My Enemy's Enemy is Also My Enemy (4/7/25)

*The is the FREE archive, which includes advertisements. If you want an ad-free experience, you can subscribe below underneath the show description.It is once again clear that the sudden explosion of protests across the United States has a less than organic origin. There has been growing sentiment for violence on the political left in the past 15 years, as is evidenced by a recent report by CNRI that analyzes the rising support for Luigi Mangione. This same group, however, analyzed the explosion of the “Christ is King” movement and found it to be based on the same type of sentiment. In both cases there is a growing distrust for authority and thus a vacuum for new authoritative justice and moral policing to take hold. In fact, the “Hands off” protestors are more than inorganic and/or unhinged; they are a necessary component of justifying the victimhood and power of their perceived enemies, who also are a necessary component of justifying the purpose of the protesters. There is a shadowy element behind both that continues to benefit regardless of political outcomes. The element continues to engage in the same rhetoric too. Whereas under the left racism was a public health crisis and being anti-racist was not enough, now under the right anti-semitism is a public health crisis and being against anti-semitism is not enough. Both of these forces fight without reasoning or basis, which changes the conversation from ever addressing the consistent presence of the advancement towards electric cars, digital currency, and a dissolving of nations. The self issued moral licensing justifies murder or imprisonment without due process while finding acceptable explanation for why 1 or 100 million need to die to reach a desired outcome. It also ignores the fact that many of the problems perceived to exist are themselves the result of the very same political extremism. Condemning all white people as evil by the left or condemning Islam as evil on the right and bombing their countries into the Stone Age both have real consequences and breed the very thing feared, a beneficial monster that feeds off the same zealotry. And how do we go about commenting, supporting, or defending these movements? We do it with beliefs for which few of us will admit are programs rather than thoughtful conclusions; we do it with emojis and memes, which introduce a magical element to the equation. -FREE ARCHIVE (w. ads)SUBSCRIPTION ARCHIVEX / TWITTER FACEBOOKMAIN WEBSITECashApp: $rdgable EMAIL: [email protected] /...