those days are over now. the days of smiling and saying yes sir may have another are over.Don't believe what the leftist fake press tells you. The reality is that free people hate communism, they hate communists, and they want those who are destroying our country imprisoned. Just because we obey the law and don't physically attack or throw urine or feces doesn't mean we don't take it seriously.
The left is packaging a false reality and selling it as the real thing. The reality is that Democrats are officially the enemies of this country. They are traitors, liars, shills, thieves. And outside the tiny liberal bubbles of our biggest cities, this is how people view them.
Nancy Pelosi shouted out of a restaurant - by Cuban Americans in Miami
And the way I see it, SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! to those Cuban Americans.
Regardless of her sociopolitical position, Nancy Pelosi has a constitutionally protected right to her opinions and, once she is legally elected to a congressional office, she has the right to act on them within the established law and rules of the House.
And she has the right of any citizen to have a pleasant meal in a restaurant without being harassed, threatened, or driven out by an angry mob.
If we don't like her point of view or promoted policies, the way to prevent her from forcing them on us is by voting, expressing our point of view as one of the people in letters to the editor and our elected representatives, and using whatever soapbox is available to us. We have to make sure we have more votes in Congress than those who vote as she does. And if the laws and policies we vote for via our elected representatives are superior to the laws and policies people like her would pass, sooner or later only the idiots and hard core leftists will be putting people like her in Congress. There's a lot more of us than there are of them.
But if we behave like them, act like them, we are no better than them.
We can't be intellectually honest and have it both ways folks. If you deplore the way Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her family were treated, the way so many others have been treated, we must condemn that kind of ugly, hateful, disrespectful, and dangerous mob mentality regardless of who it is the target or what side of the political spectrum they are on.
They have the right to call her out.
They didn't threaten her.
They didn't throw anything at her.
They didn't punch her, or hit her with an asp, or shoot her.
And there is a difference between having an opinion...and inciting mob violence.
One is illegal. Leftists don't get it though.
And there is also a difference between making your opinions known...and threatening people. Calling Pelosi a bitch, a traitor, a communist..those aren't threats.
Saying you intend to defend people from attack isn't a threat.
Swinging at someone's face..saying nazis (meaning all free speech proponents) will be punched in the face...those are threats.
Nancy Pelosi has a right to have a nice dinner without an angry, threatening, insulting mob harassing her when she does that. Any time you have a mob of people yelling insults at you and calling your names, you will see that as a threat whether or not they actually commit assault.
Whatever we think of her personally, she does not do that to people and has not encouraged anyone to do that to people. Maxine Waters yes. If they had done it to her, they could make a justification for giving her an example of what she has been calling for. But Pelosi is unpopular for her opinions and the kinds of things she promotes. Nobody, including her, should be attacked just because we don't agree with their point of view or politics. She and nobody else deserves mob attacks however non violent they are.
And the fact is many such mobs do turn violent, and they encourage copy cat events and activities that can turn violent. And no civil society should accept that as okay.
I don't believe that for a minute. I don't believe for a minute that Americans are incapable of returning to a time when we could have serious vigorous debate and disagreement without inciting ugly, hateful, disrespectful, unlawful mob violence. But for sure when we condone that kind of thing and refuse to speak out against it because they are attacking somebody we don't approve of or like, we are as much of the problem as they are.