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Far left demonstrations, riots, protests, attract thousands and cause swathes of damage and destruction.
Far right, EDL, or BNP ( but they're defunct now anyway). You get maybe 50 ish.
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They don't have protests as much but there are still other areas of violence. Breivik killed 77 children attending a Labour youth camp for example. The worst excesses of the far-left aren't protests either but cases of deaths and killings in countries such as Venezuela.
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The left is where the thought police reside, the left happily brand anyone that doesn't subscribe to their doctrine, racist or homophobic, unnecessarily. This makes people uncomfortable, they disengage and they re-engage at the ballot box.
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I agree with some of this. It's what I was saying about the inability for people to emphasise with large groups so some consider those on the right as racist, nasty, ****. They've put everyone into a bucket and given them a label and it's much easier to think of all of them but their worst elements and summon a caricature of them in your head to hate. But the right does it too by assuming everyone on the left is defined by a different caricature: all of them are lazy, champagne drinking, sneering 'libtards' who border on treachery for their views.
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Trump, Brexit and whatever else follows is the direct result of the unwillingness of the left to have sensible conversation before branding anybody with a contrary point of view as racist and homophobic.
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I think some of this though has been overplayed. In fact the whole right/left thing seems to be breaking down and turning into something else. Globalists vs Nativists maybe. There was a sign at one of those protests yesterday having a go at
protectionism, a left-wing protest was opposing protectionism.
I see a lot more of that in the Trump and Brexit votes than identity politics. The biggest support for both of these came from industrial areas of their nations where jobs had either stagnated or fallen as jobs moved overseas. The biggest support for the other side came in urban areas who've largely benefited.
If it did have an impact I would say it was in distracting people 'on the left' (although I think many Tories and Republicans missed it too) were paying too much attention to those kinds of issues rather than the fact areas of their country were collapsing. No one in power paid attention to what was happening.