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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo this week's revelations make you More or Less likely to join a protest?
Will it have a chilling effect on outside-the-two-party-system political action?
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Do this week's revelations make you More or Less likely to join a protest? (Original Post)
Junkdrawer
Jun 2013
OP
It's summer. I am going to vote for Cory, go swimming. And work to elect Hillary/Booker in 2016
graham4anything
Jun 2013
#1
Will the Democrats trade "Transparency in Government" to "We're spying on you!" as a campaign
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jun 2013
#2
What good is building the perfect Big Brother if only the hipsters know it exists?
Junkdrawer
Jun 2013
#5
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)1. It's summer. I am going to vote for Cory, go swimming. And work to elect Hillary/Booker in 2016
this ain't 1968, and all the war protests of 1968 achieved was to elongate the war 6 more years and got rid of the single biggest
liberal president in history.
think I will ixnay on the protestay
Why in the world would I want to get rid of what the revolution of 2008 brought in, just to bring back Jeb Bush.
Would I stand with Rand? Hell no, I won't go and do diddley for Bush family member Rand and Ron Paul.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)2. Will the Democrats trade "Transparency in Government" to "We're spying on you!" as a campaign
slogan?
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)5. What good is building the perfect Big Brother if only the hipsters know it exists?
It seems to have gone viral in the M$M a bit too easy.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)3. Protests mainly serve to polarize already held views
They don't really move the needle politically.
NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)4. Less than nothing
Really? What am I going to protest for?
The only thing politicians will be useful for in our future of blight and decay is eating.