ADL: More than 100 midterm candidates hold extremist views
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ADL: More than 100 midterm candidates hold extremist views
Israel National News 3-3 minutes 1/25/2022
The Anti-Defamation League is sending a warning that it is tracking more than 100 candidates in the upcoming 2022 Congressional midterm elections who it says hold extremist views.
The ADL’s Center on Extremism said that these candidates “promote extreme views, associate with extremists, and/or promote potentially dangerous conspiracy theories.”
According to the ADL, “Support for such candidates demonstrates a continuing shift of the so-called Overton Window – the parameters of what is considered “normal” or “acceptable” in political and social discourse. This ever-shifting window signals an expanding mainstream acceptance of extreme beliefs and ideologies.”
They added that their list is increasing on a “near-daily basis,” and includes over a dozen candidates with known connections to extremist groups or movements, including white supremacists, anti-government extremists and members of the Proud Boys.
“At least two dozen candidates have expressed admiration for or appeared in public alongside extremists,” the ADL said.
The ADL accused many of these candidates of “boosting conspiracy theories.”
“We know conspiracy theories have the power to inspire people to violence; the bizarre claims behind Pizzagate, QAnon and many more have been linked to attacks, kidnappings and targeted violence,” they said. “When candidates use their campaigns to elevate these fabricated ‘crises,’ they are exposing the public to dangerous lies and contributing to the mainstreaming of extreme beliefs.”
Adding that at least 45 candidates have “lent credence in some way to the QAnon conspiracy theory” or “posted QAnon-related social media content in 2020 or earlier,” the ADL charged that several candidates have continued to promote the conspiracy theory while running for office.
“In 2021, candidates tweeted QAnon’s WWG1WGA slogan, including Darren Aquino, a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives (R-FL), so-called election-fraud witness Mellissa Carone who is running for a seat in the Michigan House of Representatives, and U.S. congressional candidate (R-CA) Alison Hayden,” the ADL said.
They also warned that dozens of candidates have promoted “a range of disproven conspiracy theories including those related to the 2020 election, the January 6 insurrection, the deep state and the COVID-19 pandemic that have been associated with violence.”
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Our country is in a degraded condition.
Look at who is in charge!
I believe that most everyone in the US is concerned about the safety of US citizens.
Do you believe that open borders and having over 1.4 million gang members is a factor or is the majority of instability in the US caused by people of European descent trying to overthrow the government?
and an FBI website with pages of arrest records of gang members of just the last few months.
There has been extensive gang activity in the United States for decades. Somewhat the same for the border situation.
So I guess the recent difference is the people of European descent trying to overthrow the government.
You think what is going on at the border is the same old, same old? Try again.
Living in denial is what the left does. Trump is all they have.
I live 6 blocks from the AZ/Mexico border fence and I can guarantee that things are not even close to what they have been in the past. It has gotten significantly worse! Only someone who lives nowhere near or on the border would think otherwise.
And take a close look at what Democrats have done for both of those situations.
Gang activity - Democrat run cities have cut the budgets of the police force resulting in manning cuts and an increase in the violent crime rate.
Southern Border - Democrats have stopped construction of the border wall allowing thousands to cross the border. Among those crossing the border are gang members (imagine that) that have brought increases in the drug problems in the US and increased violent crime (which is also attributed to the cuts of police budgets under the retarded "Defund the Police" bullshit pushed by the left).
"Gang activity - Democrat run cities have cut the budgets of the police force resulting in manning cuts and an increase in the violent crime rate."
PROVE IT.
I know you cannot.
What open borders?
Plus, John is right.
You're incorrect.
What else is new?
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No proof. No nothing. As usual.
Looked at the chart. There have been 18 years out of the past 30 years when the border crossings have been more than 1 million.
Some numbers
2005 - 1,170,000
2004 - 1, 130,000
2001 - 1, 235, 000
2000 - 1, 600, 000
1999 - 1,500,000
1998 - 1,500, 000
1986 - 1,600,000
and more
There is NOT a tremendous disparity between those figures and last year. It is a lie to act as if current numbers are totally unprecedented. Is it an issue? Of course its an issue that requires bi-partisan comprehensive action. Is it something that should cause Biden to be impeached? Ludicrous. Unless we also impeached Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W Bush for similar figures. And those three presidents were re-elected for a second term despite having years of + one million illegal crossings.
That was 12 years ago. The difference between 29,000 and 33,000 is not that significant.
Here is gang activity from 1996 -2010. It has been over 30,000 before and usually over 25,000 . Usually. The gang issue has existed at similar levels to today for decades. I am sure the levels for the 80's and 90's would look similar.
There have been previous years that are close to the number of illegal crossings as last year. There have been years when the gang activity was similar to last year.
What there hasnt been before is years when the political far right tried to overthrow a legitimate election or years when conspiracy nuts ran for office as Republicans in large numbers. 45 Q Anon adherents running for a seat in the US Congress ? My god.
So I'm right in line with your standards.
I understand - it's quite deceptive to show data from 12 years ago - and realize there is no real significant difference.
What's that called - leaving out key information - a lie of omission?
Can you please provide a source for the above data?
Measuring-1.png (712×432) (googlegroups.com)
Obviously not.
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Your words. Not mine. I'm just following step.
I'm sorry but the attachment you provided is for gangs. It was the same one you posted above. It says absolutely nothing about illegal border crossing numbers. And even if it did, the statistics stop at 2010. The huge surge in numbers has only occurred only in the last decade or less.
Uh, I thought that was what you were asking about. The graph on the border crossings came from someone else. I just took a more extended look at it.
As far as the number of gangs, high figures for that are not new. As I showed, there were 30,000 plus figures for gangs going back to the 1990's. Although I havent looked it up yet, I have a strong feeling the figures were high for the 1980's too. Remember the Death Wish movies ?
Here, I took this from a link provided by Ronin
U.S. Border Patrol Fiscal Year Southwest Border Sector Apprehensions (FY 1960 - FY 2020) (cbp.gov)
Why are you posting something from three months ago as proof of anything? It's not proof of anything.
Still waiting on that proof which has not been provided.
There are budget cuts everywhere, not just 'Democrat run cities'. What nonsense.
The proof is in the very first paragraph. The biggest cities where crime is rampant. Democrat run.
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Still waiting on proof which has not been provided.
There are budget cuts everywhere, not just 'Democrat run cities'. What nonsense.
Show the class the crime stats and budget cuts from some cities that aren't Democrat run for comparison or give it up. [deleted]
Yes, budget cuts are everywhere. But they are highly predominant in Democrat run cities! Not nonsense at all.
And your point is?
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