Agitators
The provocation is everywhere and the results are becoming ever more dangerous.
If you’ve ever wondered why paid protestors spit in the face of police, read on. It accomplishes nothing and it says nothing. But anarchists seldom do, the revolution speaks for itself. The challenge becomes how to foment it.
And therein lies the rationale for spewing the disgusting projectile.
The goal is to get a reaction. Hopefully, the most disproportionate kind so the illicit path to power is justified. Let the crackdown begin. Make no mistake, this well-worn authoritarian tactic isn’t just used in the street, but in the halls of government as well.
How else could you explain someone crashing a Homeland Security press conference in Los Angeles when as a sitting United States Senator he could have picked up the phone in Washington and called the Secretary any time.1
Many conservatives have focused on inflammatory tactics directed at MAGA world as way to motivate lunatics on the left to take action. No doubt, the constant descriptions of President Donald Trump as Hitler are wholly irresponsible and, as we saw in Butler, PA, dangerous.
However, the social anarchism is not so much directed at left-wing crazies as it is their polar opposites on the right. Triggering unstable opponents, whether by policy or pronouncement, elicits a far more desirable narrative for those who fear their own power is slipping away.
In Minnesota last week, it may have played out in tragic fashion. A madman, posing as an entrepreneur, preacher and, finally, a cop—in other words, everything he wasn’t—snapped.2