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The Right, the Far-Right, and the 'Far-Right'

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Earlier in January, I wrote an article that highlighted how anti-ICE protesters have gotten so high on their own self-righteousness that they've gone beyond just trying to harass and assault U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents; they've moved on to confronting anyone who may look even remotely like they associate with or even approve of ICE. 

There's a moment where the mob confronts an innocent man for simply driving an SUV and forces him to open his car to show them what's in it. They intimidate him into compliance with whatever they want, and tell him that he needs to rent a different kind of car because the mob isn't responsible for what happens to him if he doesn't. 


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This is hardly the only example of these radicals putting innocents at risk out of mere suspicion. The infamous Don Lemon-led invasion of a church is the most high-profile example, but the examples are mounting daily. Two tech workers were mistaken for ICE while eating at a restaurant and accosted by the mob. 

This woman was confronted by an anti-ICE mob after a car followed them for an hour. 

I want you to keep these images in your mind because I want you to see how the media juxtaposes the opposition to this clearly rabid and highly dangerous mob. 

Here is The Guardian's take on the discovery of the Signal chat that was helping to coordinate a lot of the mob actions you see above. 

Obviously, The Guardian is trying to paint something that actually happened as a QAnon-level conspiracy with selective wording, chief of which is the term "far-right." 

This begs the question that no one on the Left seems to want to ask or answer: What is the "far-right?" 

After giving it some thought, I'm having a hard time believing it exists, and I don't say that from the perspective of ideological bias, which I fully acknowledge I have. What's getting in my way is how fast the "right" as we know it here in America is willing to dismiss and decategorize those who would consider themselves further right than the Right. 

The furthest right you could get, according to the body politic, is a mix of libertarianism and conservatism, that is to say, conservative when it comes to social values and libertarian when it comes to government power. The least "right" you could be is, frankly, a moderate Democrat thanks to the ever-changing and never boring course of human events. Some examples of this would be people like RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and John Fetterman. 

When we talk about the far-right, we've seen examples offered up like Candace Owens or, socially speaking, Andrew Tate. The thing is, if you listen to them speak and listen to their suggestions for how things should be run and done, they start to sound like leftists, just with different priorities on some subjects and similar outlooks to the Left on many others. 

That said, there is definitely a "right," but if you're a leftist in the modern day, the center/center-right part of the nation may look like the far-left because the Left has run so far in its defining direction that everything to the Right looks like it's deep in right-leaning territory. I've written incessantly about the Left and its mentality as of late because I think the psychology of what makes a modern leftist is so incredible and mindblowing that I hope it's studied sometime in the near future, like one would a virus. 


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It's in this psychology that we see something interesting take shape. The left thinks it's not crazy. It believes, in fact, that they are the only sane ones in the room, as I show in the Chicken Little piece I linked above. They think they're the moderates doing the right thing, and everyone else has become extremists. They believe their extremism is justified behavior caused by others going to extremes on the Right. 

To sum it up, they use "far-right" as a propaganda tool to gas up tensions, then fall into believing their own propaganda until it becomes a feedback loop where the Left has become the extreme Left and everyone else has become the far-right. The far-right doesn't actually exist; it's just the center-left/center/center right, and those who claim to be or are typically labeled as "far-right" with any legitimacy are actually just leftists of a different stripe. 

It's all confusing until you realize that the ones doing all the labeling on the main stage are so far out of touch that they can't even tell you what they are with any accuracy anymore. 

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