Thursday, November 17, 2016

ACLU Buckles Down

MSNBC: 'We're in for the fight of our lives': ACLU exec. dir. - Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU, talks with Rachel Maddow about the surge in public support since the election of Donald Trump, and how his group is preparing to defend civil liberties from President-elect Donald Trump's stated agenda.
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Glynn Kalara said...

Trump f is as there going to find out almost totally disdainful of "other" Civil Rights. His backing is as well. Except of course of there own rights that is. If you think you're superior to others because of your race then it leads from there your going to try and lord over anyone you think doesn't measure up. The coming four yrs. are going to be ugly and we have to get it in our heads this is no longer going to be anything less then a nasty long slow motion Civil War call it the National version of the Cold War a generation ago. At time it will flare into actually fighting. I suspect the Blue States are now going to be subjected to a series of Federal assaults by the GOP/Trumpist coalition. We need to find among the GOP anti-Trump forces to help us resist. That is already started to appear with people like Hatch, McCain, and a few others. They are already saying they will resist the drive to end the filibuster rule in the Senate. This means they even fear the Randian right and their White nationalist allies the Trumpians. The only brake on this caravan now is the Senate and how long that firewall will hold is highly questionable. The Trumpian hordes are going to assault the last standing bastions of Civility and the last ragged remanents of the frayed Social Safety Net. All of it could go away now in this moment. The Country is about to be divided as it's never been since the Civil War and Trump is not going to stop this from happening. He's making a BIG mistake assuming that Americans are like Russians and that a Putin type Nationalist Dictatorship is viable here and the opposition Majority of Americans won't resist. He might be right we'll see. He's counting on human nature and we already see that the Corporatists Dems. like Obama and others are already folding up and surrendering. They figure they can make a deal with Trump that he has no ideological center and so they can use reason to change his mind on issues. It's not going to work. Trumpf wants total power he doesn't care about the Constitution and its separation of powers he and his following having NOTHING but contempt for the Republic , the Constitution and especially democracy and liberty. They want Obedience total obedience they are Authoritarians and some of them are Totalitarians. Obama and Clinton and the rest don't want to believe this. They'll come around to this conclusion soon enough.

12:20 PM
Jim Sande said...

Well, wealth has it privileges, the wealthy liberals are less alarmed. I think there are a lot of very good minds out there who understand the stakes and also understand how to fight back. The ACLU is one of them and they are wealthy, determined, big, and vigilant. There will be a lot of resistance if any of these things come to pass. The question i have in my mind is this, is Trump serious? Think about it, he knew how to get what he wants but is he really a determined person to cause this kind of major upheaval? The first initial indications seem to be that he wants to promote his brand. I say, let him. Spend all your time Mr. Trump marketing Trump, fine with me.

12:54 PM

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