Now if this can form into anything like a cohesive movement, I’ll be a very very happy man. It’s no surprise that there’s some progressive rage to match. Personally, my progressive rage manifests because I see the success that the teabaggers are having derailing politics and turning it into an angry, frothing shouting match where the loudest (but most uneducated and ignorant) wind up winning because no one takes them seriously. I was worried about that trend when these folks started burning effigies of politicians and other people outside of their offices, and when I see cameras trolling their crowds for opinions and coming away with blatantly false, ignorant, racist, hate-filled rhetoric.
Remember, these are the forces that are sending these people to the polls – racism, hatred, ignorance. When I use my metaphor of shining a light on the cockroaches in order to make them scurry, I mean it – that’s the only way to deal with groups and people like this – expose them for what they are. And sometimes, if that means you have to meet them with some of their own guerilla, crowd-sourcing tactics, that’s what you have to do. And I’m not alone in that perspective:
n the heels of the lightly attended over-hyped “Tea Party Convention” in Nashville, progressives are preparing to respond with a movement of their own. The “Brownbaggers” will be showing up in front of Congressional offices to demand “healthcare not warfare.”
According to a press release from AfterDowningStreet.org: “On February 17th, Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) will be joined by CODEPINK, AfterDowningStreet, Democrats.com, the California Nurses Assn./National Nurses United, and United for Peace and Justice in holding brownbag vigils outside (or inside) at least 36 Congress members’ offices.
Brownbaggers are demanding commitments to vote against more money for war. Slogans on their posters include: “Healthcare NOT Warfare,” “Corporations out of Politics,” “Bailout Main Street not Wall Street” and “Brownbaggers not Teabaggers.”
PDA Executive Director Tim Carpenter said, “We have to choose between jobs and wars. The American people are on one side, but our so-called representatives in Congress are on the other. The Supreme Court is busy increasing corporate control of our elected officials. We need to be busy enforcing the people’s control before it is too late.”
Amen, brother.
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