“9. californiataxslave:
Herb’s an idiot.”
On that, there can be no debate. But you know who else was an idiot?
Cindy Sheehan, who thought that if she camped out in Crawford long enough she was going to end the war in Iraq…despite the fact that you can’t end a war by camping out in Crawford.
So when you ask: “Our votes, letters to the editor, phone calls to politicians are already ignored, and now he’s telling us that protests are a waste of time?”
Perhaps you might want to ask yourself how holding up a sign and chanting “Hell no, we won’t pay” is going to get a different result?
Bottom line: Protesters of ALL stripes need to figure out that there is no correlation between their activities and their desired results.
So if you’re all excited about these Tea Party protests, ask yourself how holding a sign on a street corner is going to get you what you want?
Also, contrary to Bill Perron, I don’t think attention-seeking is the main motivation of these protests. I think it’s more of a kind of impotent catharsis, to make yourself feel better, to make yourself feel like you’re contributing something…even though in real world measurable terms, you’re just standing on a street corner with a sign, which accomplishes nothing unless you’re begging for change.)
