Matt, would you say more about the Patriot Front? I’m suspicious since no media will even try to interview or connect with them. We hear different things from SPLC (so suspicious) and then from MSM but I’m still trying to understand what’s behind them and whether they are the ones we saw marching with masks on their faces over the weekend or whether it was a con job. MSM doesn’t help by just throwing accusations rather than the work they do covering other protests. Thanks for your help.
Disclaimer: I've never even heard of Patriot Front before I read Matt's notes. If the media won't interact with them that's usually a good sign that they're legit and not really far-right at all. But the fact that the FBI has infiltrated every right-wing organization in existence, and then invented some of their own just to keep busy, makes me think they're not worth paying attention to.
Right-of-center websites like the Townhall family have been covering them forever. The media uses them as a club to beat up everyone who voted for Trump. Meanwhile, those of us who voted for Trump are screaming, "WE HAVE NO IDEA WHO THESE PEOPLE ARE!!!"
So the media is saying, "Here's this dangerous white supremacist group that we will give massive coverage every time they show up anywhere; however, we're not going to find out anything else about them, such as who their president is, where they are based, how they organize, or anything else."
Conclusion: The media does not want the answers to those questions.
If they're really an ordinary conservative group, and they don't want to be mistaken for something worse, they might look at getting themselves a name that doesn't have the word "front" in it.
Let me know when Fischer and Taibbi cover BLM as a Black Supremacy group. Or La Raza as a Mexican Supremacy group. Etc. These Patriot Front douche bags did not seem to interfere with anyone, harass anyone, say anything.
Taibbi seems pretty quick to default to legacy media tropes.
Just for the sake of argument, let's take the Wikipedia Patriot Front article seriously.
Based on that:
Their leader is known. He has not been thoroughly doxed. His home has not been picketed. Nor has he been assassinated. His only reported injuries were sustained in a car crash.
They number in the hundreds. Probably low hundreds.
Their comms have been infiltrated, with 400GB extracted. No RICO charges resulted.
They have been infiltrated. As a result, members sued Seattle's John Brown Gun Club for having lost their jobs.
They have been accused of one assault. No charges were filed, but group was ordered to pay $2.7M in civil damages.
Various members have been charged crimes ranging from vandalism to conspiracy to riot. Those that plead or were convicted got slapped on the wrist with $500 fines (and unsupervised probation in some cases.) Their leader was charged in the conspiracy to riot case in Idaho, but charges were dismissed due to mishandled evidence. (Kinda convenient.)
They act out a small number of times each year. Mostly these cosplay marches. The press dutifully clucks in disapproval.
I'm willing to credit the possibility of them with being organic, long-tail residue. They may be allowed to persist because they're mostly harmless and great fodder for the Fear Machine.
Thank you. However, I have a hard time relying on anything posted by Wikipedia and its liberal writers when it comes to global politics. I still would like Taibbi or Schellenberger to do a thorough research on the group. Their perspective would have some credibility
And, you're right. I'd like to see more investigative work here on Racket. Insightful commentary is great, but I signed on because I was impressed by the work on the Twitter Files.
CNN - no team of data scientists working at that joint - tracked down some random schmuck who created a GIF of Trump as a wrestler jumping from the ropes to elbow an opponent with the CNN logo for a head. People get doxxed for an intemperate posting on Twitter/X by some purple-haired snout ring person all the time.
There is no way in hell one of these guys hasn't left a digital footprint, isn't in the middle of a nasty divorce with a vengeful ex, or just got drunk at a bar and started running their mouths. Unless these guys have operational security that beats anything offered by the CIA, FSB/SVR, the Mossad, etc.
Nobody claims Astroturf does not exist, and Astroturf is generally considered fit for purpose. I'll even grant that carefully nurtured and maintained grass can sometimes be pretty hard to tell from the better grades of Astroturf.
But nobody has tossed a piece of Astroturf in the dirt and come back to find more Astroturf than they put out. And nobody sees a chunk of it on the ground and thinks it's growing wild.
