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Alethia Merritt

(147 posts)
Tue May 22, 2018, 07:20 AM May 2018

It may be time for a citizens march and protest of the US President.

He is usurping our democracy. The majority of the voters DID NOT vote for him to begin with. And these words ring in my mind:

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present [President of the United States] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world."

It's time people. If there ever was a time, it's now, I believe. Waiting until November will be too late. Surely after November, if that election is subjected to the same interference as the election of 2016, it will be too late. I look at the gap that is closing between the generic ballot of the Democrats and the GOP and it sends shivers down my spine. I am more fearful for my country than I was during the attacks on minorities and Jews and the assassinations during the 60's.

If you are a parent of a black or Hispanic child you are feeling what I am feeling tho you may be keeping the feelings in check. History proves that our feelings are harbingers of things to come if we do nothing.

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Alethia Merritt

(147 posts)
3. NO! I am talking about peaceful protests and a strong movement to GOTV!!
Tue May 22, 2018, 08:27 AM
May 2018

In now way did I mention any violence. No my words. Yours.

bearsfootball516

(6,369 posts)
4. I see what you're saying, but the passages of the DoI you highlighted don't signify peaceful protest
Tue May 22, 2018, 09:08 AM
May 2018

There would be nothing peaceful about "throwing off the government" or "It is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government." That's essentially what happened in the Revolutionary War.

I do love your idea for a massive GOTV movement though. That's desperately needed.

 

Civic Justice

(870 posts)
2. We are showing ourselves as a weak nation of people to allow THIS Administration to Exist
Tue May 22, 2018, 08:11 AM
May 2018

There is absolutely NOTHING within American Governance and Civil Society "THIS" Administration has not insulted and denigrated!!!!! If we were and are the Americans we claim to be... This whole Administration would be jailed and executed.... as an Administration of High Treason!!!

This administration is made up of the type of white men, who represent everything America detest about the vile history of White Malice and Savagery in America !!!!

Many white people of the Liberal mind understand that as well as the vast diverse population of non white people understand it.

This is the last hoorah' of the "vile white dominance aims", and when time moves and history turns, if white people are not of a liberal humane respecting mindset that embraces diversity and equality within diversity, they will be the most hated beings not only on American soil, but in many places around the world. The history of their mentality and the history of their vile and abuse is known the world over, and no place that is advancing toward a better 21st Century want anything to do with Right Wing Republican Minded White People. They'd indebted this country to the tune of over $20 Trillion dollars by their malice and vile minded greed, and disrupted the lives of millions of people with their greed chasing war creations and constructed destabilization of the Middle East, they have ignored and been adverse toward Mexico and Central America, and their vile is so evil, they have done all they can to reverse the peace with even Cuba.

The utter ARROGANCE has damaged our International Relation All Over the Globe.... and the down fall of the "white dominance madness" is for a fact coming to an end in America. They will fight like wild beast, but they will no prevail, the world has many means to ensure such a vile sector is demolished. Those harboring that ignorance will have their own challenges to cleanse their own hearts and minds, of face the world led consequences of their want to cling to white man madness.

The Republican Party and Its Followers are Fully Exposed in their mentality and their agenda- They have demonstrated they are the 21st Century Aimed Remake of the Confederacy. By every-means it is America's Responsibility to Once and For All Dispense with Confederacy Idealist and Confederacy Promoters. The Savage and Barbaric Right Wing White Mentality has no place in the future of America.

Demsrule86

(68,352 posts)
5. Trump was elected...and we have to make the best of it...maybe some information
Tue May 22, 2018, 09:13 AM
May 2018

will come out that is so bad, he will have to go...maybe it will be 20 when we rid ourselves of him...no matter what, we need to prepare for the midterms and knee cap him by taking the house and maybe the Senate...which will be tough. What you suggest will only rile upT Trump's base and cause us to lose our opportunity to take the house...which will be tough make no mistake with the gerrymander. I guess some should have voted who either didn't vote or voted for Jill the traitor Stein then we would not be in this situation. Elections have consequences. It will take decades to fix this.

 

Civic Justice

(870 posts)
6. All the people who did not pay attention
Tue May 22, 2018, 09:44 AM
May 2018

are the ones who either tossed their votes away, did not vote and got bought out by the madness of attacks on Hillary, because they did not pay attention enough to see. Republican set out in attack upon Hillary, 2 YEARS before the election... with the drama madness about Benghazi... and people did not read, and research or even pay attention, that it was nothing but a Pre Campaign Smear set in motion by Republican.
When the truth came out, it was Republican responsibility to fund for better security in Behghazi.
By that time... the uninformed and easily influenced people had been hoodwinked and drawn into republican drama, and republican played it up with the help of "incessant media coverage given to Trump" for the sake of "drama selling commercials" in the Media circus.

It all sums up that America were not smart, many independents were not as smart as they thought, nor were some democrats who were seduced by the right wing madness, and the right winger were elated at anything to attack the civility of multicultural America.

Demsrule86

(68,352 posts)
7. I agree with every word you wrote...and we have to try to minimize the damage...but I don't believe
Tue May 22, 2018, 09:51 AM
May 2018

protests will work...let's get the bastard at the ballot box.

Runningdawg

(4,496 posts)
8. Protest motivates people to the ballot box
Tue May 22, 2018, 10:12 AM
May 2018

If we had only had protests once every few months, the war in Vietnam would still be going strong. Today's people have a very short attention span, which is why we don't have more protests and exactly why we should.

CrispyQ

(36,231 posts)
9. We've had what, three or four big marches since he took office in Jan 2017?
Tue May 22, 2018, 11:46 AM
May 2018

Seventeen months of non-stop lying & destruction of our institutions, & We the People couldn't be bothered to get off our ass more than a handful of times. I'm as guilty as everyone else. Also, too many people think all we have to do is win back the House in November & everything will be groovy. In the meantime, McConnell is bragging that he's making "generational changes" to the judiciary. The dems could win both chambers & it would still take years to recover from the damage.

Alethia Merritt

(147 posts)
11. The March I want organized in huge numbers is the march to the ballot box. Every GOP in Congress
Tue May 22, 2018, 07:18 PM
May 2018

must be defeated. They complicit in this fascism.

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