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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo, what is the deal with CNN just now? Piece about threatened violence at polls on election day
termed it "frightening and real" and then attributed the violence to BOTH right and left wing extremists!
Are they TRYING to suppress voting?
And, this "both sides do it " is transparent bullshit!
Demsrule86
(71,492 posts)Response to Atticus (Original post)
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pwb
(12,465 posts)they repeat whatever he wants. It is getting very old.
liberal N proud
(61,165 posts)Both sides keeps them middle ground and satisfies the right.
Walleye
(43,846 posts)stillcool
(34,407 posts)fill up the air with anything but information the American people can use.
GeorgeGist
(25,570 posts)no one watches the halftime show.
TheRealNorth
(9,647 posts)I must have missed the speech where Joe Biden asked antifa to go to Republican precincts to prevent "voter fraud"
ihas2stinkyfeet
(1,400 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)America has been Antifa since WWII, so that's just being used as an umbrella term for anybody they want to label with it. It's nebulous and the strategy, (by police and others) is to scapegoat a ghost.
Now, what could be called Profa is, of course, needing an enemy. The difference is that they have organized groups and leaders that can be actually pointed to and profess various violent and racist ideologies. They are not patriotic, no matter what they imagine or present.
There are many known Antifa leaders of the past. They can often be identified by the style of their uniforms:

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