tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484662326396778106.post1622447304479257630..comments2023-11-05T03:25:20.581-08:00Comments on STOP THE MADNESS: CHAPTER FORTY TWO. PLAN NOW FOR INTERDEPENDENCE DAY 2010!Rick Staggenborg, MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16587630200799702811noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484662326396778106.post-43519198620290279202011-01-17T08:58:15.488-08:002011-01-17T08:58:15.488-08:00I dedicated this essay to the Dalai Lama because h...I dedicated this essay to the Dalai Lama because he is recognized as the leader of a spiritual tradition that recognizes the inter-relatedness of all things. <br /><br />In order to Take Back America for the People we must learn to recognize and keep in mind that meeting our needs as humans is intimately related to assuring that each of us has enough to survive and that we will never have to resort to war to ensure the survival of one People or way of life at the expense of another.<br /><br />The natural result of adopting this way of looking at the world is that the way to create a new world is immediately apparent. It is as simple as looking back to the recent past and seeing how men like Martin Luther King and women of like strength and vision created a movement that rocked America for two decades.<br /><br />The dream of the Revolutionaries of the 60s and early 70s was forgotten in the aftermath of early victories. The war ended, though for reasons unrelated to the protest movement. The Civil Rights Act was passed at the cost of fracturing the fragile alliance between Southern Democrats and the rest of the party. Women began to be acknowledged as equals by all but the most regressive Americans.<br /><br />None of these advances represented a final victory for any of these causes because the angry protests eventually became too much for all but the most ardent Revolutionaries, who soon became a small choir to who their leaders preached almost exclusively. <br /><br />Those who were satisfied with achievement of immediate goals wanted to get on with their lives. They turned off, tuned out the movement and dropped into a society still fractured by the conflict. <br /><br />Those we need to reach most to build a movement that will win final victory in the American Revolution are the youth who have grown up in a world where the assumptions of fascism have been internalized by much of society. It is natural that maturing in such an environment would make our young cynical about getting involved in what seems a meaningless game of politics.<br /><br />The only way to ensure that our young inherit a world that is sustainable environmentally, economically and socially is to prove to them by our example that we have not forgotten King's dream. We must rebuild the movement and use it to fight until the nightmare of the threat of fascist oppression is nothing but a memory.Rick Staggenborg, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16587630200799702811noreply@blogger.com