Spreading the Blame

THE FAR RIGHT does not hold a monopoly on violence, anger, and corruption, despite the seemingly endless list of far right hate groups. Hate groups exist on the left as well, though in far fewer numbers than on the right, currently. The one you hear most abouT is"ANTIFA", OR "ANTI-FASCIST". Being opposed to fascism is usually consdered a good thin, but, as one astute observer remarked: "Fascism and Anti-Fascism are the two kinds of Fascism." The fact that Antifi cosones violence and destruction of prpoerty in opposing far right hate groups makes Antifa no better than those it opposes, and actually does more damage to the progressive and far left causes than good. It gives its opponents an opportunity to claim some sort of "moral equivalency" between far right and far left when in fact there is no such thing as "moral equivalency" beetween the two ideologies. Is it a simple, verifiable fact that an overwhelimng percentge of domestic terrorist attacks have originated and been carried out by the far right over the past generation. The election of Donald Trump was accompanied by a huge upsurge in far right violence, talk, and terrorism. The far right wing racists, anti-immigrants, nationalists, and religious zealots were, and remain, emboldened by Trump. There are three basic issues in which, if you compare the majority conservative viewpoint to the viewpoint held by most progresives, the differences are not only striking, but shed light on quesitons such as: which side is factually correct? which side, if either, is morally superior? Trump and the big electin lie comes to mind. A majority of America's conservatives, Republicans remain, more than a year afte rthe election, that the electon was stolen from Trump. In other words, the right wing in America embraces, endorses, a huge, blatant, evil lie. Shame on them. These liars have already done huge damage to American democracy, and hence, to America itself. Progresives universally understand that Trump is a pathological liar. On an even more important issue, the conservative coalition, a majority of its members, still denies the existence of human made climate change, a point of view which is not only ridiculous, but might result in the destruction of the Earth's environment, and the human species. The current response to climate change, inadequate though it is, is exclusively the work of progressives, aka "liberals". If only the climate change deniers would come to their senses and start helping! The current dominant issue is still the pandemic, and is is there that conservatism most clearly and hockingly reveals its utter intellectual and moral depravity. A high percentage of American conservatives, and conservatives world wide, either refuse to accept the threat of Covid 19 as real, or refuses to take basic steps to combat it, such as getting vaccinated. It is largely because of American conservatism that the horrible plague has killed upwards of one million Americans. Is is they who refuse to vaccinate, to comply with basic precautionary measures, and oppose mask mandates and other pandemic related restrictions on idiotic, spurious grounds. Opposition to science, reason, and exprtise runs rampant through the conservative community, idiotically. Simple moral decency requires accepting the results of a valid election, acknowledging and fighting climate change, and acknowledging and fighting the Covid 19 pandemic. That a majority of the conservative community refuses to do any of these crucial things clearly demonstrates its funadmental intellectual and moral bankruptcy.