"David & Goliath?"
As I watched the event yesterday (50th Anniversary of the "March"), I was left with a sinking feeling. I saw a number of "has-been" leaders of the old Civil Rights Movement, complaining loudly, but offering meager responses to the "well-oiled and funded" machine they are opposing. Memories are not strategies. The "soldiers" in the Fight for Rights today all seem to be very well off, "Icons", who are polishing their brands.
Meanwhile, the opposition has taken the House of Representatives, has designs on the Senate in 2014, and are planning to engineer a "shut-down" of the Federal Government this Fall. There was no evidence of a proposal to counter these serious, and dangerous changes that have taken place.
Meanwhile, the opposition has taken the House of Representatives, has designs on the Senate in 2014, and are planning to engineer a "shut-down" of the Federal Government this Fall. There was no evidence of a proposal to counter these serious, and dangerous changes that have taken place.
The economic and political pathologies of today (and there are many), affect many more people than those in the old Civil Rights Movement. Poor whites, Gays, persons without education and health care, the jobless, those who are facing age discrimination -- representatives for all of these persons were missing at yesterday's March.
Why would anyone think that doing the same things that didn't work well for the past 50 years will somehow "solve" the many problems surfaced in yesterday's speeches? The opposition shouts that "We're a nation of laws!" The "We" they speak of clearly do not include those represented at the March. The "laws" they speak of are ones they write and they choose whether, or not, to enforce.
"Justice", today, is in the eye of the beholder.
The community, and families, represented in the March in 1963, has disappeared; and will not be replicated. A community, composed of families today, has to be identified, empowered, and focused toward these issues, or "tomorrow", for this country, is in doubt. The "opposition" has built their Hard-Right "community", and they hope to grow it. Nixon was their strategist, Reagan was their voice, and Ted Cruz hopes to become their face!
If this set of facts fails to form and focus a credible counter-force, what does?
Stay Vigilant! Strategies? . . . Anyone?
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