Remember the 60's - and Reverse Them!

I've been overlooking something important. Because I forgot the lesson I learned once, partly because I'm a child of the 60's and demand instant gratification...

I often forget it took more than a decade to make it happen, but the 60's public demonstrations eventually changed the face of our culture. And it changed the face of Journalism.

At  first anti-war demonstrators were reviled and dismissed; they were called anti-American (of course they WERE, but let's not get bogged down in that truth!) Before it was over, a good share of the country had moved closer to their position: against the Viet Nam war, and much more permissive of sex, drugs and rock & roll. (You can argue if you want...but just look around you!)

It may be hard to remember, they were Anti-Government. As least they positioned themselves as the underdogs fighting against "the man", dictatorial government, and they brought out that essentially very American character....freedom from oppression by a corrupt government (remember Richard Nixon?) that was in love with POWER, and didn't listen to The People.

It was a nightmare result, of course, and a big fat Marxist lie. They LOVE government as long as they're in charge of it...but the point is, they got it done...by persistent action. By never letting up, by spending over ten years in the street they overcame the entrenched powers and cultural resistance.

Of course there was more than just bodies in the street, but without them, it never would have happened. They and the coverage they received changed the dialogue.

The Tea Parties are doing the same today.

As much as our defeat in the Senate this morning is unconstitutional, harmful, anti-American, evil, immoral, sad and painful, it SHOULD have happened months ago.

It is the Tea Parties and Town-Halls that made this such an exhausting, hard, slogging, nail-biter for the Democrat-Progressive-Marxists-Satan-Spawn instead of a walk in the park.

The Democrats have 60 votes in the Senate. It should have been a cake-walk. Instead, it was a bloody battle which will hopefully result in many Spawn casualties in the 2010 elections.

It doesn't seem like much right now—we're just at the very beginning of our movement—but it is a sort of victory. It is the first small step...just like that first anti-war march early in the 60's which eventually swept the nation and changed history.

So...in spite of the setbacks, we have to remember that it took over a decade for the Spawn to affect an outcome. It may take as long for us to do so...but we have to keep trying.

The anti-war "hippies" and other malcontents were hated in the beginning.

But they won!

We have to do the same. We must do everything we can, including infiltrating and changing the Republican Party, but we have to stay in the Street. We have to stay visible, accessible, familiar.

I bet that every time we are out there, at least a few more people who have not previously participated are moved to join us. Eventually it will be dozens, then hundreds, then thousands joining every day.

Every time we are on the street, there is an endless parade of horn-honking, waving, thumbs-up passers-by. One of these days they will join us instead of just cheering us.

But even if they don't, you can bet they're paying attention, and voting the right way...and maybe even writing to their legislators, and talking to their friends. And that's how it starts.

That's what will eventually lead to the American Rebirth.

My political group is not a "Tea Party" organization per se. We don't organize Tea Parties (though we do attend them) because I originally thought that the REAL work was not on the street, but in the background, organizing "community" not organizing "events".

But I think I was wrong. We need to do both.  I think the public face of the Tea Party movement...the actual organized public demonstrations are critical to its success.

And I think I need to take a longer view; remember that it took a long time to get here, and it will take a long time to get back....but that it is possible if Patriots keep up the fight, and become the visible face of politics...ON THE STREET.

The Gunslinger, EOTIS
Para Bellum