Are We Ready to Stand up for Those Trump Will Attack?

[MineralMan]

Muslims? Immigrants? Poor People? Women? Hispanics? African-Americans? Native Americans? LGBTQI People? Others with Little Privilege?

Once Trump takes office, there will be focused attacks on a broad sector of people with less privilege than many of us. Will those people have to defend themselves, or will we stand up for them and stand between them and the forces that will be on the attack?

This is going to be a test. No question about it. How we respond will tell a story. I hope we will all pledge to defend those who have little power to defend themselves.

Edit to add: Please kick this thread if you're ready...

[MineralMan]

1. I'm ready.

[redwitch]

2. Fuck yeah!

Resistance will be key and I am ready!

[MineralMan]

7. Thank you.

Surveying my block in a residential neighborhood in St. Paul, MN, I see that over half of the homes are occupied by people of color and immigrants. Only two homes are rentals, so my neighbors own their homes. Will they be like the Japanese-Americans in WWII, who were sent to internment camps and who lost everything they had built up? It is a real worry.

I had a college friend who was born in the Manzanar Camp in California. Her parents and grandparents were there, too, and lost everything while interned. Their business. Their home. Everything. She told me that her parents never really recovered from that experience. The stress, she said, killed her grandparents, who became ill while interned.

We must not let that story be repeated. We must stand for those people who are threatened by a Trump administration.

[DK504]

71. George Takai

was 2 when his family lost everything they owned were put in a POW camp.

A gay American of Asian descent. Will we ever stop being disgraceful to other humans?

[niyad]

92. you mentioned a point that many have either forgotten or never knew. the confiscation

of property was one of the largest land grabs in this nation (after what was stolen from the indigenous people). much like the confiscation of goods and property during the burning times.

[niyad]

3. HELL YES!!!! I am one very pissed off woman, and nobody better mess with anybody within my sight

or knowledge. there will be hell to pay!!

[MineralMan]

9. Somehow, I knew you'd say that. Thanks!

[niyad]

11. you are most welcome.

[Flavius Aetius]

37. I must say

That warms my heart!!!

[niyad]

38. welcome to du. glad that it did--I have no problem getting right into the middle of things.

[Flavius Aetius]

41. Thank you, nice to be here.

[niyad]

91. this place kept what little was left of my sanity during the bush years. holding on to this

lifeline now!!

[Lifelong Protester]

4. I'm in.

K & R

[smirkymonkey]

5. K&R

[HassleCat]

6. Do it in the streets.

Better get ready to march, demonstrate, picket, sit in, be arrested etc.

[MineralMan]

19. Record it all on video.

When they come for your neighbors, protest, but capture it and make it public.

[Dustlawyer]

40. We need to be ready to stand up for protesters because they are eliminating our right to peacefully

Protest!

[Wounded Bear]

8. K & R ......will do what I can...

being one of the elderly poor, I might need more help than I can give, though.

[MineralMan]

10. We'll have your back. We all may need someone

to have our backs, frankly.

[Wounded Bear]

14. Stronger together...

[Doreen]

90. That is how I feel.

I am not elderly but I am disabled. I fear for my financial stability because I am one of those people you can not tell that I am disabled by just looking at me and talking to me in general. People have gotten on my ass about lying about being disabled just because I do not LOOK it and I fear I will lose my income, health benefits, and low income housing just because I do not LOOK disabled. I am always on the look out to stand up for those who might be getting harassed by haters but I do not know how I could really help. I am always told to call and write to my congressperson but I hate to say this people like me can do that until they are blue in the face and it will not make a difference.

[Victor_c3]

101. I'm right there with you

I'm 36, in great health (physically) but I'm receiving SSDI as a result of severe psychiatric problems.

I don't know what your story is (and I'm not trying to pry or even ask) but most of the time I'm out in public people are seeing me on my good days. They wrongfully assume that I'm fine most of the time or that I'm faking or exaggerating my issues.

