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flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 10:52 AM Feb 2017

Every American with a brain should go to Washington and force a fair solution to this treachery

We cannot accept Trump in power anymore and we cannot accept the horrid alternative of a President Pence or Ryan.

Why should we give that to the party that put up with treason to gain power?

We cannot sit there and get stepped on again.

But unless we do something RADICAL that will happen.

This can't just be worked out through the system at this point.

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Every American with a brain should go to Washington and force a fair solution to this treachery (Original Post) flamingdem Feb 2017 OP
If I could afford it I would gopiscrap Feb 2017 #1
I wonder how many people we'd need to push things towards another solution flamingdem Feb 2017 #3
Get into the streets Zoonart Feb 2017 #2
Yes to that. We have the numbers! flamingdem Feb 2017 #4
Absolutey gopiscrap Feb 2017 #5
We can turn out in our own towns marybourg Feb 2017 #12
So true. Thanks for reminding me about Indivisible flamingdem Feb 2017 #15
This cannot stand any more bdamomma Feb 2017 #6
Speaking of national security flamingdem Feb 2017 #8
The plan is to regain the House in 018 and the Senate and the presidency in 2020. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2017 #7
There has already been a coup Zoonart Feb 2017 #10
I agree. A peaceful war and a show of numbers is needed flamingdem Feb 2017 #16
That's not good enough. Protesting is NOT the same as "coups and stuff" flamingdem Feb 2017 #11
"Go to Washington"..."Do something radical"...What exactly does that mean? brooklynite Feb 2017 #9
See Vietnam war protests flamingdem Feb 2017 #13
Kick,kick,kicked&Recommended.. coco22 Feb 2017 #14

flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
3. I wonder how many people we'd need to push things towards another solution
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 11:05 AM
Feb 2017

At least a million. It's been done before and just takes imagination and good organizers. The Women's March proved that protests still have an impact. Especially when those attending represent a everyday Americans from all walks.

I think the problem is that most of us believe that we have to let the system work it out -- but then we'll end up with the same garbage. We have the power in the USA to have a voice and we need leadership with imagination to use that power right about now.

Zoonart

(11,855 posts)
2. Get into the streets
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 11:01 AM
Feb 2017

Stay in the streets. Get to DC, if you are able and flood the corridors of power.
Crush them with our numbers. In the end, historically, the only thing that has ever reigned in out of control despotism is mass revolt by the people.

flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
4. Yes to that. We have the numbers!
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 11:06 AM
Feb 2017

Let's add imagination to that and make it happen.

Right is on our side on so many levels.

gopiscrap

(23,757 posts)
5. Absolutey
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 11:06 AM
Feb 2017

I am calling for every first Sunday of the month to be impeachment Sunday that means demonstrating in the streets til the congress critters start impeachment proceedings

marybourg

(12,622 posts)
12. We can turn out in our own towns
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 11:13 AM
Feb 2017

and cities also! Not everyone can camp out in D,C,, although those that can, should.

The rest of us can find a group like this:
https://www.indivisibleguide.com/local-action-groups

and protest, as a recent post, http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028653113 here suggested, on the first Sunday of the month to demand resignation or impeachment. Many of us would be willing to do it every Sunday. Our democracy demands no less!

flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
15. So true. Thanks for reminding me about Indivisible
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 11:17 AM
Feb 2017

We need to remember that the Women's March was the brainchild of a single woman in Hawaii.

Anyone of us could make a difference.

bdamomma

(63,840 posts)
6. This cannot stand any more
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 11:07 AM
Feb 2017

our national security is at stake.

another article to be read:


http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/each-new-day-is-a-new-nightmare-gop-ex-judge-wants-trump-impeached-and-removed-with-all-haste/

snip of article:

Mark P. Painter, a lifelong Republican and career judge, this week called for the immediate impeachment of President Donald Trump.

In a column for Cincinnati.com, the former Ohio Court of Appeals judge offers to help his congressman, Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH), draft articles of impeachment.

“In any time except our post-factual era, no office holder, much less the president, could get away with any one of the dozens of dazzlingly illegal things Trump has already done,” Painter writes. “They would forfeit office immediately.”

“Each new day is a new nightmare. We are still trying to digest one breathtaking assault on America when another is signed, issued, or Tweeted. All this amid constant lies. Constant. Lies.”

Painter notes that he voted for Republican presidents for 36 years “ut I have watched what once was a sane, center-right party go off the rails, first to the extreme right, then to wherever Trump is, which is in another universe.”

flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
8. Speaking of national security
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 11:10 AM
Feb 2017

the intelligence pundits are warning that bad things happen at the beginning of a presidential term. That when an administration is new bad actors like Russia, Isis, al Queda activate to test. The USA is truly vulnerable right now and it will remain this way with Trump in power.

This truly cannot stand. What's left is We the People deciding what role we're going to play and if we'll put up with being walked on by the GOP, again.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
7. The plan is to regain the House in 018 and the Senate and the presidency in 2020.
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 11:08 AM
Feb 2017

The plan is to regain the House in 018 and the Senate and the presidency in 2020 and to peacefully obstruct in the interim.

The Deplorables are all about coups and stuff.

Zoonart

(11,855 posts)
10. There has already been a coup
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 11:11 AM
Feb 2017

and the deplorable are the ones who have carried it off. I am not calling for violent confrontation, just a show of numbers.
I don't think we have until 2018 to remedy this. The whole government could be in cinders by then.

flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
16. I agree. A peaceful war and a show of numbers is needed
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 11:18 AM
Feb 2017

We're a lot smarter than the deplorables, let's show them how powerful we are so they quiet down

flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
11. That's not good enough. Protesting is NOT the same as "coups and stuff"
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 11:12 AM
Feb 2017

and has been effective as of late.

Especially because it empowers the dems to take stronger stands in Washington.

flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
13. See Vietnam war protests
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 11:14 AM
Feb 2017

That's what essentially ended the war.

Radical meaning what we see in this thread - mainstream Democratic thinking will lead to nothing more than being stepped on again and again. A president Pence or Ryan.

We can't afford that, the environment is at stake, our health is at stake. There is EVERY reason to have a massive show of force so another solution -- not devised yet -- is worked out.

The dems don't push hard enough. We have to push them.

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