Outrageous actions stemming from U.S. Democratic party leaders in the past few weeks show just how upset they are at President Trump’s political wins with the fall midterm elections getting closer and closer. The new message from the left is intolerance for anyone associated with the Trump administration, particularly his Cabinet employees. The liberal message has become quite loud and very clear: Dems have been exhorted to heckle and harass the political opposition wherever and whenever anyone encounters them in public.
Stephanie Wilkinson, who owns the Red Hen restaurant, refused to serve White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She tweeted about it, President Trump tweeted about it, and now there’s a big uproar and backlash against political bigotry like this.
Egging on the loud-mouthed liberals who are flipping their lids right now, precious months before the midterms, is the astonishingly polarizing Democratic leader Maxine Waters (D-CA), a career politician who knows how to rile up a crowd. She spoke at a Capitol Hill “Keep Families Together” rally on Saturday, June 25, 2018 for about six and a half minutes.
Watching her masterful rhetoric is both mesmerizing and chilling as she yells at her audience. But let’s consider her position and why it is indeed stirring up a negative backlash. Here is a direct quote from Waters’ recent tirade advocating public protest through incivility: “Let’s stay the course. Let’s be sure we show up wherever we have to show up – and if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd, and you push back on them! And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere!”
Trump’s response was quick and incisive, as usual: “Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person, has become, together with Nacy Pelosi, the Face of the Democratic Party. She has just called for harm to supporters, of which there are many, of the Make American Great Again movement. Be careful what you wish for Max!”
Since her call to public incivility, Waters has received an increase in death threats and canceled two scheduled events this weekend (in Alabama and Texas), according to CNN. Waters remains unapologetic. Her deplorable behavior has now alienated members of even her own political party. According to Fox News, Senate minority leader Charles Ellis “Chuck” Schumer (D-NY) said in a public statement: “If you disagree with someone or something, stand up, make your voice heard, explain why you think they are wrong and why you are right. Make the argument. Protest peacefully. If you disagree with a politician, organize your fellow citizens to action and vote them out of office.” But no one should call for the harassment of political opponents. That’s not right. That’s not American.”
Incivility is “being uncivil; discourteous behavior or treatment; or an uncivil act” – in other words, being a rude jerk. In contrast, civil disobedience is “the refusal to obey certain laws or governmental demands for the purpose of influencing legislation or government policy, characterized by the employment of such nonviolent techniques as boycotting, picketing, and nonpayment of taxes.” It would appear the DNC has these two concepts a bit mixed up. In an attempt to become heroes of a fictional civil rights movement, many on the left now sink to the level of common street hoods.
