When it’s plain as day we’re protesting out on the streets against the administrations crude, inhumane policies. Like if you were afraid of losing your social security and retirement funds, you’d be out there protesting too. The same thing can be said for women, minority and trans rights being at risk.
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When it’s plain as day we’re protesting out on the streets against the administrations crude, inhumane policies. Like if you were afraid of losing your social security and retirement funds, you’d be out there protesting too.
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Any conservative saying that, are shielding their own conscience from the fact that there’s significant portions of the country that does not like conservative government and policies.
They can’t handle the fact that people aren’t rolling over for Trump and his party, so they have to create an alternate reality to where these people are just a bunch of children who don’t know what they’re talking about.
Anything conservatives say can just be ignored. They are literally insane people at this point. They need to be contained and managed not taken as good faith actors you can work with do do anything.
They’re projecting and are actually describing their own ignorance of what’s going on. AKA “I don’t know why liberals are protesting.”
It may also include the assumption that if they don’t care, no one else should care either.
Liberals know what they’re protesting. I just don’t know if everyone is protesting the same thing.
takes on protests i’ve heard from conservatives:
-liberals can protest en masse because they don’t have jobs (when protest is large)
-all the protestors are paid protestors (when protest is large)
-nobody even cares, see, there’s like no one there (when protest is small)
-they don’t even know what they’re protesting (when protest is medium and the above don’t apply)
they just want to invalidate the protests in their own brains and they’ll do whatever mental gymnastics they need to get to that end point
It means they don’t want to respond to what they’re doing to piss everyone off.
Tiny minds can’t come up with anything other than what they are fed. This is why they just repeat the same things over and over without coming up with anything new. Liberals know what they are protesting. MAGA just doesn’t think that Trump is doing anything wrong.
If they tell themselves that, then they don’t need to engage with what the protestors are protesting about.
Could be a couple things.
There’s a lot to protest, a lot of signs in the crowd with a lot of different messages, so they make fun of us for being confused and unfocused. Are we protesting Trump? Immigration policies? Tariffs? Anti-trans laws? Anti-abortion measures? Oligarchy? Funding for Israel? Handling of the Ukraine War? The answer is unfortunately “all of it.”
They think we fundamentally don’t understand Trump’s policies and reasons behind them, so when we go out and protest them, we “don’t know what we’re protesting.” Ex. Protesting DOGE must mean protesting against government efficiency and national debt reduction, because we’re so blinded by the anti-Elon propaganda that we don’t realize he’s actually doing things that will benefit the country.
Honestly, they think Trump is amazing, wonderful, smart, and super jacked. That is their reality.
They just think liberals are to dumb and easily manipulated to see that.
Near as I can tell, it’s just a method to discredit dissent. A leftover talking point from criticism of the Occupy movement that’s being rehashed
They don’t see the subtle part. Because we don’t want Musk to lop off agencies, or Trump to send people out of the country with no due process, it means we don’t care about government waste or immigration.
As much as I dislike the guy, there is some truth to what Trump says. We could have fewer people coming into the country (with legal immigration.) We should have more oversight on government spending, we could even work on better trade deals. But this is not the way to do it.
What they mean is “liberals haven’t explained what they’re protesting in simple enough terms for me.”
They’re conservatives. It’s just a bad faith criticism.
My favorite right now is all the right wingers claiming the people at the 5/5 rallies are all paid protestors. If no one’s actually mad about what’s going on and the protests are all fake, then who exactly are the liberals they’re “owning?”
Because conservatives don’t know what liberals think. I promise you that those people have never bothered to actually talk in-depth to multiple liberals and compare it to research on what liberals believe, like from Pew Forum for Public opinion or something like that.
I remember a while back looking up why people voted for Trump or Hillary. The articles written by liberals were all interviews of actual people, and were compared to exit polls and stuff like that. They were authentically trying to understand why. The articles written by conservatives were just the author speculating a bunch about liberals and conservatives. And it boiled down to “conservatives smart, hard working, not-emotional, fact driven,” and “liberals dumb, lazy, emotional, want welfare, woke-ideology.” Conservatives either couldnt’ bother to put effort into learning, or did put effort in and then threw it out because it didn’t fit their narrative.
