I’ve been out of my office but wanted to respond to your note.
Reflecting on your thoght I have problem thinking about leaving a Crystal City hotel, walking in the drafty cold for three blocks to the Metro and then exiting and walking who knows how far to where Freepers are gathering and then having a geat time in great company watching the idiots parade by giving us the finger and shouts of derision. My body is not capable any more. I’m not sure my mind is still up to the task either. Then there is the fact I am now retired and do infact not have the financial resources I once had.
When thinking of leadership, Although we all followed Jim’s lead, there were many many others that assumed leadership roles to carry out all sorts of various Freep activities. I’m not counting on the old Freepers.
My question is where are the 45 or 50 year old’s to take up the various weapons at hand and give the progressive enemies Freeper hell? Aren’t there at least 5 or so who will emerge as current cadre leaders? If they are present, they seem to be very quiet.
I like to quote Tennyson:
“The old order changeth yielding place to new And God fulfills himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.”
Where is the new order?
It’s like I said before, we have a release valve here, so by posting, one can feel they’ve done something constructive.
I think it adversely affects activism.
Remember when this site was young and people would be excoriated for not posting a link, or posting a vanity, or leaving italics on?
We shamed each other to do right.
That is why when ever I see someone post “We should this, or we should do that” I ask, who’s we? What are YOU going to do?
In your case, I absolutely understand these types of jobs are for younger folks, but I do wish people would post a lot less “What are the Republicans doing, or Trump should do this...
My immediate thought is:
No, YOU do it!
We have hundreds who will go, maybe a couple thousand when and if we decide. However, we need tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands. We had perhaps as many as three thousand show up for our largest FR event ever back in Oct ‘98. This time we need one as big or bigger than the one back in 2009 that was organized and promoted by that talkshow guy, what’s his name? Oh, yeah, he later became a FOX host, then his own network. Hmmmm... got his name right here, but having a senior moment. FR can be a co-sponsor like we were back then, but it’s going to require two or three larger organizations to bring enough people in—and all the big talkers talking it up BIGLY. And it’ll probably require a couple of repeat performances as well as nation-wide efforts. I’m old and decrepit now, but will find a way to get there when we roll.