raise your hand if you support protesting kavenaugh and his SC buddies everywhere they go

[summer_in_TX]

151. I'm pretty limited, my friend.

And certainly I am mistaken at times.

But I've lived awhile, tried some things, and saw social movements that worked and others that went nowhere. This one's important to us all and I want it to be very successful, very rapidly.

My own attitudes were highly colored by Dr. King and other civil rights leaders' approach that they based on the writings of Ghandi. The Mahatma talked of "soul force," satyagraha.

The Civil Rights Movement used nonviolence and the response of the Lester Maddux's, Bull Connor's, and George Wallace's was unbelievably brutal. Similar to the English colonialists' response to Ghandi's nonviolent movement in India. Ghandi didn't think satyagraha would work on Hitler, but the Brits were a different matter. They had ideas of what decency was, and seeing the unjustifiable violence used by their troops against people seeking their political freedom caused them to stop supporting colonialism in India. (I've just read and watched movies about that movement.)

The morality of nonviolent actions and immorality of the state-directed violence against people changed hearts and minds. It worked powerfully in my own conscience, awaking me to my privilege but also the damage to my own soul to be

I don't think the violence, intimidation, or revenge work well. It sure didn't work well for the segregationists trying to hang on to the Jim Crow South in the face of soul force.