I don't think I said one was worse than the other.... but one certainly has significantly more backing in the public.... there is no contest.... not even CLOSE!
Uhhhhh...yeahNO.
I think I figured out what you're getting at but I'd like to suggest that the public really isn't fully aware of what they're seeing.
I say that because they never are until a bit later.
("What was the license number of that dump truck?")
Let me tell you about the late 1960's if I may...
The Vietnam antiwar movement got taken over, infiltrated. It happened so quickly that most people didn't even realize it was happening. People didn't want our country committing young men to a meat grinder with no clear purpose, no clear plan and no end game.
It went from a homegrown movement to something sponsored by Communist Party USA in the space of a year.
I didn't sign up for indoctrination into communism, nobody I knew gave a crap about it, we just thought the war was a sham.
Sorry but I remember the early days of the antiwar movement like it was yesterday, and I can tell you almost to the exact moment when it was clear that the infiltration had taken hold.
There were two major marches on Washington DC that I recall, one in 1970 and another in 1971.
May 9, 1970, a hundred thousand, maybe 150 thousand kids, mothers, fathers marched on the White House.
President Richard Nixon came out, UNESCORTED by Secret Service, and talked to the protesters.
The Kent State massacre had just happened a few days earlier and yet Tricky Dick (God bless that bastard in retrospect - compared to NOW!) decided he needed to connect with this homegrown group, and he did. I don't remember seeing a single red flag or hammer and sickle.
Look at this picture, there's people from all walks of life there, clean cut kids mixed in with hippies, black, white, you name it.
A year later (1971) the "Washington Area Peace Action Coalition" organized a "March on Washington" and it was a veritable Sargasso Sea of communist style ephemera, they could have opened up a goddamned merch table in Red Square with all the crap they had flying in the air. I was at that march, I was fourteen. I witnessed paid agitators firsthand, watched them start fights and then blend seamlessly into the background.
Mostly the general public doesn't quite know what to make of AntiFa. They're being told conflicting reports. CNN is vacillating so quickly between faltering portrayals of "anti-hate group" and "black clad rioters" that it's like watching a ping pong match depending on who's doing the reporting. It's almost like a power struggle between two opposing managing editors behind the scenes. Of course the attacks on the news guys the other day may have tipped the vector for keeps now. CNN, like any other news outlet, isn't too fond of seeing reporters being beaten up.
I guarantee you that most people didn't realize right off that AntiFa has solid backing from CPUSA, although by now, if they're seeing all the flags, they're hastily growing suspicious.
Most people who were at the Occupy protests had no idea that they were being infiltrated until way too late.
Occupy started out much the same way, homegrown, loosely organized, largely leaderless, ad hoc. Then the black clad anarchists showed up.
Most people are against neo-Nazis, Klan, anti-government sovereign citizens and white supremacists, and they want to march and show their position against hate. But just like Occupy, it's too late now. It's now a **** show between AntiFa and the alt-Right.
Homegrown voices of protest are mostly drowned out now.
