"No election let women vote, or created the civil rights movement, or laws to protect our air

[raccoon]

and water. These things happened because neighbors met, organized, protested, ran local candidates, went to prison — and moved and moved and moved until they were a movement. America gets better when Americans get it into their heads that they should be the ones running the country, and cajole and intimidate elites until the elites back down."

http://restoringmayberry.blogspot.com/2010/11/elections.html


I posted this because it's a quote worth keeping.

[yellerpup]

1. Nice quote.

And true. :kick:

[joeybee12]

2. Agree...change comes bottom up...just like the economy recovers

from the bottom up.

[yodermon]

3. problem is the tea partiers genuinely believe that's *them*

they are astroturf fodder for corporocrats and they don't even know it (most of em)

[Zoeisright]

4. Rights should NEVER be decided by elections.

[Winterblues]

5. Except it is completely false

Laws are made by elected politicians..Elections decide who gets to make those Laws...Do you believe any of those things would be passed by the Republicans that were just elected?

[raccoon]

7. You think that politicians simply decided women should have the vote, and gave them the vote?

They simply decided, out of the goodness of their hearts, that minorities deserved the same rights as everyone else?


Yeah, right.

[Winterblues]

8. No people make those decisions and "Elect" people to carry it out..

Elections are what create change...Not street protests or petitions...You want change you get the people elected that will make it happen..

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. I disagree