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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]samnsara
(18,118 posts)43. there are more protests now.. and everywhere!
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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