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Interesting message about the violence at Trump rallies and reponses. A message to me so am not posting on the main forum. Person is connected.
What is happening-—should the utterly criminal media class ever actually analyze and report it-—is one of the most amazing things of the last 100 years.
In 1947, Mahatma Gandhi used nonviolence to provoke the British government into violence. This backfired, and eventually the humanity and compassion of the British people insisted on Indian independence.
In the 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr., copying Gandhi’s tactics, used nonviolence to spur the compassion of non-southerners to demand an end to segregation. The police beatings, the water sprays, the dogs, even the murders, only inspired the rest of America to force change. British historian Paul Johnson commented on this in his book “Modern Times,” as have we in “Patriot’s History of the United States.”
In essence, one could categorize these events as “left-wing” oriented nonviolent change.
What we are witnessing today is, for the first time that I have ever seen, “right-wing” oriented nonviolence that is (mark my words) going to force major change. To wit: the Trump rallies are overwhelmingly, almost universally non-violent. Even Trump himself has abstained from even the most joking references to violence at his rallies. But as we saw in San Jose, Trump supporters are now routinely being subjected to all sorts of violence-—without retaliating. (In other words, behaving just as Gandhi’s and King’s supporters did).
I know there are many here who would prefer different responses. But this is having a clear effect. Despite the near blackout or slant of the Drive-bys, the public is slowly getting the picture of the anti-Trump/Dem/Dinobernie/Cankles supporters as Brownshirt fascists, as Bull Conners, often with the support of do- nothing police (as in Arizona and California). When even goofballs like Cher and the brain dead commentators on MSNBC notice this, you can be it’s having an effect.
Whether it’s the right path to continue on, I don’t know, but for now, the Drive-bys are increasingly confronting the eerie similarities between the Civil Rights movement and its treatment and the Trump supporters and their treatment. If this brings along just 10% of the voting public to change their minds, Trump wins in a landslide.
In 1947, Mahatma Gandhi used nonviolence to provoke the British government into violence. This backfired, and eventually the humanity and compassion of the British people insisted on Indian independence.
In the 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr., copying Gandhi’s tactics, used nonviolence to spur the compassion of non-southerners to demand an end to segregation. The police beatings, the water sprays, the dogs, even the murders, only inspired the rest of America to force change. British historian Paul Johnson commented on this in his book “Modern Times,” as have we in “Patriot’s History of the United States.”
In essence, one could categorize these events as “left-wing” oriented nonviolent change.
What we are witnessing today is, for the first time that I have ever seen, “right-wing” oriented nonviolence that is (mark my words) going to force major change. To wit: the Trump rallies are overwhelmingly, almost universally non-violent. Even Trump himself has abstained from even the most joking references to violence at his rallies. But as we saw in San Jose, Trump supporters are now routinely being subjected to all sorts of violence-—without retaliating. (In other words, behaving just as Gandhi’s and King’s supporters did).
I know there are many here who would prefer different responses. But this is having a clear effect. Despite the near blackout or slant of the Drive-bys, the public is slowly getting the picture of the anti-Trump/Dem/Dinobernie/Cankles supporters as Brownshirt fascists, as Bull Conners, often with the support of do- nothing police (as in Arizona and California). When even goofballs like Cher and the brain dead commentators on MSNBC notice this, you can be it’s having an effect.
Whether it’s the right path to continue on, I don’t know, but for now, the Drive-bys are increasingly confronting the eerie similarities between the Civil Rights movement and its treatment and the Trump supporters and their treatment. If this brings along just 10% of the voting public to change their minds, Trump wins in a landslide.