You bring up a really good point that I hadn't thought about. All the months of riots and violence by the left didn't touch the people in the establishment, particularly the most powerful and longest reigning people in Congress. Big business can replace broken windows and stolen products or just move, but the real victims were always the small business owner and the innocents caught up in it.
Now the left did commit a lot of vandalism and protests outside the homes of these guys, and in some cases did physically assault some low level politicians, but again, nobody in 'The Cathedral.' Plus they always had the protection of private security, or police in their pocket. It wasn't until the right made them cower in their seats that they felt something they, perhaps, hadn't felt before, actual fear, actual danger. These are the same people who send you and your children off to war. Memento mori indeed.
It hit me, of all reasons, from watching 300 again (because some time away from all this is absolutely helpful, the stupider the better). And it got to the scene where Xerxes offers Leonidas unlimited power if only he kneeled. I heard much of the modern Left (especially the high elite) in what Xerxes was saying and how they were acting. And remember, at the end of the movie when Leonidas knicks him with a javelin and causes him to bleed, he starts losing his shit and starts to leave from his own delusions about godhood.
You bring up a really good point that I hadn't thought about. All the months of riots and violence by the left didn't touch the people in the establishment, particularly the most powerful and longest reigning people in Congress. Big business can replace broken windows and stolen products or just move, but the real victims were always the small business owner and the innocents caught up in it.
Now the left did commit a lot of vandalism and protests outside the homes of these guys, and in some cases did physically assault some low level politicians, but again, nobody in 'The Cathedral.' Plus they always had the protection of private security, or police in their pocket. It wasn't until the right made them cower in their seats that they felt something they, perhaps, hadn't felt before, actual fear, actual danger. These are the same people who send you and your children off to war. Memento mori indeed.
It hit me, of all reasons, from watching 300 again (because some time away from all this is absolutely helpful, the stupider the better). And it got to the scene where Xerxes offers Leonidas unlimited power if only he kneeled. I heard much of the modern Left (especially the high elite) in what Xerxes was saying and how they were acting. And remember, at the end of the movie when Leonidas knicks him with a javelin and causes him to bleed, he starts losing his shit and starts to leave from his own delusions about godhood.
Then the events in DC went down, and it clicked.