> I guarantee you that if this suspect was a leftist in any way, even if he simply liked anything by Marx or Lenin on Goodreads, you would never hear the end of it.
> But it's worth asking: when someone resorts to violence in this way, why are their politics nearly always right-wing?
while i'm convinced you sincerely believe that, you do realize there are a roughly equal number of people equally sincerely convinced that the media/establishment/"they" are out to get them and their group instead. and that when someone resorts to violence it's (almost) always actually the other group, not them.
replace white with black and right with left. ann rand with marx. fox with msnbc. same "argument", often almost word-for-word.
don't stoop to tribalism as an excuse or explanation.
> But it's worth asking: when someone resorts to violence in this way, why are their politics nearly always right-wing?
while i'm convinced you sincerely believe that, you do realize there are a roughly equal number of people equally sincerely convinced that the media/establishment/"they" are out to get them and their group instead. and that when someone resorts to violence it's (almost) always actually the other group, not them.
replace white with black and right with left. ann rand with marx. fox with msnbc. same "argument", often almost word-for-word.
don't stoop to tribalism as an excuse or explanation.