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letmedance Loc: Walnut, Ca.

Spoiled and unable to handle being wrong.

phcaan Loc: Willow Springs, MO

Only if you can find anyone who gives two shits or even a bucket of warm spit about your stupid ravings and infantile tantrums.

skylane5sp Loc: Puyallup, WA

Protesting, Sawant’s message does more harm than good

By Dori Monson, KIRO Radio Host | November 11, 2016 @ 9:00 am

City Council member Kshama Sawant has made a political career of trying to categorize people and tell them they are victims. (AP)

(A bit of background: One of her first "calls to action" was for the "workers" at Boeing to throw off their corporate yokes and start building busses "for the people".)

I’ve been watching the protests in Seattle and beyond. I’ve also been reading that calls to suicide hotlines have skyrocketed in the last 36 hours.

People are so despondent over Donald Trump’s impending presidency that they are thinking about killing themselves. I’ve heard commentators around the country who have been making fun of that, including Rudy Giuliani – calling them a bunch of spoiled crybabies.

Most of this generation are not spoiled crybabies, though there are some. But I don’t think the name-calling is productive because right now people need to understand how destructive it is to stay on this path. Leading people down that path are Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and city councilmember Kshama Sawant. Those two have made political careers of trying to categorize people and tell them they are victims. What they say is your life is miserable now, you have no control over it. That you have to scream about the way people in Wisconsin voted for president. It’s very sad to watch.

I’m telling you guys, that is such a damaging message. I loathe this message. I grew up with that message and had it pounded away at me. That message was: You’re a victim, you have no chance to get out of poverty. All the time, I heard that.

Despite what happened Tuesday night in the election, you still have an enormous amount of control and sovereignty over your life.

I talked to my own daughters about this – one of whom was very anti-Trump. She and I had a long talk. I told her that she still has all the control over her life. To not assign any of your happiness or lack of happiness over something you have no control over.

I had people emailing me about Trump’s election, saying they felt the same way when their mom died, their dad died. I’ll tell you what, if my daughters ever compare my death to some election then a lot of my life will have been lived in vain.

But it gets worse.

There’s a meme that 9/11 was the worst day and that 11/9 was the second worst. Can you imagine what that’s like for people who lost sons and daughters in the World Trade Center? Can you imagine what it’s like to see a meme comparing a presidential vote to terrorists wiping out your family?

This is what is being fostered by the Sawant’s and Murray’s of the world. They want to have that level of grief and assignation of your life to events of which they have no control. Because the more helpless the people marching in downtown Seattle feel, the more control the government has over your life.

For the people protesting in downtown, you can disregard this or take it for anything you want. But, I’m telling you, I am absolutely positive that you are doing a million times more damage to yourself with your cries of victimization and helplessness than President Trump will ever do to you.

People wore black Wednesday. That’s fine. If you want to compare all this to the death of somebody you love, go ahead. But, 1. That means you’ve never loved deeply and truly. And, 2. You’re turning over your life to people who could not care less about you.

It’s your choice.


Dori Monson on KIRO Radio 97.3 FM


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About the Author

Dori Monson
Dori Monson is host of The Dori Monson Show on KIRO Radio (weekdays Noon-3) and the pre-game and post-game host for the Seattle Seahawks Radio Network. There are three words that Dori thinks best describe him - competitive, competitive and competitive.

mwalsh Loc: Houston

Denial is strong in this Idiot

Twardlow Loc: Arkansas

And we differ from Somalia and Syria how? The FBI is now a political arm of the Republican Party and in Trump's favor; there's rioting or at least demonstrations in the street protesting his election; the President-elect just escaped legal action on a rape, and faces a racketeering trial coming up; we see horrible suggestions of those he might choose to run the country.

The US is not a third-world country, and the worst is still to come.

Keenan Loc: Central Coast California

You are one who never backs up your charges against me. Your robotic broken record single word insults - "idiot" and baseless accusations of "denial" are only impressive to your core audience of UHH's right wing man-child trolls of the fever swamp.

You have been asked to stop this childish trolling behavior by several members of this forum, but you don't care about how much of an ass you continue to make of yourself. You just continue on with this behavior non-stop because you have a boring, depressing life and you apparently have nothing better to do than troll internet forums. You never feel ashamed of making such an ass of yourself.

ken hubert Loc: Missouri

Stupid Idiot

Cattreasure

You managed to highlight the key phrase to answer your questions .... They were interviewed!!!!!

What difference does it make where they are in their citizenship application or if it's completed and they are a citizen. American's don't burn the flag and protest because they do not like an election outcome. What they were doing was wrong. Whether they like it or not, we have a new president elect. Yesterday I heard somebody say they hope Trump fails. That is hoping all of us in this country fail. It is now our responsibility to support our next president. That would also have been our responsibility if Hillary won.

Keenan Loc: Central Coast California

How do you feel about the fact that your president elect was having a hissy fit in 2012, calling for protests and "a revolution" after his man Romney lost the election and Trump (wrongly) assumed that Romney won the popular vote?

letmedance Loc: Walnut, Ca.

Your responses are the only evidence necessary to back up his charges.

Cattreasure

Really, I thought the FBI was the political arm of the Democratic party. Also look at the crimes of Hillary and Bill Clinton. Reality is we did not have much to choose from this election. Now that it is done, we need to support our President elect and hope the people can help guide him to what is best for all of us.

phcaan Loc: Willow Springs, MO

The difference is that no one started a revolution, no one rioted in the street, and the suicide hot line was not overwhelmed with calls because Romney lost the election. You left wing folks are a bunch of spoiled brats screaming and holding your breath because you did not get your way. Grow up.

Keenan Loc: Central Coast California

Evasion. Trump clearly called for something back in 2012 that he and his supporters now say is unacceptable, and you Trump supporters can bob and weave and evade and deny and change the subject all you want to avoid admitting the SUPREME HYPOCRISY. I have come to expect such from you people.

phcaan Loc: Willow Springs, MO

I don't care!