Reply #46: What exactly would they fight against? Democracy?

[HamdenRice]

Yeah, we were talking about this yesterday. In the past, non-violent resistance was so powerful because its practitioners could isolate some utter absurdity -- like in India, people being forbidden from making salt from seawater, or in the US, southern governments preventing black people from exercising their constitutional rights. Then they would disobey the absurdity and "dare" the government to defend it. The government would then be in the absurd position, in front of the world, of defending injustice.

But in the current system, what exactly would patriots be fighting against? The decision of the majority that they actually want endless war and fascism? There is nothing to isolate and ask the state to defend in those circumstances.

I've been talking to a lot of republicans lately and even pro-Bush democrats, and there is no breaking through their magical thinking at this point. There is nothing really to protest because the majority of people really want war and fascism.