General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEvery American with a brain should go to Washington and force a fair solution to this treachery
We cannot accept Trump in power anymore and we cannot accept the horrid alternative of a President Pence or Ryan.
Why should we give that to the party that put up with treason to gain power?
We cannot sit there and get stepped on again.
But unless we do something RADICAL that will happen.
This can't just be worked out through the system at this point.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)flamingdem
(39,328 posts)At least a million. It's been done before and just takes imagination and good organizers. The Women's March proved that protests still have an impact. Especially when those attending represent a everyday Americans from all walks.
I think the problem is that most of us believe that we have to let the system work it out -- but then we'll end up with the same garbage. We have the power in the USA to have a voice and we need leadership with imagination to use that power right about now.
Zoonart
(11,879 posts)Stay in the streets. Get to DC, if you are able and flood the corridors of power.
Crush them with our numbers. In the end, historically, the only thing that has ever reigned in out of control despotism is mass revolt by the people.
flamingdem
(39,328 posts)Let's add imagination to that and make it happen.
Right is on our side on so many levels.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)I am calling for every first Sunday of the month to be impeachment Sunday that means demonstrating in the streets til the congress critters start impeachment proceedings
marybourg
(12,637 posts)and cities also! Not everyone can camp out in D,C,, although those that can, should.
The rest of us can find a group like this:
https://www.indivisibleguide.com/local-action-groups
and protest, as a recent post, http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028653113 here suggested, on the first Sunday of the month to demand resignation or impeachment. Many of us would be willing to do it every Sunday. Our democracy demands no less!
flamingdem
(39,328 posts)We need to remember that the Women's March was the brainchild of a single woman in Hawaii.
Anyone of us could make a difference.
bdamomma
(63,923 posts)our national security is at stake.
another article to be read:
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/each-new-day-is-a-new-nightmare-gop-ex-judge-wants-trump-impeached-and-removed-with-all-haste/
snip of article:
Mark P. Painter, a lifelong Republican and career judge, this week called for the immediate impeachment of President Donald Trump.
In a column for Cincinnati.com, the former Ohio Court of Appeals judge offers to help his congressman, Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH), draft articles of impeachment.
In any time except our post-factual era, no office holder, much less the president, could get away with any one of the dozens of dazzlingly illegal things Trump has already done, Painter writes. They would forfeit office immediately.
Each new day is a new nightmare. We are still trying to digest one breathtaking assault on America when another is signed, issued, or Tweeted. All this amid constant lies. Constant. Lies.
Painter notes that he voted for Republican presidents for 36 years ut I have watched what once was a sane, center-right party go off the rails, first to the extreme right, then to wherever Trump is, which is in another universe.
flamingdem
(39,328 posts)the intelligence pundits are warning that bad things happen at the beginning of a presidential term. That when an administration is new bad actors like Russia, Isis, al Queda activate to test. The USA is truly vulnerable right now and it will remain this way with Trump in power.
This truly cannot stand. What's left is We the People deciding what role we're going to play and if we'll put up with being walked on by the GOP, again.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,714 posts)The plan is to regain the House in 018 and the Senate and the presidency in 2020 and to peacefully obstruct in the interim.
The Deplorables are all about coups and stuff.
Zoonart
(11,879 posts)and the deplorable are the ones who have carried it off. I am not calling for violent confrontation, just a show of numbers.
I don't think we have until 2018 to remedy this. The whole government could be in cinders by then.
flamingdem
(39,328 posts)We're a lot smarter than the deplorables, let's show them how powerful we are so they quiet down
flamingdem
(39,328 posts)and has been effective as of late.
Especially because it empowers the dems to take stronger stands in Washington.
brooklynite
(94,745 posts)flamingdem
(39,328 posts)That's what essentially ended the war.
Radical meaning what we see in this thread - mainstream Democratic thinking will lead to nothing more than being stepped on again and again. A president Pence or Ryan.
We can't afford that, the environment is at stake, our health is at stake. There is EVERY reason to have a massive show of force so another solution -- not devised yet -- is worked out.
The dems don't push hard enough. We have to push them.