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Democrats Standing in the Doorway… Again

A visual ?teachable moment?

By: PGDeFreese (Diary)  |  August 10th, 2009 at 09:03 PM  | 

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Democrats Standing in the Way of Progress… Again

As much as they would like to rewrite it, Democrats have a rich history of standing in the doorway in an effort to block those that are “different”. Do they not see the similarities of an ugly past when they turn town halls into union and ACORN only affairs or realize the sad irony in having a separate door for the “mob”? As bought and paid for Democrat agents beat protestors while hurling racial epithets- majority leaders and their leashed press disparage the greater part of the nation as un-American, racist, and just plain stupid.

I think it’s high time for a visual “teachable moment” to the POTUS, majority party, and the press.

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  • NeoKong

    before they turn the police dogs and fire hoses on the people.
    They already have the unbridled hatred down pat.

    We shall overcome.

  • nessa

    nt

  • pilgrim

  • BooBooKitty

    just a feeling.

  • ColdWarrior

    I always hated that song verse.

    But, I think now, under the circumstances, we would consider trying to get the “mobs” at the public town hall meetings to end the meetings by locking arms and singing the “We shall overcome” verse over and over and over, swaying back and forth, as the civil rights activists did in the 1960s (many of whom were, my the way, Republicans).

    Thank you.

    ColdWarrior

  • CincoSolas_del_Bronx

    I’ve been thinking the exact thought since yesterday. Here’s the rationale, not only from one who remembers the song back in the day, but is a trained musician.

    Singing has great advantages over more common protest techniques, when using a versed, long, low, slow song like this (as opposed to the “cute”, cheap, grating, responsive chants):

    it carries better
    it lasts longer
    it demonstrates unity–visual and auditory
    it demonstrates impassioned restraint
    it references earlier struggles, persuasive for those on the fence, dissuasive for those opposed

    WSO is a great choice. Any song should be pre-1970, not merely for reference to CR protests, but because anything after then is going to have shallow texts, high vocal range* and will simply not be as well known.

    * Any song written to be performed by a miked singer must NEVER be sung in a group, because you lose half your crowd (ever hear of altos and basses?) and they were not intended for harmony. In one of the great paradoxes, borne out in contemporary church services every Sunday, songs sung “in unison” produce the least sense of actual unity, while songs sung in parts manifest a marvellously rich unity of diverse yet interpendent individuals in community.

  • CincoSolas_del_Bronx

    n/t

  • aesthete
  • redneck_hippie