Riots at the Inauguration

[GMDino]

(01-23-2017, 01:57 AM)samhain Wrote: As someone who dislikes Trump intensely, I have to say that the riots, and even to some degree the protests have me a bit unnerved.  No amount of protest will remove him from office.  Kicking and screaming will not move his supporters one inch from where they stand behind him.  This is absolutely the wrong path IMO.  It plays directly into the narrative of him and his supporters when his detractors overreact.

Removing Trump should be a process of hard work and cold calculation.  Too many young people and even adults have little understanding of how government really works.  The focus should be on regaining state and local offices and power to limit the ability of the executive branch to push an agenda.  It's hard work, and it not instant gratification, but that's how change happens.  

Also, I'm a bit tired of the instant reaction to his tweets and actions.  If people sound the alarm every single time he gets diarrhea of the mouth, then it loses it's potency and effectiveness.  Let him have the rope to hang himself. Let him gut everything.  Let him do everything he says he'll do that sounds awful.  He tweets because he loves the reaction.  Stop giving it to him for ****'s sake.  Goes for the media, too.  Just stop even talking about what he says on social media.  He'd die inside.

Just wait and let the process play out.  The public is fickle and the pendulum always swings the other way.

I only disagree that peaceful protests show a unity.

Even in the 60's there was media trying to portray protesters as rabble just stirring things up.