I've even found that my own wife, kids, and the rest of my family often don't fully understand what I'm dealing with either. "Why can't you just pull yourself together?" Or " just put on your big boy pants and deal with life like everyone else!"

Similar to what you said, incarceration would impact the benefits I receive that my family depends on. Me personally, I could care less what happens to me. I'd be perfectly happy living in a tent in the middle of the woods or spending the rest of my life in an institution. That's where all of my friends are...

Those non-visible issues are a bitch to deal with. Aside from dealing with only the issue itself, you have to deal with the burden of the stigma that goes with it too.

I completely get what you are dealing with and the urge and desire to help and make the world s better place.

[Doreen]

104. I also live on SSDI and my disabilities

are both mental and physical both from birth and an accident. I am 49 and basically healthy also. I discovered a few months ago that I can not even handle a part time job no matter how hard I tried to handle it. I have people in my life who knew I could not handle that but bit their lips and let me find out for myself and I know others who think I just refuse to grow up. I get selfish and fear what can happen to me but then I see there are others who would have it worse and I feel protective over them.

[ismnotwasm]

12. Oh I'm ready

Sat with a co-worker yesterday. He just became a citizen last summer, and his wife is not. She will have to be married to him for three years as a citizen before she is eligible to apply. These are the rules--He is terrified about what's going to happen now

I am very ready.

[MineralMan]

20. Yes. Your co-worker and his wife are in danger.

Sadly, Trump will probably go after the most vulnerable and the least likely to be able to defend themselves first.

[Aristus]

13. Hell to the yeah!

Martin Niemoller's got nothing on me. If I see injustice, I'm going after the person causing it...

[sagetea]

15. Kick and rec...

Also, thank you kindly for putting Native Americans on the list...


Ho
sage

[democrank]

17. Im glad you posted this, sagetea.

~peace~

[MineralMan]

18. I'm sure I left some off the list.

There are so many groups that Trump wants to suffer. Native Americans have borne the brunt of suffering since the Europeans first arrived on these shores. I grew up in California and learned about what they suffered under the Spanish Priests and military.

I'm so sorry...

[democrank]

16. Yes indeed.

Nonviolent resistance, count me in.

[MineralMan]

21. Exactly. Thanks.

[bdamomma]

58. non violent resistance??

but the other side will be violent to the point of having firearms. then what??? we are dealing with some sick people here the trump supporters.

[democrank]

62. When protestors with good intentions resort to violence

the story becomes the violence, not the issues at hand. Peaceful resistance is the way, and a very good example of that is happening right now with the Standing Rock Sioux.

[bdamomma]

65. yes I know violence is not the answer.

and in regards to Water Protectors in N. Dakota they are a strong people for not giving in to violent means, the narrative does change when violence is introduced into the mix.

[WhiteTara]

22. In my county, even being a democrat is a danger.

We are all in this together and I hope we can stand as one.

[MineralMan]

23. Consider moving, if you can.

If you are able, moving to a state with more Democrats may be your best protection. I'm deadly serious about this.

[potone]

24. Yes!

Too much is at stake to stand by and just hope for the best. It won't happen.

[MineralMan]

25. The best only happens when we insist on it.

Thanks!

[barbtries]

26. my operative word is

RESIST

[MineralMan]

27. Yes. And help others resist.

Many people will need our help.

[barbtries]

30. yeah, I'm in

been shipping so much money here and there since the election my family is destined to receive nothing but cards advising all the good causes they helped with their christmas presents...already have the hotel booked and the DIL, granddaughter, and son with flights in hand for the Women's March on Jan 21...

i'm not sure i have ever been as ready. unfortunately i am not getting younger and still have to make a living, BUT...yeah. i've never believed before that anything COULD happen here. WWIII. collapse of the economy, civil war, genocide...what is off the table with Nazis in the white house?

i don't mean yeah, i really mean FUCK YES.

