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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSeems like our side's failure to take the bait is making ICE ramp up the violence. They want to push us to the breaking
point. I'm sure the craziness will reach a crescendo right before the midterms. God help America.
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Seems like our side's failure to take the bait is making ICE ramp up the violence. They want to push us to the breaking (Original Post)
LaMouffette
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I agree 1,000 percent. I was actually riffing on "God BLESS America," but that doesn't come across in a post very well,
LaMouffette
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markie
(23,860 posts)1. we are the ones
to help each other.... God is not in this mix
"We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For" we just need to be a very large collective WE... we have the power... protest, boycott, lead by example,
we just need the numbers and the will and a leader (of sorts)
LaMouffette
(2,575 posts)2. I agree 1,000 percent. I was actually riffing on "God BLESS America," but that doesn't come across in a post very well,
I guess.
For starters, we need to burn up the phone lines to our Congressmen and women. The Republican ones only act when they are in active fear of losing their jobs. And then, as you say, protest, protest, protest. Peacefully. Forecefully, but peacefully.
Ritabert
(1,999 posts)3. The original goal in Portland and California was to incite violence
Instead they were met with dancing frogs. So they're still trying to get riots going.
LaMouffette
(2,575 posts)4. That's right. They want us to get violent, but we can't take the bait or risk martial law. Mass peaceful protests NOW.
Ritabert
(1,999 posts)5. You're right. That's their plan.