I found it very annoying the way most of the pro-democracy camp turned the Bovino ouster from a win into a defeat. “Fascism isn’t totally over so nothing has changed blah blah blah.” Seriously my feed got insufferable.
From my experience in the civil rights movement in which I knew those courageous enough to die and in the anti- war movement in which I knew people willing to sacrifice their future careers, I learned that marches and rallies are indeed important, but it is in peaceful but militant direct confrontation with the evil at issue that moves the dial. This is what the brave people of Minneapolis have and are doing. May I not fail when the evil stands right before me. As Thomas Paine said, “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. “
Thanks for reminding us about realistic strategies.
If I remember correctly, Mao’s Rule for winning was “enemy advances, we retreat. Enemy retreats, we advance.“
A professional speaker also shared the observation that we tend to let one failure erase all our successes.
When I heard that I thought of how the opposite is true for Trump and other fascists. For them, one success erases all their failures.
I found it very annoying the way most of the pro-democracy camp turned the Bovino ouster from a win into a defeat. “Fascism isn’t totally over so nothing has changed blah blah blah.” Seriously my feed got insufferable.
From my experience in the civil rights movement in which I knew those courageous enough to die and in the anti- war movement in which I knew people willing to sacrifice their future careers, I learned that marches and rallies are indeed important, but it is in peaceful but militant direct confrontation with the evil at issue that moves the dial. This is what the brave people of Minneapolis have and are doing. May I not fail when the evil stands right before me. As Thomas Paine said, “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. “
“ A lot of people want to be bullies. Failing that, they at least want to be on the bully’s side.”
Truer words…
Thank you.
I would have liked to have been in the room when he got reassigned back to California....