I've asked this several times in the last two years, and I see John Stossel's latest column wonders as well. See the double-standards and hypocrisy of the political Left on full display. Yes, I realize the political Right is just as bad, they just happen to often choose different topics. (pic via Wiki)
Where Did All the Anti-War Protestors Go? - John Stossel: "The anti-war movement was all over the news before President Obama was elected. But apparently they weren’t really anti-war
... they were just anti-President Bush. Two college professors just released a study of national protests between 2007 and 2009. What did they find?… After the election of Barack Obama as president, the order of magnitude of antiwar protests dropped [...] Organizers were hard pressed to stage a rally with participation in the thousands, or even in the hundreds. For example, we counted exactly 107 participants at a Chicago rally on October 7, 2009. Amazing. Especially because the war in Afghanistan ramped up after Obama was elected. American fatalities shot up in 2009 and 2010. The protesters have remained silent over Libya. And I’m struck by the hypocrisy of the supposedly “anti-war” politicians who voted against Iraq, like Nancy Pelosi. Since Obama was elected, she has voted to continue the war in Afghanistan … and supported the attack on Libya."
… After January 2007, the attendance at antiwar rallies [measured in] roughly the tens of thousands, or thousands, through the end of 2008.
Related links:
Liberty & Govt. At Work: War Protests, Where Is Cindy Sheehan?, & More
2 comments:
this is an easy one: Obama supporters - among whose numbers all anti-war protesters count - thought that Obama was really going to turn the country around. When he got elected, they didn't think they needed to send the message. Two years later, I think a lot of pie-in-the-sky political types just got demoralized.
Speaking of left/right comparisons, I'd say it's rather a lot like the Faith Based Initiative people who thought Bush was going to turn this country into the Christian City on the Hill they envisioned. When they figured out they'd been duped for political gain, they kind of just wandered off the farm with no one chasing them.
"Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?" Marxism taught that it does not matter which bourgerois party the President belongs to because he served the interests of the ruling class. That was then. This is now. Principles - even Marxist principles - have given way to naked power politics. Today, the villains of Atlas Shrugged are at once "patriotic" and "liberal." That may indicate that we now have a new principled opponent of fascism.
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