One of the left’s favorite pastimes is now harassing Arizona Democrat Senator Kyrsten Sinema. They follow her into bathrooms, harass her on airplanes, and now they’re turning it up a notch.
Nick Arama (my colleague) reported Saturday that Sinema officiated a friend’s wedding in the small garden behind a fence at Brisbee in Arizona. Regardless of one’s politics, respect should be given to people on one of the most important days of their life, but leftist protesters have never been concerned about respect or appropriate times and places for making their point. In fact, as they’ve shown, they specifically want to move in on Sinema at times when it’s most inappropriate.
It is intentional as this could lead to two different outcomes.
Firstly, it makes Sinema’s life far harder and as such, she caves to the whims of the protesters. If everywhere she turns she’s confronted by angry leftists, the hope is that she’ll give in to them like a weak-willed parent giving in to their child’s temper tantrum just to get a modicum of peace. That’s the obvious result.
However, the second is to make her life more difficult for friends and family as well as students.
What they’re effectively doing is holding those in Sinema’s life hostage until Sinema gives in to their demands. Sinema must watch her friends suffer because she chose not to be a decent little Democrat. The hope is that Sinema’s friends will start to ignore her or disinvite (or perhaps disinvite) her and disassociate from her to avoid any further scrutiny and blowback.
It’s not unlikely that these activists will go so far as to begin harassing Sinema’s friends and family without Sinema even being there.
Social terrorism is the goal. You can harass anyone in any place that is too intimate, sacred or inappropriate. Everybody is equal, no matter where or when. These activists will do anything to ensure the Democrat Party gets its way.
While this often goes too far in terms of social acceptability, it often doesn’t go too far legally and so these social terrorists will continue to terrorize as often as possible. The best recourse Sinema has at this time is to do what she’s been doing, which is ignore them and continue to serve the best interests of her state, not a party, and especially not the radicalized part of her party.
Earlier, I eluded to these protesters being a lot like children throwing a temper tantrum, and it’s a more accurate description than any other. Just as giving in to screaming, crying children will teach them that screaming and crying gets them what they want. Screaming and foot-stamping grown-children will show them that these disgusting methods are only effective if Sinema caves.
This will be difficult, especially given the targeting of Sinema’s friends as well. Playing on Sinema’s guilt as she watches her friend’s lives become harder as a result of her own profession isn’t easy, but so long as Sinema holds strong she can teach these radical leftists that their tactics won’t work on her and they might as well give it up.
If others follow suit, then the frequency at which the left attempts intimidate and harass people will decrease. Although it will continue to be an effective tactic, we would prefer not to use it.
In the meantime, Sinema’s supporters both on the left and the right should flood her office with encouragement. Sinema could definitely use the encouragement right now.
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