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In reply to the discussion: Is Trump Planning a Coup d'tat? [View all]TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)It's really, really hard to get a movement going when most people aren't directly involved. The Pullman strike (the 1894 one) was a bloody mess and just set the labor movement back years. Big black eye.
Back then William Jennings Bryan had the golden voice of populism, almost socialism, and a huge following, but the Populist Party went up in smoke.
Now, those were left-wing movements, you say. Well, as powerful as they were, McCarthy, J. Edgar and others ran into walls of quiet resistance when they went too far.
And where is the Tea Party today?
What is it, 10% of both conservatives and liberals are the ones we hear-- the ones with microphones, big mouths, and the free time to use them. The other 80% just want to go to work, raise their kids and be left alone. Thoughts of revolution don't interest them. And their simple resistance will stop the fascists.
(At least I hope it will.)