Reply #25: You are right on this one. Dems did a good job with Bolton and [View All]

got further than I thought they would. They did it by playing a very good game of chess. As a result the GOP was not able to score any hits. They are also dealing with and having to react to, multiple crises and so far I don't see that they have made any critical mistakes.

I have never been a revolutionary and don't consider myself one now. Your take on "Marching in the Streets" is wrong and needs to be reconsidered. You need to ask yourself - who had a vested interest in portraying the 60's demonstrations as a revolution? They were initially an outcry and protest against injustice. The perceptions most of us have of them have been greatly shaped by a media that is an agent for the creation of a passive America - a mission accomplished.

The 60's were the result of the murder of a President and a Presidential candidate - murders which were not successfully prosecuted. They were the result of murders of Martin Luther King and other civil rights workers which by and large were not successfully prosecuted. A civil rights movement whose aims have not yet been completely fulfilled.

Who has a vested interest in preventing protest marches? Who is threatened by them and why?

PS I was never in the streets in the 60's - I was on the other side -I was wrong.