[heaven05]

28. my old ass 69 years

is ready to go to the barricades. We have the will to resist, we just won't have the firepower I fear. But what the hell, Vietnamese kicked our mighty military ass and soldiers are still dying in Afghanistan, so continuous resistance is the key. We will be fighting for our rights, again. But this time it will be for the right to stay alive, not go hungry or die for needed medical care. When SS is cut off, only farm enclaves will help.....

[MineralMan]

29. I'm counting on it!

So are your neighbors.

[senaca]

31. Thanks for this

I not only will stand up for them, but I'm hoping that tomorrow's leaders will be from these groups with our support. We need their voices as much as they need us.

[hamsterjill]

32. Fired Up! Ready to Go! Because....

We are Stronger Together!

We have no choice but to LEARN to care for one another if we don't already know that yet. Some are further along in the process of understanding that concept than others. Some will eventually get there. Some never will.

I will do what I can for as long as I can for as many as I can.

[MineralMan]

33. Thank you so much!

[Cracklin Charlie]

39. I would love to hear that

People were using "Stronger Together" as a response to deplorable comments on hate book.

I can't stand the place, but I sometimes hear things about it.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

34. Oh hell yes

[hwmnbn]

35. K&R

[Cracklin Charlie]

36. This idea needs a good slogan.

Anyone from the Clinton campaign media staff wanna help us with that?

We're going to need all hands on deck, I'm afraid.

[Hekate]

42. How about Stronger Together. E Pluribus Unum doesn't pack the punch it used to....

...since nobody teaches Latin any more, or respects those who know it.

[Cracklin Charlie]

46. I love the idea, Hekate!

I saw someone smart using it up above. Maybe it was you...I can't see the screen on my celly so good.

Stronger Together!

[libtodeath]

43. Im in,we will resist,defend and protect

[think]

44. Nobody should go easy on Trump. The birther days should have been met with greater resistance &

called out for the racism it was. Too many gave him a pass back then especially the media. And this seems to have emboldened Trump all the more. It needs to end.

Any and all attacks based on a person's race, gender, age, or sexual orientation by Trump and his cohorts needs to be aggressively called out and put to a stop.

I hope that Trump is already starting to feel the pressure and starts to understand that his racist and unethical plans will be met with great resistance. it's a sad state of affairs that we are even at this point in America and one can only hope this era of a racist presence in the White House is very short lived.

[chopper050]

45. I will ..

I always try to stand up for the underdog, because , I was once an still am sometimes the underdog..

[byronius]

47. Oh, yes. Absolutely. Loud and proud.

[MineralMan]

48. Thank you and everyone else who has replied.

[LiberalLovinLug]

49. The Resistance

Like Europe during the early 40's under the threat of a spreading fascism, we must all join to fight against this regime. And prepare and start to build it before Trump has one day in office.

I'd like the word Resistance to once again change from a verb to noun. A multi-issue movement that all of us recognize and is locked and loaded for any response to regressive actions from this near fascist dictatorship. A brand to rally around and fight and then overwhelm the Trump brand.

[niyad]

93. do you follow KO's "the resistance" on qg?

[wryter2000]

50. I'm attending a vigil at a deportation center on Saturday

The Orange Emperor hasn't taken over yet, but I'm getting ready.

If anyone tries anything against a mosque around here, my church and others will be standing around them to protect them. Same with LGBT folks.

[MineralMan]

52. Very good. Lots of churches will be working on this, I know.

At least the more progressive ones. Others, of course, will be there cheering on the witch-burning, etc.

[get the red out]

51. I hope I am ready

This could get AWFUL for all the people mentioned.

[dembotoz]

60. understand were you are coming form...difference between brave on du and brave in public

i hope i am ready 2

[bravenak]

53. Of course

[MineralMan]

54. Yes, of course.

But, not everyone will feel the same, I'm afraid.

[bravenak]

55. I know and they will be shocked when he comes for them after he gets done with us

[MineralMan]

56. Indeed. You are correct.

[rockfordfile]

57. Always have

[bdamomma]

59. those protests in DC they are going to have in January

will be the tell all. I just hope those who are going will stand up and resist. Those who strike back at peaceful protesters have the big problem of being bullies.

