Posted on 01/21/2018 8:36:35 AM PST by yoe
Jennifer Mosbacher cried in a doctor’s office the morning after Donald Trump’s election, unable to control herself during a routine physical. The 43-year-old Atlanta suburbanite had avoided politics her entire life but was overcome with shock by an outcome she never saw coming.
[snip]Mosbacher’s transformation is at the heart of an unprecedented movement inside the Democratic Party. Dubbed “The Resistance,” it has — in the year since Donald Trump’s inauguration — turned countless apolitical women and men into firebrand activists set on remaking the political system.
Their fury-driven activism explains why abortion-rights group Emily’s List has been contacted by more than 22,000 women interested in running for office, and why hundreds of progressive “pop-up” groups formed to help Democrats with everything from fundraising to website design. They are now part of the party’s political firmament in 2018, giving Democrats a candidate recruitment boost and an undeniable enthusiasm edge over the GOP.
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I kind of hoped we were done with the snowflake boo-hoo stories about Trump’s triumph. But to the Left, no bad idea ever dies.
Any Trump hater, Democrat, Bernie lover or Hillary Voter is part of “The Resistance”.
An old Coworker Posts crap on Fakebook every now and again. I like to drop a Turd in his Punchbowl and watch the reaction of him and his friends to my “Nazi” like comments.
These people go ballistic. There is no reasoned response to what I Post. They blame the GOP and Trump for the Schumer Shutdown. It’s because of Trump’s lack of leadership they bellow because Trump said the same of Obama back in 2013.
I point out that non Politician and Private Citizen Donald Trump made that comment five years ago and it has nothing to do with the Democrats choosing Illegal Invaders over our Military. They don’t care. Trump said it and the Senate Democrats are excused from blame in 2018.
There is no reasoning with them. Facts mean nothing.
Once they Morons get back in power look out. They have an agenda to fulfill, and if it means going total Socialist Utopia at the expense of Freedom they are all in.
Democrat opposition is mostly staged by funding from Soros and similar sources.
Should have taken a picture. On second thought, maybe not. :-) !!
It’ll only be one generation, because they aborted the next one.
Vive la Résistance!
They are living in a time warp in 1940s France where they think that they are communist and Marxist insurgents fighting the Nazi occupiers and Vichy government.
Have you watched the series “A French Village”? It’s a pretty good picture of real tyranny.
TRANSLATION: “Where my government checks at?”
Hollyweird lives in a bubble of their own groupthink.
Hollyweird is a legend in their own mind.
the News media is just NYC delusional.
I’m about 10 miles North of Boulder, Co. I see chicken-neck, I’m with her, co-exist Cat-Ladies along with skinny-jeans Soyboys with ‘RESIST’ on their bumpers everywhere. Like they’re going to actually do something besides throw a cat in your face.
I was getting my windshield fixed a few weeks ago and walked into the office to see a yoga pants, snotty looking woman on the phone. She took one look at me and walked out of the office. I wasn’t open carrying or anything but I then connected the pick-up truck outside with the ‘resist’, Hillary and Obama-Biden stickers on it to her.
She recognized her ancestral enemy.
It is we who are resisting the tyranny and the destruction of America and the American Dream!
I know many like Jennifer Mosbacher. They get their current news from MSNBC, ('my favorite' one told me), CNN, the Networks, Buzzfeed, Yahoo News, Hollywood rags and Facebook. I've noticed a lot of my wife's friends (many are teachers) put a lot of lefty cut and paste sayings on Facebook.
The new found lefties are not stupid, are well educated with advanced degrees. A friend of my wife, a rabid leftist, has a PhD. She is livid with Trump. There's no talking with her.
It is difficult to have a conversation with them as they immediately get defensive and revert to the buzzwords of sexist, racist or a hater? I still attempt to try and educate them in various ways. I gave one of Levin's books to one a while back. Don't know if she read it.
Education is the Key. Do your best with the young folks. My first 'education' book on politics was The Naked Communist, by W. Cleon Skousen when I was 13. Certainly woke me up. Levin's books are good. I give them to young folks here and there. Levin's 'Liberty and Tyranny' the best for kids if you're only going to give one book.
The left works day in and day out, 24/7. We have to do the same. I close with a quote from Levin on gradualism from the left:
"Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties." - Mark R. Levin, Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America
............your points are one reason, out of several others, I have not had a functioning TV in my house for 14 months. Indeed, I have not seen a working TV screen unless in a bar or restaurant. WHY? Because of just what you describe.
Among many groups, my psyche just cannot take hearing or seeing these degenerate lefties because it reminds me of what they stand for which is the total destruction of the America I grew up in and served overseas 2 years for.
Basically, this really means The Democratic Party which has devolved from Harry Truman to a documentably Criminal Enterprise.
Yes, a great series. Partisan communists fighting real Nazis. Not to dismiss the real partisans who were fighting for freedom.
Trump is the resistance.
No, there is a big difference between tea party members and these liberal groups. JUST for starters:
The Tea Party cared about government overreach into our lives and holding fast to our Founding Fathers vision.
TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY! Was the theme.
NO OBAMACARE!
Tea Partiers wanted to help this country, Dems & Resisters want more government, more mandates, more $$ for Planned Parenthood and more support for Black Lives Matter.
No, there is a big difference between tea party members and these liberal groups. JUST for starters:
The Tea Party cared about government overreach into our lives and holding fast to our Founding Fathers vision.
TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY! Was the theme.
NO OBAMACARE!
Tea Partiers wanted to help this country, Dems & Resisters want more government, more mandates, more $$ for Planned Parenthood and more support for Black Lives Matter.
Stop the Resistance by repealing the 16th and 17th Amendments.
Agreed. It only appears that more people on the left were “awakened” because their side is loud and violent and liberals don’t lose elections gracefully. They were the same during Bush. Conservatives hated Obama, but accepted the results and “resisted” the right way (in the voting booth).
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