Nobody denies they are certainly white supremacists and racists, or that some of them are likely organized. Those groups existed in the past (funded and sustained by Democrats, BTW) and likely still exist. Those guys the SPLC was funding appear to have developed their racial views independently (even though there is evidence they eventually changed their minds) and they also appear to have been able to attract a certain number of new adherents.
So sure, the Patriot Front is likely real, just like Antifa is real. What people notice is how differently the DNC-adjacent media and the Uniparty legal establishment treat the Patriot Front, Antifa, and various conservative groups like the Tea Party and MAGA organizations that are not likely to be controlled by the Uniparty establishment.
I love this line: "what looks like a WWE version of politics has become our actual politics."
We all get it. It's unfortunate but true.
BUT... It's not a symptom of division, it's the output of an attention economy that pays in engagement, not sincerity. The algorithm doesn't care if the flag burner or the counter-protester actually believes it.
It only cares if the clip is loud enough to travel.
Same mechanism runs the two-party system underneath it: both sides sell the same two-column con, promises they know they won't keep, dressed up in reasons that don't hold. Wrote up the receipts here if you want the full breakdown:
"[The algorithm] only cares if the clip is loud enough to travel."
Great point! But the underlying two-party system seems to have flipped. Trump hijacked the old-school GOP and stole the Democrats' working-class constituents, and the GOP neocons ran to the Democrat side in an effort to save the DC establishment. Meanwhile the establishment faces a big challenge from the radical left that they have been nurturing (and spying on using the FBI, which they no longer completely control.) But I don't even think that begins to explain things.
Now I'm beginning to wonder if the neo-LaRouche 'Promethean Action' people might actually have it right. https://www.prometheanaction.com/
Thanks, man. Matt's gotta find a managing director; he's really not cut out for media entrepreneurship.
In fact, I'm pretty sure that Ben Shapiro isn't at the top of the food chain over at his website Daily Wire. I think that's a smarter way to handle it, TBH.
Because what's happening here isn't working. Not just for me, NOT WORKING.
Sometimes it's a nice change to see things for yourself and decide what it all means, rather than being told so by a summary made by someone else.
More data is sometimes boring, true -but if it's optional, who cares? You can always stick to the summaries of others if that's your preference.
I appreciate having the option to see data points that may have been left out of other's stories, especially when I can't get to ground zero and check things out for myself.
I definitely think we could use more data on the entities financially supporting these groups. I realize Racket might not have to capacity for this, but if any place is trying to sort out and convey this crucial information, maybe Racket could interview the reporter(s).
Taibbi does phenomenal investigative journalism. He would be the perfect man for the follow the money task at hand. Data Republican has been doing fine work on that front.
We know, in our hearts, that this country is one to be proud of. Patriots live inside every American. We are strong and not afraid of names that are meant to stir emotional responses. We are measured and have shown extreme calm under a Marxist/Islamist onslaught. Our country has been invaded, and everyone knows there are billionaires funding the leftist riots and constant acts of violence. Even your one-sided reporting will not deter our intention to save this country as the founders intended. Pride in our nation and our culture is evident across the country and spans every race. No matter how events are spun, everyone knows the truth. Some are just so stuck in an ugly ideology they can't move forward. We will continue to build and repair what you tear down. We are dedicated to the beauty that is inherent in the American tradition. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I appreciate your commentary, Matt and Ford. I also appreciate our first amendment right to protest, no matter what your politics. Perhaps THAT is what makes our country special.
Not just 1A. There are ten amendments in the Bill of Rights. They all matter. All are critical. The right to possess guns is critical. The right to be free from unlawful search and seizure is critical. The right to be judged by juries is critical. The right not to be forced to testify against oneself is critical. There are more.
But they all come under the heading that ours is a government of limited powers. What is not specified as governmental power is reserved to the people. Since the days of FDR that limitation on government power has been seriously eroded. We are slowly peeling away those usurpations by Congress, the courts and Presidents.
