Presidential election, 2016

[Warren Dew]

(11-12-2016, 06:06 AM)Galen Wrote:

(11-12-2016, 04:05 AM)taramarie Wrote: My own thoughts I just want to add on to the last part. Once we are self aware of how we treat others negatively and our bias we can control it and choose a wiser tactic to approach those we are in disagreement with.

I remember the Tea Party protests of of 2009-2010 and two things come to mind.  First, those protests were not violent.  Second they cleaned up after themselves. The current protests against President-elect Donald Trump have been violent and left a big mess behind.  Hell, the Occupy protests of 2009 also left a big mess that others, at taxpayer expense, had to clean up.

I sit here and watch the riots in Portland, Oregon it occurs to me that had those been Libertarian, Republican or a Religious organization that had behaved that way then the police would have been called in much sooner to arrest them.  It is this obvious double standard that annoys me so much.

And yet the police are never called in, because libertarians don't behave that way.  Nonaggression principle and all that.  Even the Westboro folks, while deplorable by almost anyone's definition, are nonviolent.  Imagine if both sides protested nonviolently and cleaned up after themselves!