Donald Trump Backlash Continues: ‘Not Even Hitler or Mussolini Attacked the Pope So Directly' — Stephen Colbert

People forget that the robber barons were shooting union organizers in broad daylight, with the backing of the state. Organizing has always been life or death. I don’t blame anyone for not wanting to die, but we should give credit to those who came before us for the rights we enjoy - they paid an enormous price.

I read a Listnook post. Someone was worried about being fired for not praying with the group. Right to work state? Yup not praying is a fireable action.

The vast majority of rights as we know them today were written in blood.

That's it though. We fought for what we have, but people don't know the history so they don't understand. I'm sad to say it, but things will have to get a lot worse for a lot more people before they will join the fight to take back what's rightfully ours.

Mind your own business? You have done nothing but wage war with anyone who has disagreed with you or who has had e.g. oil or other riches that you so crave...

Shh, they don’t like hearing that The reality is that “white” America is conservative at its core and it doesn’t matter what you have to say if you’re still stressing to uphold what you’ve been told to live like to be “successful” in this country. Everyone has been fed propaganda to crave safety and security growing up, you own property, you have wealth, you have a picture perfect family, and you’ll die happy and successful. And minorities deal with that ripped away from them and they cry out, but suddenly people “listen” when it affects most people. And people are so ignorant to how well they diverted that core of the issue, so you question why minorities, especially Hispanic people, vote for Trump when they were sold the same lie most are raised on. Then you have outside forces that see it, can manipulate it, by doing shit like releasing black US PoW and not white ones, just because they know it’ll cause a meltdown with the US public. Oh and, you know why the right fears PoC leaders so much? It’s because they *know* the true colors of this country, if they’re not bought, they’re not raised to believe in “white” America. So they’re all kinds of evil things somehow if you haven’t noticed, because the US’s culture strategy is just demonizing anything close to what topples white elites. So it’s funny seeing Americans say that that’s not true, when outsiders see it and have been mocking it throughout history, when conservatives constantly succeed at diverting attention by blowing up PoC discussions and making them lose their initial meaning. So many Americans still play into their hands that it’s crazy, a world crafted assuring that they’re the good guys for just saying something is wrong, while in mine I have to live my life proving myself otherwise I’m automatically a dumbass thug. I’m calling this era the “Great Humbling”, because how in the hell can the ground be cracking under your feet when the “different” people screamed about it, and the main concern is still going home and being comfortable and safe being harder to do?

I stopped agreeing with you after individualist.

Which is unfortunately by design. But there's only so far you can push people down that road.

Honestly, all it would take is building an organization that channels donations into actually challenging the power structures in the U.S. You’d fund workers who walk out over low wages and strike, like Amazon warehouse employees. Hurt them in the wallet until something changes and give the people their security.  Support politicians who genuinely represent people’s interests. Back companies that treat people properly, and invest in media that brings real awareness to these issues. There’s an entire generation with massive influence, and they’re all online and majority of them choose inaction for illusionary stability.

Ridiculous. If anything it is the opposite. People are too comfortable to risk their lives on a revolution.