Thanks for the empty insults.

The abstractions are not empty slogans, they represent reality.

And you are wrong - during the riots, the left and the media called them "mostly peaceful" and showed little to no outrage.

The "defund the police" movement, and the other attacks on police, resulted in loss of many officers, and many oothers who pulled back on enforcement for fear of being targeted.

Is it a bumper sticker abstraction to observe that the correlation between the riots, the defund-the-police movemene, and the ascent of let-them-loose DA's and the very high violent crime rate are causally related.

I am well aware of the Weather Underground. I knew someone who was there at its founding, who told me in 2012 that he thought they should still be setting off bombs.

I am aware of John Kerry's close association with that group. I am aware of its ties to the SDS, members of which I knew, and whom I observed using violence at demonstrations.

Jan 6th was an aberration, and one where no bombs or guns were used. The Weather. Underground was a violent movement dedicated to tearing down our society and our government through the use of deadly force. The Oath Keepers is for upholding the Constitution, but their leadership (and their website when I checked it after Jan 6) go too far... essentially equating a soldier's duty to refuse an illegal order with a citizen's duty to attack the legal government if they think the Constitution has been violated. As a veteran, I knew exactly what their appeal meant, and it was wrong.

It is true that there are radicals on both sides. There always have been. But Jan 6th has been denounced by most on the right, even though we think that many (but not all) of those charged are being persecuted compared to Antifa members. Furthermore, the media, which is essentially a subsidiary of the left, overhypes Jan 6th at ever possibility. It was never an attempted coup. It was, on the part of *a few of the members* an attempt to illegally force the Vice President to do what those members thought was his duty. It was mostly a demonstration that got out of hand, turning into a riot.

So yeah, I know the history. Probablhy a lot better than you.