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.
Moral and spiritual renewal should come first anyway and I seriously wonder how many are pursuing it. Its easier to be angry and disturbed, blame the liberals and hook up to the talk show host-Fox News-RINO posters soma to get the fantasy world of Republican Party Salvation up and running.
you know what tyranny is? its the Tea Party twice putting the GOPe in power only to twice have the GOPe screw us and side with the demoKrats...
I haven’t heard of any protests anyplace around the USA. Have you?
No, not really. I think the protest concept works right under the proper circumstances when its organized anyway.
In the civil rights era FBI informants put the kibosh on a lot of protests.
Glenn Beck, who stood with Glaad to attacks Russian ‘heterofascism’ is not going to be leading anything remotely Christian. Remember, he’s an S.E. Cupp fan.
Peaceful protest worked against Southern Democrats because largely they still had a common concept of morality. The Modern left doesn’t. They are like Jacobins or the Communists in Spain.
Superb.
I think the solution is treason trials followed by quick hangings.
Face it. The institution of marriage has been broken for decades. There are a myriad of reasons why from the “sexual revolution”, to Uncle Sam taking over the role of provider, to desensitization to creeping moral decay (Bork had it on the money with his “Slouching Toward Gommorah” book), and on and on.
It’s no surprise to me that the sanctity of marriage means so little to generations younger than the baby boomers.
Iceland had a bunch of people bang pots outside their capital and forced their government to resign.
All you need is organization.
The shame is on us, they fooled us twice, we are the idiots.
You may get that, but I don’t want to hate or hurt people.
Beck is right about sobriety and working the 12 Steps to recover from alcoholism. I agree him and practice that in my life.
As to where he’s going down the road, I don’t know. My Higher Power did not put me here to hurt people, including gay people.
LIVE AND LET LIVE is a good slogan, but our political leaders and militant activists, supported by major corporations, will not tolerate such a notion right now.
It worked well against the communists in Egypt against the fascist Morsi regime, in Poland, and in Soviet Russia, so you are wrong.
Why would he? He's not a Christian.
there is no tea party
Lois Lerner destroyed it
The first target should be Lois lerner...... she is real and guilty and vulnerable
This is where my idea of having people watch over Civil War statues and displays has a role. Having at least a couple of people stand watch, with rotating shifts. One important thing to do is to have a cell phone camera to photograph always on hand. Most potential vandals probably would be warded off instantly by such a presence, but it would be interesting to photograph or even videotape a few that would try to act nasty and that you would diplomatically counter with solid factoids pertaining to the real racist history of the modern Democrats and record their reactions. Facebook and other social media/discussion sites including here would be a good place to showcase such images as opposed to corporate establishment newsmedia.
The GOP is a lost cause.
There is no other choice but to decline them.
Whatever form that takes, I don’t know. But it’s been in the works for a while. Many people are just not going to bow down to the GOP, period.
It’s no surprise to me that the sanctity of marriage means so little to generations younger than the baby boomers.
Good point...I would add it didn’t mean much to us boomers either.
Bingo! And THAT's what we lack today. The majority is still conservative, and there a great many dissatisfied with Washington.
The problem is, when there's a "Ferguson", there is a machine in place to jump on Twitter, pound the message boards, bus in "protestors", and plaster it all on the news networks until it permeates the masses.
No better example of this exists than what happened with the Confederate battle flag last week.
Three weeks ago, nobody really cared that the flag was flying in South Carolina, or was for sale on Amazon, and Wal-Mart, and Target. But boom, in one fell-swoop, it's gone -- erased from history. Protestors came out of the woodwork, media pressure increased. The media contacted large retailers asking them if they planned to continue selling these "racist" flags.
This machine is capable of nearly anything now.
So watch your six.
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