In 2009 the Tea Party came out in droves to oppose Obamacare. Liberals, whom they always accuse of being unemployed and so on, never came out to meet them. There were tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of these guys out there, and hardly any counter demonstrations.
Tea Partiers insulted Parkinson's Disease victims and even stomped on a woman's head while she was protesting Rand Paul. Tea Partiers even had the nerve to harass elderly protesters at a picnic out of a park, and then follow said liberals to their home and drive up on a private road right up to their driveway, nearly hitting someone in the process. Then there's the infamous episode of Tea Partiers openly carrying firearms at townhall meetings. Let's not forget the other instances of outright violence by conservatives.
Tea Partiers verbally attacked this woman who was relating a story of a woman who died and lost a baby because of a lack of insurance. She had no backup at her side to shout down these bullies.
Liberals let this happen, most of it went unanswered, and the results are pretty much history. The Tea Party earned the respect of America with its hard charging tactics, and swept into Congress in 2010.
Liberals need to learn the first rule of politics: that America respects an ass whupping, and does not respect people who back down and retreat. Don't get me wrong, nobody's saying that 18 old ladies should go fist to fist with 30 or more Tea Party male brutes who drove up onto their property without permission. Nobody's saying a single woman should go Wonder Woman and pound 2 or 3 guys who are stomping her at a Rand Paul rally. What we liberals should be asking is why wasn't anyone else there to kick these guys' asses when they got violent? That's legal, folks. It's called the God given, court-affirmed right to self defense. Failure to make use of that right emboldens bullies and makes your entire movement look weak in the eyes of the public.
Big protests make progress. Liberals could have avoided the jaw dropping losses of 2010 had they come out in force against the Tea Party. Look what happened when they came out in force afterwards: the Conservatives suffered huge losses in 2012. People say Occupy Wall Street didn't achieve anything but they brought the term "99%" to the country and it has yet to go away.
The problem is, the same mistakes are starting to get made again in the run-up to 2014. We're not out there. 90% of people support background checks and we're not out protesting for this. Mass protests of the sequester never happened. America is seeing this, and they're losing respect, because we can't stand up for ourselves.
It's not like liberals haven't had monstrously big protests in the past. So if the problem isn't the lack of a spine, then what's holding us back? Fear of Tea Party bullies? Apathy? What's up?
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