I was active in it the first year or so. It became too organized and taken over by career politicians and activists. It lost the people’s militia feel.
The idea of Sons of Liberty is more to my liking.
“I was active in it the first year or so. It became too organized and taken over by career politicians and activists. It lost the people’s militia feel.”
Exactly! Politicians need to have fear of the people forced into their dark little hearts. That’s never going to happen just by having people attend rallies on the weekends and everyone picking up their trash (not that I’m suggesting we start littering) and going back to work by Monday morning. Which is, ultimately, how the tea party ended up, because it was too easy for it to be co-opted by anyone willing to say the all the right things, irregardless of whether they actually mean any of it.
, but anything we do needs to be at a bare minimum, at least as disruptive to “business as usual” as Trump has been. In anything we do in the future, we need to be a constant source of disruption to our political “leaders,” not a temporary source of inconvenience who can be manipulated into being rendered toothless.