Posted on 06/29/2015 5:30:35 AM PDT by Nextrush
Any efforts to reverse or alleviate the pain caused by SCOTUS decisions (Gay Marriage, Obamacare etc.) at any level of government will either be shot down in the legislative process by corporate elite pressure, vetoed by executive branches under corporate elite pressure or if signed into law by executive branches, the judicial branch will step in to kill any laws.
The political system of electing representatives of the people to make decisions has been circumvented and short circuited. It needs repair.
The old way many of us are used to isn't working and won't work.
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 like Mister Rogers and his "Land of Make Believe". This fantasy world works for children, but not for adults.
Dr. Martin Luther King had to face a political system that didn't work for his concerns about racial segregation.
It took him years to perfect, but in 1963 MLK delivered a blow to the Democrat Party political machine, taking JFK by his nose and kicking his a** at Birmingham.
Young people put the nonviolent civil disobedience over the top.
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 and the Democrat Party had to change their tune in the face of these events. Kennedy had to stop his emotional 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-Democratic 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 suckering grassroots conservatives and religious voters while taking the corporate support totally hostile to the conservative and religious voters concerns.
The Kennedy's (JFK-RFK) got the FBI spying on MLK leading to audio tapes of King's sexual trysts. A copy of one tape was sent to Dr. King and listened to by his wife after Lyndon Johnson replaced JFK as President-Democrat leader. Its interesting to note that in mid 1964 MLK suspended protest activity for the general election season.
Getting back to the reality of here and now, there is no difference between how conservatives and religious people, libertarians and so on are treated by today's Republicans and how civil rights-racial equality supporters were treated by the Democrats years ago.
Its worse than that because our political system is run by corporate elites giving us things like Amnesty, Obamacare, Trade Deals, Common Core and even Gay Marriage with no First Amendment protection allowed for religious objectors.
The elites fund two political 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 SHOULD BE CONSIDERED. IT COULD WORK ALTHOUGH THE HISTORY OF THE 1960'S IS THAT NONVIOLENT PROTEST ENDED UP DESCENDING INTO VIOLENCE IN SPITE OF DR. KING'S EXAMPLE. HIS EXAMPLE WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE TO BE IMPROVED UPON AND INSTILLED MORE IN OUR HEARTS PERHAPS THIS TIME AROUND. THAT'S A TALL ORDER BUT I PUT IT OUT THERE.
I have the drunk, angry religious hypocrite attack other people background. I agree with Glenn Beck who has sobered up from his alcoholism and called on his audience to get their lives together.
I don't know if Beck plans to lead civil disobedience but he points people to MLK and Gandhi so we shall see.
Very much agree...
Demos are best and most effective when small. Counterdemos are great.
They have the power of the Democrat Party/media complex. The Democrat Party takes our tax payers dollars and have been giving them to their hundreds of left wing groups. They are professional community organizers and they do it with our money. If we had a real opposition party this would have been brought to light many years ago and the opposition would have demanded that taxpayers money not be put to this use.
Civil D, might help but it won’t change anything...IMO
But I do believe that it could lead to the eventual State legislatures giving the go ahead to a Constitutional Convention of the States, which is I think our only non violent option at this point.
I think you have an idea there. They may make us go to work but they cannot make us go shopping, go to restaurants, movies etc. Did you see the list that was shown here of all of the hundreds of big corporations that support the “human rights” groups? Of course the term “human rights” is just used to mask the fact that it is really about gay demands.
How about if there is a day, week, month where are conservatives boycott liberal corporations. How’s that! You don’t have to bother with going down that long list of corporations trying to figure out which ones not to boycott. JUST ASSUME THAT ALL BIG NATIONAL CORPORATIONS ARE LIBERAL AND BOYCOTT ALL OF THEM. Do this for a month every year. I think that after people do this they will become aware of their spending habits and how we have been empowering people who are our enemies. By doing this we will also be getting in the habit of supporting more local businesses who are not as likely to stab us in the back as the big corporations in the Democrat voting areas.
Branding and marketing is a big part of their success. They have used professional public relations skills, I am sure that they have lots of professional public relations people working with them. They have many talented people who are very motivated for their cause. They also burrowed their way into the Democratic Party back about forty years ago and they have used that power to get what they want which I am sure also means using the networking power that the Democrats have with big corporations. The Democrats were all for their new gay voting block and they have fought for them all these years while the duplicitous Republicans have been paying lip service to family values so that they could keep getting our donations and our votes while dismissing what we wanted.
If I could take that further, its about walking the talk. How can you expect politicians, who are flawed critters at best, to pick up the standard of conservatism if we don’t make efforts to implement conservative measures in our own lives?
Take deathcare for example. There are already provisions excepting health care ministries from the deathcare tax. The ministries cost about half what insurance does and operate on both free market and biblical principles. We have a viable and Christian alternative which is completely legal. And which acts to undercut deathcare. But we get disappointed when the kleptocrats do what they normally do.
