02-02-2017, 05:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-02-2017, 05:04 PM by Eric the Green.)
(02-02-2017, 04:34 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(02-02-2017, 05:26 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Look how quiet America was when Barack Obama was President. The Tea Party Movement took much longer to develop than has the mass rallies that oppose "The Donald". There are plenty of issues to protest about when an unjust ruler insists that he is the supposed arbiter of truth for all time. Il Duce ha sempre raggione... Der Fuehrer hat immer rechts....
The Tea Party movement's first big demonstration - much bigger than this one - was in April 2009. That was longer, yes, but only because Obama was more circumspect about his real agenda.
I grant that the Tea Party protests never got violent. That's just because conservatives prefer not to resort to violence, and prefer to use the ballot box instead.
There were threats of violence at least at Tea Party events. But it does appear that the fringe violent element on the Left shows up more often in leftist demonstrations than the right fringe elements show up in rallies of the Tea Party. They also showed up in 1999 at the mostly-peaceful anti-WTO rallies (The Battle in Seattle). Left demonstrators (like those at Occupy a few years ago) also tend to be more disillusioned with the ballot box these days, even though they are mostly non-violent. After all, the right-wing is more effective at rigging elections these days. But you also have the right-wing militias, ready for action and threatening it in some cases. Right-wing terrorist attacks, such as in Oklahoma City in 1995, can be very deadly.
The "women's march" was one of the biggest ever; vastly larger than any Tea Party rally, and no arrests made at them. And those rallies at airports were spectacular awakenings of true Americanism in the face of Trump's brash violations of everything the USA stands for.
