Protests are good, but more is needed. How can any patriotic American not be burning with anger over what's going on?

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/04/protests-are-good-but-much-more-is.html

In the late 70's and early 80's, though some very useful television evangelists, like Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and a little known Texan by the name of James Robison, they managed to take over the leadership of most of the conservative, Evangelical branch of the American church, using abortion on demand and gay rights as the "evils" against which they needed to fight. This constituency, made up of ultra-conservative fundamentalists and Pentecostals, had a tendency to avoid participating in what they called "secular" politics, but their leadership, over time, convinced them that they were called by God to save the country from evil by voting against liberals who just wanted to destroy things.

That added, to the treasury and the power base of the Heritage Foundation, a significant constituency and it provided a religious endorsement for their right wing extremism, though the message, morality and ethics of the Christian gospel did not phase the Heritage Foundation's agenda, which bears no resemblance at all to any known practice of the Christian gospel.

Setting aside the core principles of the Christian gospel in order to benefit from the power of secular politics has become the M.O. of the Heritage Foundation and its Evangelical allies. They are getting the political power and money that they have always had at the center of their pseudo-Christian agenda.

This is what we are fighting against. Can someone point me to an agenda driven, money raising, media powerful foundation of equal influence and effect on the Democratic party's side of American politics?

The Republicans, with their Heritage Foundation Project 2025 plan book being followed to the tee, have been running amok, doing exactly what we were warned they were going to do, and that was make Trump dictator and impose a Christian nationalist regime to control the United States.

We were warned. It's been written about, reported, good grief, copies of this draconian, anti-Democratic piece of trash have been circulating around for a while not. We knew it was coming. Nothing was done from November to January, to develop a plan for resisting it and opposing it and making it difficult for Republicans to implement. "Woe is us," is the cry, "They have a razor thin margin on both houses."

Nothing was done from January, through February, into march, except the activism of Senator Sanders and Representative Ocasio-Cortez. I can't donate much, but that's where all my donations are going right now. That seems to be the only place where there is some good being done. They sure helped draw attention to the crisis, and we are finally seeing people out in the streets. But that's not going to be nearly enough.