A year and a half into this clown show, it is abundantly clear that law is what is being attacked, because if society needs a chaotic shakeup to build some fantasy utopia, the law holding it together must be dissolved.
That's what law is - the glue that holds society together.
That's what law is - the glue that holds society together.
Weak laws fragment nations. Strong ones empower them.
Weak laws victimize. Strong laws balance.
Chaos and hysteria have been the MO of this administration since the first #MuslimBan. Constantly shocking, descending to new lows, keeping everyone busy with the job of resisting.
Weak laws victimize. Strong laws balance.
Chaos and hysteria have been the MO of this administration since the first #MuslimBan. Constantly shocking, descending to new lows, keeping everyone busy with the job of resisting.
Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ne Win-all offensively used chaos to control. If Bannon really is the 6D chess player he's rumored to be, and subscribes to the "Fourth Turning" theory of inevitable destruction, the chaos is an effort to create a self-fulfulling prophecy.
Why else roll out bans, lock up babies, and write slipshod laws to back it up? It's because there's an ideology behind the chaos. As we saw with the Muslim ban, our institutions will only protect us for so long.
Everything has a breaking point.
Everything has a breaking point.
In contrast, every civil rights leader preached the opposite: sticking to principle. That's not the same thing as blind faith. When our institutions - courts, governing bodies, and schools - are under attack, we have to embrace an unshaking devotion to principle.
Gandhi, Susan B. Anthony, MLK, Mandela, Muhammad Ali, and Malcolm X were all fiercely principled leaders. They didn't just resist, they were resistant.
Let's not just resist individual attacks. Let's make our institutions resistant to attack.
Let's not just resist individual attacks. Let's make our institutions resistant to attack.
Miss me with the "every river needs a flood, every forest a fire" nonsense. Because even if that's true, I'm not about to allow our beautiful country to be replaced with some white nationalist fantasy utopia. That's their vision.
What's ours?
What's ours?
I remember hearing "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize" in high school. Why do you think it became an anthem of the Civil Rights movement?
I submit this modest proposal:
An America where everyone has a chance to make it.
I submit this modest proposal:
An America where everyone has a chance to make it.
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