{"id":69361,"date":"2016-12-12T10:54:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T15:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69361"},"modified":"2016-12-12T10:54:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T15:54:50","slug":"the-campaign-for-hyperbole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69361","title":{"rendered":"The campaign for hyperbole"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bush Derangement Syndrome is being replaced by Trump Derangement Syndrome. ANSWER<\/a> calls on their troops to protest at the inauguration;<\/p>\n

This country needs a real political revolution. Millions of people feel entirely disenfranchised by a political system that delivered the least favorable and trusted candidates in U.S. history. Many hoped that the Bernie Sanders campaign would represent a new direction and opportunity to take on entrenched power and extreme inequality, for a higher minimum wage, to defend Social Security, rebuild the labor movement, provide universal health care and free tuition.<\/p>\n

That campaign was largely suppressed, but its end does not change the desires and aspirations of tens of millions of people, workers and youth in particular, who are demanding real change. On Inauguration Day, thousands will be in the streets to give voice to the millions of people in this country who are demanding systemic change.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump is a racist, sexist bigot. We believe that tens of thousands of progressive people will be in the streets on Inauguration Day and in the weeks and months afterward.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An organization called #DisruptJ20<\/a> (Disrupt the January 20th Inauguration) doesn’t like the democratic process;<\/p>\n

Trump stands for tyranny, greed, and misogyny. He is the champion of neo-nazis and white Nationalists, of the police who kill the Black, Brown and poor on a daily basis, of racist border agents and sadistic prison guards, of the FBI and NSA who tap your phone and read your email.<\/p>\n

He is the harbinger of even more climate catastrophe, deportation, discrimination, and endless war. He continues to deny the existence of climate change, in spite of all the evidence, putting the future of the whole human race at stake. The KKK, Vladimir Putin, Golden Dawn, and the Islamic State all cheered his victory. If we let his inauguration go unchallenged, we are opening the door to the future they envision.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s success confirms the bankruptcy of representative democracy. Rather than using the democratic process as an alibi for inaction, we must show that no election could legitimize his agenda. Neither the Democrats nor any other political party or politician will save us\u2014they just offer a weaker version of the same thing. If there is going to be a positive change in this society, we have to make it ourselves, together, through direct action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess if your candidate doesn’t get elected, that’s a license to be a jerk. I don’t remember any protests at the inauguration of President Obama, or any calls for “direct action” as ominous as that sounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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