With one Party, the Republican Party, falling in Nazi-style lockstep behind their orange-tint master and the other Party, the Democratic Party, tripping all over itself we the people are left with limited opportunity. "What happens next" depends on how aggressive we are willing to get. The "other side" wants to use the threat of violence co-authored by their orange-tint master. We on this side must come to terms with the reality/fact that words alone will not forestall the coming storm. We must understand that at times violence begets violence. Our entire social order is under threat. We must gird our loins.
Public opinion always trumps the rule of law, in the medium-to-long run. (Look at the career of Jim Crow.) But law had a power of shaping public opinion that it is now losing.
[I just lost a long and thoughtful post, but I'll bottom line it rather than simply give up.]
Yes, we are living through a constitutional crisis. Ask WHY. We are living through a moral and spiritual crisis. Our lives and our government now depends acutely on the Voices of We The People. Too many people place no value on research and learning the many dimensions of what we are all facing. To many people value money over finding the inner courage it takes to stand up against deceit, distortion and bullying--we pay homage to violence.
With one Party, the Republican Party, falling in Nazi-style lockstep behind their orange-tint master and the other Party, the Democratic Party, tripping all over itself we the people are left with limited opportunity. "What happens next" depends on how aggressive we are willing to get. The "other side" wants to use the threat of violence co-authored by their orange-tint master. We on this side must come to terms with the reality/fact that words alone will not forestall the coming storm. We must understand that at times violence begets violence. Our entire social order is under threat. We must gird our loins.
And now he’s planning to declare martial law over the entire country about the protests in Los Angeles.
Public opinion always trumps the rule of law, in the medium-to-long run. (Look at the career of Jim Crow.) But law had a power of shaping public opinion that it is now losing.
[I just lost a long and thoughtful post, but I'll bottom line it rather than simply give up.]
Yes, we are living through a constitutional crisis. Ask WHY. We are living through a moral and spiritual crisis. Our lives and our government now depends acutely on the Voices of We The People. Too many people place no value on research and learning the many dimensions of what we are all facing. To many people value money over finding the inner courage it takes to stand up against deceit, distortion and bullying--we pay homage to violence.
This article deserves more examination.