Eventually the wokeistanis will have to accept that there are a lot of people who aren’t remotely on the right but also find them uniquely insufferable. Of course, many on the left, and in major media outlets are now embracing violent mobs as if they might bring about some kind of egalitarian paradise. In fact, the primary characteristic of mobs is that the most brutal and autocratic quickly rise to the top, and it generally does not go well for the vast majority.
Textbook definition of domestic terrorism:
Elsewhere in New York, in Eight people were arrested Friday night when a group of 150 Black Lives Matter protesters smashed windows and graffitied the storefronts of Lower Manhattan chain stores and banks, police sources said.
At least two Starbucks, five banks and a Duane Reade had their windows busted, causing an estimated $100,000 in damage.
Police recovered two stun guns, smoke grenades, and burglary and graffiti tools.
The protest had been advertised on Twitter by groups calling themselves the “New Afrikan Black Panther Party” and the “Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement.”
Point I is that mobs and mobocracy have been around now for thousands of years, and NEVER have they built anything, only destroy.
Thousands of years ago, the Greeks had a word for it called Ochlocracy, translated as mob rule which is the rule of government by a mob or mass of people and the intimidation of legitimate authorities.
That is exactly what we are seeing today in this country.
The Romans, who also had experience it called it by the Latin phrase mobile vulgus, meaning “the fickle crowd”, from which the English term “mob” originally was derived in the 1680s, to give some context to the time factor.
Ochlocracy, or mobocracy, as we are clearly seeing today, is characterized by the absence or impairment of a procedurally civil and democratic process.
On a historical note, the ancient Greek political thinkers regarded ochlocracy as one of the three “bad” forms of government (tyranny, oligarchy, and ochlocracy) as opposed to the three “good” forms of government (monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy), distinguishing “good” and “bad” according to whether the government form would act in the interest of the whole community (“good”) or in the exclusive interests of a group or individual at the expense of justice (“bad”).
In 1837 in this country, Abraham Lincoln wrote about lynching and “the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country — the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions in lieu of the sober judgment of courts, and the worse than savage mobs for the executive ministers of justice”.
Was he talking about today?
Seems so to me, anyway.