[Runningdawg]

61. Bring it

[MarvinGardens]

63. Absolutely yes.

Yes I am. Are there Resistance groups organizing, and how best to network with them? There is an antifa group in my area, and thus far they mainly seem to target Klan rallies and such.

[jmowreader]

64. Trump will attack everyone. Do you have that much compassion?

I give it eighteen months until he starts going after the people who put him in office - gun owners who hate the First Amendment but revere the Second, Christians who don't mind tearing down every other faith in the world, members of the Junior Anti-Sex League and the Women's Christian Temperance Union... Absolutely NO ONE except the very rich is safe from him.

Are you prepared to fight for The Deplorables? Eventually Trump will go after them as hard as he will against Muslims, immigrants and the poor.

[mcar]

66. He will focus his attacks on them, at least as a distraction

While he decimates the social safety net and gives tax breaks to his cronies.

I am ready.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

67. K&R absolutely

[Warpy]

68. Random people here in NM have alread closed ranks

around anyone being attacked in public. If I see it (it's rare), I'll have no trouble starting or joining the group.

[lark]

69. K&R

We need to defend not just those targeted by this hate dominated regime, but also those targeted in our every day lives by the drumpf supporters. I'm in on both of these.

[cate94]

70. I'm in 2 of those groups

But I will stand for all of them, and, if you include seniors, I am in 3. They will start with whomever they believe to be the weakest.

[bucolic_frolic]

72. Stand together against their divide and conquer strategy

it's the only way

[MarianJack]

73. Hell YES!

PEACE!

[Bettie]

74. Yes. We are

though, in our tiny red town in Iowa, we already stand up for the few people who aren't white redneck assholes.

[Red Oak]

75. Absolutely

We are all in this together!

[mainer]

76. Yes. And screw Trump voters.

It's time to take care of our own. And that means everyone who didn't vote for Trump.

If Trumpsters lose their health care or get screwed in his economy, I really don't give a shit.
But if you're one of us, we'll work to support you.

[jack_krass]

77. Yes definitely

[baldguy]

78. Real Democrats are.

But there are too many who claim to be Democrats - even here on DU - who are ready & more than will to attack those very groups you mention. Those have already failed that test.

[Paladin]

79. K&R.

[Solly Mack]

80. All my life. This fight isn't new - more people are aware and see the threat now.

That will help.

Bravery isn't not being afraid - it's knowing you are and still doing the right thing.

[roamer65]

81. If they voted for Hillary, yes.

Dump? No. Fuck 'em.

[montana_hazeleyes]

82. I have always helped others in need and who needed protection in any way.

I am a 68 year old woman, with a lot of pain. But I am strong and am a mother bear when I see injustice. If I see anything happening to anyone I'm going to help them!

[MineralMan]

83. Once again, thanks for all replies!

[montana_hazeleyes]

84. Thank you MineralMan for this thread !

[handmade34]

85. "Stronger Together!"

[radical noodle]

86. K&R

[LAS14]

87. We Shall Overcome

When I saw a (since discredited) story about a Muslim family being harassed on a plane I tried to think of a good response from the rest of the passengers. I wondered if I'd have the guts to start singing We Shall Overcome. And then I started wondering how many people know the song!!! I read somewhere that in a random group of people the only songs you can count on all of them knowing are Happy Birthday and Auld Lang Syne.

What are good gestures of support???

[Generator]

88. Yes

I have already thought of this. I guess if it comes to it I can shelter someone in my home. My life has been boring pretty much, and pretty easy the last few years. So I will not be the one to look away this is the moment of a test of our character and souls. Of course until I leave in terror on the fast train out of here! Coward or courage? I guess I'll find out what I'm made of.

