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Which Political Party has more Violent Rallies?

Which Party has more violent Ralliers?

  • The Left

    Votes: 7 36.8%

  • The Right

    Votes: 2 10.5%

  • Unsure/Neither

    Votes: 10 52.6%
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Does the right or the left roughly have more violent demonstrators?

To me the left typically has more, and naturally leftists believe conservatives have more.

Do you think there's a way to roughly estimate which groups within either side are more violent?
 
Violent in what sense? I don't recall seeing a lot of violent action from the TP protests or the OWS protests thus far.
 
Wake said:
Does the right or the left roughly have more violent demonstrators?

To me the left typically has more, and naturally leftists believe conservatives have more.

Do you think there's a way to roughly estimate which groups within either side are more violent?
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Uhh, not necessarily. No, I don't think there's a way, given that "right" and "left" are terms that are sometimes highly subjective. Also keep in mind that OWS is in no way a homogenous movement. I've seen a lot of posters characterize them as typical hippies and socialists from the age of counterculture, which is an overwhelming generalization. Keep in mind that there are lots of Ron Paul "end the Fed" folks participating in OWS as well, and in a sense their demands overlap (being against the Wall Street bailouts of 3 yrs ago, for instance).
 
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tessaesque said:
Violent in what sense? I don't recall seeing a lot of violent action from the TP protests or the OWS protests thus far.
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Kicking/puncing/riots/destruction of property/etc.

Haven't seen much from the OWS so far, but I've been told there's no evidence for any violence from liberal rallies at all, like G20 or the illegal immigration riots.
 
The Democratic party is a "leftwing" party?
And hell all these protesters in the streets are "democrats" per say?
 
Wake said:
Does the right or the left roughly have more violent demonstrators?

To me the left typically has more, and naturally leftists believe conservatives have more...
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Right-wing rallies tend to have more firearms, meant to intimidate.

Sorry, but I consider bringing firearms to a political rally in order to intimidate people, an act of passive violence.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
The Democratic party is a "leftwing" party?
And hell all these protesters in the streets are "democrats" per say?
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Leftist, yes. Socalist/progressive rallies are from the left. Pro-illegal immigration riots/rallies are typically supported by the left.

Union riots/rallies are typically done/supported by the left.
 
Thunder said:
Right-wing rallies tend to have more firearms, meant to intimidate.

Sorry, but I consider bringing firearms to a political rally in order to intimidate people, an act of passive violence.
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So the racial epithets, effigies, and destruction of property at some recent union rallies would count, too, I'm assuming?
 
Thunder said:
Right-wing rallies tend to have more firearms, meant to intimidate.

Sorry, but I consider bringing firearms to a political rally in order to intimidate people, an act of passive violence.
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Unlike you, some believe that armed civillians are safer civillians. You may as well be giving that argument ammo.
 
Wake said:
Unlike you, some believe that armed civillians are safer civillians. You may as well be giving that argument ammo.
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bringing firearms to an angry political rally, is an act of intimidation using weapons that can kill.

that is not cool...nor peaceful.
 
Wake said:
Leftist, yes.
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No the Democratic party is not a left wing party. Just because they are slightly to the left of Republican does not make them left wing.

Socalist/progressive rallies are from the left.
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Socialists parties are the left yes. But your question was "which party" implying democratic or republican...

Pro-illegal immigration riots/rallies are typically supported by the left.
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Ok.....
So your saying if a riot breaks out the left supports that riot?


Union riots/rallies are typically done/supported by the left.
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Haha when was the last union riot in the US!?
 
tessaesque said:
So the racial epithets, effigies, and destruction of property at some recent union rallies would count, too, I'm assuming?
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none of that was proved to be the union, btw. all heresay.
 
Thunder said:
Neo-Nazi, KKK, anti-immigrant, are all Right-wing rallies.
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I guess if there are all of those things on the right, you could count any sort of violent protests of the labor movements in the Industrial revolution, the Black Panther Movement, etc. as left-wing. Although I would say that these didn't necessarily represent their parties' views (the labor movement was more of a grass-roots thing at first).

My conclusion: Radicals on either side tend to be quite violent. Quantifying it would be essentially impossible.
 
Wake said:
Does the right or the left roughly have more violent demonstrators?

To me the left typically has more, and naturally leftists believe conservatives have more.

Do you think there's a way to roughly estimate which groups within either side are more violent?
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Seems to me the left is the more violent of the two groups. Conservatives tend to be older, more mellow, relax in a beach chair demonstration type of crowd. Not that there aren't exceptions to that. Whereas Liberals tend to be younger and more energized
 
liblady said:
none of that was proved to be the union, btw. all heresay.
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Just like the racial epithets supposedly voiced to Rangel at that one TP rally, right? The ones that nobody ever caught on video?
 
Wake said:
Does the right or the left roughly have more violent demonstrators?

To me the left typically has more, and naturally leftists believe conservatives have more.

Do you think there's a way to roughly estimate which groups within either side are more violent?
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the OP thread and OP title are asking two different things.

the answer to the OP title is "neither", since Republican nor Democrat rallies really ever get violent.

if the question is instead left vs. right, which is a MUCH broader spectrum of though, then I would say Left rallies tend to be more violent, while Right rallies tend to have move violent language, racism, homophobia, and gun-possession...which is an act of intimidation with a deadly weapon.
 
I tend to see that true left wing protests like progressive, socialist, communist, anarchists, or some sort of anti globalization/capitalist/free trade/police brutality protests are more in your face because the left seems to be more about having their voice heard via protest and hitting the streets, but i tend to see the left get violent when 1)the cops come in and start beating the **** out of protesters or start abusing them or 2) when some violent anarchists start breaking **** and the media paints the whole left wing as violent (an example of this is the WTO protests).
 
Wake- which question do you want answered?

the question in the title or the question in the thread?
 
There were many more arrests of leftists protesting the RNC than of righties protesting the DNC.

Neither were what I would call "violent" really.
 
Wake said:


Union protestors broke into the state capital.
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Hahahah thats a riot!? That is not a riot... Citizens going into the state capital which may i remind you they have every right to be there....
 
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