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Andrea K. Lawson's avatar

Thom's comment: Of all the politically motivated murders that happened in the US last year, 91% were committed by people affiliated with rightwing extremism; only 3% could be traced to Islamic extremism and 6% to “left wing” extremism including anarchists and Black nationalists. Good point

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JennSH from NC's avatar

Excellent essay, Thom. My takeaway from this writing is that the endpoint of Republican terrorism is destruction in pursuit of power. I learned about Stalin’s cruel terrorism accidentally. He was pursuing power, and he used Ukrainian farmers, Jews, and anyone he could demonize to pursue that power. Those in power in Russia have not made lives better, except for a tiny few.

Our situation seems to be moving in a similar direction. Terrorism takes a country’s people backward, which does not lift people’s lives up.

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