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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums10+ years ago here on DU, I predicted that The country
would see a revolution in my lifetime. Some laughed at me. I am now 60 years old, and I think we might be seeing the beginnings of it now. When a major city votes to disband their police force and replace it with another security agency...
I am praying this energy lasts for as long as it is needed to change this country from top to bottom. You can only kneel on the necks of the people for so long before you have a real revolt on your hands.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)leftieNanner
(15,124 posts)It's not a good idea to push people so far down the economic ladder that they have nothing left to lose.
The Birth of a Revolution? You may be right.
rateyes
(17,438 posts)get what they deserve, the meek will inherit the earth, rich vs poor.
The rich with their entitlement views may meet their own demise.
McKim
(2,412 posts)At 75 I am thrilled that I have lived to see this. In Portland Oregon my 84 year old husband and I went down to view the demonstrations, safely, from our car. We were thrilled to see young people, black and white together marching 10 abreast on a major thoroughfare by the river. They all had homemade signs with great messages and the parade of Justice went on for 25 minutes! We thought we had died and gone to heaven to see so many young people determined to change things. We hope they can help free this country from the scourges of poverty, greed and racism. We are contributing to NAACP Local, Bail money funds for demonstrators and the Poor Peoples Campaign as a way to participate. Bless them!!!!
still_one
(92,219 posts)cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)have been voting for 50 plus years and things are at the point of no return. Fascism is right around the corner. A would be dictator is in office as we speak. We voted and won by 3 million votes and after 3.5 years, tens of thousands have died and the peoples house has a new fence around it that looks more like some tinpot dictators residence in a third world country.
The problem we face is systemic and built in. It is not going to be voted out anytime soon. Change will come slowly and in talking with my son who is talking to his peers, now is not the time to wait. Now is the time for action. They want change now.
I don't know what the answer is. I do know that voting this November is critical and our very lives and the republic depend on winning.
But voting is not "the" revolution. Voting is a right that when exercised properly allows the democracy to move forward, albeit slowly. Young people are demanding change now.
still_one
(92,219 posts)in 2016
Perhaps now the spark has been lit and people will turn out to vote
If trump gets another 4 years, i agree, the republic has a very good chance to be destroyed
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,261 posts)who was very insightful and i asked him if there would be military style fighting on our streets of this country and he said yes . ( no timeline)but , he also said there would be change at the will of the people .
DownriverDem
(6,229 posts)a dangerous moron and a pandemic to bring it on. trump/repubs have the rich and haters. We must take it to them with our votes in November and hope that will be the beginning of major change.
SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)"If you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable." --- John F Kennedy
roamer65
(36,745 posts)2021 has real shot at being a better year than 2020.
SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)If 2021 is worse ill be standing on the nearest bridge with an anvil around my neck.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Pray it isnt.
DownriverDem
(6,229 posts)that it would take a couple of generations passed the Boomers to make it happen. I am so proud of the Millennials.
rateyes
(17,438 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)Raise the tax rate on the wealthy to post WW II levels, and you're talking turkey. Otherwise, it will be one form of economic tyranny after another.
rateyes
(17,438 posts)Nitram
(22,822 posts)Just vote in November. We'll solve this using our democracy.