01/26/2017
Why the "women's march" was a failure, and why that is good for America.
Saturday, hundreds of women donned big va**na suits and gathered to listen to people like Madonna speak politics. They claim it was a huge thing, and there were people there, but it was a total, unabashed failure. Sure, they got people out of their houses, and even got a lot of press coverage, but that wasn't their goal, nor will it make any lasting difference, and here's why.
First, their goals were unrealistic. Getting people to hate Trump, or make them wish he wasn't president, or oppose his actions after all of the other protests over the last 2 months is and was unrealistic at best, and counterproductive to their cause. Let's face it, at this point those who voted for Trump are pointing at these idiots and saying "this is WHY I voted for Trump." And blaming Trump for anything the day after he was inaugurated is not only illogical, but obviously partisan, so it won't win over undecideds, if that was even a part of their plan. It also weakens any real arguments they may have, few as they are.
But their real goal was one that Soros and friends have had for a LONG time- to create a liberal Tea-Party, and that will be the biggest failure to spring from Saturday's fiasco. In order to understand this, you have to actually understand what the Tea-Party is, and how it happened. So what happened to create the TP? First, we had a "conservative" president who betrayed every conservative principle, and a Republican candidate to replace him who was, well, pathetic. So a dyed in the wool, unashamed socialist won an election and we saw policies and legislation that was really anti- American Dream coming down on us, fundamentally transforming the nation. So a stock broker on tv said "we should get together and have a tea party" in a very excited way. Somebody called a friend, and another, and pretty soon, they had to have the party in a park. A few people called radio stations, and tv stations, permits were acquired, and people involved used the skills they had to organize and arrange, and a protest happened. This was pretty unnerving to a lot of people, because conservatives don't protest, or at least we hadn't. Nobody knows how many people showed up, because nobody thought to count, and nobody even knew where all the parties were. And to be fair, we had our silly costumes and our fringe idiots, racists, and the like, but we did a great job of keeping it peaceful and policing our own (I have some pretty good video of a couple neo-nazis not only being run off, but having their ideology used to do it). We went on to organize and get better connected, and in 2 short years, we had candidates being elected to the house and senate. We had passion, energy, and skill, and we gained knowledge and tolerance. We included groups that we didn't always agree with, but we had a 51% policy- If you and I agree on 51% of the issues, we are more friend than foe. We included some groups that were "conservative" and some that were "libertarian" and of course, some "constitutional." It's pretty cool when a police officer and a guy who wants to legalize pot have a friendly conversation and walk away agreeing on something. Or when a guy with a sign that says "Recovering Liberal" makes more friends in 1 day than he has had in his entire life. It was an awesome thing to see and be a part of, and something the Women's March doesn't have. After being hyped, planned, and advertised (every night on CNN and CBS) for 2 months, any spontaneity and "grassroots" are gone- strike 1. They were astroturfed every bit as much as the Coffee party and the Other 95. And that is why those groups failed in the first place. Where the Tea-party was inclusive- tax protesters, pro-lifers, home-school advocates, and religious conservatives as well as many others- the womans march was concentrated on 2 things- "We hate Trump" and "I want to kill my baby." If you disagreed with either, you weren't welcome. Kinda limits how many people you can convince, if you are an all or nothing kind of thing- Strike 2. And finally, by excluding any objections that half the population may have to Trump in the name of radical Feminism, and demonizing a good deal of the population based on being born with a p***s, they destroyed any chance of having a sustained, organic movement in society- and that was the real lasting effect of the Tea-party. So that makes strike 3.
The Tea-Party garnered hatred from the Obama administration and the main stream press, but the average American realized that we had good arguments and we articulated them well. We made reasoned arguments, and while the left called us racists, people on the outside- those who hadn't taken sides- heard the arguments and listened. And were swayed. So much that a single person- Mitt Romney- can be used as an example. In 2008, he was the "conservative" Republican. In 2012, he was the "Establishment" Republican, and in 2016, he was the "washed up has been of the past" Republican, whose views were blasted as "leftist" by no less than 5 presidential hopefuls. We may not have won presidential elections, but we shifted the views of the American people sharply to the right. And that won't be an effect of the women's va**na parade.