I appreciate these video montages. Keep it up. They don’t make me proud, but they provide a glimpse of a part of the USA.
I wonder about the editing process. When people are filmed saying smart, well-informed things, are most of those segments omitted? I see a little bit of intelligent discourse, but perhaps more swearing and name calling. I would appreciate more inclusion of people clearly and rationally explaining why they are there and what they are trying to accomplish.
There will always be angry people saying mean things, and I understand that they should not be entirely excluded. But I am more interested in hearing rational people talking about things that are important to them. If Ford and his team get that on film, please present it to us.
At best a tiny glimpse. Overwhelmingly, Americans were somewhere else over the past weekend, enjoying their lives. Fischer and Taibbi seem to think this is somehow representative of something. M maybe Fischer is collecting footage at protests so he can develop a Ken Burns-esque series and sell it to PBS.
The biggest problem with Ford Fisher's coverage is that he is allowed to film the protesters. Anyone who is even lightly suspected of not being a completely loyal ally is surrounded and physically ejected from protests.
Now none of this is new (although the the arm twisting returning to the physical realm is retro new). You didn't get booked on Colbert unless you served the narrative.
If you are given a microphone and allowed to ask questions, you have already sold out.
I will be impressed with Ford Fisher when he gets his ass kicked by the same mob he is filming.
I appreciated the "behind the scenes" peek at these Patriot Front dorks negotiating the Washington Metro. It hints at a considerable logistical tail behind these appearances. All that I have seen until now were carefully choreographed synchronized marches with flags. The natural first reaction was to assume they were feds when they first started popping up in Biden times. Just too neat, too pat, too cinematic.
In local comment threads there are "See! These are your J6 comrades!" and a few "they seem like nice guys." Their McLuhanesque performance is brilliant. Identically clad anonymous men marching silently in near perfect unison with massed flags. (The only voice we hear in this snipped is their "sergeant," urging them through the turnstiles.) The ONLY reason that we have to consider their message to be "White Supremacism" is that somebody has framed them that way. (Oh, yeah, one of the images that I saw of them had a Confederate battle flag in it.) Perhaps their spokespeople planted the idea? The press certainly scooped up the juiciness.
(Why is it that I keep thinking about The Blue Man Group?)
I have seen Antifa proudly march by more than once. They make a great effort of trying to look proud and fierce.
This Patriot Front is obviously well rehearsed. They scare the dickens out of many of us in the center right because they appear to personify all of the Left's tropes about White America. From what we saw, they were careful to avoid contact with demonstrators and somehow managed to elude counterdemonstrators.
Unlike Antifa's swaggering insolence, these chaps seem pretty mild mannered and docile. Not accidental, given how carefully curated their performances have been until now.
Whether a hardy remnant of The Order in Idaho or a Hollywood art director's vision of what a proper "White Supremacist" militia should look like, I watch in stunned fascination until somebody actually articulates a position.
**
My favorite part of the mini-doc was the Ben Franklin looking guy chanting More Ice! getting shoved by the "veteran." That moment perfectly encapsulates the Left.
This was great work, very interesting and engaging.
My favorite part was toward the end when the guy who had been taking about overthrowing America starting raging about the violation of First Amendment freedoms of religious observation and expression after the police intervened to prevent the activists from burning the American flag. Classic!
The patriot front is only a story because of the completely insane idea of group identity and group guilt.
All group identity is intellectual and moral suicide, and group guilt is such perfect example of that suicide note.
Group guilt is the idea that if a member of a group commits a sin then all members of the group have committed that sin.
If a {woman, christian, homosexual, Kate Bush fan, 32DD blasian porn star, canadian} steals a dehumidifier then every {woman, christian, homosexual, Kate Bush fan, blasian porn star, canadian} is guilty of stealing a humidifier.
On it's face, the whole idea is so shit stupid and evil, and yet group identity and group guilt is a fundamental aspect of partisan politics.
