If we run away now,

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Are_grits_groceries  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Jan-22-10 07:43 AM
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If we run away now,
   
then we might as well not stop. The SCOTUS decision was horrible, but using that as an excuse to throw up our hands is rank cowardice. If we don't change and take advantage of that decision then we will fall well behind. Two can play at any game.

Brown was a battle lost, but not the war. If anything is learned from that special election, it should be that people want somebody who will fight. If you won't still fight for what you believe then it wasn't worth much anyway.

Meh! We get smacked in the mouth, and we whine and quit. I'll probably now get a loooooooong list of reasons why it is useless to try.

I can't and won't quit. There are too many people who count on somebody to fight. These are the poor and dispossessed in our own country. You're not just giving the back of your hand to the Dems in office. You're giving it to people who are counting on us to keep trying.

No, those mucks in Congress don't appear to be listening. They are ready to run too. The Rethugs can't make them run away. That is their own choice. It's the wrong one, and they should hear it over and over.

I prefer to stand my ground and give it all I've got. I don't know the best strategy and tactics yet, but they do exist if we think about the terrain. We may have to cede here and there, but only for the moment and only to set a better trap.

Hubris will get them too. Who knows what tomorrow will bring and the perceived momentum can turn on a dime. Giving up will only add to their momentum. Stand now or forget standing for a very long time.

 

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[Karin]

blindpig (1000+ posts)        Fri Jan-22-10 09:33 AM
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11. We should run away
 
We should run away as fast as possible from the idea that there is any redress for the people from a system, political and economic, which serves the interests of the ruling class exclusively.

We should organize outside of the system, not within the system. Is that not evident enough?

I have no idea what blindpig is saying, but I do know that he has said out-and-out communist shit.  He's one of these blah blah blah gasbags who sit around on the floor getting high and trying to sound intellectual.  A stinky filthy hippie. 

Incidentally, he has chosen for his avatar a "Don't tread on me" flag.  Rotten Teabagger!!!!! 

[dandi]

If you run away now, DUmbass, you won't have to hear us laughing.   

[Chris]

r-u-n-n- o-f-t...

[The Village Idiot]

Oh my gawsh.

They OWN the House and the Senate and the White House and the media and academia...

and they are still so unhappy and depressed.

Its pathetic.

Go ahead and run away to Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea or where ever.

[USA4ME]

Are_grits_groceries

I can't and won't quit. There are too many people who count on somebody to fight. These are the poor and dispossessed in our own country. You're not just giving the back of your hand to the Dems in office. You're giving it to people who are counting on us to keep them poor and dispossessed where they belong.

Fixed for accuracy of how the Dems really treat the poor and dispossessed; as nothing but an issue to be used to rally the troops.

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[AllosaursRus]

I know a few I would love to give the back of my hand, as long as it was balled up into a fist!

[kenth]

A stinky filthy hippie.

Is there any other kind? 

[LadyLiberty]

r-u-n-n- o-f-t...

  "Oh, Brother"

Wow, so this is what a liberal pep talk sounds like