https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/07/05/...t-parties/
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Last month’s events in Portland and other places indicate what an unpleasant future of civil strife looks like. Three men stabbed, two killed, when they attempted to defend two black Muslim girls from harassment by a neo-Nazi thug. Masses of hooded leftists and anarchists congregated in the streets in the days afterward, fighting street battles with uniformed white nationalists. Most alarmingly, in Portland and other places there is video footage of the police simply abandoning public spaces and pulling back to give the warring factions control of the streets(although they did occasionally intervene to arrest anti-fascist protesters). This could be a sign of things to come: the disintegration of the state, giving way to openly partisan armed groups dueling for control. Is the United States so used to plunging other countries like Iraq, Syria, and Libya into similar chaos that it somehow thinks it’s own society is immune?