Comments by "Mark Zuckergecko" (@markzuckergecko621) on "What the Rittenhouse Trial Reveals About the Left" video.

And completely ignores that the rioters shouldn't have been there either.
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They're incrementally pulling people close to their side. And I don't think even a lot of conservatives realize what they're doing. They start with the most bat shit insane, extreme and obviously incorrect position, like Rittenhouse was the attacker when he was in fact the victim, and reasonable people with a tendency to see both sides will try to take some kind of "middle ground", like Kyle shouldn't have been there, or he was morally wrong but legally innocent. When that's not the reasonable position at all, the reasonable position is that he acted with courage and restraint, and acted in self defense only when he had to. They know that their position is wrong, they're only trying to pull you closer to their position, piece by piece. They've done the same thing with gun rights over several decades, with race relations, with virtually everything else you can even think of and numerous other things you've never thought of.
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@nielsdejong yup. That's exactly what they're doing. The right today is considerably further left than it was 20 years ago.
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@nielsdejong it's the same principle as "the big ask" in negotiating, where you start out with an outrageously high price, pretend like that's the final offer, no wiggle room whatsoever. And when they say that's crazy, get outta here, you say ok fine, and come with an offer that's still higher than a reasonable price, but much closer to a reasonable price than your initial insane offer. And they take it, feeling like they've gotten you to mark it down a whole lot. But you really actually asked for more than what it's worth.
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Just because it conjures an image of Rambo firing off a thousand rounds indiscriminately, to you, doesn't mean it should be called something else. Every time you fire a gun you're "opening fire" even if it's only one shot.
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