Originally Posted by Ted Schefelbein
Originally Posted by canvasback
Originally Posted by mc
A good example of activism and politics, is the tea party and ultimately the Obama administration using the IRS to shut them down.the tea party would affect the election of Obama and the Obama couldn't have that ,we think the democrats are wrong they think Republicans are evil.

I'm glad someone here gets it. The Tea Party were activists. Different from politicians. We need more Tea Parties. We need more people who rise up again in a different form to continue the fight after they are politically stymied by a corrupt IRS doing Obama's dirty work. We need that shit going on for the next 40 year.......not 4 years.

James,
What you don’t seem to understand is that the Patriot Act created a surveillance system to spy on ordinary Americans. It was in place when Obama took office and he and Holder took it to the next level, spying on, and targeting their political opposition.

You don’t hear the words “Tea Party”, anymore. They were hounded out of existence by the IRS, FBI and the Justice Department, which, were fully weaponized under the same administration. That is the new, leftist model of life here, simply lawfare the opposition out of existence. See “Donald Trump”.

The media is completely in the tank for that half of the political spectrum, and the truly stupid among us don’t seem to or don’t want to grasp it-did you not notice a certain Professor quoting the New York Times with bogus climate change information, full well knowing they were instrumental in the false dissemination of the”Russia Hoax” and the story of Hunter Biden’s laptop being “Russian Disinformation”?

To date, they have not corrected either of those stories. What kind of idiot uses the New York Times as a source?

Our idiots.

I can’t help but notice your own idiots are just as bad.

God help us.

Best,
Ted

Ted, I’m well aware of the Patriot Act and its effects. Just as I’m well aware of the idiots running the show up here. But none of that negates my point. Which is that to combat that shit you need long term activism. Not simply a different political or leader for the next 4 year cycle.

You can complain or make excuses as to why one can’t or it’s too hard or they are too well entrenched. But what I am saying is the way you start to take back society. You think you have it tough now? Imagine being a gay trans guy in the 1960s in the Deep South. You don’t think the entire forces of government and culture were arrayed against him? Now look where we are today?

You need activists who won’t shut up publicizing the evils of the Patriot Act. And 30 other issues. The Tea Party got shut down. It needs to start up again. And 50 more organizations like it. Either that or quit complaining and accept defeat.

It starts with intellectuals who write books and essays that call out the ills. And explains why they are dangerous. And that convince people that it’s worth their time, their money and their energy to fit against it. You know, like Greenpeace protesting against nuclear proliferation. Or the nut bars who spike trees to stop old growth deforestation. Or a thousand other examples.

Last edited by canvasback; 02/23/24 06:33 PM.

The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia