What Do These 'rabble-Rousers' Hope To Achieve?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-protests-idUSKBN14X2HX

[mikey4444]

Rabble rousers ?

These appear to be civil rights campaigners, without which Blacks would still be 3rd class citizens in their own country.

I expect people like you said the same thing in 1963 !

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// These appear to be civil rights campaigners, without which Blacks would still be 3rd class citizens in their own country. ///

Have any civil rights been restricted, he isn't even in office yet?

This is 2017 not 1963.

[Islay]

Trump has used his campaign to make plain that he held a low opinion of women, people of colour and people with disabilities. This alone was enough to concern the 'rabble rousers'.

It is their democratic right to hold protests. They could protest the sky is blue if they wished and as it is within the law they can.

[anotheoldgit]

Islay

Since it is only the minorities that have taken to the streets, obviously the majority don't seem to have anything to protest about.

[Zacs-Master]

It is generally the case that minorities protest AOG. You must have noticed this in your 80odd years on this planet?

[jim360]

"Since it is only the minorities that have taken to the streets, obviously the majority don't seem to have anything to protest about. "

Well, obviously.

[sp1814]

AOG

The hope to defend hard-fought gains in voting rights and criminal justice during the presidency of Donald Trump.

The likely reason for this is because of what Trump has said about black people specifically, and his cabinet appointments in general - (Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, VP Mike Pence, Elaine Chao, Reince Priebus (White House Chief of Staff), National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and Nikki Haley (Ambassador to the United Nations).

So far, it's reasonable to assume that with these on the cabinet, there is a real possibility that progress on specific civil rights gains over the past few years may be rolled back.

[EDDIE51]

Hardly 'Rabble Rousers' there are very real concerns about the actions Trump has vowed to take once he is in office. If he is allowed to get away with it he will set the cause of civil liberty in the USA back decades!
He is blatantly racist! and a misogynist
( apart from when the lady in question is performing a 'golden shower' for his pleasure!!!)

[Islay]

//Since it is only the minorities that have taken to the streets, obviously the majority don't seem to have anything to protest about. //

Well my post did talk about the 'minorities' so yes you have made a very obvious statement.

[mikey4444]

Islay....very well said !

There is far too much tacit approval of this awful ogre here on AB.

[Quizmonster]

I should have thought it perfectly clear what "rabble-rousers hope to achieve"; namely the rousing of a rabble. Given that the people in the link, as shown on Sky News earlier, were marching utterly civilly and peaceably, I'd have said that rousing a rabble was the very last thing they had in mind. What they do appear to want is the struggle for civil rights to continue after the inauguration of the President-to-be.

[Zacs-Master]

There's an Elephant in the room here isn't there?

[Jackdaw33]

"Awful ogre". PMSL.

[mushroom25]

//there is a real possibility that progress on specific civil rights gains over the past few years may be rolled back. //

only if congress acquiesces - as has been pointed out on this site, mr trump has more republican enemies than democrats.

[vulcan42]

They're letting their voices be heard before Trump bans such marches.

[cassa333]

I should think that they hope that he will grow up from his school boy bully tactics and realise he is the president of the USA and not some third rate business man living off a name that doesn't make enough money to pay taxes.

I should think they hope that by making their voices heard they will wake up Americans to the childish, bullying, shouting tactics he uses to shut people up.

I should think they hope that he realises everyone is a human being and not something to be oppressed by his attitudes.

He may turn out to be the best president the US has ever had. But with his adolescent attitude I think he is just as likely to be the forebarer of Armageddon.

[beso]

In countries where the majority are unhappy, it is illegal to go to the streets.

[Zacs-Master]

Very profound point beso.

[Jackdaw33]

I don't think I can take another four years of daily anti-Trump threads.

[mikey4444]

Cassa...he has had plenty of time to all of the things you suggest, but has shown a marked reluctance to throw off his silly, quarrelsome adolescent behaviour.

The next 4 years are not looking good.