"A salutary lesson to those who would dismiss the power of citizen activism."
Reader Michael G. forwards this link entitled "What I Got Wrong" (in 2013) with the comment:
Charles C. W. Cooke has a 2013 retrospective article "What I Got Wrong". Most of what he got wrong he is glad he got wrong, like the pessimist who is always
pleasantly surprised. You may especially like his paragraph on the Colorado recalls:
"Staying with guns, here I feel obliged here to make a confession: I honestly couldn’t imagine the Colorado recalls succeeding. I never wrote anything to that effect, referring to cover the major players without comment, but the effort privately struck me as being unlikely to succeed. Advocates were outspent and outgunned, and, having seen what as much as anything else was a rejection of the recall process in Wisconsin in 2012, I anticipated that Coloradans would refuse to indulge their initiatives too. I got it wrong. Not only did voters in conservative-leaning Colorado Springs remove their senator — also the president of the state senate — but in deeply Democratic Pueblo an apolitical 29-year-old plumber orchestrated a successful grassroots campaign that will go down in history. Toward the end of the year, in a third recall that I openly argued was a “bridge too far,” Senator Evie Hudak elected to resign rather than take her chances at the ballot box. I was wrong — three times. I failed to see coming a great story about people standing up for their most basic rights. This was a salutary lesson to those who would dismiss the power of citizen activism."
6 comments:
Let this be a lesson to everyone.
And that lesson is that the undercover Marxists calling themselves "democrats" want to control the country and remake it in their image. That they are following a plan and that what they have done will take more than wishing and moaning to remove.
PS: NOT 'out gunned' just chose to use the political voting method (ballot box) rather than the put them bleeding in the gutter method (cartridge box).
Both methods were (and still are)fully available.
to paraphrase: 'What ever happens we have the magazines. They have not.'
They rely upon others who work for wages ... and want to go home safe each evening.
For now, voting is doing the job.
III
Recently in Monument,Colorado{10 miles north of Colorado Springs} one fine fellow,got his undies in a bundle. He organized citizens and defeated a mill levy tax increase. "But what about the children?" Mine are grown and gone! Local control will make the Sons of bitches insane. Take control of evrey town council,school board,refuse district,conservation commission. Go after all of it. Take control!!!
As a native Coloradoan, I am also pleasantly surprised at the outcome. The folks I spoke to volunteering to recall Hudak were smart and determined, stirred up in a way I've never seen before.
I'm proud that Colorado also passed TABOR, the initiative forcing a public vote for new taxes. It's been under heavy assault since its passage.
It was in the denver suburbs, Westminster, where the Libertarian party originated and as a little kid in the 70s I remember how strong the independent spirit was. It's great to know some of that spirit survives despite the massive influx of people moving to the state over the years.
Never give up, never surrender. We have moral right and the Constitution on our side. That's all we need to win.
Thanks for posting that.
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