So the big anti, anti fascist rally of the Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer, and 3 Percenters took place in Portland on Saturday.
I drove my bus which happens to usually go across the bridge that the police closed to allow the fascists passage to the other side of the river without letting them get close to the counter protesters. My bus was rerouted pretty much all that day. I did not drive my bus near where the fascists were but did drive through huge throngs of Antifa.
What I observe about Antifa is this: they are ordinary citizens, Portlanders that I see all around me every day. Some of the younger kids wear all black clothes and masks. Why the masks, I don’t know. And I saw a picture of the Proud Boys walking across the Hawthorne bridge and they were also wearing masks. I don’t know why. What’s with the masks? It’s a mystery.
Antifa, numbers-wise was huge. A large chunk of the population of Portland showed up. I don’t believe this was reported in any media reports, at least it wasn’t reported in anything that I have seen or read. There were a couple of hundred fascists. Antifa, contrary to the menacing, threatening image presented by the media is simply ordinary citizens who came out to express their opposition to the very real threat they feel in the America that Trump is trying with all his might to blow up. I don’t think that anyone, especially the media, can claim that Antifa are all radical leftists when what they are is simply, citizens, of all stripes and persuasions. Those who make the generalization that Antifa are leftists and all radical are wrong. It’s simply not true. They do not know what they are talking about because they really know nothing about Antifa at all.
Antifa means anti-fascist. That is really all there is to it. They are not an organized group. They do not have an ideology except to stand up against what threatens them which is rabid racism, hatred, xenophobia, homophobia, religious bigotry and intolerance, and fascism. Antifa would not exist if there were no threat to bring them to the streets and away from their normal activities. Antifa only exists because this fascist threat exists.
The 3 groups of fascists who came to Portland came here from other places. They flew in or drove here from other states. They are not native to Portland. Why do they come to Portland to publicize their venomous hatred and stir up the people here? Who is financing their coming to Portland?
What are they trying to accomplish? Are they trying to start the civil war that the hard right media keeps trying to promote?
Fascists seem to think Portland is fertile ground for them to try to achieve their goals so they come here with false hopes. They are met by people who do not welcome them here, do not want them here, and oppose everything they stand for. If they want to continue to come to Portland I guess they are free to do so. But they will never be met with a warm embrace. They can continue to come here and spend their money doing so. They can go out to our food carts and our strip clubs, (I picked up one of them who was sloshed and smelled like a distillery and was a blathering idiot who didn’t know the first thing about riding the bus. He had probably gotten drunk at the nearby strip club and maybe he even had gyro at the Iraqi take out shop across the street from it. These guys do all they can do while they are away from home because they probably don’t have the opportunity to do any of it at home.) So, I guess even though they are detested here, fascists seem to think they have a real opportunity to stir things up here. They don’t. But as long as they spend their money on the local economy and then go back to their holes at home we here in Portland will take their money and wish them good riddance when they leave.
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