matters riots last year, which were largely inconsequential and no threat to democracy at all.

Oh and your world view is very odd. Western politics have always been about (right wing) consensus internally. Sure, during the cold war there was the external enemy, but if anything that only cemented the right wing consensus. I guess where your impression of binary us Vs. them comes from is that the British empire was always playing the divide and conquer game in their colonies. And especially in India that worked so well that a tiny force of westerners could take over the massive sub-continent for centuries. If anything, that should tell you something about Indian culture...