A question raging on my community's local discussion group is:
Would you show up for a counter-protest if the Nazis wanted to have a rally here?
Interesting question, with some interesting responses being offered.
So, in your community, if you heard in advance that the Nazis were going to show up and have a permitted rally on your village green, what actions would you engage in? What would be your reasoning?
Me personally, I prefer distance from disorder when it's appropriate and moral. Showing up at a LARPing event to enter the fray holds no appeal to me. Yet for other causes I've shown up in person, and provided aid and assistance to one or both sides.
Practically, here, we have only a handful of sheriff's deputies to help keep the peace, and would not be able to handle an event of the sort Charlottesville just experienced. Our local citizenry is pretty progressive, and even the conservatives tend towards the robust libertarian get-off-my-lawn side of things. We can produce several hundred protesters here for your normal run-of-the-mill causes, out of a population of several thousand, pretty much any day of the week. If a handful of Nazis showed up, we'd likely have thousands of people counter-protesting.
Random neural firings...