Reply #12: I thought I'd pick up and go in 2004, but obviously didn't. I'm less inclined

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to leave now. The Rethug way is opposed by a minimum of 70% of the country. The neo-con-Rethug-crisis-capitalism party is opposed by nearly everyone with a brain.

I don't know about marches and demonstrations being effective. We're getting an idea of how that would be met by seeing the St. Paul police in action the last couple of days. A general strike might work to get attention.

I tend to think staying local and working on the county and state levels might be better. The federal gov't has the armed forces, the contractor/mercenaries, and the heavy weapons.