Without group identity and group guilt, the patriot front can only speak for themselves as individuals. That's not a story. Who the fuck cares what some individual idiot thinks. This "reverse stalking" can only exist within the realm of group identity and group guilt. Because no cares what your handsy drunk uncle thinks. No one.
Everything I just said is overly obvious to everyone. So why does this insanity still have any power at all.
Because far to many love the idea that their hatred scales exponentially, and that the less you know the more you hate.
Far too many get off philosophically and sexually on hatred. Like love, hate is an incredibly strong emotion, but unlike love, hatred does not require consent.
Hatred despises consent. And with that truth we are getting much closer to the bone.
The patriot front is a lie because all group identity and group guilt is a lie.
Politics attracts people who get off on hate and the exponential hate of group identity because that's what politics is selling.
Think of the nightmare that this system creates and horrible people it breeds.
Matt, would you say more about the Patriot Front? I’m suspicious since no media will even try to interview or connect with them. We hear different things from SPLC (so suspicious) and then from MSM but I’m still trying to understand what’s behind them and whether they are the ones we saw marching with masks on their faces over the weekend or whether it was a con job. MSM doesn’t help by just throwing accusations rather than the work they do covering other protests. Thanks for your help.
Disclaimer: I've never even heard of Patriot Front before I read Matt's notes. If the media won't interact with them that's usually a good sign that they're legit and not really far-right at all. But the fact that the FBI has infiltrated every right-wing organization in existence, and then invented some of their own just to keep busy, makes me think they're not worth paying attention to.
Right-of-center websites like the Townhall family have been covering them forever. The media uses them as a club to beat up everyone who voted for Trump. Meanwhile, those of us who voted for Trump are screaming, "WE HAVE NO IDEA WHO THESE PEOPLE ARE!!!"
So the media is saying, "Here's this dangerous white supremacist group that we will give massive coverage every time they show up anywhere; however, we're not going to find out anything else about them, such as who their president is, where they are based, how they organize, or anything else."
Conclusion: The media does not want the answers to those questions.
can you give some examples?
site:cnn.com “Patriot Front” has lots of history going back a few years
site:cbsnews.com “Patriot Front” same
site:foxnews.com “patriot front” lots
site:townhall.com “patriot front” is vacant before June of this year
Townhall family. Check PJ Media, Hot Air, RedState, and Twitchy. Lots of coverage going back years.
thanks G !! i’ll chkitout
If they're really an ordinary conservative group, and they don't want to be mistaken for something worse, they might look at getting themselves a name that doesn't have the word "front" in it.
Splitters!
I just saw the Ford Fischer mini-documentary and I needed about 10 seconds to decide that they're a fake group.
Let me know when Fischer and Taibbi cover BLM as a Black Supremacy group. Or La Raza as a Mexican Supremacy group. Etc. These Patriot Front douche bags did not seem to interfere with anyone, harass anyone, say anything.
Taibbi seems pretty quick to default to legacy media tropes.
Just for the sake of argument, let's take the Wikipedia Patriot Front article seriously.
Based on that:
Their leader is known. He has not been thoroughly doxed. His home has not been picketed. Nor has he been assassinated. His only reported injuries were sustained in a car crash.
They number in the hundreds. Probably low hundreds.
Their comms have been infiltrated, with 400GB extracted. No RICO charges resulted.
They have been infiltrated. As a result, members sued Seattle's John Brown Gun Club for having lost their jobs.
They have been accused of one assault. No charges were filed, but group was ordered to pay $2.7M in civil damages.
Various members have been charged crimes ranging from vandalism to conspiracy to riot. Those that plead or were convicted got slapped on the wrist with $500 fines (and unsupervised probation in some cases.) Their leader was charged in the conspiracy to riot case in Idaho, but charges were dismissed due to mishandled evidence. (Kinda convenient.)
They act out a small number of times each year. Mostly these cosplay marches. The press dutifully clucks in disapproval.
I'm willing to credit the possibility of them with being organic, long-tail residue. They may be allowed to persist because they're mostly harmless and great fodder for the Fear Machine.
