For those of you who think we should be taking the strategies of the teabaggers, I ask..

[madinmaryland]

What would Martin Luther King do?

[LostInAnomie]

1. That was back when marches got attention.

As the protests to the Iraq War show, marches don't mean shit anymore (unless they are done by RWers).

[valerief]

10. +666 trillion

[ScarletFyre]

2. Resist.

Peacefully, yet forcefully.

[Posteritatis]

5. Buzzwords and catch phrases are nice, but what about the specifics? (nt)

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

3. to build a more progressive party under the left wing of the Democratic Party would be good

we need not duplicate the hate and trolling for violence that the tea baggers do.

[JuniperLea]

4. They stole OUR strategies...

And bastardized them.

We took American back, remember? We put the adults in charge. We stood up to BushCo spending... mostly wars.

MLK has had his good ideas bastardized as well.

No one wants to hear progressive angst anymore... they only have time for the senseless babbling of empty headed TeaBaggers... disgusting. They don't even make sense!

I hear they are going to get "classes" in "The Constitution" and I'm willing to bet what they will be fed is a bunch more lies.

[Canuckistanian]

19. The Teabaggers disn't RISK anything by this little get-together

I'd like to see what Teabaggers would do if they had to march on a bridge in Selma, AL, all the while being attacked by dogs and water hoses in order to get to Washington.

This was NOTHING like MLK's strategies. Most of them didn't even have to worry about transportation, thanks to the the "Daddy-Warbucks" Koch brothers.

I for one am not worried about MLK's legacy.

[gophates]

6. Whatever worked.

All this peaceful stuff is just getting us deeper in the shit.

Time to change tactics and grow a set.

[madinmaryland]

9. And how will the Corporate and Right Wing Media display the loony

left wing, if that is the tactics that are adopted.

Yeah, right! Pictures of loonies screaming at minimum wage workers in Mickey D's, etc.

[gophates]

12. I don't recall there being a camera there...

...if there were, he probably wouldn't have done that. But the time for meekness is over. We must fight every single one of these parasites everywhere they are. In any way possible. The time for boldness and passion is here. The time for being friends or even friendly with them is gone.

If you're a Republican in my life, I am through with you. You are not my friend. You are not my family. You are my enemy and I will do everything I can do to beat you. I will work to impose the ruin on you that you have imposed on the world.

You either fight them or you enable them.

That's how it is.

[madinmaryland]

13. Good luck! I hope you fight just as hard for the civil rights of an entire section of

America that continues to have its rights taken away by DOMA and other court decisions and ballot measures.

[gophates]

14. It's the whole package

Just one more reason why if you're not progressive, you're dead to me.

[El Supremo]

16. You know, I didn't scream at a minimum wage worker.

I got the manager over and used foul language in talking about their new TV showing Fox News. I didn't call anyone any names. There were no kids around (although I didn't care).

SO YOU AND THE OTHERS QUIT TRYING TO MAKE THIS ANY WORSE THAN IT WAS!!!!!

[madinmaryland]

17. You know, it was probably one of three people that attend a Florida Marlins

game that you yelled at. trumad??

:hide:

[Poboy]

7. What would FDR do? Truman?

Fight.If you want bullies to keep kicking your ass, have at it.
In my experience, a bully only understands one thing.
Those results are guaranteed, and not a vague distant 'some day' to sing about on end.

[valerief]

11. Where do we nuke? nt

[Poboy]

20. "Give 'em hell Harry!"

[valerief]

21. Zactly. nt

[Turbineguy]

8. Well, I can see some problems with that.

Is there a school where you can go to get stupid? Even if you only watched faux news and listened to Rush and Glenn it would still take years to get that fucking ignorant.

[Raschel]

15. I suspect five days of rioting in Detroit had an impact.

[madinmaryland]

18. 1967.

After the Civil Rights, Voting Rights bills had passed. 1967/1968 was the perfect segue for Nixon to sneak his way into office as a "law and order" president with the "southern strategy".

Yes it did have an impact.

[Raschel]

22. Yes, it did and it's a perfect example.

People in Detroit were rioting due to continued oppression including police brutality and lack of housing.

In 1968 President Johnson signed the Civil Rights act of 1968 (of course), which prohibited housing discrimination (and protection for civil rights workers).