Ask yourself “Do you make messes, or clean them up?”
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Ask yourself “Do you make messes, or clean them up?”
Missy is 53, would rather be at home with her two grandchildren, works for the city and was ordered to work late. Her back hurts as she leans on her push cart and broom. Missy watches a CNN reporter interview an activist who symbolically throws a protest sign at the reporter’s feet.
“It’s a good sign of solidarity,” the activist boasts.
When you sit at home watching the continuing protest, marching, window-smashing, burning buildings, dissing school faculties and political mud-slinging all being done in the name of a cause – do you ever think, “Who is going to clean this mess up?”
It appears that it’s not the ones who made the mess. They must be exhausted after shouting, marching and carrying those heavy signs. Afterwards, the celebrity speakers are probably swept away in their limos, then flown back to their gated communities in time to see themselves on CNN spouting more Hate Speech than Hitler’s scriptwriter could keep up with.
I suspect part of the protesters and marchers are shamed by the personally degrading behavior they get associated with. They depart as quickly as they can, leaving their “enthusiastic cohorts” to break windows, set cars on fire and loot the neighborhood – leaving who to clean up? There are examples of protesters who made an effort to clean up their mess. The Native Americans and ‘environmentalists’ protesting against the Dakota Access Pipeline tried, but the quagmire of abandoned garbage, teepees, vehicles and human waste made it impossible. The Army spent $1.1 million to make it safe again.