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Impeachment may not be ideal for what is needed, but at least it 'plays well to the masses', to continue the pointless desire to make everything as Hollywood as possible.

(And, this is from a career performer... )

We need something... someone... to become a lightning rod. Yes, "Pete is showing us the way - talking about things that matter to to people not heavily engaged in politics." But, as often stated here on the DU, it is pretty much past time for talking.

Time for some direct action.

Either that, or we need to stop with the grandstanding and start with the organizing... not cells where people exchange witty snark about the other side and revel in their righteous outrage in what quickly becomes an echo chamber, but grassroots actions such as organizing a response when people decide not to send any federal agency any money for any reason. They can turn off the power (maybe) but if we are ready, their efforts will fall flat.

They can't live without us. We can, most certainly, live without them.

They are arresting people on the street. If we are prepared, they should find that they are not as positive as to who is being 'disloyal' as they think they are. They should also find that their efforts are being hampered and they can either arrest hundreds of thousands or they can back off. Organize the liberal, progressive hackers into a force akin to Anonymous. They should be constantly attacking our digital infrastructure to paralyze everything. But, they are not going to like it. Thus, the preparedness organizing. They will want to force us to do their bidding and they will use this capitalistically-run society (because they own all the capital that matters) to punish those who will not bend their knee. Our preparedness is how we hold out and turn that punishment back on them, thus making them understand who is in charge. You know...

We. The. People.

Not the best suggestions, because they rely on enough people to cause real hurt on the economy by snubbing it (and we all know damned well that enough won't do it), but I am open to discuss any other ideas that will accomplish the objective of not only removing the rethugs from existence, but removing the cause of how they came to, and held onto, power for as along as they have. Any other objective is to place yet another tiny Band-Aid on a dysfunctional society that has already lost both arms and legs. Such actions will just allow all this to happen again.

Getting to that point where we are honest about how all this happened and how to repair it for good will require some new organizing as we decide just how to remove the influence of greed and malice from our governmental charter, as well as making sure that such emotions can never influence our governmental processes (thus creating inequity and societal regression), and thru that our society, ever again. But we need to face it.

It is time to get our hands dirty.