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(8,203 posts)anyway..yours in bettah!!!
PJMcK
(22,047 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,449 posts)Upthevibe
(8,069 posts)Yep....
Emile
(22,886 posts)Cha
(297,553 posts)Mahalo, Malmsy!
Me too! All the way!
calimary
(81,440 posts)We were ROBBED.
Cha
(297,553 posts)Too many on both ends of the Spectrum were chanting "Lock Her UP".
Thank Goodness Biden WON.. and here We Go Again.. next year.
Malmsy
(297 posts)Cha
(297,553 posts)were pleased.
NBachers
(17,135 posts)sheshe2
(83,863 posts)❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Cha
(297,553 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,489 posts)Cha
(297,553 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)would have had their eyes on those hostile "lock her up!" types who actually accessed the Democratic nominating convention and got that close to her as delegates(!). And the others outside. But that's all. No mob would have been able to chase our Democratic nominee for president into an elevator before they could rescue her.
Wasn't just her, of course: the "lock her up" delegation interrupted nearly everything with jeers and chants. It didnt matter if it was the president of Planned Parenthood or John Lewisyou had people screaming at them.
Malmsy
(297 posts)electric_blue68
(14,932 posts)Am I getting it right that you're saying some Rethuglicans got into the 2016 Dem Convention and were changing "Lock her up" through all these different speakers?
Trying to remember... 2016 was a mixed year of losing a particular artist group organization after 10 yrs for me a real bummer, while positively exciting at nearly the same time was trying to set up the dates for seeing my aunt & uncle in Switzerland (never traveled anywhere outside of Continental US, and Puerto Rico before!) for 3 weeks on her invitation to make art w her in their house (and her studio), along with hanging out w my uncle, and some of their "kids", my cousins.
Planning what to take etc, finally settling on most of Sept.
I think my broadcast only (old) TV's digital converter box had gone blooey, or I wanted to follow more of the Dem Convention so without WiFi at home I took my tablet to our Library for Free WiFi which stayed open late some nights to follow the Convention, and pre convention TV commentary & coverage.
I have some distinct memories of 2 - 3 days of sitting in one of the big, comfy chairs, with my tablet following Hillary, news talkers, convention people, the various State Delegations, etc.
One early evening on one of those days, of a still several hours of strong sunlight left (we'd had rain earlier), I walked out leaving the library, and saw a rainbow which are while not completely rare, aren't that frequent in NYC. But there was one, and it felt like a good omen.
We got shifted to a different timeline! 😔
(big science fiction fan, here 🙂 )
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)the unbelievable. I've been feeling as if I might have fallen through a wrinkle in time. Your visit to family sounds as if it might have facilitated some timeline shift the right direction. It obviously contains some nice memories.
Regarding these people, no to their being clandestine Republicans. Notably, though, a quarter of that leader's primary followers (the subset who shared their attitudes) refused to vote Democratic and half of those voted directly for tRump after a liberal Democrat got the liberal, Democratic nomination. Whether it was a shift from one populist leader to another or done mostly out of spite, in these people ideology had little to do with what seemed in electoral effect a shift from the idealistic, socialist left to the archconservative, fascistic right. Much less confusing: both camps offered authoritarian leadership and the opportunity to indulge antagonisms against liberal Democrats and "the establishment."
Not nearly as weird or unusual as it might sound. People on both left and right who are prone to political extremism, and/or caught up in the passions of populist movements, and/or with authoritarian personality leanings have a whole lot of traits and behaviors in common. Those similarities with tRump's "lock her uppers" were what we saw in the zealots who were selected to attend the convention and then acted out their extreme loyalties, irrationally dishonest beliefs, antagonisms,etc.
Btw, what happened in 2016 turned a spotlight on LW authoritarianism playing out on a national stage. It had previously gone mostly unnoticed, even doubted by some, as attention, and fear, were understandably focused on the dangerous rampages of its massive RW twin. But "lock her up!" is just shorthand for a whole set of glaring identifiers.
rurallib
(62,444 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,489 posts)llmart
(15,552 posts)but the meme attached is so perfect!