Thank you. However, I have a hard time relying on anything posted by Wikipedia and its liberal writers when it comes to global politics. I still would like Taibbi or Schellenberger to do a thorough research on the group. Their perspective would have some credibility
And, you're right. I'd like to see more investigative work here on Racket. Insightful commentary is great, but I signed on because I was impressed by the work on the Twitter Files.
You shut your mouth! WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT DOTEVSKY! And CHECKOV you lout!
You'd think one of them would be doxxed by now.
CNN - no team of data scientists working at that joint - tracked down some random schmuck who created a GIF of Trump as a wrestler jumping from the ropes to elbow an opponent with the CNN logo for a head. People get doxxed for an intemperate posting on Twitter/X by some purple-haired snout ring person all the time.
There is no way in hell one of these guys hasn't left a digital footprint, isn't in the middle of a nasty divorce with a vengeful ex, or just got drunk at a bar and started running their mouths. Unless these guys have operational security that beats anything offered by the CIA, FSB/SVR, the Mossad, etc.
My thoughts on Patriot Front
Nobody claims Astroturf does not exist, and Astroturf is generally considered fit for purpose. I'll even grant that carefully nurtured and maintained grass can sometimes be pretty hard to tell from the better grades of Astroturf.
But nobody has tossed a piece of Astroturf in the dirt and come back to find more Astroturf than they put out. And nobody sees a chunk of it on the ground and thinks it's growing wild.
Nobody denies they are certainly white supremacists and racists, or that some of them are likely organized. Those groups existed in the past (funded and sustained by Democrats, BTW) and likely still exist. Those guys the SPLC was funding appear to have developed their racial views independently (even though there is evidence they eventually changed their minds) and they also appear to have been able to attract a certain number of new adherents.
So sure, the Patriot Front is likely real, just like Antifa is real. What people notice is how differently the DNC-adjacent media and the Uniparty legal establishment treat the Patriot Front, Antifa, and various conservative groups like the Tea Party and MAGA organizations that are not likely to be controlled by the Uniparty establishment.
I love this line: "what looks like a WWE version of politics has become our actual politics."
We all get it. It's unfortunate but true.
BUT... It's not a symptom of division, it's the output of an attention economy that pays in engagement, not sincerity. The algorithm doesn't care if the flag burner or the counter-protester actually believes it.
It only cares if the clip is loud enough to travel.
Same mechanism runs the two-party system underneath it: both sides sell the same two-column con, promises they know they won't keep, dressed up in reasons that don't hold. Wrote up the receipts here if you want the full breakdown:
https://uncomfortable.rxansmithmedia.com/p/winning-arguments-losing-america
"[The algorithm] only cares if the clip is loud enough to travel."
Great point! But the underlying two-party system seems to have flipped. Trump hijacked the old-school GOP and stole the Democrats' working-class constituents, and the GOP neocons ran to the Democrat side in an effort to save the DC establishment. Meanwhile the establishment faces a big challenge from the radical left that they have been nurturing (and spying on using the FBI, which they no longer completely control.) But I don't even think that begins to explain things.
Now I'm beginning to wonder if the neo-LaRouche 'Promethean Action' people might actually have it right. https://www.prometheanaction.com/
I would argue that Trump didnt flip the GOP rulers.
He outed them as RINOs.
Bush Cheney was the largest percent expansion of government possibly ever, or at least since FDR.
Dems only dream of growing government that much every 4 or 8 years.
I find theirs is the only voice of sanity right now.
I haven't watched this b/c I don't understand what the point would be to spend almost a half hour of people yelling and caterwauling.
I don't understand why this is here; is it just filler or something?
What's the point?
Post of the day!
Thanks, man. Matt's gotta find a managing director; he's really not cut out for media entrepreneurship.
In fact, I'm pretty sure that Ben Shapiro isn't at the top of the food chain over at his website Daily Wire. I think that's a smarter way to handle it, TBH.
