We must fight!
Added Marianne: We can't go right from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection. We must descend into the Tomb before we ascend back to the Womb.
"It's a day to expose darkness. We'll get back to the light by the end of the day."
With ample experience on Capitol Hill before migrating to Hollywood to become a screenwriter, Roger Wilson told us that there's no way to obstruct without a clear plan.
He looked back nostalgically to 1979. The GOP had been overmatched. There was a huge Democratic sweep.
Back, back, and back to one of the origins of the political slaughter devastating our landscape:
In 1980, Reagan and the Koch brothers (the world's largest polluters) launched a stunning plan perfect in its execution that has brought us to this day; the Cato Institute, the Federalist Society, and the Heritage Foundation [offspring more likely of the Powell Manifesto] were born or in their early stages of growth. GOP moderates at every level are nearly extinct because of the Kochs.
Our strategy as outlined yesterday must be to take back every public entity from the school board and town councils to state legislatures countrywide, a legacy of the Tea Party sweep in 2010 (the GOP picked up 675 state legislative seats). Why did the DNC stop giving money to young Democrats?
Trump has no fealty to anything. His "perfect strategy" will always adhere unless we rise up.
Quoting from Lawrence Britt's "Fourteen Defining Characteristics of Fascism," Wilson cited Trump's favoring political activism by tax-exempt religious institutions and sowing internal discord among blue-collar workers as well as manipulation or annihilation of elections (item 14, last but not least?).
Fewer blacks are voting now than during the Jim Crow era, said Wilson. Trump has painted a bull's eye on the forehead of America.
Every election in the future will be close, but we will win again, even though we will not see another liberal SCOTUS in our lifetimes.
Civic participation every day is of vital importance. We must keep newspapers alive and pay for them. Protests must sometimes be obstructive. We must raise consciousness.
Derrick noted how miraculous human potential is. Jesus' miracle occurred in response to the people. You feed them. The olive isn't usable without human intervention. [I pulled one off of a tree in Epidavro, Greece, and tasted it. It was salty, acidic, and hard inside. I couldn't bite into it. Where was the pimento?--ed.] We're called to be partners of the miraculous: bread, fish, olives, wine, and a better and better America.
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Yet another shining star of Sister Giant, the Young Turk Cenk Uygur, whose 15-year-old website receives 86 million views per month, asked us how we can get out of this mess.
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