Last year, I blogged about some research that Michael Heaney and I were doing on the anti-Iraq War movement. I found that the antiwar movement quickly collapsed after Obama’s election. Smaller crowds, less attention. The big finding is that Democrats stopped showing up after Obama’s inauguration. Based on 5, 398 surveys of street demonstrators, here’s the paper’s key chart: (Click on link to see chart.)What this means in human language (not commie crap talking points)is that the anti-war movement is fake. It's a cover for communists to undermine freedom just like the climate change boondoggle. The hard-core commies in the unions and the Plantation/Slave Party, aka the Democrats, don't want to challenge Obama. That's why they haven't stirred up the Cindy Sheehan type Berkeley Birkenstock peaceniks who really are unemployed useful idiots. Where are the masked thugs of MoveOn when the Code Pink pansies need them to stir the shit?
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In other words, once a Democrat gained power, Democrats stopped showing up to antiwar protests. If you want the full write up, read the paper, which has now appeared in Mobilization.
Bottom line: Social movements and parties rely on each other. Movements benefit when partisans appear because they can bolster their numbers. Parties use movements as platform for partisan grievances. But there’s a drawback, electoral victories mean that the rank and file will stop showing up.
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Why are there no anti-war demonstrations?
Democrats killed the antiwar movement: