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things are decidedly passive in their efforts to repulse them, whereas the people who like such things are decidedly active in their support. Then there's the folks in the middle, who'll say tiredly, "yeah, war's a bummer. Just terrible. Excuse me: I have to get Billy to baseball practice". So, the sole resistance becomes sign wavers and speech-makers. It's not like Vietnam, where the protesters passionately cared about ending the war. I know. I stood with them despite having been in Vietnam. More recently, I was out on the street for Obama. I was out there for illegal immigration. I've been out there for all kinds of things. I even have a protest kit. But when Obama signed that reduction to Social Security withholdings concurrent with extending the tax cuts for the rich last year--that was it-- However, your speech was great, and contrary to many of the speeches I've heard in the last year, it sounded honest and sincere rather than mellifluous and meaningless. However, David, I have a feeling that until the stormtroopers come to the door and request one's son or daughter to make a batch of Soylent Green, there will be no concerted effort to stop wars started and sustained by the US or any other atrocity or wrongdoing, for that matter. No light at the end of the tunnel. No tunnel either.
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