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In reply to the discussion: If this were the 60's, many people would rise up against the Trump regime. Without the threat of the [View all]bettyellen
(47,209 posts)9. But it's women in vast numbers, men appear to be sitting it out.
Not just the women's march but the lawyers showing up the first weekend of the travel band 70/30 women. Most of the protests- well except the pro Trump ones.
Sure if we had the draft they'd be out.
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If this were the 60's, many people would rise up against the Trump regime. Without the threat of the [View all]
RKP5637
Jun 2017
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Consistently, the RW has the upper hand in the media/information war. It's so damn
RKP5637
Jun 2017
#55
We should be resisting the corporate media. Grassroots groups can do that.
sharedvalues
Jun 2017
#75
That, is where much of it emanates from, and really what brought us Trump. Profit over country. Yes,
RKP5637
Jun 2017
#83
I was looking at this recently, the prevalence of right leaning entities wherever one looks. Left
RKP5637
Jun 2017
#27
It is useless. Television has become a damn useless medium, and a propaganda arm. n/t
RKP5637
Jun 2017
#53
TV is corporate. Exactly. How do we get this message out to 80% of Americans?
sharedvalues
Jun 2017
#76
Dem congressional reps were quoted saying 75-80% of phone calls were from women...
bettyellen
Jun 2017
#14
It's not something I thought of until I noticed it a bunch of times, and read about it too.
bettyellen
Jun 2017
#17
Same here, and I'm in a liberal area. Have heard and seen much the same but was reluctance
bettyellen
Jun 2017
#69
I come across a fair number of people that don't even get what's going on. They think it's just
RKP5637
Jun 2017
#6
NOT two years! More like 60 days (before Ted Kennedy passed), if memory
KingCharlemagne
Jun 2017
#72
Picture/image tracking and all of that. It's getting damn hard to be anonymous at a protest anymore.
RKP5637
Jun 2017
#51
I think the buffoon in the WH is getting slammed far more than he ever imagined. One
RKP5637
Jun 2017
#21
I'm glad current protests have been so calm that Trump can't push need for "law and order"
wishstar
Jun 2017
#33
It's a really bad situation all the way around, and what is incredible, many of the people being
RKP5637
Jun 2017
#45
That, is an excellent point, it could cause a serious backlash. The ass in WH would likely declare
RKP5637
Jun 2017
#54
Too bad Nixon was an immoral Crook...could have accomplished many lmore good things.
Auntie Bush
Jun 2017
#86
We rose up ... on every college I know of in the late 60s, early 70s ... We got NIXON elected
karynnj
Jun 2017
#35
It helped when we had charismatic people like Abbie Hoffman & the hippies/yippees. It was the
kerry-is-my-prez
Jun 2017
#42
We fought for our lives in those protests. "Old enough to Die in a war but not old enough to vote"
mhw
Jun 2017
#89
Yeah, it's always a catch 22 it seems, never knowing for sure which way the chips will fall. n/t
RKP5637
Jun 2017
#63
My fear is that too many right-wing Republicans also benefit from Russian interference...
AntiFascist
Jun 2017
#61
That's what I think too, although I'm surprised at how stable it seems to be. n/t
RKP5637
Jun 2017
#65