You have summarized it all in a very powerful article! You are 100% right! This needs to be read and understood by everyone that really want to see a meaningful change for good in this country and the world.
MAGAts will just have to learn to read and comprehend the difference. One, practiced by their petty, small minded orange disgraced criminal is all about revenge. The other practiced by a party now coming into power is taking actions based upon law and justice. Regardless of party affiliation.
How does the desire for change get translated into action. Schumer and Jeffries are not going to step aside because we here on a substack website agree they should be gone. Now that we have shot our wad in the election how can we make sure this gamete meets the egg.
I tend to agree that history informs us there will be more of the same old. As I’ve said many times, you can take a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.
Don’t underestimate the pushback though because it’s not just here.
Erica Chenoweth illuminates the value of nonviolent resistance in societal conflicts | Harvard Kennedy School
The following is an excerpt about overconfidence in elections.
“People tend to think the way we create change is through elections, and the result is an overconfidence in elections,” she says. “During election cycles, people divert their energies away from community organization and mobilization in a way that makes it hard to sustain a mode of extra-institutional struggle.”
“One challenge to organization, especially in the Western world, Chenoweth says, is that progressive movements full of freethinkers tend to be fragmented and often internally contentious.
Participants in right-wing movements, meanwhile, are easier to organize because they tend to be more ideologically oriented to following authority.
“In emergencies, people in left-leaning or progressive movements can agree on the problem, so progressive movements tend to rally around a key moment or an emergency,” she says. “But this means they are often reacting to crises rather than taking the initiative or proposing a consensus-based solution to the problem.”
Complicating things further, she says, there is often less agreement in democracies about what exactly constitutes a crisis, and the energy around mobilization for change gets pushed into election cycles.”
From The Peaceful Solution:
Those of us in The Resistance must think beyond the midterms, about how to stop and reverse the fascist takeover of the country.
Please: Resist. Stop cooperating. Stop spending, except on essentials. Stop the fascist takeover.
For more information on how to accomplish this, visit my profile page. Or:
Everything you say is accurate & true. THANK YOU
You have summarized it all in a very powerful article! You are 100% right! This needs to be read and understood by everyone that really want to see a meaningful change for good in this country and the world.
Thanks.
You’re very kind, thank you - Martin
Exactly right.
Investigation is REQUIRED and it is NOT REVENGE.
MAGAts will just have to learn to read and comprehend the difference. One, practiced by their petty, small minded orange disgraced criminal is all about revenge. The other practiced by a party now coming into power is taking actions based upon law and justice. Regardless of party affiliation.
That should be easy to understand, no?
Agreed on all levels.
Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said, “the Supreme Court (of today) is politicians in robes”. So very true.
How does the desire for change get translated into action. Schumer and Jeffries are not going to step aside because we here on a substack website agree they should be gone. Now that we have shot our wad in the election how can we make sure this gamete meets the egg.
I tend to agree that history informs us there will be more of the same old. As I’ve said many times, you can take a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.
Don’t underestimate the pushback though because it’s not just here.
Overconfidence in Elections
Erica Chenoweth illuminates the value of nonviolent resistance in societal conflicts | Harvard Kennedy School
The following is an excerpt about overconfidence in elections.
“People tend to think the way we create change is through elections, and the result is an overconfidence in elections,” she says. “During election cycles, people divert their energies away from community organization and mobilization in a way that makes it hard to sustain a mode of extra-institutional struggle.”
“One challenge to organization, especially in the Western world, Chenoweth says, is that progressive movements full of freethinkers tend to be fragmented and often internally contentious.
Participants in right-wing movements, meanwhile, are easier to organize because they tend to be more ideologically oriented to following authority.
“In emergencies, people in left-leaning or progressive movements can agree on the problem, so progressive movements tend to rally around a key moment or an emergency,” she says. “But this means they are often reacting to crises rather than taking the initiative or proposing a consensus-based solution to the problem.”
Complicating things further, she says, there is often less agreement in democracies about what exactly constitutes a crisis, and the energy around mobilization for change gets pushed into election cycles.”
From The Peaceful Solution:
Those of us in The Resistance must think beyond the midterms, about how to stop and reverse the fascist takeover of the country.
Please: Resist. Stop cooperating. Stop spending, except on essentials. Stop the fascist takeover.
For more information on how to accomplish this, visit my profile page. Or:
https://rpmcmurphy1.substack.com/p/how-to-stop-his-royal-heinous-7d6?
Thank you for restacking, and sharing, to help Spread the Word!
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