And what effect would that have on the rest of us, who think the vaccine is a good idea?Indeed https://t.co/9ubiowd44x
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) September 14, 2021
Also: how many Trump supporters from 1/6 are now ready to sacrifice their liberty for whatever they think the greater good is? The entire idea of civil disobedience as espoused by Dr. King was to willingly sacrifice your liberty in order to force a confrontation not between the individual and the state (that's why King's critics called his actions "criminal behavior"), but between society and the laws it agreed to. To force a moral awareness, in other words.
King didn't have men in horned hats covered with body paint parading through public buildings with a sense of entitlement. His followers walked city streets, were rolled down those streets by water cannons, were beaten by cops with clubs, were set upon by German Shepherds trained to attack. Those images were the ones that finally shocked the conscience of a nation. Those were the scenes that made people begin to consider the injustice of their laws, and to listen to King's words on what true justice was. Those were the scenes that gave "I have a dream!" its foundation, and its bite.
And united action? King's followers met and worked together and prepared for their acts of civil disobedience, for their acts of accepting the blows and the dogs and the water cannons. Trump's supporters came to the Capitol, got riled up, stormed the meager barricades set up by the Capitol Police, broke windows and doors....and then got bored and went home. Some just wandered the halls, some came prepared to take prisoners, at least one came prepared to set off bombs.
What unity did they show, once the emotion of invasion was over?
What sacrifice are Trump supporters making? Or are they, rather, demanding the rest of us make sacrifices for them?
There is a world of difference there.
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