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.
“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.”
Bravo. That right there is the whole issue in a nutshell.
A new $300,000 house generates about $100,000 in tax revenue.
A new $30,000 car generates about $15,000 in tax revenue.
A $10,000 new stock issue purchase generates about $2,000 in tax revenue.
A $20 bottle of wine generates about $10 in tax revenue.
It's time to put liberals on a money diet.
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