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Judging from Evan Coyne Maloney’s latest documentary video, there’s a line of thinking on the Left that says they should overthrow our government by force. I’m curious whether they really mean it, or whether they’re just saying these things for shock value.
Evidently it’s not exclusively the extremists on the Left saying this stuff. Just recently a friend of mine—an actual friend of mine—said the same thing. To me.
Let’s call this friend of mine Logan. I have lots of great friends who are Liberals. For some reason they like to talk politics with me. I enjoy talking politics of course, so that’s fine with me. Occasionally I get a surprise out of their arguments. A week or so ago I saw House of Flying Daggers with Logan. The protagonists in the film were people who were trying to overthrow a corrupt government by force. Afterwards Logan said, you know, we should have that here. All tyrants and despots should be overthrown. We should overthrow our government by force. I said, you’re just kidding, you’re just trying to get my goat. But he kept saying it. So after a while I said, “You don’t believe in democracy, do you?” He said, “Yes I do.” I said, “You want to overthrow a democratically elected government, that just got elected, in this country, by force. You’re the tyrant. You’re the despot.” I dunno, I think maybe I got through to him a little bit.
