[Ask the Gulch] Is there a way we can stop the motor in California? Gas prices are going up in California, for no good reason, they're raising minimum wage to $15.00, they're controlling our health insurance/medical... Things need to change and quickly.
Posted by Protagonist_007 9 years, 8 months ago to Ask the Gulch
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You can petition and lobby the state legislature to make changes which is the use verbal force to attempt to solve without physical force, but I think on most issues we are federally and in the state of California beyond the chance of that being successful.
This leaves you and I with two options. Wait until natural consequences for actions lead to situations where people are forced by those consequences to listen and make changes, or increase the level of force you and others are willing to use to fix things.
I do not think there is sufficient outrage exist to make the required force occur, not yet. It will likely come. I leave with you two quotes from two Frenchmen from closely linked time periods.
"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."
- Alexis de Tocqueville
"When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensable of duties."
- Marquis De Lafayette
If you do not know who these two men are, do some research on them and where these quotes come from. Perhaps the answers and the research itself will provide greater clarity to your own answer to the question you pose.
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money,
that will herald the end of the republic.”
- Benjamin Franklin
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But,
under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program,
until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
- Norman Thomas (US Socialist Presidential Candidate)
I'm surprised how the media ignores this stuff.
I do sympathize with you, but my feeling is you are caught up in a rush of Lemmings on their way toward "history in the making". They will stop running when everything crashes.