Kavanaugh Nomination

Actually, I was just thinking about this the other day
And I think the opposite, that modern day protestors should mirror the Civil Rights protests
During the Civil Rights movement black people took the general attitude that they had to appear 3 times as respectable as any given white person in order to be taken seriously
Thats why they protested in suits



Modern day protestors would be wise to follow suit (hehe pardon the pun) and do everything in their power to appear more respectable, calmer, wiser, more intelligent than their opposition

 

I get what you're saying, but at the same time, you can't really do anything about the people who support Trump-- they're too far gone. Look at the comments by the rwnjs on this board-- stuff like 'who will the libruls attack next?'. There is no way to reach these people. None. And they are the ones who are upset by 'political correctness' (AKA: not being racist or sexist). We've actually gotten to the point where it's more socially acceptable to be a racist than to fight racism... and why is that, exactly? Because people don't want to confront it? Because their being 'sick and tired of being told how to think' is somehow a greater wrong than black people being shot by the police for being black? These people do not deserve a voice in any society, and yet because of the GOP and Trump's way with the media, they are front and center. They need to be marginalized and ignored, not catered to.

The way out of this isn't to compromise or back down, it isn't to try to win over the people who will hate libruls no matter what they say or do-- the way out is to come up with a message that revitalizes the people who voted for Trump because they thought he was different, because they resent the establishment, because they are sick of elites looking after elites and only promising to get to everyone else when they're done. Bernie's message reached a lot more people than Hillary's-- the biggest difference between them was the Bernie was preaching the dream while Hillary was trying to be realistic... saying what disappointed everyone about Obama (that he didn't actually do more to bring socialism to the US), without the promise of change or hope or anything.

I personally think the Dems should back off of guns and Russia and focus on things that actually have the potential to change people's daily lives. They have been the compromise party since Clinton and it has been pushing the US way too far to the right, to the point where an actual fascist is in charge now... it has to stop.

 

I think there are entire threads about this; I just can't remember what they're called.

Anyway, I'm greedily glad that there are protests. There should be outcry over this, and I think it should carry over into the midterms; though I'm not sure it will.

 

Libruls lol

 

Saw the Ted Cruz at dinner video. Those Democrats were bleating like the sheep in George Orwells Animal Farm.

 

Damn you beat me to it

 

Ive been watching MSNBC these past two weeks, Nothing about Muellers Investigation at all. Could be a dry hole.

 

Well, there are a few elements that might appeal to conservatives-- not that the GOP ever actually puts any of it into practice, but they have always sold themselves as the party of smaller government and more personal freedom. There's also a lot of idiots who seem to think that when someone wants you to stop using derogatory terms to describe them, it's a dystopian 1984-esque nightmare (but actually telling a woman what she can and can't do with her own body is perfectly okay), so they like the freedom of being able to say whatever you want and not have people get upset by it, even if it's really shitty and someone doesn't want you to say it... so... free (hate) speech, I guess.

But ultimately, the conservatives will be attracted to the superficial things. The drugs, the music, the movies, the sex... none of it amounting to much more than mindless hedonism, however.

 

Are you joking? Could be that another, more immediate, story has eclipsed that one and all others. Mueller, good, professional that he is, is going about his business and not disclosing anything. I doubt we'll hear a thing until after the election, at which point I expect Trump to make his move to suppress the whole thing.

 

Wondering just what Rep. Keith Ellison's wife is thing at this time.

Being hushed to protect The Movement, all the while watching this all unfold on TV.

 

How about instead of crashing other people's threads, you start your own?
Oh wait... I know. It's because if you did that, you wouldn't be distracting people from the issue at hand.

 

Oh Fraggle.

 

its ok ..we all expect you liberals to be on triggered status for weeks..possibly months

we feel your pain

 

When you phrase it like that I’d have to agree. Respect is key to protesting, but if it’s anything like the Occupy Wall Street protests....well we know those failed despite having a unifiying anti-bank rally cry defaulting to mass appeal across both parties...


Another difference now is the internet, specifically the technological communities that form behind passworded sites that act as right wing secret communication networks.

You can’t protest those well not obstruct them.

 

I think that’s unfair. A lot of the time I feel our critics mischaracterize us and just publically amp up a strawman in the media.

I don’t see intellectual merit to breaking down left wing views that are well thought out. It’s like the right lacks empathy and glosses over moral grey areas of life to just respond with generic black/white values because they can’t logically process nuances.

 

You sound worthy of intelligent debate.

 

Thanks I have had formal education in that field. Glad it shows.

 

well fortunately for the majority of us the courts of the world tend to use provable facts as evidence instead of stories to convict people

maybe you go to church if you enjoy believing stories

 

Some of my posts are a bit heavy, so here's this to lighten the mood.

 

I see we're still pretending he was on trial rather than in a confirmation hearing, where character witnesses and their stories about him actually are relevant.