If this "tax cut" does not serve to raise people in protest -- Nothing will.

[BigBearJohn]

I am soooooooo deflated.

[standingtall]

1. I am so pssst

can't sleep. Repealing GOP tax giveaways to millionaires needs to be the rallying cry going forward.

[WinkyDink]

2. The poorest of the poor can't afford the luxury of protest.

[RhodeIslandOne]

5. Not when you need 3 jobs

[WinkyDink]

6. Exactly.

[AmericanActivist]

3. People have been protesting lots if big and

Small protests have been happening

[SamKnause]

4. Protest in the U.S. are squashed one way or the other.

Right wing hate TV and radio jump on all protest and spread lies and hate.

The MSM laps it up.

Our Senators and Representatives lap it up.

Obama did not support or protect Occupy Wall Street.

BLM protest brought out the tanks and military.

Keystone Pipeline protest brought out private security and they unleashed their dogs on Native Americans.

U.S. citizens have no one to protect them from the oligarchy.

Our government would mow us down in the streets without blinking an eye.

Example: Kent State.

The media would push the narrative that the protesters were at fault and deserved it.

The police are not held accountable.

We have no say in this country !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[WinkyDink]

7. I marched in 2003 in NYC to protest the imminent illegal invasion

of Iraq. The whole world did.

And yet.......

[SamKnause]

8. Sadly, my point.

The rich control the planet.

[Willie Pep]

9. Protests are important but politics is more effective.

I notice that some people will go to protests but they won't join political campaigns because "all politicians are corrupt" or because this or that candidate doesn't agree with them on everything.

But at the end of the day almost all of the progress people have made in this country required legislation or judicial decisions which means politics. Yeah politics can be dirty and many politicians are far from perfect but you cannot just ignore the political sphere and hope protesting and direct action will fix everything. I argue with some of my lefty friends about this all the time.

[murielm99]

10. Everyone here should be

seeking a job as a precinct committeeman or an election judge. They should be working on a campaign for a Democrat at some level. Local is good. Start small. Even if you live in a red area, make sure there is a candidate for every office on the ballot in 2018. Run yourself if you can. Just running for office is a learning experience.

The grassroots organizations, like Indivisible, can be good experience. But they are not enough. Let's not primary our incumbent Democrats or whine about the establishment or who is the most progressive. Let's do some real work.

[Willie Pep]

11. +1 nt.

[LBM20]

12. People need to stop WASTING TIME protesting and instead WIN MORE ELECTIONS. PERIOD!

Republicans don't give a shit about protests. Stop wasting time with that. Fix the Dem party, and WIN MORE ELECTIONS.

[pansypoo53219]

13. if any of his moron cult still think he is blue collar, may they go down in flames.