Early Union Organizers, the Suffragettes, Civil Rights Protestors, and Feminists Did Not Wait...

[Yavin4]

for the political class to come around on their issues. They took control of their situations, demanded change for the better, and they got it. Politicians only passed laws AFTER the marches and the protests.

The lesson here is that the nomination of any candidate is irrelevant to positive change. Positive change only occurs when the people make a demand for it.

[RufusTFirefly]

1. And we will be insurgents for doing so.

Congratulations. Here's your cell and your own personal police dog. Now put on your hood, please.


(UPON EDIT: I was being deliberately, provocatively flip, but then again, there must be some reason why KBR is building those detention camps in this country.)

[Yavin4]

3. And Civil Rights Protestors Never Faced Violence?

Hmmm.

[RufusTFirefly]

4. Of course they did

Pinkertons, fire hoses, vigilantes, the Klan.
I wouldn't want to suggest otherwise.
That said, we have gotten awfully "efficient" in dealing with dissent these days.

I find it helpful to re-read Zinn at such times to remember exactly the points you've made.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. Politicians never "lead". They follow.