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And they're taking advantage of the national outrage and momentary boost in political awareness that follows an election to organize more people toward progressive ends. People got complacent and let a demagogue slip into office with a mandate. That's bad, people are scared, and they know that if they don't act now, poo poo will normalize and people will forget as everyday life takes over again. Then the erosion of liberties begins and well, that's bad. It's been said a lot through this thread that these are just the starting points for new progressive political coalitions, and that if they persist long enough the natural leaders will emerge and rise to the top. Those are the people you want fighting to both have and win the next election cycles. Both the house and senate are going to have a LOT of R seats open in 2018 and two years is far far longer than our national memory span. Just watch out for the malignant narcissists, because they're on the left too and loooove to be in charge. zxqv8 fucked around with this message at 12:44 on Nov 14, 2016 |
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doodlebugs posted:Will that actually happen? It could happen, a lot more easily than I'm comfortable admitting. People don't want to even allow the possibility. Yeah, we hosed up the vote, but recriminations won't change the results and this is what can be done right now. Protest is really the only voice of the disaffected in the US. We're an oligarchy and the landed elite don't listen unless the peasants gently caress with their wealth. People have to get their voices heard somehow, so getting in the way is how they do it.
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doodlebugs posted:that is true but I think only thing that will be effective is voting against him in the next election You're not wrong, but the strongest message I've taken from this thread is that these protests serve to get more people engaged with the political process so that when 2018 and 2020 roll around, progressives WILL actually vote against him and his party. They start as people feeling angry going out to vent their anger. Then people who share that anger start talking, and start organizing. If they wait for Trump to do the horrible poo poo he's promised to do, far fewer people will be around to mobilize because their lives will have intruded and three months of media normalizing poo poo will have robbed whatever wind may have been in their sails.
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