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Trump Isn’t Bluffing. We’ve become inured to his rhetoric, but his message has grown darker
(www.theatlantic.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2024
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There are groups like the Socialist Rifle Association and Iron Front USA, which are listening and not inured. This or similar groups welcome new members all the time.
Not in any group, but I'm liberal, armed and practice shooting every weekend.
I am not inured to this rhetoric. I am paying attention. I am peaceful. I am not harmless.
Take that for what you will.
I'm glad and wish there were more of you!
I wonder how many people there are who are like him but (rightfully) too careful to advertise it publicly.
I'm a loudmouth, and it may bite me someday. Always said us liberal gun nuts were quite common, we just don't make it a defining trait.
Again, I hope there are a lot. And I suspect you're right. Except that advertising it ultimately becomes important, though as you point out, it is risky because the alt-right is filled with LEO.
It's important to encourage other liberals and non-fascists to deplore violence and be firmly against the collapse of the union, but also ready for it.
Humans are herd animals. When they hear that people they identify with are preparing for a worst case, it destigmatizes it.
So do groups like SRA and Iron Front, which spend much of their time doing community service. But in that they provide a community and a sense that, wow, when the radical right in this country says they want a war and their lead candidate says he wanrs to kill us all, and they're constantly buying guns, ammo, and armor... maybe they aren't kidding.