[lonestarnot]

89. You left off veterans and Native Americans and hell fuck yes! I'm ready.

[greenman3610]

94. Climate Scientists Legal Defense is a good place to send help

http://climatesciencedefensefund.org/donate/monthly/



for more suggestions, see here
http://www.holyfucktheelection.com

[greenman3610]

95. and by the way, till further notice

I am a Muslim

[cry baby]

96. kick

[murielm99]

97. What if those he chooses to attack are unpopular with us?

He will attack anyone in the media who does not knuckle under. I know how people here feel about our complicit media. If they are attacked, are we going to stand up for them? I think we have to, even though they have acted like quislings.

[McKim]

98. Ready to Defend Hispanic Families and Muslim Friends

As a retired Migrant Teacher, I am ready to defend my children and my families. And I am ready to protect Muslims and all who might be attacked in public. I am ready with sound bytes and strategies and my phone to record. Be ready, practice and prepare so you can do it on a moment's notice.

[Victor_c3]

99. The problem with where I live is that it is excessively liberal

I don't think that there will be too many instances to actually test my conviction.

As a father of two young girls (ages 6 and 8) I would be right up there to set an example that they could be proud of.

Other than getting locked up in prison for more than a month (which would result in my disability retirement being suspended (my family depends on that)) I really have nothing to lose. Physically I'm in great shape. I just have a few issues with PTSD and suicide that would turn me into a hell of a fighter if the situation dictates.

I joined the army with the misguided intent to stand up and fight for those who can't. In Iraq, I didn't do any of that and I feel pangs of guilt as a result. To have the opportunity to actually stand up for someone being bullied would validate so much of my life for me.

I'm ready.

[DeadLetterOffice]

117. ...

[SunSeeker]

100. He will attack all of us, so we better be ready to stand up.

[Mountain Mule]

102. Kick and Kick again!

I sure as hell am. I've been researching what Paul Ryan's attack on health care and the SNAP program would do to the disabled, the elderly and the children of a Mom living in poverty. 30 - 40 MILLION Americans will lose their health care if Ryan has anything to say about it and he's got plenty to say once you start tracking him down across the Internet. How could I possibly stand by and watch him end the SNAP program and have all those poor little kids go hungry? I'll do anything I possibly can to help those who are going to be savaged in this strange country I no longer recognize. If we can't help one another, what's the point?

[Scruffy1]

103. Bring it on.

The whole neighborhood I live in will stand up.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

105. I am.

They are my sisters, my bothers. I will fight.

[MrScorpio]

106. Kickage!

[Bad Dog]

107. Good luck.

I mean it. Not much I can do this side of the pond.

[Grey Lemercier]

108. same here, my wife and I were thinking of opening

a stateside branch in a couple years, now, with a RW SCOTUS and systemic rethug dominance, no fucking way. London it shall remain. That sickening new Religious Freedom Act is insane. I fully expect gay rights/marriage, civil rights act, voting rights act, etc to be trampled in the ground over the next 4 to 8 years.

Chillingly horrific times may lie ahead for America.

[Bad Dog]

109. At least Zac Goldsmith got kicked up the arse.

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Take comfort in small victories. I must admit I can't get my head around America's religiosity. I'm glad we don't have that over here, even the tramps don't want it.

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[Grey Lemercier]

110. indeed, good riddance to that racist plonker Goldsmith

Btw, I do have a religion, its temple is Stamford Bridge and I bleed its Chelsea Blue. Lololol

cheers

[Bad Dog]

112. My mate supports Chelsea.

For me it's always been the Saints.

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[mdbl]

111. your signature line should read "you have to starve it out of them'

That's how repuglican evangelicals do it.

[Bad Dog]

113. But that's not what Sir Henry Rawlinson said.

Sir Henry Rawlinson may have been many things, but at least he wasn't a republican.

[heaven05]

114. I am sure that first

the endangered ones will have to stand up for themselves, with NO expectation of mass help from anyone. Rosewood, Tulsa, Atlanta, Detroit, New Orleans, Elaine Arkansas, "the Negro Hoocaust: Lynching and Race Riots 1880-1950 Ferguson Missouri, Sanford Florida,. All I have to do is google(wikipedia) the worst race riots in ameriKKKan history, starting with the nativist(white colonization of then amerika) period 19th century 'Trail of Tears' to 20th century 'Wounded Knee' massacre to know where I could end up. My compatriots and I on the barricades waiting for that cruise missile, drone or militarized police invasion. Period.