1000%, especially your first paragraph...
i live in an uber liberal town with a left wing school superintendent...after he pushed for teachers and staff to attend a “diversity” conference (aka, whitey is wrong hate-fest) at taxpayer expense, the volcano erupted...
less than a year later after numerous board of education meetings where different people stood up and called out the superintendent, school board and school curriculum thus far:
1) the superintendent announced his retirement
2) the 10 year president of the BOE who wholeheartedly backed the superintendent did not run for re-election
3) we got two fiscally conservative citizens elected to the board...
as you stated- getting flak means you’re on target...
Many people will become very disenchanted with the gays very shortly, pin the blame on the Democrats where it belongs. The Democrats welcomed them into the highest, decision making ranks of their party. Every time the gays said “jump” the Democrats asked “how high”. Obama even invited drag queens into the White House? Can you imagine?
We should never fail to remind people that it was the Democrats who brought this gay plague on us.
Since the gays were nice enough to use the mouth of June as “their” month, maybe we should take it away from them by making it our BOYCOTT LIBERAL BIG COPORATIONS MONTH! :^)
I had never heard of this, thanks or telling me.
You’re welcome. There are 5 ministries last I checked. And those just scratch the surface. There are thousands of things.
Free republic and like-minded websites.
So June would be very appropriate.
Of course July has possibilities as well. When uttered by a Spanish speaker it's basically what we say to the Human Rights Campaign on a regular basis.
Wow, Excellent analysis and I had not thought of that before!
The Democrats fake on economic issues. Importing cheap labor into this country sure helps the unionized workers and their left leaning unions, right???????
By being for Amnesty and its variations like visa expansion Obama is helping big business big time by cheapening the labor force.
Obama pushes the trade deal to help big business as well.
What is Obamacare? Its a government regulated system of private insurance which is using taxpayer dollars and higher premiums for health insurance. By making everyone buy insurance or pay taxes etc. the cash flow into big insurance companies and big hospital groups have skyrocketed.
Obamacare has led to ‘healthcare stocks’ soaring and I should know because I see the statements on my investments in them.
Obamacare has abortion, birth control, expanded coverages etc. all kinds of liberal progressive bells and whistles.
The death panels make lefties happy but they also make business happy too cutting healthcare costs.
The only real left wing stuff you get is sexual radicalism from Obama and that will stick with ugly consequences I am discussing here. Obama will beat up on religious people to make the Left happy while he gives the business elites what they want.
Obama opened up Cuba making lefties happy but guess what the capitalists started talking and planning trade and business from the beginning.
The “Evangelical Christian Subculture” was pretty dirty, especially with hypocrites like me involved in it.
I can’t speak for others. I am a currently sober drunk.
I was told 25 years ago I was acting like an alcoholic and this was around the time of Operation Rescue. I was in the media and getting myself pulled over by police, then seeing the same officer at the abortion clinic protest later on.
I have to work the 12 Steps dare I say like Glenn Beck chose to do as an alcoholic.
Evangelical Conservative Christianity needs to do Christianity. When Charles Colson got himself in jail over Watergate he got “born again” and wrote a book tiled “Born Again”. Back when I was a radio preacher groupie Dr. Carl McIntire read a letter of apology sent to him by Colson. Colson sent a lot of liberals those letters, too. That’s working a Ninth Step in the 12 Steps.
Talk and emotions don’t work, different actions must be taken if the Spiritual Life is to be authentic. If I hurt a liberal or anyone else, I must make amends to them and live a different life in their presence.
A lot of that ‘TEA PARTY’ was GOP Establishment astroturf for election purposes only to help fake conservatives get elected.
Nice to see you bought the Pelosi’s line.
It also tells me you sat on your ass back then, because if you hadn’t you wouldn’t be spouting such nonsense.
I think what I said stands up pretty well with fact that the GOP keeps going along with Obama when in power (Boehner and McConnell constantly raising the debt ceiling for one thing), but claims to be against him and his policies in the election seasons.
My pattern of money contributions and voting patterns was pretty consistent with giving the GOP a chance. Heck, I voted for Pat Toomey here in PA in 2010. Of course, he will never get my vote again for wanting to abridge the Second Amendment twice after the mass murders in Connecticut and now Charleston. Toomey is a Wall Street Crony Capitalist New Rockefeller Republican in my estimation.
95 percent of elected GOP officials march in lockstep with leadership and aren’t real conservatives.
We have options to consider like a new political party and perhaps civil disobedience as discussed in this post, but the old hate the libs and Dems, Obama, Pelosi, Clinton etc. formula buzzed in the sports bar approach to politics is a dead end.
My negative emotions are charged up that cause me to want to get drunk and its all designed to elect Republicans that do the same things Pelosi, Obama, Clinton etc. want to do because the corporate elites that fund our Uniparty political system want Obamacare, Amnesty, Gay Marriage without First Amendment freedom for religious objectors, Trade Deals, Common Core and so on......
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