I recently found a flier lodged under my car windshield wipers. It read, Antifa meeting at 7 p.m. on the first and third Wednesdays of each month and gave me an address. Come alone, as this is top secret, the flier noted at the bottom. It told me that when I got to the secret location, Id have to knock six times and give a password to be allowed entry.

I looked around, wondering if the person who left it on my car was watching me.

I was curious. For the last few years, President Trump, along with a family member who gets her news from Facebook, has claimed antifa is a terrorist group responsible for all the violence in America. Antifa is blamed by some for causing the recent race riots in my city of Minneapolis and others around the country, so I decided to check out the meeting and this is what I learned.

Antifa has roots in Germany and throughout Europe dating back to the 1920s. This came as a surprise since I keep hearing its a new, very organized group that came up from the underworld and magically showed up in Charlottesville in 2017.

Antifa really isnt an organization. Instead, its this insane belief that fascism, nazism and white supremacy is bad. Were you against Hitler and the German forces in World War II? Congratulations you too are antifa. Your free T-shirt and membership card will arrive in the mail in six to eight weeks.

People with the antifa mindset also have this crazy idea that health care should be affordable, all races are equal and woman should be gasp equal to men.

Did you know those who identify with antifa also believe police brutality is wrong and that some cops are bad people?

When it comes to the LGBTQ movement (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer), antifa believes they should have the same rights as straight people. The nerve!

Antifa terrorizes young minds with this wild notion that hate of any kind is bad. They work to instill secret weapons of knowledge, including real facts and history, to show why facsism is bad.

Antifa believes people of all backgrounds can coexist and live in harmony as long as they wait for it listen to each other.

While theyve been labeled a terrorist organization, the Ku Klux Klan has not. Seems odd, huh?

Is it Ant-e-fuh or Aunt-e-fuh? I still dont know and nobody could really tell me.

Yes, there is a secret handshake but I cant tell you what it is because I took an oath to never share it with anyone who isnt antifa.

Will I go back to another antifa meeting? Probably not since weeknights are hard for me. I prefer spending time with my family and I like to go to bed by 10 p.m.

Oh, and also because there are no antifa meetings.

Rachel Brougham is the former assistant editor of the Petoskey News-Review. You can email her at racheldbrougham@gmail.com. You can also find her on Twitter @rachelbrougham and Instagram @rachbrougham.

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