"Taking it to the Streets...Peacefully"

Many Americans watched in awe over the last two-weeks as the Egyptian people took to the streets to peacefully protest the removal of a dictator who starved and murdered his citizenry, while he pillaged an estimated $70,000,000,000 from the country he claimed to love.

I'm tired of hearing members of the Tea/Republican Party always chanting "revolution" in America. They're always threatening to take their muskets and shoot other Americans because they say President Obama raised their taxes--which are false, and that "Obamacare" will kill their grandparents--which it won't. Additionally, the Tea/Republican Party members like to use references about "taking back America," but where do they want to take it?

I like to issue a challenge to these people:

If we, the citizens, leave our muskets at home and protest the homeless crisis in the nation which includes in some reports of 14%, 20% and 25% respectively of the population that has served in the U.S. military--would you be ready to take it to the streets peacefully?

Are you ready to peacefully protest the reduction of Pell Grant opportunities for deserving and under-privileged college students and the diminishing social services desperately needed in cash strapped American cities?

If we peacefully assembled in large numbers as concerned citizens because we want solutions, not excuses from parents, school, and elected officials about our decaying public school system that is no longer even graduating functioning illiterates--are you ready to take it peacefully to the streets?

If we, the people, marched on Capitol Hill as a nation of one, not based upon ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious or political affiliation, but in fact, our concerns about the widening gap between the wealthy, the middle class, and the working poor, the increase in racial inequality, and the dissipation of a woman's fundamental rights that is destroying the Republic--would you be ready to take it peacefully to the streets?

If you're truly ready to start a "Real Revolution," let it be a revolution about aiding all Americans and restoring the Republic back to its greatness. Just a reminder, my dissatisfied brethren of the Tea/Republican Party--a nation divided will cease to exist.



"Progressives will bring balance to the Republic."
Anthony P. Johnson