Is everyone afraid to FIGHT for what they believe in these days?

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This is a post I posted on another thread earlier, but decided that it needed its own thread.

Is everyone just content to march in protest or practice civl disobedience to get they change that America needs? I am not. To me, that isn't fighting. Back in the 60's and 70's when the Civil Rights movement was its height, those kinds of tactics work. I've been told by my professors and whatnot that change doesnt happen overnight and that if given time, civil disobedience and protests will change things.

No, not anymore. We have no time to waste sitting on our arses and marching around holding signs. More people protested Bush around the world than protested anyone, EVER. 19 million people across the planet took to the streets to protests Bush and his invasion of Iraq. What did it do? Hmmm...let's think. Nothing. It did absolutely nothing. We can no longer work within the system to change the system. It has become too large, too corrupt to respond to our pleas for change. The Framers of our Constitution had the elite, not the oppressed minorities in mind when they wrote it. Today, our beautiful country has become the embodiment of the Constitution. There was never any democracy in this country, it has all been an illusion. The poor masses have never had power.

We pretend our votes actually matter in the grand scheme of things, but they don't. Through the electoral college system, we vote for who we may want to represent us in government. However, the electors in this electoral college system can vote for whoever they want. So if I vote for Kerry as president, and the majority of Colorado votes for Kerry, the electors could decide they want Bush, and vote for him. It has happened twice, where an elector voted against the majority of the state just as a protest against the system. And while every elector has never voted against the people's wishes, there's nothing stopping it from happening. The system is flawed, and it has been flawed from the beginning.

Change from within has become impossible. I've heard people say things like "Well if we don't win 2004, we'll have to win in 2008." I am not content with just sitting around until 2008 rolls around. By then, the elections will be just something to appease the people so we think we're voting, but the outcome has been predetermined. This election may well be that way already, but if Bush is allowed to rule for 4 more years, it WILL be so. If a democrat gets elected, it will be Kerry. While Kerry is better than Bush, he is not different enough to really change things.

Many of you may think that I am an extremist, but no I am not. I am simply a radical left-winger striving for change. I would rather not leave this country and abandon my fellow Americans to a fascist government...ruled by Bush or someone else. I would rather FIGHT for our country back. But something radical must happen to obtain that change. The tactics that have been commonly used to create social change for the past century are no longer applicable.

Sorry for the super-long post, but I had a lot I needed to say.