“Antifa” really amounts to adult supervised historical CosPlay. Yes, they are really committing acts of violence, but not (yet) on a large scale, and as protected wherever they thrive (like Portland) by a wall of police. If they were facing actual historical Nazis many would now be dead.
For those vulnerable to silly symbolism they get to act out the conflicts between Communists and Nazis, and in so doing reinforce the lie that National Socialism was the opposite of Communism (Nazism bad therefore Communism good, in two year old logic) rather than a rival street gang that was equally violent but with a slightly different agenda intended once it too won complete control and it too eliminated “stupid” democracy, which was the goal of both gangs.
Here is the thing: in this simplistic political morality play—where substance and symbolism have become hopelessly muddled and intermingled by these half baked fools—they get to play the part of Good, which is a hard role to find in a world where their people have deleted as well as possible all stable, traditional and common sense rules.
Nothing is good or bad, but Antifa is good and their opponents are bad. They define themselves as “Anti-Fascist” thetefore OBVIOUSLY anyone they attack must be 1) guilty; and 2) Fascist. To claim otherwise as even POSSIBLE is to put at risk the whole show, which is absolutely inconceivable for masses of people with unstable petsonalies and who are unable to cohere at all without a fixed unifying enemy.
Ask them: would you have been a Nazi in the 1930’s?
ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! comes the answer. All well and good. In their oen mind they would have been warriors to the death (or at least until it stopped being fun and unopposed).
OK. How about this: would you join a group which viewed a particular race as uniquely evil, and uniquely responsible for everything wrong with the society, a a society which was otherwise good and praiseworthy?
They already HAVE joined that group, haven’t they? We already see public fantasies of mass murder, don’t we?