the channeling of Huxley and Alinsky in a series of tweets:

[JHan]

"Liberties aren't given, they are taken" - Huxley

"Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough."- Alinsky.

Kurt should know better, and he was proper schooled. This is not the time for respectability politics:

[Yavin4]

1. I saw this in the late 80s and early 90s when ACT UP took to the streets

to fight for better government action on AIDs, and it worked.

[JHan]

2. We'll need to return to those tactics,

This new "establishment" doesn't care, is drunk with power and reckless.

[elleng]

3. Right.

We may, tho, be provoking violence, and considering what trump is up to, NOT like a nixon etc, could be

[JHan]

4. Yes, it could play into his hands...

So we'll have to be smart within our rights: Shouting at a congressman/woman to do their job is a right, demanding that representative stop hiding and answer questions about critical issues - also a right, marching like women did day after inauguration - also a right . We must also ask whether a particular end justifies a particular means ( to loosely quote Alinsky) , else we'll just be swinging blindly, and missing the target. We don't want to unwittingly be pawns for this Trump administration.

The problem with Kurt's approach is that it is tone policing. We've got a President who is reckless, and behaving in a manner that disrupts the peace and well being of us all. Everyday he assaults our sanity and he wants to do more by testing the limits of the constitution. I've no doubt he wants to break it and rule by decree. This is alarming, and resistance is the only logical approach right now, respectability politics be damned.

[elleng]

5. Right.

Sign me up.