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CMV: Extremists are playing radicalization leapfrog with one another at the expense of the rest of us.

In the US, there are a certain number of militants on either end of the political spectrum who have more in common with each other than they do with the rest of us. 

Likewise the vast majority of us are pitted against the spectre of opposition that is colored by whatever extreme sect is housed under the opposing banner, when in reality we have much more in common with one another than we do with our own extremists. 

This is not a philosophy or policy debate, an appeal to centrist politics or a both-sidesism. I’m simply claiming that militant escalation suits the desires of a certain percentage of the right and the left, and those politics should be uprooted from either side so the rest of us can get back to bickering over at least a slightly healthier population. 

As always, the caveat here is that I don’t “wish” for my view to be changed. I wish to know about it if my view should be changed.
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Two opening questions - is there any situation where you would accept extremism as an appropriate response? Say someone like John Brown who was an anti slavery militant. 

The second question is in what ways are left wing and right wing extremism related? It’s really hard for me to take seriously the claim that one side with multiple organized militias and a history of terrorism, is the same of concerning as the side that organizes protests. There are people who militant on the left, but they are less prone to straight up terrorism and tend to think that lone gunman attacks won’t really help their cause. 

Also, both sides have very different ideological motivations. The Capitol Hill stormers were largely QAnon believers. Other manifestations of the far right have been things like Charlottesville, where folks chanted anti Semitic and racist chants and one act of terrorism was committed. While people on the left tend to be motivated by universal healthcare access, anti-racism, anti-war, and anti-poverty causes. It seems intellectually dishonest to say those people who believe America is controlled by a pedophile cabal that’s going to eradicate the white race who then attacked the US Capitol, and some guy who smashed a Walmart window at “please stop having agents of the state strangle people” protest are the same.