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A search of Google News for the term reveals few mentions of the term prior to the fall of last year. A closer look indicates that if there is an "alt-left" at all, it seems to actually be a creation/variation of the Alt-Right. There is an AltLeft.com website, in fact. But it bills itself as "The left wing of the AltRight."

An article at International Business Times noted the conservative origins of the term "alt-left" back in December, saying

Unlike the alt-right, there aren't many folks calling themselves a part of the alt-left. It's a term in direct response to the attention placed on the alt-right, a group with whom many Republicans would rather not be associated. In a move seemingly aimed at countering the bad press the alt-right brings, members of the GOP and others have taken to labeling Democrats "alt-left" if they consider them extremely liberal.

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The term originated with alt-right sites like World Net Daily, migrated to Fox News' Sean Hannity and eventually landed with the president-elect himself.
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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr


I'd explain, but based upon some of the phrases in your post, which I'm assuming are your'n since they're neither in quotes nor attributed, it seems to me your mind is already made up.

Suffice it to say: it's been growing in this country for 50-60 years and the long, slow, pernicious infiltration is just starting to be noticed.



Michael

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

I don't know man, if they even exist as you say, can they be all that pernicious or even very effective, if it took 50-60 years to even name them ?

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Days of Rage is important, because this stuff is forgotten and it shouldn’t be. The 1970s underground wasn’t small. It was hundreds of people becoming urban guerrillas. Bombing buildings: the Pentagon, the Capitol, courthouses, restaurants, corporations. Robbing banks. Assassinating police. People really thought that revolution was imminent, and thought violence would bring it about.
One thing that Burrough returns to in Days of Rage, over and over and over, is how forgotten so much of this stuff is. Puerto Rican separatists bombed NYC like 300 times, killed people, shot up Congress, tried to kill POTUS (Truman). Nobody remembers it.
Also, people don’t want to remember how much leftist violence was actively supported by mainstream leftist infrastructure. I’ll say this much for righty terrorist Eric Rudolph: the sonofabitch was caught dumpster-diving in a rare break from hiding in the woods. During his fugitive days, Weatherman’s Bill Ayers was on a nice houseboat paid for by radical lawyers.

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

I don't know man, if they even exist as you say, can they be all that pernicious or even very effective, if it took 50-60 years to even name them ?

Fuck naming them. Changing the very fabric of what are written into the bedrock of our foundation has taken (at least) 100 years. By necessity, it has had to be a very gradual endeavor lest the "blow-back" create more conservatives (in the sense of people who are tentative about change) just by their own efforts.

They exist and, unfortunately as bounty, pretty much, pointed out; they're called "Democrats" today.

It's funny. I just did a whole piece on this issue, this week (It's "in the can" and waiting to go public). The socialist/communists have succeeded in undermining some very important aspects of our society and a good portion of the people don't even recognize it as such.



Michael

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ORIGINAL: longwayhome

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

I don't know man, if they even exist as you say, can they be all that pernicious or even very effective, if it took 50-60 years to even name them ?

Fuck naming them. Changing the very fabric of what are written into the bedrock of our foundation has taken (at least) 100 years. By necessity, it has had to be a very gradual endeavor lest the "blow-back" create more conservatives (in the sense of people who are tentative about change) just by their own efforts.

They exist and, unfortunately as bounty, pretty much, pointed out; they're called "Democrats" today.

It's funny. I just did a whole piece on this issue, this week (It's "in the can" and waiting to go public). The socialist/communists have succeeded in undermining some very important aspects of our society and a good portion of the people don't even recognize it as such.



Michael

Socialists and communists have undermined important aspects of US society? Really?

Not making a value judgement about the relative ills of the right or left wing in the US but either we're getting a bit hysterically Mccarthyist or you guys have a very peculiar definition of socialism and communism in the US.

I think that, despite the conspiracy obsessed political dialogue in the US, even most Democrats would find the centre left in Europe dangerously subversive, even though they are only vaguely socialist much of the time.

So I'm not going to argue that you guys would like the left in Europe, the continent that gave the world socialism, but I've got to tell you that even Bernie Sanders looked pretty tame to most on the left in Europe.

Not sure how the US should label its left wing, but socialist and communist it aint.

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

I don't know man, if they even exist as you say, can they be all that pernicious or even very effective, if it took 50-60 years to even name them ?

Fuck naming them. Changing the very fabric of what are written into the bedrock of our foundation has taken (at least) 100 years. By necessity, it has had to be a very gradual endeavor lest the "blow-back" create more conservatives (in the sense of people who are tentative about change) just by their own efforts.

They exist and, unfortunately as bounty, pretty much, pointed out; they're called "Democrats" today.

It's funny. I just did a whole piece on this issue, this week (It's "in the can" and waiting to go public). The socialist/communists have succeeded in undermining some very important aspects of our society and a good portion of the people don't even recognize it as such.



Michael

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

I wonder if that's another way of saying "this aint your fathers democratic party?"

by the way---I am loooooooooathing bob beckel.

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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ORIGINAL: longwayhome

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

I don't know man, if they even exist as you say, can they be all that pernicious or even very effective, if it took 50-60 years to even name them ?

Fuck naming them. Changing the very fabric of what are written into the bedrock of our foundation has taken (at least) 100 years. By necessity, it has had to be a very gradual endeavor lest the "blow-back" create more conservatives (in the sense of people who are tentative about change) just by their own efforts.

They exist and, unfortunately as bounty, pretty much, pointed out; they're called "Democrats" today.

It's funny. I just did a whole piece on this issue, this week (It's "in the can" and waiting to go public). The socialist/communists have succeeded in undermining some very important aspects of our society and a good portion of the people don't even recognize it as such.



Michael

Socialists and communists have undermined important aspects of US society? Really?

Not making a value judgement about the relative ills of the right or left wing in the US but either we're getting a bit hysterically Mccarthyist or you guys have a very peculiar definition of socialism and communism in the US.

I think that, despite the conspiracy obsessed political dialogue in the US, even most Democrats would find the centre left in Europe dangerously subversive, even though they are only vaguely socialist much of the time.

So I'm not going to argue that you guys would like the left in Europe, the continent that gave the world socialism, but I've got to tell you that even Bernie Sanders looked pretty tame to most on the left in Europe.

Not sure how the US should label its left wing, but socialist and communist it aint.

Just off of the top of my head, radical alt leftists here (aka Democrats) pepper sprays women dissenters, savages old people who disagree... And otherwise violently impedes free speech and political rallies. Riots at town hall meetings to disrupt the democratic process... Their Black Lies Matter terrorist group has been assassinating police officers... Just a few posts up Aylee posted about how Obama's terrorist friends used to run amok in the 1970s, killing people and bombing whoever they didn't like

How much more radical does it have to be, before we can declare them somewhere other than middle-of-the-road, laid back undecided moderates

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

Unmitigated bullshit...talk about fake news and alternative facts that are not even close to facts. Historically, and by definition that you can't change...it's been the right that's resorted to real violence.