I've been a member at Daily Kos since 2004. I've been absolutely shocked, dismayed and disappointed with the amount of members here who have been making excuses for the violence and brutality that transpired on June 2nd in San Jose, California. I've never seen anything like this. The trajectory of violence in certain factions of the left is a great cause for concern. We've seen it throughout Bernie Sanders movement fueled by his false claims that the he has essentially been cheated out of the nomination, that the election process is rigged while calling for revolution over and over again etc.
Hillary Clinton spoke out against the violence perpetrated against Trump supporters in San Jose the very next day.
President Obama warned of the left having it’s own tea party if we’re not careful and I believe we are looking at it. If we’re not willing to denounce this behavior, we could very well be on a path to irrelevance worse than what the tea party did to the GOP. This rising strain of violence from “the regressive left” could very well help propel Donald Trump into the White House.
I don’t understand how any reasonable person could view the footage of San Jose and justify it in any way, shape or form. It's reprehensible. All politics aside, it's wrong and we should have no part of this.
I made a video on this, Liberals, Stand Up To The Regressive Left for the group, Pragmatic Progressives.
Anyway, thanks for reading.