Because they’re vile morons?
Conservatives are less educated.
Conservatives are more racist
Conservatives are more likely to be religious extremists.
There is literally not a single dimension where conservatives are not the left side of the bell curve. They’re the most ignorant and most vile.
Nobody should ever listen to anything they say.
They hate signs of dissent.
>Why do conservatives say ‘liberals don’t know what they’re protesting’?
You might want to ask them.
>When it’s plain as day we’re protesting out on the streets against the administrations crude, inhumane policies. Like if you were afraid of losing your social security and retirement funds, you’d be out there protesting too. The same thing can be said for women, minority and trans rights being at risk.
Yup. And the fact that all this is going on without transparency nor due process. Like why don’t these agencies just kick musk out of their offices? Just because someone shows up at your office doesn’t mean you have to give them authority to do whatever they want, even if the president says so.
That all needs an act of congress.
It’s their fantasy.
That’s typically the answer to questions like this.
It’s a way to infantilize the opposition. Make it seem like they’re the adults in the room while the children are having a tantrum over something ridiculous.
Ties in nice with the stereotype of blue haired college students protesting a bunch because they haven’t been “in the real world” yet like only conservative ideals make sense to people with jobs
Ask this on r/askpolitics too
Are they saying that this time?
At first Fox News wasn’t covering it. As usual, they got together and they got their narrative. It’s the same thing they accuse the “liberal media” of all the time.
From people that aren’t strongly against Trump, to the people that are strongly supporting him, the thing they don’t seem to get about the other side is they don’t trust anything the Trump administration is saying.
They’ll reference statements made from the administration, but that information is irrelevant because the closest thing to honesty from them is cherry picked facts.
Because they are a cult of mostly imbeciles. They don’t understand anything about what is happening so they think we’re mad about nothing.
They’re just trolls.
It’s called trolling. They are just trying to waste your time and get an emotional reaction. They want people to be responding to questions like this they know to be inane, rather than using that energy for true resistance.
I had a conservative say exactly that to me.
It’s just Conservative acting arrogant as usual. Whichever Conservative Neanderthal says stupid sh*t like that shouldn’t be taken seriously by smart thinking Liberals. If I were them, I will be sending a letter to the white House everyday telling Trump to cool down on the tariff b.s because he’s close to turning the GOP as the face of the party who wrecked people’s Social Security and 401K.
the answer is that they don’t actually care to know/just don’t agree so don’t think it’s valid. i’m confused as to why you’re asking a bunch of liberals what conservatives think, though, lmaooo
Because they don’t know why liberals are protesting, so they just assume liberals don’t know, either.
It’s like how they get confused and think liberals follow some weird book or leader, because they follow the Bible and Donald Trump, and just assume liberals follow one that’s strange and evil, when really we just think for ourselves. Ever hear them say we worship science? Same thing.
They’re saying “I like it, therefore everyone likes it. If they think they don’t like it, it’s just because they don’t understand it”
Or, as Principal Skinner says (paraphrased): “Am I out of touch? No, it is the liberals that are wrong.”
These people literally ate horse medicine. They consistently don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about.
Consevatives don’t know, or at least can’t acknowledge, the greviances of protesters. Football players taking a knee was supposedly dis’n the flag/troops. Occupy Wall Street just “want everything for free”….
And so far, they can’t even admit that anti-trump protests are real
Because “conservatives” are full of shit.
We aren’t all protesting the same thing, and that baffles them. How can we be united in protesting Trump if we haven’t been told what to think? How can we all be out there but not neatly segregating ourselves into groups based on what we’re angry about?
Remember – the conservative mind is incapable of nuance. It thinks in black and white. You either support everything Trump days, or you’re against everything he does. You can only think about one thing at a time, so, you can only be angry about one thing at a time – and if someone else is protesting something different he’s done, how can they be part of your protest?