{"id":1997805,"date":"2023-08-11T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/op-ed-american-patriots-must-follow-the-lefts-lead-and-take-action-now\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T13:04:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T17:04:24","slug":"op-ed-american-patriots-must-follow-the-lefts-lead-and-take-action-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/op-ed-american-patriots-must-follow-the-lefts-lead-and-take-action-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: Patriots, Emulate the Left, Act Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fop-ed-american-patriots-must-follow-the-lefts-lead-and-take-action-now%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1997805&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Why We Need to Protest for Freedom and Democracy<\/h2>\n<p>Why didn\u2019t we have\u200d 35,000 patriots protesting\u200c for\u2063 free speech outside the\u2063 courtroom when Donald Trump was arraigned last week? Why didn\u2019t we\u2062 have 10,000 protesters for free and fair\u2063 elections\u200c in Mohave\u200d County, Arizona, when the Board of Supervisors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/news\/mohave-county-rejects-proposal-hand-count-ballots-2024-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rejected<\/a> hand-counting ballots?<\/p>\n<p>Over \u2063and over,\u200c I hear \u201cthought \u2062leaders\u201d of the America\u2064 First movement urging our people not to \u2064protest, not to take \u200bthe bait. This is exactly\u2064 the wrong advice.<\/p>\n<p>If we \u2064want\u2062 to change the\u200c direction of the country, we must protest. With\u200b media controlled and institutions captured, it \u2063is the only way we can\u2062 break through and reach the people, activate the people, and shift the Overton window toward democracy and freedom.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, \u2062the leftists have \u2062made\u200b a concerted effort to suppress any America \u2064First demonstrations while themselves wielding protests as\u200d a weapon\u200c to intimidate and silence any who dare question their authoritarian ideology.<\/p>\n<p>They know the power\u200b of protest, and will do anything to prevent you from using it, because they know that any questioning of their absurd assertions could spark \u2062a pandemic of \u2063rejection among the broader population.<\/p>\n<p>We must ignore those who urge \u2063caution, and always stand for the \u2062truth.<\/p>\n<h3>The Strength of the People<\/h3>\n<p>Although the average person has been beaten down by\u200d the left\u2019s\u2064 decades-long assault on \u2064reason and \u200dmorality, we \u2062are actually in a strong position. Their increasingly fascist edifice is a house of\u200d cards, built on lies and deceit and evil intent. Orwell said, \u201cThe Party\u200c told you to reject the \u200cevidence\u2064 of your \u200deyes and ears,\u201d and many \u2063have done\u200d so. \u200cBut if \u2064we can change that, and\u200b get\u2064 ordinary voters to accept the evidence of their \u2062eyes and ears, the \u200chouse of cards will fall.<\/p>\n<p>To defeat the modern authoritarians, we must follow \u2063their \u200clead and attack,\u200b attack, attack at every opportunity. We must stop\u200c playing defense. I\u2019m \u200dnot a lawyer, but I believe that when a \u2063masked blackshirt \u201ccounterprotester\u201d gets in \u2063your face screaming and you\u200d fear\u200b for your life and safety, you are probably justified in defending yourself and punching the fascist in the face.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, you\u2064 may get\u200c arrested, because the fascists have subverted the rule of law and \u200bweaponized\u2063 police departments and the judicial system; but history shows that civil\u200d disobedience can be an \u2062effective tool for change. If you are arrested, you will join an illustrious line \u200dof political\u2063 prisoners, locked up for\u200b demanding\u2064 freedom, equality and democracy.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 6, 2021, when\u2063 2 million people flooded the streets of D.C. in the largest pro-democracy demonstration \u200cin our nation\u2019s history, agent provocateurs from the FBI convinced a few na\u00efve \u200bprotesters to enter the \u2064Capitol.\u200d Although most were\u2064 invited in by the Capitol Police,\u200c many have been held\u200d as political \u2063prisoners without trial since then.