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In reply to the discussion: I'm sorry, but Trump rallies NEED to be disrupted - he is a fascist [View all]phantom power
(25,966 posts)19. I like Charles Pierce's suggestion: protest, but do it *outside* the rallies.
Stay out of the buildings.
Stop being played for such suckers. Stop enlisting yourself in his bloody vaudeville. Stop giving him stuff to lie about at all the rallies that actually do end up happening. Stop making yourselves part of the show, because it's not working. It doesn't affect him at all. In fact, his campaign gains strength from it, like some science-fiction monster that absorbs the energy of whatever attacks it and then uses it to destroy.
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My suggestion? Create a wave of non-violent protest outside the arenas. Close the streets. Fill the jails, if you must. Force the media coverage, which shouldn't be all that hard at this point. But stay out of the buildings because you can do no good in there. It gives aid and comfort to the forces you are trying to defeat, and it gives a timorous elite political press an excuse to look the other way, and it gives the other candidates from a party that long ago descended into madness one more hallucination to justify why it's eating bugs in public.
Stay out of the buildings. Decline to audition for a part in the freak show. Silent witness can be the most powerful kind there is.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a42984/message-to-trump-protesters/
Stop being played for such suckers. Stop enlisting yourself in his bloody vaudeville. Stop giving him stuff to lie about at all the rallies that actually do end up happening. Stop making yourselves part of the show, because it's not working. It doesn't affect him at all. In fact, his campaign gains strength from it, like some science-fiction monster that absorbs the energy of whatever attacks it and then uses it to destroy.
...
My suggestion? Create a wave of non-violent protest outside the arenas. Close the streets. Fill the jails, if you must. Force the media coverage, which shouldn't be all that hard at this point. But stay out of the buildings because you can do no good in there. It gives aid and comfort to the forces you are trying to defeat, and it gives a timorous elite political press an excuse to look the other way, and it gives the other candidates from a party that long ago descended into madness one more hallucination to justify why it's eating bugs in public.
Stay out of the buildings. Decline to audition for a part in the freak show. Silent witness can be the most powerful kind there is.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a42984/message-to-trump-protesters/
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Some of his supporters will wear a shirt with Che on it that says "Commies aren't Cool".
HughBeaumont
Mar 2016
#3
There seems to be a disagreement on whether it's productive or counterproductive.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Mar 2016
#58
I wonder if any of his supporters realize that this is what our fathers and grandfathers fought
world wide wally
Mar 2016
#9
and the Vietnam War...remember "Hey, hey, LBJ. How many kids did you kill today?"
CTyankee
Mar 2016
#21
But God knows why we were even in Vietnam. We all know why we fought Hitler and Tojo
world wide wally
Mar 2016
#22
we didn't know it but the world had moved on from western imperialism in Asia.
CTyankee
Mar 2016
#24
Nice try - but Hillary and Bernie dealt with disruptors in a very different way than Tump
jpak
Mar 2016
#14
I like Charles Pierce's suggestion: protest, but do it *outside* the rallies.
phantom power
Mar 2016
#19
Political correctness is an attempt to retain Civility in an era of increasing savagery. The rich
Dont call me Shirley
Mar 2016
#60
Leftist totalitarians are ust as eager to shut down the opposition as are rightist totalitarians
Ex Lurker
Mar 2016
#46
This is what people are failing to understand - His rallies SHOULD be interreupted
DemocraticSocialist8
Mar 2016
#45
Fair enough. And I agree with you. We need to limit these pesky protests to "First Amendment zones."
LAGC
Mar 2016
#54
It wasn't a protest. The organizer himself said the whole purpose was to "shut it down."
MadDAsHell
Mar 2016
#61
Using your free speech to shut down other's free speech is as bad as Money=Speech. nt
MadDAsHell
Mar 2016
#62