I refuse to give up! I'm NOT GOING ANYWHERE!!!

[fooj]

This is my country. This is OUR country. If we don't stand and fight, who will? If we don't fight NOW, then when?

Peace.:patriot:

[havocmom]

1. er, yep

:thumbsup:

[shraby]

2. I'm staying too! I had 23 ancestors in the

Revolutionary war. I'd be letting them down.

[longship]

3. Stay with the party that matters.

If you are unsatisfied with the way the party is being run and you are not volunteering as a precinct committee person, you aren't doing everything you can to help make change happen.

Contact your county Democrat Party and tell them that you want to be appointed as precinct committee person. Many precincts have vacancies.

Put action where your mouth is. ;-)

This is how you make a difference.

[fooj]

6. Yes, it is!

:kick:

[madokie]

4. I'm not going anywhere even if I could

I have 15 months of reasons of why I can't/won't give up the fight. This is my/our country and DAMN those who may entertain the thought of giving up

[punpirate]

5. Here's a thought...

... just for reflection. We always consider fascism (and the totalitarianism it breeds) in terms of how it played out from without--not from within--in Italy and Germany. In those instances, war on their home territories caused the cessation of fascism. War brought that political force to an abrupt end in Europe.

Now, with a representative government largely as complacent as its citizens and deferential to a current president who wants to take more and more power for both himself and his party, how does it stop without an intercessionary war (which seems, at this point in history, highly unlikely)? And would that seem preferable to an ongoing process of consolidation of power in one party and the President?

We, in this country, consider those lucky souls who escaped Germany in the `30s to be forward-looking and prescient. Their fellow citizens who did not, or saw no need, were swallowed up by what happened there--either by being declared an enemy of the state, or becoming a supporter of the state.

With no war to restrain a one-party state here, and democracy being little more than a catch-word these days, I simply suggest that one can do more from afar than one can in jail. I wouldn't disparage those who finally describe, for themselves, their departure as an escape. To me (and I consider myself a reasonably careful observer of history), it's now going that badly (I think this less because of Bush than I do of one-party rule in all branches of government and that party's aims--Bush is just a symptom of the problem).

Cheers.



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