Because what's happening here isn't working. Not just for me, NOT WORKING.
wow . . . you guys don't get it . . . .
Missy, we get it. But you are deranged b+y your leftwing politics and can't understand other folks.
tsk, tsk, tsk . . . .
Ah! An obtuse statement a la Walter Kirn!
IDGAF how you feel, honey. You had a chance to say something and said (((NOTHING)))
Tsk, tsk, tsk . . .
too bad . . . . you two just don't get it . . . . No over-kill woke-r here, guys . . . you just don;t get it . . .
>What's the point?
Sometimes it's a nice change to see things for yourself and decide what it all means, rather than being told so by a summary made by someone else.
More data is sometimes boring, true -but if it's optional, who cares? You can always stick to the summaries of others if that's your preference.
I appreciate having the option to see data points that may have been left out of other's stories, especially when I can't get to ground zero and check things out for myself.
OK, there is that...
I guess...
The way I see it is that it will eventually just become what I described above. But fill your boots, Casey.
I definitely think we could use more data on the entities financially supporting these groups. I realize Racket might not have to capacity for this, but if any place is trying to sort out and convey this crucial information, maybe Racket could interview the reporter(s).
Taibbi does phenomenal investigative journalism. He would be the perfect man for the follow the money task at hand. Data Republican has been doing fine work on that front.
I recommend Nate Friedman's YouTube channel.
We know, in our hearts, that this country is one to be proud of. Patriots live inside every American. We are strong and not afraid of names that are meant to stir emotional responses. We are measured and have shown extreme calm under a Marxist/Islamist onslaught. Our country has been invaded, and everyone knows there are billionaires funding the leftist riots and constant acts of violence. Even your one-sided reporting will not deter our intention to save this country as the founders intended. Pride in our nation and our culture is evident across the country and spans every race. No matter how events are spun, everyone knows the truth. Some are just so stuck in an ugly ideology they can't move forward. We will continue to build and repair what you tear down. We are dedicated to the beauty that is inherent in the American tradition. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Oh get real about the Patriot Front!
Ford should ask rioters if they were paid to be there, and by whom.
I appreciate your commentary, Matt and Ford. I also appreciate our first amendment right to protest, no matter what your politics. Perhaps THAT is what makes our country special.
Not just 1A. There are ten amendments in the Bill of Rights. They all matter. All are critical. The right to possess guns is critical. The right to be free from unlawful search and seizure is critical. The right to be judged by juries is critical. The right not to be forced to testify against oneself is critical. There are more.
But they all come under the heading that ours is a government of limited powers. What is not specified as governmental power is reserved to the people. Since the days of FDR that limitation on government power has been seriously eroded. We are slowly peeling away those usurpations by Congress, the courts and Presidents.
I appreciate these video montages. Keep it up. They don’t make me proud, but they provide a glimpse of a part of the USA.
I wonder about the editing process. When people are filmed saying smart, well-informed things, are most of those segments omitted? I see a little bit of intelligent discourse, but perhaps more swearing and name calling. I would appreciate more inclusion of people clearly and rationally explaining why they are there and what they are trying to accomplish.
There will always be angry people saying mean things, and I understand that they should not be entirely excluded. But I am more interested in hearing rational people talking about things that are important to them. If Ford and his team get that on film, please present it to us.
Thanks.
"they provide a glimpse of a part of the USA"
At best a tiny glimpse. Overwhelmingly, Americans were somewhere else over the past weekend, enjoying their lives. Fischer and Taibbi seem to think this is somehow representative of something. M maybe Fischer is collecting footage at protests so he can develop a Ken Burns-esque series and sell it to PBS.
The biggest problem with Ford Fisher's coverage is that he is allowed to film the protesters. Anyone who is even lightly suspected of not being a completely loyal ally is surrounded and physically ejected from protests.
Now none of this is new (although the the arm twisting returning to the physical realm is retro new). You didn't get booked on Colbert unless you served the narrative.
If you are given a microphone and allowed to ask questions, you have already sold out.
