Before A12, I spoke with an expert on activism in unsrable regions. They told me that a sign of political deterioration is when state actors cease separating sides.https://twitter.com/jason_a_w/status/1014626174117376001 …
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All signs point to a rapidly-destabilizing political climate with increased violence. Portland last weekend was likely worse than Cville, modulo Fields's attack, DeAndre's beating, and maybe Preston firing a gun.
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This matches the other rhetoric coming from the President. It matches mass shootings of journalists. It matches mass incarceration of immigrants, the construction of camps, and the crackdowns by police.
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We are so given to American exceptionalism that we believe that we are immune from the patterns that occur all throughout the world.
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I have been angry about the Second Civil War bullshit precisely because we are elbows deep in all of the signs that act as precursors to modern civil wars.
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We should not be laughing about it, we should be throwing ourselves on the machinations that make it so.
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And we should remember that very few civil wars have been deterred by regular elections.
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Whatever you feel about America, whether you love it or hate it, it will not look like in 5 years how you remember it looking 5 years ago.
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At the 6/4 rally last year, Proud Boys “assisted” Portland cops with arrests of counterprotesters.
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Member of Portland militia-style group helps police arrest anti-fascist protester (June 2017)https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/08/portland-alt-right-rally-militia-member-police-arrest …
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Yep. And that was on a day when we HUGELY outnumbered them.
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Then they attacked you all in the park
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I was the pdx DSA chair then, and we were part of the coalition that organized a nonviolent rally while antifa groups organized a more direct response, so that ordinary citizens would have a safer space to engage. I was relatively safe that day. Antifa took the brunt of it.
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