you must be right. we should give it up. I will tell Mr Bauer to move to Saskatchewan and wait for the revolution.
Wait for your signal.
I think I’ve got it right.
Cheerleading for the GOP and putting down the “Libs” and “Demonrats” like we’re sitting in a sports bar cheering on our favorite team and dissing the other team isn’t reality.
Its sort of like Mister Rogers and his “Land of Make Believe”. It works for a child, but not an adult.
MLK was good in that he took JFK by the nose and kicked his a** at Birmingham in 1963 with over the top nonviolent protest led by young people.
After the six and seven year olds marching into the police lines took Bull Connor’s forces off guard, other protestors were able to use the shock to get around police lines and into downtown. The next day the teenagers came out and Bull was so enraged by the events the day before he brought out the dogs and water cannon, creating scenes that changed history.
JFK had to do a couple things after that. Kennedy had to stop his symbolic speechmaking and pretend concern (just like Republicans have for ‘family values’ or ‘traditional marriage’) for civil rights-racial equality and actually support some real and meaningful legislation.
The Kennedy Administration-Democrat Party was afraid of MLK upsetting the apple cart of Kennedy’s winning coalition of blacks, white liberals and southern segregationists. This is just like the GOP operates its coalition suckering religious people while taking the corporate support totally hostile to the religious voters agenda.
The Kennedy’s got the FBI spying on MLK leading to audio tapes of his sexual activities, a copy of one encounter being sent out after LBJ became president to MLK in early 1964. Interesting that in mid 1964 MLK suspended protest activity for the general election season.
That’s a little snippet of the reality of how our two big parties operate and how empty Gary Bauer’s words are in the ‘pants down’ world of hardcore politics as usual in Washington.
Our political system is run by corporate elites giving us things like Amnesty, Obamacare, Common Core, Trade Deals and even Gay Marriage with no First Amendment protection allowed for religious objectors. The elites fund two poitical parties with D’s faking a Leftward position and R’s faking a Rightward position with emotional symbolic proposals and speeches.
RESISTANCE OF A NONVIOLENT MLK STYLE COULD WORK ALTHOUGH THE HISTORY OF THE 1960’S IS THAT IT DESCENDED INTO VIOLENCE IN SPITE OF DR. KING’S EXAMPLE. WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO IMPROVE ON HIS EXAMPLE AND GET IT RIGHT THIS TIME AROUND AND THAT IS A TALL ORDER.
But...Republicans lie. They campaign on a conservative platform and then vote socialist and fail to pursue a conservative agenda.