I’ve read this Democrat thing before, but the problem with acts of civil disobedience historically is that major political parties consider it to be a hot potato they want to avoid.
When MLK’s civil disobedience activities in Birmingham broke things wide open with nationwide protests and calls for a civil rights law in 1963, the Democrats panicked.
JFK couldn’t lose the white southerners who voted Democrat for him in 1960 in the next year’s election, so the FBI started following MLK around and sent him an audio sex tape early in 1964 to intimidate him.
The GOP operatives in the “Pro-Life Movement” expressed their disapproval of the Operation Rescue blockades of abortion clinics back around 1990. They wanted people to support conventional Republican politicians who they called “Pro-Life” and “Pro-Family” and who would appoint justices to SCOTUS who would overturn Roe vs. Wade.
Well we know where that got us.
If Bunning springs Davis from jail later today after the other clerks issue the licenses in her office, I see a tricky maneuver to avoid making Davis a martyr short circuiting civil disobedience in Kentucky and helping the Republicans to win the election for governor this year without the distraction of civil disobedience.
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE DOES NOT FOCUS GROUP WELL AND HELP A POLITICIAN WIN AN ELECTION, SO BIG POLITICAL PARTIES AVOID IT IN ELECTION SEASONS.
It’s Conscientious Objection. If she were dodging the draft she would be a hero..