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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs it treason? What's the remedy...removal from office or the stockades?
The republican majority in the House and minority in the Senate are violating their oath of office, period.
The complacency, refusal to bring things to vote, obstruction, lying, etc are ALL acts that are directly against the oath to preserve & protect the Constitution.
I'm not talking about voting them out, I'm talking about more than censure...but what?
What is the recourse of the PEOPLE when and entire portion of their government has PROVEN themselves incapable of real governance?
Would resurrecting Anonymous/Occupy do any good? WTF? How that hell do we get out of this before it's too late?
Or is it too late?
Please talk me down, I am about to have an aneurysm....
Hekate
(90,793 posts)...is over.
But Indivisible just got named one of TIME's most influential people, even though it is not one person but thousands upon thousands. Right after the election, they published a how-to book for activists -- you can print it out for free, or just download the pdf. You can sign up for the response team.
Lower your blood pressure. Get moving.
FirstLight
(13,364 posts)I was also watching Rachel on them the other night...and the SuperMjority movement.
I just want to do *something*... short of throwing rocks at the WH
It's so frustrating, because the rule of law *does* take time, but I want some asses to get kicked!!! I'm to that point of either shutting down or going into rage. I don't want to end up like the MAGAs who would just as soon shoot everyone they don't agree with. But I honestly am to some point of breaking!
Thanks, Hekate ...You know how it is, we're all in this together
Hekate
(90,793 posts)Ponietz
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Well be pre-Magna Carta again if we dont stop it.
Ive been thinking of mythical archetypes from these movies today:
The Matrix
Harry Potter
Terminator
There are many parallels to our situation in those stories.
I dont know the answer, yet, but I do know that these times bring out the latent archetypes in the best, and the worst, of us.
FirstLight
(13,364 posts)Though I feel we are somewhere between Idiocracy and V for Vendetta!!!
I don't understand how an entire branch of govt, or an entire Party for that matter, can turn a blind eye and be accessories to this criminality...
We are living in strange times, indeed.
Ponietz
(3,004 posts)One of my favorites these days is Xolotl, who guards the night awaiting the return of Quetzalcoatl. If nothing else, it gives me one more reason to love dogs.
[link:https://imgur.com/gallery/akEe2xx|
Hekate
(90,793 posts)...lesson for kids. Ever since I read it in the first edition, I have crossed my fingers that somehow a vital subset of her young readers would absorb it and remember. There is no "magic" to Resistance -- but there is planning and solidarity and much else.
Ponietz
(3,004 posts)Just trying to imagine myself as a mass psychologist here and what I might do
What if the DNC got Spielberg or Cameron to make a 3-minute ad where all the real players today are portrayed in Harry Potter roles? That might really click a nerve.
How about a Saturday Night Live skit?
Why not a full-length feature film called Avengers: For Realswhere every lie, crime, betrayal, act of love, and heroic deed has a special effect. Arent those the real superpowers after all?
TwilightZone
(25,479 posts)Well, North Korea on a technicality.
Treason has a very specific definition. Sedition is probably closer; its definition is much broader and more applicable.
Sadly, for most of them, voting them out is the most viable solution.
triron
(22,020 posts)hard time.