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In reply to the discussion: As Republicans Make Millions Suffer, the Left’s Ideologues Obsess Over Edward Snowden [View all]BumRushDaShow
(128,748 posts)but wants to have it done in a way that shuts down the RW talking points and the RW lunatics who for 30 years, have tarred and feathered liberals with the "weak" and "soft" bullshit line. The U.S. unfortunately is a Rambo macho country and it will take a long time to get rid of that national "cowboy" persona whether we like it or not.
And in all practical sense (NOT in the fantasy world of ideology), one can -
1.) Make the people DEMAND that their representatives do as they say - REPEAL (Legislative)
2.) Make the people and/or opposition take it to the courts (eventually the Supreme Court) to declare it unconstitutional (Judicial)
I.e., you engage the other branches of the tricameral government and push people to stop giving them a pass.
There is more power in the masses demanding change versus the individual. And the masses need to be dragged from in front of the damn TV to take action. Too many around here insist that the President's job is to micromanage every infinitesimal function of a nation of 300,000,000 while the demanders sit back on their laurels and hurl potshots.
Talk show host Joe Madison daily plays part of a sermon given by Aretha Franklin's father called "The Eagle Stirs the Nest". And to paraphrase, he described how eagles care for their young in a soft comfortable nest while they are developing but once it's time for them to fledge, the nest is "stirred" making it uncomfortable (twiggy and spiny) for the youngsters to remain there any longer, and they finally leave the nest to fly off on their own. And so sometimes that nest that is the American entertainment complex needs to be stirred to get people up and out and engaged.