Well, the downtrodden stay downtrodden. The middle-class work like they always do, clambering ever upward on the escalator to the bottom floor... It's the vulnerable and targeted who we need to protect.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. " --Edmund Burke (maybe)
Protestant is a blanket term for the religions that broke away from the Catholic church after Martin Luther did his crazy tour of nailing shit to posts creating the Lutherans, and of course, the Anglicans broke away from the teachings of Cathol because their fat English king wanted divorces. Evangelicals are a whole other bag of crazy, but fall under the Protestant moniker. There are also the Bapists, the Methodists, the Stupidists and the Iamalwaysrightists.
When I was growing up, I went to Catholic school. It wasn't this fucking exclusionary. Hell, we had a gay nun who embraced science so fully and taught us what it meant to truly think for ourselves.
Thankfully, though, Catholic school made me realize that I'm a fucking atheist and the only thing that matters to me are how well people get treated and whether we are getting the basic necessities to live.
At the moment, I see this as the only real answer. Until there's proper organization and resistance, everything is lip service.
Mobilization is easy - the protests and marches get people together in solidarity. But organization takes effort: it takes talking to people, getting numbers/contact info, making plans and deciding what's next...
Blah, blah, blah. If you can tell me how to un-fuck this nation in a way that will actually wake people up, I'm all ears. But the way I see it, these things were insidiously marketed to the whole country slowly and incrementally, like frog in a slowly warming pot of water. Those of us who jumped out of the pot are watching in horror as the rest get boiled alive.
The problem is, frogs don't have opposable thumbs and we can't turn the gas off - so the pot keeps boiling.
Yeah. She's worried she might commit suicide by accident if she talks too much.
Daughter of the most famous Israeli spy ever.