by Alan J. Feifer
The modern Democrat party bears no relationship to the old, blue-collar, middle- and working-class party of old that wanted a better life for families.
Whenever political violence or incendiary rhetoric hits the news, Democrats are spring-loaded, blurring the facts and insisting that “both sides” are equally to blame. But the truth isn’t nuanced here. For years now, it’s been Democrats and progressives who can’t control their emotions, their rhetoric, or increasingly, their own relationships.
Watch the news on any given day, and the pattern is unmistakable: instead of civil discourse, we get rage; instead of argument, we get shrill absolutism—even in the wake of another presidential assassination attempt. This shows up in two places: Democrats’ inability to maintain personal relationships and the performative fury we constantly witness, from sitting senators pounding desks to ecstatic whistle-blowing activists reveling in the chaos they create.
A peer-reviewed study entitled “Political breakups: Interpersonal consequences of polarization,” makes the point starkly. Thirty-seven percent of Americans report losing a relationship over politics, and it’s Democrats who drive the trend: they initiate these breakups at nearly three times the rate of Republicans. Two-thirds of Democrats—compared to one-third of Republicans—have severed ties with friends, relatives, even spouses over political differences. You need to be a political fanatic to jettison family and friends.
Democrats also falsely hide behind the tired claim that “both sides” engage in political violence. Let’s be honest: largely, their only data point for both sides-ism is January 6, which was overwhelmingly non-violent, with all deaths occurring amongst protestors, not police or politicians. (Ashli Babbitt was shot, Rosanne Boyland may have been beaten to death, Kevin Greeson had a heart attack, and Benjamin Philips had a stroke.)
Once you abandon the J6 narrative, the numbers paint a different story. Post-J6 right-wing political violence has been, at most, sporadic and small-scale. Meanwhile, left-leaning and anarchist-aligned groups have driven the most destructive period of civil unrest in American history.
The 2020–2022 riots produced more than 2,000 injured officers, over 14,000 arrests, and an estimated $1-2 billion in insured losses alone. By contrast, the entire universe of post-J6 right-wing incidents tracked by the Center for Strategic and International Studies amounts to only a few dozen cases per year—mostly threats or minor assaults, not mass arson or city-wide destruction. On scale, duration, and damage, the comparison collapses, and despite Democrat assertions to the contrary, there really is nothing to see here, folks.
Taken together, these facts raise serious questions about the psychological stability of the modern progressive movement. The evidence clearly demonstrates a progressive left unable to regulate its emotions and its conduct. The interpersonal volatility documented in the breakup study mirrors the public volatility we see in the streets: emotional absolutism, performative rage, and a willingness to sever relationships or burn cities when reality refuses to conform to their expectations.
What this ultimately reveals is a cultural temperament that has drifted far from the habits required of a stable, self-governing people. A movement that once preached tolerance now treats any disagreement as a threat, dissolving friendships and family bonds with the same ease that activists torch property or blockade campuses.
The Democrats’ worldview cannot coexist with dissent because dissent destabilizes the fragile moral certainty on which it depends. So the cycle repeats: sever the relationship, denounce the heretic, insist that “both sides” are equally guilty, and return to grievance and escalation.
In the end, the data on political breakups and the record of post-J6 violence point to the same conclusion—the modern Left is not merely polarized; it is emotionally brittle, culturally unstable, and increasingly incapable of the restraint that a free society requires. Give it enough time, and it will collapse like the house of cards it is. But we would be better served by confronting the backers of all this mayhem sooner rather than later, thereby forestalling the damage we’re enduring.
God Bless America!
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Alan J. Feifer
Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/05/emotional_incontinence_and_violence_are_now_hardwired_into_dems.html
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