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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThink the liberal protests are big? Just wait.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-anti-trump-liberal-protests-perspec-zorn-0131-20170130-column.htmlThink the liberal protests are big? Just wait.
Eric Zorn
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They descended by the thousands on international terminals coast to coast mostly to raise alarm on behalf of strangers and to object to the abdication of key American values that a ban on refugees represents.
Similarly, none of the millions who marched and rallied for women's rights the previous weekend had yet lost anything or suffered a single deprivation on account of Trump. How could they have? He'd been president for only one day.
In other words, most of the anti-Trump protests so far have been over symbolism and omens.
So just imagine what's going to happen if or when the largely hypothetical becomes real and the abstract becomes personal.
If or when the numbers of people turned away from our borders, detained or deported grows from the hundreds into the tens of thousands.
If or when millions of people lose their health insurance policies after Obamacare is repealed.
If or when Roe v. Wade is overturned and states begin outlawing abortion.
If or when we begin to go backward on LGBTQ rights and anti-gay discrimination is enshrined as a religious right.
Protesters rally against Trump's immigration ban
President Donald Trump's sweeping executive order to suspend refugee arrivals and impose tough controls on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries was met with protests at U.S. airports.
If or when prices or taxes rise to pay for an unnecessary border wall between the U.S. and Mexico and for Trump's misbegotten trade wars.
If or when public education begins to disappear in major urban centers.
If or when strict voter-ID laws, with their racially discriminatory effects, sweep the red states.
If or when millions of people lose their health insurance policies after Obamacare is repealed.
If or when Roe v. Wade is overturned and states begin outlawing abortion.
If or when we begin to go backward on LGBTQ rights and anti-gay discrimination is enshrined as a religious right.
Protesters rally against Trump's immigration ban
President Donald Trump's sweeping executive order to suspend refugee arrivals and impose tough controls on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries was met with protests at U.S. airports.
If or when prices or taxes rise to pay for an unnecessary border wall between the U.S. and Mexico and for Trump's misbegotten trade wars.
If or when public education begins to disappear in major urban centers.
If or when strict voter-ID laws, with their racially discriminatory effects, sweep the red states.
If any of the above hypotheticals become reality, these recent protests will seem quaint in comparison.
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Think the liberal protests are big? Just wait. (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jan 2017
OP
Greybnk48
(10,168 posts)1. They (Republicans) still don't realize that the majority
of Americans have hit a tipping point. After the GOP treatment of Bill Clinton admin and the Gore stolen election (for me and my age group), plus the diebold stolen election of 2004 which even Tweety now admits happened, the hideous Bush/Cheney regime we all knew was illegitimate, the GOP treatment of Obama over the past eight years along with the fake grassroots Teabagger bullshit put together by Republican scum Phil Gramm and Dick Armey complete with costumes, manufactured signs and expensive flags. Obstruction, obstruction, obstruction.
And now another rigged election, a sellout to the Russian Government and a mentally ill megalomaniac dismantling our Republic. We've had enough!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)2. K&R