{"id":2366,"date":"2017-06-01T05:39:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T10:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2017-06-01T05:39:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T10:39:17","slug":"an-open-letter-to-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=2366","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter to the LEFT&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously?<\/p>\n<p>Do you HONESTLY believe you&#8217;re &#8220;convincing&#8221; anyone that your arguments have ANY merit&#8230;.AT ALL?  Do you really, <em>truly<\/em> believe that your tactics are doing you <em>any<\/em> good?  <\/p>\n<p>Let me clue you in on a secret.  It&#8217;s not helping.  Or, to be more accurate, it <em>IS<\/em> helping.  The RIGHT.  Yes, that&#8217;s right, the RIGHT.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;mainstream&#8221; media you count on to be your ally covers almost all of it.  The &#8220;deplorables&#8221; across the fruited plains watch.  And wonder.  &#8220;What in the name of Mike is going <em>on<\/em> here?&#8221;.  People protesting, arguing that they&#8217;re exercising their First Amendment guaranteed right of free speech and peaceable assembly while using the previously rehearsed tactics to SHUT DOWN those same rights for someone else.  It&#8217;s not working and it&#8217;s NOT gaining you support from anyone, anywhere. Well, save for college campuses.  Why, while we&#8217;re on that, do the snowflakes at a <em>riot<\/em> don&#8217;t need &#8220;safe spaces&#8221; from that?<\/p>\n<p>When reasonably prudent people see your bought and paid for &#8220;ninjas&#8221; with pepper spray, sign handles, bats and rocks&#8230;(where DO those rocks come from in a CITY, anyhow?)  Or other people <em>SO convinced<\/em> of their argument that they feel they need to wear a mask or bandanna over their face while whacking a young woman with a bicycle lock hard enough to lacerate and concuss her; or slapping people with used feminine products, pepper spray, eggs and, in one case, URINE; do you really believe that you&#8217;re &#8220;winning over&#8221; anyone?  Your &#8220;AntiFa&#8221; running around calling people &#8220;fascist&#8221;, (or any other &#8220;ist&#8221; or &#8220;phobe&#8221;) or a &#8220;Nazi&#8221; because they disagree with you; so you use fascist, (you remember those&#8230;Mussolini had them, &#8220;I Squadristi&#8221;, all over the place before the war broke out), AND Nazi, (you know, like the Brown Shirts in Germany before the war broke out), tactics to shut them down &#8211; it <em>AIN&#8217;T WORKIN&#8217;<\/em>!  How about grown women marching down the street wearing a foam rubber&#8230;umm&#8230;with little children present!  Or little pink &#8220;pussy&#8221; hats with little &#8220;ears&#8221; on them, carrying signs so obscene that the media either pixellated them or just didn&#8217;t run the video. Those people on the fence last November said:  &#8220;NOPE!&#8221;.  So, if THEY said &#8220;NOPE!&#8221;, just guess what Joe Bluecollar in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and more, decided while watching the news after a hard day at the job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;NOPE!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And now, you replaced the, (disgraced), chair of the DNC with a man that is DISGRACEFUL they way he speaks at meetings, (AGAIN, with little children present), and others leading cheers of &#8220;F- Donald Trump&#8221; with their one-finger salute up in the air&#8230;helpful?  Convincing?  &#8220;Base&#8221; motivating?  Independent gathering?<\/p>\n<p>NOPE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously? Do you HONESTLY believe you&#8217;re &#8220;convincing&#8221; anyone that your arguments have ANY merit&#8230;.AT ALL? Do you really, truly believe that your tactics are doing you any good? Let me clue you in on a secret. It&#8217;s not helping. Or, to be more accurate, it IS helping. The RIGHT. Yes, that&#8217;s right, the RIGHT. 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