Fine People- With No One to Blame?

Just when you think it has gotten as bad as it can, it goes on.
Mr. Trump called (at least some of) the white supremacists, "fine people." They are (?):

• Fine people who have a bad attitude? 
• Fine people who want to get rid of the Jews?
• Fine people who are ready to beat up anyone who isn't white- and even some who are.
• Fine people who wave a flag that by its very nature represents hatred and absolutely nothing that is part of the American tradition.
• Fine people who aren't to blame when patriotic Americans want to stop their hatred and violence.

When we move into a relativistic morality where everyone is correct and has a right to their opinion, even when it's hateful, we have stepped over into a moral dilemma of epic proportions. It is what can undermine who we are as a nation.

In a free-speech decision, the Supreme Court prior to World War I (Schenck v. United States) made some interesting and still in force decisions. One is the classic- free speech does not give you the right to cry fire in a crowded theater. It said, in its unanimous decision, that freedom of speech does not protect dangerous speech. Freedom of speech protection afforded in the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment could be restricted, they said, if the words spoken or printed represented to society a “clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils which Congress has a right to prevent.” (-Link)

In my opinion, the Nazi/White Supremacist speech is, almost by definition, dangerous speech. By what it wants to do, it presents a clear and present danger to a civil American society and threatens those who they want to rid our society of with danger.

Yet those who protest them are as bad as they are? They are as much to blame? If the anti-Nazi protestor hadn't been there, she wouldn't have been killed by one of the Nazi sympathizers. If the anti-Nazi protestors hadn't shown up, there wouldn't have been a problem and no one would have gotten hurt. Of course that's somewhat true, but if the crime victim hadn't been walking down the street they wouldn't have been robbed.

Were there "fine people" on the white supremacist side in the demonstration? I would assume there were. Fine people can have horrendous opinions. That does not give their opinions more credence. It simply calls their decision-making skills into question.

If we have any doubts left about who Mr. Trump is aiming to please, David Duke, former leader of the KKK, took them away. As did Mr. Trump.

I pray I am not simply being a over-reacting alarmist, but we are facing the most clear and present danger to our American democracy that we have seen in a long time, maybe even since the 1860s. May saner heads and ideas prevail.