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America’s New Opposition
New Republic ^ | 1 Feb, 2017 | JEDEDIAH PURDY

Posted on 02/01/2017 8:10:03 PM PST by MtnClimber

From Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter, the left has been reborn. Can it find a way to harness the populist uprising that brought Trump to power?

In late October 2011, I was volunteering at the Occupy Wall Street library in lower Manhattan. Tucked into a corner of Zuccotti Park, the library was staffed mainly by anarchists of an exceedingly orderly bent. If society were suddenly freed from coercive institutions like libraries, these people would gladly spend the morning sorting donated books by Dewey decimal number—as they were doing in the mild fall weather. I was there for only a few days, but one conversation with a book borrower has stayed with me. He was having trouble understanding why he kept returning to the encampment. He wondered: Had anything like this happened before? Were there books that could tell him who had done it, and why? I felt I was meeting a victim of a political shipwreck. In my mind, he became emblematic of a left that felt itself so unmoored from any shared past that it was puzzled by its own existence.

Now that Donald Trump occupies the White House, it’s easy to feel that we are all castaways in historical time..........

Last year, Bernie Sanders won more than 13 million votes. And recent polls show that a majority of Americans under the age of 30 now prefer socialism to capitalism.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: anarchists; blacklivesmatter; leftism; moonbats; occupy; ows

1 posted on 02/01/2017 8:10:03 PM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Moonbats and snowflakes and radicals of all sorts.


2 posted on 02/01/2017 8:12:21 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

“It’s like putting your tongue in a canker sore. What’s the point? We won.”

Must read from Rush today

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/02/01/why-im-hopeful-liberals-are-marginalizing-themselves/


3 posted on 02/01/2017 8:17:06 PM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
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To: MtnClimber

I read the whole article. The Dems should try it some of these ideas, then they’d really be on the losing end.


4 posted on 02/01/2017 8:20:09 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: MtnClimber
When I see these radical left protests, it's like deja vu the 60s.


5 posted on 02/01/2017 8:23:29 PM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
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To: Daffynition

The left is marginalizing themselves. 0bama’s “progress” toward communism is being rolled back and they are throwing three-year-old type fits.


6 posted on 02/01/2017 8:27:26 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
Don't underestimate the power of the dark side.




7 posted on 02/01/2017 8:28:44 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: MtnClimber

I’m all for letting it all play out. And enjoy our *winning*.


8 posted on 02/01/2017 8:29:29 PM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
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To: MtnClimber

“polls show that a majority of Americans under the age of 30 “

The democraphic TV advertisers pay the most for. So TV caters to them.


9 posted on 02/01/2017 8:31:58 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Daffynition

I am all for letting police take them down with due force and hit them with felony charges. The police should request assistance from ex-military and hunters if they cannot handle the load.


10 posted on 02/01/2017 8:40:36 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Wait till those kids have families they can hardly support due to impossibly high taxes.


11 posted on 02/01/2017 9:42:48 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: mrsmith

I was a security guard on the gate at a large resort condominium on a Gulf Coast beach from 2005 to 2013. Every year the Spring Break crowd and the younger summer visitors appeared to be stupider than the year before and their vision closer and closer to the immediate moment. By 2010 I had decided that the country was not going to come back from from the 07 crash and Obama because these continually stupider and more self centered youths are the future Politicians and captains of industry, the leaders of our society. Our Public Education system has made recovery highly unlikely. Trump is a hiatus but I cannot believe he is more than a hiatus. There are not enough liberty oriented or even smart people and certainly hardly any actually educated people in the cohort that will rule after Trump. It is not that the non-white minorities will outnumber and swamp the American culture and nation, it is that only a tiny portion of the class whose children once had real educations, were taught to reason and read and write and figure remains, and they are almost entirely the home schoolers. There are not enough of them.


12 posted on 02/01/2017 10:06:43 PM PST by arthurus
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It is not that the non-white minorities will outnumber and swamp the American culture and nation

oh yes the world is awash in third world minority countries that are so great....you are quite wrong...us becoming majority non white will kill us as well as the point you correctly alluded to that not enough good folks having kids...that I agree with ....and btw involved parents can counter school bullshit ....we sure as hell do....Gulf coast where?

13 posted on 02/01/2017 10:31:31 PM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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To: wardaddy

There are far far too few “involved parents.” I have talked perhaps a dozen people in the last 10 years into homeschooling their children but it needs to be twenty million of them and growing rapidly.


14 posted on 02/01/2017 10:47:24 PM PST by arthurus
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To: Daffynition

At least in the 60s the women protesters were wonderful, beautiful babes who even went topless to advertise free love. Today’s women protesters are coyote ugly with god awful tats, piercings, rat nest hair all colors of the rainbow and such foul language they would melt the brass off a door nob.


15 posted on 02/01/2017 11:27:21 PM PST by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental illness: A totalitarian psyche.)
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To: TBP

Wait until these kids try to support their families and cannot get a decent job because of their felony convictions from their lawless protest activities.


16 posted on 02/01/2017 11:30:39 PM PST by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental illness: A totalitarian psyche.)
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To: MtnClimber

Almost no Americans will associate themselves with vile agitators who often mask themselves hurt people and destroy property.

The voting majority is watching the implosion and slow death of the left. A lot more of the voters are on to them now.


17 posted on 02/01/2017 11:34:19 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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18 posted on 02/02/2017 12:59:31 AM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
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To: MtnClimber

Yep, no appeasing them, trumps win was not a lets work together moment..it was a pledge to steamroller over this madness...they can get happy in the same pants they got mad in...lock em up


19 posted on 02/02/2017 3:24:17 AM PST by aces (Got Jesus?)
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To: MtnClimber

The reason the God-Emperor was elected was because of these people. Society got tired of seeing our prior president be a man of the mob and the rent-seekers.


20 posted on 02/02/2017 3:42:35 AM PST by Hacksaw (I haven't taken the 30 silvers.)
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