This is how progs treat the proles

[Jered]

Legal Insurrection link.

The man asked the council to actually look at him while he was speaking. Instead of paying attention, Councilwoman Debora Juarez scolds the man for wasting his 120 seconds while others, like Kshama Sawant and Lorena Gonzalez were swiping and typing on their cell phones, not caring what the man had to say. He’s not a professional activist bussed in to back some union-driven agenda; he’s not a donor to a campaign. He is just a Seattle voter and, in this city, these voices don’t matter.

[D5CAV]

Idiots.

It doesn't take that much effort to do the standard politician thing and "feel his pain", then go back and do what they were going to do anyway.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

JFK Address to Latin American diplomats 1962

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
...
Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes, "Dream Deferred"

[Langenator]

There was an article I read yesterday, found it on Instapundit, talking about the Yellow Jacket protests/riots in France, and how (and why) the American media is mostly studiously ignoring them.

The author (Sarah Hoyt, I think) noted that the Yellow Jackets are mostly the MIddle Aged Middle Class (noting that most of the demonstrations happen on weekends, because such people have jobs and don't want to get fired). And that when you get such folks - people with jobs, kids, mortgages, etc - to the point where they feel like they have nothing to lose by flipping cars and setting things on fire, things have gotten really bad.

She then notes that things in the U.S. haven't gotten that bad yet - but if they do, Americans tend to be a good bit more surly and angry than Euros. And we're far, far better armed.

[HTRN]

The last time Middle class white Americans "rioted", they threw the british out and declared independence.

[Termite]

The last time Middle class white Americans "rioted", they threw the british out and declared independence.

According to Ae-sop, the next time won't be so gentle.

[Johnnyreb]

How did that saying go?

We're at that awkward time when it is too late to make changes within the system and too early to just shoot the bastards.

[Greg]

The last time Middle class white Americans "rioted", they threw the british out and declared independence.

According to Ae-sop, the next time won't be so gentle.

If it comes to that, it won't be gentle at all.

The Progs have been lording it over the normals much more roughly and for much longer than any German speaking kings.

The time between the Glorious Revolution and the American Revolution was shorter than the time between the election of Woodrow Wilson to now.