11-14-2016, 10:23 AM
(11-14-2016, 02:52 AM)Galen Wrote:(11-14-2016, 02:38 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: The demonstrations that Galen ridicules are in fact means of helping to organize this opposition, and a new DNC chair will lead it. This effort starting now was broadcast on the news concerning a huge demonstration tonight as people joined hands around Lake Merritt in Oakland. It's happening. I think those of us who agree need to join in. Democrats and Democratic voters need to organize the resistance to the Republican takeover now, and for years to come. We will need to write to Democratic legislators to man-up and resist Trump's Court nominees, and oppose all the Republican plans, unless they are consistent with the goals of progressive Democrats.
What is happening where you live?
The protestors are doing an excellent job of annoying everyone else. Truth is, most people just wish they would go away so they can get on with their lives. Even the Millies, particularly the ones with jobs, aren't very happy with them. If you don't live near a college campus and don't follow the news, you would never know they were happening. If you have been impacted by them then chances are that you are unhappy with them.
I can just imagine what you and right-wing journalistic whores will say -- don't these people have work to do?
If we vote for a horrible man for public office, then we deserve to be annoyed. And I hope to be one of those to annoy you! Sure, there were places in which people could not annoy their brethren about the vileness of the government. Yes -- Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Franco's Spain, Pinochet's Chile, Saddam's Iraq... let's not go down that course.
The problem with the Boston Tea Party of 1775 wasn't that those participating in it weren't instead doing some 'productive work' instead. the problem with the Abolitionist movement wasn't that its members weren't instead plowing the fields. the problem with labor unions struggling for workers' rights in a time in which industrial workers were working 70-hour workweeks and dying off at age 40 was that they weren't instead doing more work in the mines and mills. The problem with the Suffragettes wan;t that they were not instead doing more household cleaning. The problem with the Civil Rights movement wasn't that the 'uppity n----rs' weren't instead chopping cotton. The problem was that something was in need of fixing, and that people needed to call attention to such. The problem with environmental activists of the 1970s wasn't that they weren't instead cutting down the trees for timber that they wanted to protect.
Not everything is a matter of profit and loss, toil and gain (especially for the economic elites). We need a good society, one in which people are genuinely happy -- and not scared out of their wits by a brutal government.
We stand up to the Hard Right now or we get hard time in political prisons. It could be that simple.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.