[Bread and Circuses - Politics and other Silliness]

https://www.quora.com/What-is-everyones-beef-with-Antifa-Isnt-anti-fascism-a-good-thing Anti-Fascism is nothing but Fascism with minus sign . The modulus is the same . Antifa is short from Antifascistische Aktion , a Far Left militant group founded by the German Communist party in 1932. It was basically the Communist equivalent of the Sturmabteilungen - the Brownshirts - of the Nazi party: a paramilitary violent gang organization, whose main purpose was political terror and phyiscal violence on political opponents. Nazis came and went, but Antifa re-emerged after the debacle of the WWII. In the postwar era the historical Antifaschistische Aktion inspired a variety of different movements, groups and individuals in Germany as well as other countries, which widely adopted variants of its aesthetics and some of its tactics; this is known as the wider Antifa movement. The Antifa movement is incredibly violent and it is basically a safe haven for juvenile delinquen...

***Overton Window Shift*** American Liberals and Conservatives are now on the Right side of the political spectrum. The Left now only includes Tribalist Totalitarian Collectivists. ^^^ you know the dangerous cocktail that German National Socialists and Stalinist Communists are made of ^^^ This is (still) a dirty little secret for many. Your classic liberal has much more in common with conservative views than they do the totalitarian left. This is one of the reasons why I object so often to the generic coining of the left as "liberal". Regressive postmodernism doesn't roll off the tongue as easily but is a much more accurate description. From an American political perspective, the leftists have reframed the political axis through hyperbolic castigation of those who disagree with any point of their intersectional craziness that classical liberals that used to sit under their umbrella are now forced to find refugee with free speech respecting conser...