Republicans are inventing delusional lies about 'paid' protests erupting across the US - and it...

[DonViejo]

Republicans are inventing delusional lies about ‘paid’ protests erupting across the US — and it will backfire

If those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it, those who conveniently forget recent history are just digging their own graves.

Just to be clear, we’re not talking about the troubling parallel between Trump’s executive order banning refugees and visa applicants from seven Muslim-majority countries and the U.S.’s reluctance to admit Jewish refugees during the Holocaust, although it applies there too. At least, not directly. No, those forgetting recent history are congressional Republicans. Fresh off their recent electoral success, they seem to think the rise of the Tea Party eight years ago was a one-off event, rather than a portent of what is to come in an age of political polarization.

Two weeks ago saw one of the largest popular protests in history in the Women’s March, which drew over three million nationwide, according to some estimates. Last weekend, as Trump’s executive order went into effect, sowing chaos at airports from coast to coast, spontaneous protests erupted, eventually forcing the administration to scale back the ban on green-card holders. Activists, Democrats, progressive and many ordinary previously apolitical Americans, still reeling from the election of Donald Trump and the consolidation of Republican power at all levels of government, seems to have mobilized in a way not seen since Tea Party protests rippled across the country in 2009.

A reasonable Republican surveying all this might be convinced of the need to proceed with caution on a number of political fronts, like dismantling the Affordable Care Act, reproductive rights or immigration. Tea Party Congressman David Brat isn’t going that route. He’s dismissing it all as a liberal conspiracy.

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[LakeVermilion]

1. As if liberals would take the time to show up for $$$.

Granted some people could be down on their luck and need the money, but forcing liberals to join a march is like herding cats. Too many of us are independent thinkers.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Can they be so far removed from humanity

that they can't possibly imagine that people- REAL PEOPLE- might actually care about others without it being a George Soros-instigated conspiracy? Anyway, how many people actually know about or care what George Soros thinks about anything? I'm almost certain that none of the people out there protesting know who he is.

[Phoenix61]

4. Yes they can

In their world everything is for sale, including their souls which they seem to have sold awhile back. Nothing is done that doesn't lead to personal profit. That is what motivates them. They have no concept of "doing the right thing."

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. It was basically a rhetorical question

but I totally agree with what you are saying! Of course, this is the guy complaining about women "being up in his grill".

[kimbutgar]

3. We need to surround them and hold them hostage in their appearances and demand they

Do the will of the people they are were elected to represent us and not the million/billionaires.

Maybe these rethug need to feel fear Of the people.

[librechik]

6. demanding they do their jobs RIGHT NOW, while we are standing here

is not holding them hostage. WE are committing a righteous act.not a crime.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. Sort of funny how they deride liberals

as "Snowflakes" and being in need of "safe spaces". Meanwhile, they can't handle protestors or women "being up in their grills". This all makes me appreciate President Obama and Democrats in general even more. I don't think they ever wrote any stories about Democrats fleeing mobs of right-wing agitators at town halls back in 2009-2010. And President Obama- with all of the abuse he was subjected to- didn't whine about "fake news", Inauguration size, his approval numbers, or about "so-called Judges" when his Executive Orders got blocked or overturned.

[cilla4progress]

5. I'm still waiting for my

check from Soros!!!

[raging moderate]

9. Hmm. Could this be made to work for us?

Their inability to imagine that other people might have some motive other than greedy selfish profit or frustrated predators' rage is actually a weakness, isn't it? I am not clever about strategy, but I wonder whether some very clever people on our side could work out a way to use this. I once read about a WWII POW camp where the Nazi commandant decried that, in retaliation for some reported excess by the American army, all prisoners would have their hands tied behind their backs for 12 hours each day. The prisoners surreptitiously worked out a system whereby each man immediately got his hands untied and got back into line, so that it took all day before the tying was completed. Then, the Nazis finally decided it was time to untie the prisoners. As each man got untied, he immediately his hands tied again and got back into line to be untied. The farce ended at about 3 am when the Nazi commandant blearily screamed "Go to Hell! Get to bed!" at the prisoners, and all the worn-out Nazis retreated into their barracks for some much-needed rest. Sometimes their rigidity can work against them.

[Qutzupalotl]

10. I'll bet the masked agitators burning things are being paid

but it ain't by liberal groups.

[Dallasdem1988]

11. Black bloc and antifa

Are very real. And have very real funding. They aren't Dems or repubs. They hate liberals almost as much as the right wingers.

They will destroy resist and any other movement we can start unless we find a way to stop them.

Before I signed up I read a article were one of us suggested we form human chains around them and cooperate with the police in identifying them, this is I think the best way to handle them.

People keep talking about a reichstag fire and I agree the right will seize on it, the problem is these anarchisrs want that to happen. They can't be successful in the current climate, they need things to be even more desperate.

Their tactics are violence and destruction.

As someone who migrated here from Reddit because of these Types you only need to look at r/socialism or r/anarchism to see these people's intentions.

They want to burn it all down, literally. To them the democratic process has been dead for decades.