You are falling into their trap. What if the Brits and the French resistance responded this way or
our revolutionary ancestors? Where would we be. Have courage and know you are one of million
who want to save our country.

These legislators are going to have to not be able to go out in public without someone hounding them. There town halls are going to have to be over run with opposition and challenge. They will have to be cornered and forced to answer. Protests will have to be peaceful but forceful and louder. We have to be willing to shout them down and challenge their rhetoric on the spot.

It is too bad the media does not get combative and mock the press conferences.

We have gotten used to easy. We have lived soft lives. Now we are tested as have other generations.
There are unique challenges to our test. Your original post sounded defeatist. Maybe you are,
like many of us fearful. Fear in the face of danger is normal. We must take courage from one another
and from our values. We must encourage each other and trust that our values will sustain us as
others have. Do you think that those who hid the Jews in Germany were not afraid or the Brits
under the Blitz or the Syrian peoples today?

and the "Underground Railroad".





We have a tendency to look and point at Europe when our ("United States&quot own oppressive, sordid, and horrid behavior gets dismissed. Those who were defiantly anti-slavery helped generations of us (African Americans) survive times worse than the stuff that Drumpf is trying to dish out (at least so far).

Thanks for sharing this awareness.

I don't know about you, but I could go for some strudel right now."

Um, no.

The signers of the Declaration of Independence stood to lose everything. They would have been hanged had the Revolution gone south.

we would not have the opportunities to stand and resist today. As Franklin said: “A Republic, if you can keep it.”
He did not promise it would easy. They knew our republic would challenged again and again.

Think how long the civil rights movement took, the Viet Nam war protests, etc.etc.etc.

Yes these struggles had to be fought over and over, and they still do. But people went on fighting. And they will.

Trump mocks the opposition, so what. It's what he does.

There has to be a way to rattle them and get them off their game. The opposition has to be like a mama bear whose cubs are threatened. And the protests have to be such that the media cannot ignore.

Are you making calls?

I saw many on the right stating very similar doomsday predictions about Obama. Eight years later we got Trump. Let's beat them and turn it around in four.

these protests will carry more and more weight. First out Lame Media does not have a clue,and after another major go around of Protests,then they will take a look because their Demo Numbers will have gone South in a Major way. Remember,it was Nixon's Threats that made the Media get their collective asses in gear and started to asked the question of what is really going on.

Trump will blow his cool with in another week and over react as expected which will be his total undoing..

New York Times that will break Trump. CNN is ramping up a Special Investigative Unit,but,don't think they have the balls to take on Trump after their all in during August November time frame. Comcast/NBC/MSNBC/CNBC are going hard right to try and steel the NAZI crowd away from Fox.

Disney/ABC as well as CBS has drifted more and more Right Wing and being a listener for certain descriptive phrasing,the floor Producers and Script Writers are going more and more in that direction.

“A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground. Then it is done, no matter how brave its warriors or strong its weapons.”

but, what other ideas do you have? Protest, Contact your Elected Representatives and both State and Federal Levels and donate to organizations that will carry the fight into the courts and inform the public as well.

I would post private information of GOP legislators everywhere on the net or I would flood their private residences with protest mail and jam their home phones. I would push to have demonstrations right outside of their gated communities or their homes. They would have no place to hide.

I would pursue all legal means to harass them. And I would put of some really nasty and brutal bill boards in their districts. I would be out to make sure they were scare to even show their face anywhere.

may not be legal in your state, but do what you wish.

As for me, I'm doing what I can do and I am optimistic AND suspicious of anyone who tries to demoralize the rest of us

Sadly I am not rich and in a position to do such a thing. These legislators must be sent a message that they will have no where to hide. The must be trapped or cornered and be put in a position where they must face their voters. Right now they are all in hiding.

What I heard here at DU so far is that it's because of protests.

Protests vs no protests? I say that they have their place to keep us together and focused on the next steps.

Bennet's office answers the phone, every time. I get responses about a week later (they're canned, but they're responding.) Polis responds every time. DeGette and Perlmutter respond. (I don't know about the others because they're not mine and I mostly don't follow their response rates.) Hick and the whole Dem Congressional have publicly made statements on every issue, and they've been in line with Dem position. Polis' calendar sucks, but Bennet's is pretty good and they're in state on a regular basis. What more do you want from them? That's not rhetorical -- what need are they not fulfilling?

Who is being the problem? Gardner? Coffman? Buck? What do you expect? They're spineless cowards and always have been. Just keep calling their local offices and showing up at their events. The more often they behave badly, the better. We want them looking like the pond scum they are. We want them sneaking out the back door and getting caught.

Who's been arresting? There are means of demonstrating that don't bring arrests. Stand across the street from the office. That's more visible anyway. It's more useful to turn their electorate against them and bring out the less than regular voters.

I know venting feels good. But the problem is that it doesn't accomplish anything. (Note that there's no other emotion that requires venting -- you don't have to bleed off excess joy or elation.) Venting without a strategic or tactical action is just spreading frustration and demoralization.

Let's talk about who is being a specific problem, what exactly they're doing, and get to work on strategy. We may have to write off the R side of our slate, other than remaining a gadfly, and focus on state, county and city level issues with the state Rs, while supporting our D slate.

not just every 2 years for Congress or 4 years for a President. All those folks out there protesting can also channel that energy towards getting people to the polls in their state and local elections so we can start taking America back from the bigots at the lowest levels of government. That will help put us on better footing for the 2020 census. These "off-year" elections shouldn't be consistently down in the 20% - 40% turnout range.

What if he and other members of his generation said Hitler couldn't be beat?

And he regularity risked his life collecting intelligence behind enemy lines. We are now resisting in their names
and the names of all the brave people who have believed in and risked their lives for our constitutional government.

I try to imagine the bravery they had to face what they did and and saw.
My dad never talked about it. I regret that I did not ask him to share more of
his story.

They did three surgeries on his eye. They could save it cosmetically but not the sight. He would have despised a bigot like Trump.

And he could always be proud to know that he contributed as so many did both at home and overseas
to saving our world from fascism. Now that monster lurks within.

As a child, living through the Cold War, I was always comforted by Lincoln's words that we would
not be destroyed from the outside but from within. Now that threat is real.

LOLOL

She was shocked he thought the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor. She finally calmed down when her told her about that movie.

that led to the end of the Vietnam War...

If these protests continue to build to a fever pitch, they will be effective.

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first and won't be the last. Just saying ....

Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough... the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go!
What the fuck happened to the Dems I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. We're just the guys to do it.
Let's do it.
LET'S DO IT!!

step away for a bit and regroup. This is overwhelming at times.

Find your fire again and get out there!

Stepped away from DU, TV - everything.

Took a xanax (lol) and went to bed.


It was exactly what I needed. Ready to go again.

Thanks. Hugs!