Appeasement carries its own simple logic with it, the logic of the squeaky wheel getting the grease. Except with appeasement it is the knives, rioting mobs, machine guns, bombs and rockets that make the squeaking sound.
Much as liberals might wish it were otherwise, when you appease a violent sector of society you send a very simple message to all the other sectors, that if they wish to be heard, that if they wish power and concessions from the authorities, they should go and do likewise.
Democracy is premised on the idea that the citizenry does not need to resort to force in order to be heard, but decades of liberal, progressive and socialist policymaking has placed layers of bureaucracy into the system that undermine democracy, free speech and civil rights guarantees while providing special privileges to the most "oppressed" groups, which somehow tends to repeatedly overlap with the most violent groups.
When the left then begins its manufactured wailing about the rise of the far right, the relative lack of violence demonstrates how much more civilized even the so-called radical nativist elements in a country are, compared to the violent savages which the left constantly coddles.
If Israeli, European and American rightists reacted to decades of violence, murder, rape, riot, vandalism, theft, radicalism, hatred and terrorism in the way that Muslims react to a bunch of cartoons, it's doubtful that there would have been a single mosque standing anywhere in the civilized world.
Yet as the left continues to close off democratic options for native populations in favor of Muslim insurgents, banning political parties, censoring free speech, demonizing and delegitimizing and using the power of the judiciary to block political dissent all the while crying "fascism" or "neo-fascism", is it forcing a situation where violent dissent becomes increasingly likely.
The left has grown too complacent with its own propaganda, employing the boogeyman of the far right as a tool to politically terrorize the average citizen into going along with their agenda while demeaning the very idea of democracy by banning any real dissent from its policies. And having confused propaganda with reality, the left can little conceive that the very bogeyman they continue to use as a scarecrow risks being made real by their very actions.
When democracy is taken off the table and violence is rewarded both at home and abroad, a simple lesson is being taught and it is only the inherently civilized nature of the opposition in America, Europe and Israel that has avoided any descent into violence. Yet in the end if the left insists on pursuing an undemocratic path while implementing policies that are not only harmful but are on a straight line path to destroying the nations they rule, violence may become inevitable.
The left's appeasement of terrorism and terrorist populations
Appeasement has legitimized violence as the ultimate political tool and every act of appeasement, both foreign and domestic, elevates violence as a tool of political change and delegitimizes democracy. And without democracy, whether it is the populist mob or the terrorist group or the coup d'etat, force becomes the only deciding leverage in a political struggle.
That is not the kind of outcome that any seemingly reasonable liberal would want and yet it is the inevitable outcome of their policies. You cannot subvert democracy without paying a price. You cannot ban opposition political parties without paying a price. You cannot evict people from their homes, destroy communities, deprive people of law enforcement protection while employing it only against them, suppress their free speech and imprison them for participating in non-violent protests. Not without paying a price.
Democracy was the system that civilized countries arrived at, not because it was perfect, but because it allowed us to mediate transfers of power by popular vote, rather than through the barrel of a gun. The left's appeasement of terrorism and terrorist populations has shifted the balance of power away from democracy and back to the barrel of the gun. The left must now choose between democracy and the gun.