I will be impressed with Ford Fisher when he gets his ass kicked by the same mob he is filming.
Like Andy Ngo has, I think more than once
I appreciated the "behind the scenes" peek at these Patriot Front dorks negotiating the Washington Metro. It hints at a considerable logistical tail behind these appearances. All that I have seen until now were carefully choreographed synchronized marches with flags. The natural first reaction was to assume they were feds when they first started popping up in Biden times. Just too neat, too pat, too cinematic.
In local comment threads there are "See! These are your J6 comrades!" and a few "they seem like nice guys." Their McLuhanesque performance is brilliant. Identically clad anonymous men marching silently in near perfect unison with massed flags. (The only voice we hear in this snipped is their "sergeant," urging them through the turnstiles.) The ONLY reason that we have to consider their message to be "White Supremacism" is that somebody has framed them that way. (Oh, yeah, one of the images that I saw of them had a Confederate battle flag in it.) Perhaps their spokespeople planted the idea? The press certainly scooped up the juiciness.
(Why is it that I keep thinking about The Blue Man Group?)
https://youtu.be/hiaxRa7DN1M
I have seen Antifa proudly march by more than once. They make a great effort of trying to look proud and fierce.
This Patriot Front is obviously well rehearsed. They scare the dickens out of many of us in the center right because they appear to personify all of the Left's tropes about White America. From what we saw, they were careful to avoid contact with demonstrators and somehow managed to elude counterdemonstrators.
Unlike Antifa's swaggering insolence, these chaps seem pretty mild mannered and docile. Not accidental, given how carefully curated their performances have been until now.
Whether a hardy remnant of The Order in Idaho or a Hollywood art director's vision of what a proper "White Supremacist" militia should look like, I watch in stunned fascination until somebody actually articulates a position.
**
My favorite part of the mini-doc was the Ben Franklin looking guy chanting More Ice! getting shoved by the "veteran." That moment perfectly encapsulates the Left.
The Patriot Front is the least of our problems and that why no one has even heard of them.
"...someday be iconic." Or, forgotten about in less than 20 minutes.
Ford's prior work grounded in research is not apparent on his substack. If the Patriot Front is real, then so is professional wrestling.
This was great work, very interesting and engaging.
My favorite part was toward the end when the guy who had been taking about overthrowing America starting raging about the violation of First Amendment freedoms of religious observation and expression after the police intervened to prevent the activists from burning the American flag. Classic!
Thanks to Ford Fischer/News2Share.
The patriot front is a lie
The patriot front is only a story because of the completely insane idea of group identity and group guilt.
All group identity is intellectual and moral suicide, and group guilt is such perfect example of that suicide note.
Group guilt is the idea that if a member of a group commits a sin then all members of the group have committed that sin.
If a {woman, christian, homosexual, Kate Bush fan, 32DD blasian porn star, canadian} steals a dehumidifier then every {woman, christian, homosexual, Kate Bush fan, blasian porn star, canadian} is guilty of stealing a humidifier.
On it's face, the whole idea is so shit stupid and evil, and yet group identity and group guilt is a fundamental aspect of partisan politics.
Without group identity and group guilt, the patriot front can only speak for themselves as individuals. That's not a story. Who the fuck cares what some individual idiot thinks. This "reverse stalking" can only exist within the realm of group identity and group guilt. Because no cares what your handsy drunk uncle thinks. No one.
Everything I just said is overly obvious to everyone. So why does this insanity still have any power at all.
Because far to many love the idea that their hatred scales exponentially, and that the less you know the more you hate.
Far too many get off philosophically and sexually on hatred. Like love, hate is an incredibly strong emotion, but unlike love, hatred does not require consent.
Hatred despises consent. And with that truth we are getting much closer to the bone.
The patriot front is a lie because all group identity and group guilt is a lie.
Politics attracts people who get off on hate and the exponential hate of group identity because that's what politics is selling.
Think of the nightmare that this system creates and horrible people it breeds.