Many excellent points and of them #11 stands out. If we want to persuade onlookers that the protests have a moral foundation as well as a political argument, they must be peaceful. Hard to do when passions run high, but passion alone won’t carry the day.
"The protests were mostly peaceful up until Trump announced he was deploying the National Guard."
Oh Jesus. HAHAHAHA. Here we go again. CNN claiming "mostly peaceful protests" in front of burning buildings.
This article is pure leftist drivel. Propaganda following the massive ignoring of the Biden border crisis that allowed hundreds of millions of illegal immigrants to flow.
The good news here is that these people rioting and holding Mexican flags are likely deportation subjects. Note that the majority of Los Angeles residence support a cleanup of the Biden mess.
I opened the article wondering what it would be like, started it apprehensive, and grew to like it a few bullets in. I like "commonsense" moderate positions being represented, because they're rare to see.
As intelligent as these warnings are, extremist activists will laugh at them. They’re not there to protest government overreach; they’re there to show off their manhood and proclaim their passion. Some are there to undermine democracy, either because of some real or imagined imperfection or perhaps on behalf of a foreign power. The goal of protestors should be to smell out these people and eject them.
This has been a problem at protests for decades. Anarchists like to swoop in and break stuff. Protest leaders normally know how to keep this from happening. A lot of other protests have been peaceful - certainly the April 5 protest I attended, and others.
Note that the protests started out peaceful, according to _the NYPD_ - as Isaac said, they are not ones to cut protesters any slack at all. Could anarchists have decided that if the National Guard was coming it was time to engage? Not impossible.
Many excellent points and of them #11 stands out. If we want to persuade onlookers that the protests have a moral foundation as well as a political argument, they must be peaceful. Hard to do when passions run high, but passion alone won’t carry the day.
"The protests were mostly peaceful up until Trump announced he was deploying the National Guard."
Oh Jesus. HAHAHAHA. Here we go again. CNN claiming "mostly peaceful protests" in front of burning buildings.
This article is pure leftist drivel. Propaganda following the massive ignoring of the Biden border crisis that allowed hundreds of millions of illegal immigrants to flow.
The good news here is that these people rioting and holding Mexican flags are likely deportation subjects. Note that the majority of Los Angeles residence support a cleanup of the Biden mess.
I opened the article wondering what it would be like, started it apprehensive, and grew to like it a few bullets in. I like "commonsense" moderate positions being represented, because they're rare to see.
They’re standard fare at Persuasion
As intelligent as these warnings are, extremist activists will laugh at them. They’re not there to protest government overreach; they’re there to show off their manhood and proclaim their passion. Some are there to undermine democracy, either because of some real or imagined imperfection or perhaps on behalf of a foreign power. The goal of protestors should be to smell out these people and eject them.
This has been a problem at protests for decades. Anarchists like to swoop in and break stuff. Protest leaders normally know how to keep this from happening. A lot of other protests have been peaceful - certainly the April 5 protest I attended, and others.
Note that the protests started out peaceful, according to _the NYPD_ - as Isaac said, they are not ones to cut protesters any slack at all. Could anarchists have decided that if the National Guard was coming it was time to engage? Not impossible.