[DeadLetterOffice]

115. Disabled - too sick to be out there on the lines...

But someone starts shit in my vicinity, my cane and I will Stand Strong together.

My biggest sadness is that I am too ill to be raising hell.
My biggest fear is that being a disabled woman puts me on the Hater's radar. I'm lucky, but other people like me, they lose medical insurance, they lose Social Security or Disability payments, they're dead. Literally.

[MineralMan]

116. We'll have your back.

I promise.

[Mountain Mule]

118. I'm with you!

I too am a disabled woman living in highly conservative rural Colorado. When I read about what Ryan hopes to do to us, it scares me to death. He wants to make SSI/SSDI vanish and abolish the SNAP program. I am terrified that I may become homeless or lose my medical care. Either one of those two things would be the death of me quite literally and thousands of others as well. On my good days I fight back as hard as I can. On my bad days, I retreat only to return and fight again. I refuse to allow anyone to destroy my spirit. God bless you, my friend.

[DeadLetterOffice]

119. And blessings to you as well.

It's a scary time for a lot of folks. I'm not sure that comfortable people (assuming there are any left?) truly understand the fear of those of us who are vulnerable. We're dismissed as exaggerating, fear-mongering, being paranoid, and so forth. But the dangers are real, tangible, and all too plausible.

Stay as strong as you can manage, take the best care of yourself that you can, and try to surround yourself with people who can & will help you when the shit hits the fan.

[Nwgirl503]

120. I signed up just to answer this question

Been a lurker for IDK how long, but I created an account to answer this with a resounding YES I AM!!!

The results of this election have lit a fire under me like nothing has in a long time. I was part of the silent majority before election night. The silent majority who thought he was a joke and surely people are smarter than this, right?

But now that this nightmare is reality? I will NOT be silent. This has given me purpose. I will use my time, money and energy to make my voice heard. I will take my elected officials to task and make it clear the ways I expect them to protect their constituents. I will volunteer at my local Democratic Committee. I'll spearhead or petition for initiatives. I will be at City Council meetings speaking. Shit...I just might run for an office. I'll walk with women into Planned Parenthood. I'll protest and march. I'll boycott. I'll write letters to every editor. I'll volunteer for get out the vote orgs. I'll learn.

I will be damned if I'm going to sit by and wait to see what this toilet swirl of a man and his dropped deuce administration do to try and put us all back in the dark ages. I'll be damned if I'm going to worry about sending my son off to some made-for-profit war this shit stain of a human is going to inevitably get us into. I'll be damned if I have to watch my gay friends cry, or have my employees worried about their illegal family members. I'm strong. I usually subscribe to the theory of live and let live, agree to disagree, don't start no problems there will be no problems...until you get on my radar. This man has awakened the sleeping giant in me. I will be one of the voices that make him wish he was deaf.

This site has brought me so much info and comfort. Thanks for being here. (This is my first post and IDK what kicking the thread means, so let me know if I did something inappropriate by my reply.)

[fleabiscuit]

121. No, you did just great.

Welcome to DU as a new poster, we can use an infusion of thoughtful energy such as yours.

[MineralMan]

122. You kicked the thread just fine.

Thanks for your reply, and welcome to active DUing.

[JudyM]

125. Great first post, welcome, nwgirl!

Kicking a thread is just posting any reply, as you did, which kicks the thread to the top of the forum's thread list. Keeps it visible. If you see K&R that means kick and rec, which you can do by clicking the rec button on the bottom left of an OP.

[Quayblue]

123. K&R

[Equinox Moon]

124. Solidarity Tread for Water Protectors

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028325046

[Lithos]

126. Fuck Trump

more concerned about those Pence will attack -

Looking at you, planned parenthood!

W-