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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMore B.S. about how Democrats & Repigs "both behave badly. . ."
I spotted two extremely obnoxious points in the NYT today (of course there are many more, but I'm only talking about these 2). .. .
The first one was in an article about "Trump's Heated Words Destined to Stir Violence" (I will try to get a link). . . This PISSED me off more than I can express.
Richard Daley, son of former Chicago Democratic Mayor, said: "Both sides are fueling this. . ."
[link:https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjruJj8qr7LAhVBy2MKHerdDl0QqQIIHzAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F03%2F13%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2Fdonald-trumps-heated-words-were-destined-to-stir-violence-opponents-say.html&usg=AFQjCNERj0GCbLD14ry6E65oa_boKQPiRg&sig2=gcThhQuW3HTfi7ICl3D0DQ&bvm=bv.116636494,d.cGc|
The next article involved Trump supporters attacking protesters at a rally on the outskirts of New Orleans:
"Yet the protesters, too, have sometimes instigated the clashes. They fling themselves to the ground, forcing law enforcement officers often outmanned and overwhelmed to drag them away. They also shout and curse, making obscene gestures as they are led from events. And Friday night in Chicago, in perhaps the best-organized effort so far, they came not to simply stand quietly but to utterly halt Mr. Trumps ability to deliver his speech."
]https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiL1dqvq77LAhWJLmMKHcQjA2cQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F03%2F13%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2Fcovering-donald-trump-and-witnessing-the-danger-up-close.html&usg=AFQjCNHZ8HSr_eUuexWZp9djfLLauOfq0Q&sig2=7N4I9pE6Jq8cDlhUDgr0Pw
Wow--the protesters flung themselves to the ground, shouted and cursed and made obscene gestures, and THIS, THIS THIS was enough for these assholes to condone VIOLENCE against them????
*I am trying to add link
PatrickforO
(14,577 posts)Right wing protests, like the two ridiculous Bundy ones, numerous TP ones and now the Trump neo-Nazi ones are looked at with a wink and a smile by the establishment and by law enforcement. After all, any right wing movement can be co-opted by the oligarchs and used to further exploit workers.
Left wing protests on the other hand usually have the objective of expanding rights, making lives better, supporting the environment - things the capitalist parasites feel will cost them profits. Therefore, these protests are put down promptly, severely and with lots of nice left wing blood flowing through the gutters.
That's why this political revolution one of the Dem candidates is proposing is so appealing. The only thing the oligarchs who create and maintain the 'establishment' are scared of is...
we the people.