{"id":7206,"date":"2017-01-31T22:54:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T05:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=7206"},"modified":"2017-01-31T22:54:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T05:54:23","slug":"double-standards-where-were-the-liberal-protestors-during-obamas-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=7206","title":{"rendered":"Double Standards: Where Were the Liberal Protestors During Obama\u2019s Wars?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Originally appeared<\/a> at The Unz Review<\/b><\/div>\n
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The election of Donald Trump has sent millions of people pouring out onto the streets to protest a man they think is a racist, misogynist, xenophobic bully who will destroy US democracy in his quest to establish himself as supreme fascist ruler of the country.<\/p>\n

Maybe they\u2019re right. Maybe Trump is a fascist who will destroy America. But where were these people when Obama was bombing wedding parties in Kandahar, or training jihadist militants to fight in Syria, or abetting NATO\u2019s destructive onslaught on Libya, or plunging Ukraine into fratricidal warfare, or collecting the phone records of innocent Americans, or deporting hundreds of thousands of undocumented workers, or force-feeding prisoners at Gitmo, or providing bombs and aircraft to the Saudis to continue their genocidal war against Yemen?<\/p>\n

Where were they?<\/p>\n

They were asleep, weren\u2019t they? Because liberals always sleep when their man is in office, particularly if their man is a smooth-talking cosmopolitan snake-charmer like Obama who croons about personal freedom and democracy while unleashing the most unspeakable violence on civilians across the Middle East and Central Asia.<\/p>\n

The United States has been at war for eight straight years under Obama, and during that time, there hasn\u2019t been one sizable antiwar march, demonstration or protest. Nothing. No one seems to care when an articulate bi-racial mandarin kills mostly people of color, but when a brash and outspoken real estate magnate takes over the reigns of power, then \u2018watch out\u2019 because here come the protestors, all three million of them!<\/p>\n

Can we agree that there is at least the appearance of hypocrisy here?<\/p>\n

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Indeed. Analyst Jon Reynolds summed it up perfectly over at the Black Agenda Report. He said:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Hillary had won, the drone strikes would have continued. The wars would have continued. The spying would continue. Whistleblowers would continue being prosecuted and hunted down. And minorities would continue bearing the brunt of these policies, both in the US and across the world. The difference is that in such a scenario, Democrats, if the last eight years are any indication, would remain silent \u2014 as they did under Obama \u2014 offering bare minimum concern and vilifying anyone attacking their beloved president as some sort of hater. Cities across the US would remain free of protests, and for another 4-8 years, Democrats would continue doing absolutely nothing to end the same horrifying policies now promoted by a Republican.\u201d (\u201cDelusions Shattered<\/a>\u201c, Jon Reynolds, The Black Agenda Report)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He\u2019s right, isn\u2019t he? How many of the 800,000 protesters who marched on Sunday would have flown to Washington to express their contempt for would-be President Hillary Clinton?<\/p>\n

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