"There is good reason for people on the left to have divisiveness on
their minds. In the news and on social media, the leftists that are
shown most often are those that are
ranting and raging at each other, calling each other out over this
badly-phrased thought or that impulsive tweet, or exposing one another
as less liberal or tolerant than their comrades. We're also regularly
force fed images of 'activists' who are dressed identically in black,
attacking cops who themselves seem to be dressed for a round on Robot
Wars.
There’s a common
theme underlying both kinds of coverage: in it, we only ever see the
left wing in a state of conformism, a state of attack against whatever
doesn't fit neatly into its narrow parameters of 'ideal.’ At a
subconscious level, this preconditions us to view activism as a
rejection, rather than an affirmation of certain ideals. As a result,
fear, not hope, becomes the public's only motivation for living up to
the left's demands."