<\/p>\n<p>Just ordinary people when unfairly arrested, now in \u200bprison, they sing\u200d the national \u200danthem nightly, yearning\u2063 for\u200b freedom and justice. They serve as a \u200bdaily living reminder of \u200bthe authoritarian oppression imposed by the nouveau fascists \u200din our government.<\/p>\n<h3>Protesting for Freedom and Fairness<\/h3>\n<p>The millions who turned out on Jan. 6 to \u2064demand free and fair elections\u2063 scared the left. \u200dThey \u200brecognize \u200dthe power of protest, so\u200c when Republicans and America First patriots started demonstrating, their instant response was to use the \u200dmerger of \u200cthe state and big business to intimidate\u200c activists, censor and suppress speech, and deny the pro-democracy protesters their constitutionally protected right of assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Although the professional left \u200bis the\u200b master of using astroturf protest (a tiny and violent minority with bullhorns and \u200ca <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-regime-corporate-media-blame-the-military-abortion-fight-they-started-on-republicans\/\" title=\"Biden, Corporate Media blame Republicans for military abortion fight they initiated.\">compliant corporate media<\/a>) to push its agenda, and we are\u2062 just amateurs and beginners, we do have some advantages.<\/p>\n<p>First, we are a genuine\u200d mass movement of the people, while they are a \u200cmovement of neo-Marxist academics and government workers led by the corporate\u2063 1 \u2063percent. Second, all we want is \u200ctransparent and verifiable elections, while \u200cthey demand opaque, insecure and unverifiable \u2063election processes. Third, \u200bwe have the\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-jr-tells-gop-to-get-tough-if-democrats-are-playing-hardball-then-we-got-to-play-hardball\/\" title=\"Trump Jr. Tells GOP To Get Tough: If Democrats Are \u2018Playing Hardball\u2019 Then \u2018We Got To Play Hardball\u2019\">moral high ground<\/a>, advocating for freedom of \u2063speech, the rule of law and equal \u2063justice, while they \u2063promote censorship, the rule of \u2064man and unequal application of the law.<\/p>\n<p>If we want to win this fight, \u2064we must protest\u2062 like the left.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/10\/politics\/eric-holder-republicans-when-they-go-low\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric Holder<\/a> \u200d said, \u201cWhen they go low, we\u200b kick them.\u201d Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-1Fu3g1MGHY?t=320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maxine Waters<\/a> also has\u2062 good advice: \u201cLet\u2019s make sure we show up wherever we have \u2064to show up, and if you see anybody from that Cabinet \u200din a restaurant,\u2062 in \u2063a department store, at \u2062a\u2064 gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And\u200b you tell \u200cthem they\u2019re not welcome anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During\u200d the struggle against apartheid,\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/op-ed-american-patriots-must-follow-the-lefts-lead-and-take-action-now\/\" title=\"Op-Ed: Patriots, Emulate the Left, Act Now!\">freedom fighters rejected minority rule<\/a> as illegitimate, since it excluded the\u200b clear \u2062majority\u2062 of the\u2063 population from basic political freedoms and human rights.<\/p>\n<p>We face the same situation, and\u2064 to regain freedom and democracy in America, \u2062we must follow their lead and protest, demonstrate and make the country \u201cungovernable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/op-ed-american-patriots-must-follow-lefts-lead-take-action-now\/\">Op-Ed: American\u2064 Patriots Must Follow the \u200bLeft&#8217;s\u200d Lead and\u2062 Take Action Now<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>questioning the absence of 35,000 patriots advocating for free speech during Donald Trump&#8217;s arraignment. Similarly, they wonder why 10,000 protesters didn&#8217;t rally for fair elections in Mohave County, Arizona, when the Board of Supervisors dismissed hand-counting ballots. These &#8220;thought leaders&#8221; repeatedly express their concerns within the America First movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2241,"featured_media":1997806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}