If the protesters want to be taken seriously, they should consider dressing nicer. Come on, t-shirts and jeans?

[Picaro]

14. Same tactics as the 60's and early 70's

The protesters were scruffy and they waved Vietnamese flags and they chanted mean slogans and they just weren’t polite and well dressed enough.

Forget that part about being drafted for a war that even with the benefit of hindsight made no sense at all. A war that the power structure in the US was so adamant about getting into that they may have had the sitting US president assassinated. But we’ll never see the unreacted files on that now will we?

The English nobility just didn’t like the way Wat Tyler and his people acted during the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381 either (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt). Forget all that stuff about taxes and being able to charge more for labor because of the labor shortage caused by the Black Death.

These are the typical complaints of the powerful. Forget the lack of due process, the overt arbitrary violence of masked heavily armed ICE agents, the kidnapping of people of color without reference to any charges. Forget all that. These people were waving Mexican flags for god’s sake. And, gasp, some of them are wearing masks (most likely to provide some protection from the clouds of tear gas, but maybe to keep them from getting scooped up later due to facial recognition software).

Power doesn’t like being resisted. Never has. Never will.