PEOPLE GET READY! THE FIGHT AGAINST A JOBLESS ECONOMY & A CITIZENLESS DEMOCRACY, McChesney & Nichols

[DAngelo136]

8. No, he is not!

What he is, is a good beginning.
Once you pin all of your hopes on one person to facilitate change, you make it easier to defeat him.
Movements are not one person; movements are made up people desiring change. Martin Luther King wasn't ALL of the Civil Rights Movement; there were other organizations. The NAACP, the Urban League, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and of course Dr.King's organization; the Southern Christian Leadership Council. This is not about a "cult of personality"or of putting just one individual in a position of power, we saw the futility of that with the Obama Administration. In order to facilitate permanent change, you have to install like minded people to dominate the institutions of power or do away with the institutions themselves and construct new institutions that reflect the wishes of the people themselves. Thomas Jefferson wrote as much in the Declaration of Independence.

A system that cannot be reformed must be resisted; when resistance is ineffective, there must be revolt and where there is revolt, there must be revolution. Do all revolutions necessitate violence? Human experience says "yes", however, that may be avoidable in this epoch. That will depend on the changes that we can make here and now. But the first step must be the raising of consciousness; that we are in trouble.

The encroaching influence of the economic oligarchs and plutocrats present an existential threat to the economic and political well being of the citizens of this country and possibly the world. Not to mention the threat to the global environment. Not unlike the dogma of the "divine right of kings" has the ideology of neoliberalism or market fundamentalism been questioned by those who sit in position of political power and economic influence. As it was questioned and challenged by philosophers like Rousseau and writers like Thomas Paine, so too should we question and challenge those assumptions and ideologies that are propped up by nothing more than the general acceptance by the masses and its repetition by the talking heads of the corporate owned mainstream media. I'm sorry to be the one to break it to you Lady Thatcher but, THERE IS ALWAYS AN ALTERNATIVE.

I am of the opinion that Sen.Sanders will not get the nomination. But that is NOT the end, but the beginning of the pushback against the forces that began with ascension of Ronald Reagan. I agree with Dr.King when he said that "The arc of history bends toward justice" But I also agree with Frederick Douglass when he said "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will." The struggle for justice is ongoing and never ending. This is the lesson we've forgotten during the domination of the Republican right. They have no monopoly on truth nor do they have a monopoly on morality.