Reply #105: It's not about groupthink

[meganmonkey]

For the record, lately those of us who support actions like this and Cindy Sheehan and other unconventional efforts of protest feel like we're the ones getting criticized left and right for promoting things that might "make the Dems look bad". So it really goes both ways, IMO.

I am trying to make valid points here. I am not belittling the letters and the petitions, I participate in them too. In fact I got a LTTE published this week about the NSA spying thing. Will it make a difference? I don't know - maybe it will change or open one person's mind. That's good enough for me.

And the day that Conyers et. al. delivered those petitions to the WH gate was a glorious and (IMO) historical moment.

But clearly it didn't get the war ended, and it didn't make Bushco accountable for their lies and crimes.

My main point is that it isn't an either/or proposition. The obvious channels for fixing what is wrong with this country, like elections and Congress, are NOT working. What this group of people are doing, in concert with the Reps who are demanding an investigation, is just as likely to be effective as anything else.

I apologize for venting my frustration on you. My goals here aren't to be 'right', or to shut anyone's ideas down. My only real goal is to get this war to stop, to get this criminal administration exposed and punished, and to encourage as many people as possible to do whatever they can to help get this done.