Reply #7: protest and revolution

[welshTerrier2]

i wrote a thread yesterday about revolution ... it seems to me from the discussion here, that points i raised in that thread are not being addressed here ...

the revolution i called for was NOT one of militant confrontation against the entrenched power structure ... the revolution was one of waking up our fellow countrymen and educating and getting them to understand that if they don't participate in their democracy, we're at great risk of losing it ...

it called on our "leaders" to shine the brighest spotlights they can on how bad things have gotten ...

the revolution i envision puts faith in the power of people to change their government and their lives ... perhaps, in some unimagined future, this awakened populace would be left with no alternative to violent confrontation ... perhaps the corporate regime would no longer honor our right to have elections ... but i think they still greatly depend on the pretense of democracy ... education is the way to shatter that vail ...

so, from my point of view, anti-demonstrator repression is not even in the cards ... at least not anytime soon ... the name of the game is education and that is going to take an unfortunately long time before it starts building the kind of "wave of people power" we need ...