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David Brooks, tactless and smug, was essentially right in observing that however well attended and cathartic, marches are politically ineffective for accomplishing real change

Among all the calls to resist

There are already being heard

Whispers of cooperation, as 

In Warren’s vote to approve

Ben Carson as Secretary of 

Housing and Urban Development.

Why such a giveaway?

Democrats are thinking it

Will be of no value to appear

Dead set against any and every

Proposal of Dump’s administration.

Better to give in here and be able

To lure some sympathetic

Republicans to break ranks on

Important issue like repeal of

The Affordable Care Act which

Would wreak immediate damage.

Carson will be only titular head

Of the agency and will have to

Depend on his lessers for guidance

In even the smallest matters. Right

Now who cares if he’s a complete

Mismatch for the job? Why isn’t he

Back in medicine—teaching if his

Gifted hands have grown shaky

With age? There in his field he will

Still be a beacon of accomplishment

And a role model to minority youth.

As impotent head of HUD he will 

Notably be the token in the Dump

Cabinet, a toady to a racist, an

Uncle Tom to the youngsters who

Might have once held him in high

Esteem. So what should be the 

Response of the opposition?

Complete and comprehensive

Resistance to any and all of Dump’s

Agenda? Or caving in to even the 

Worst wishes in the hope of a few

Crumbs brushed from the tables

Of the corporate controlled state?

Speaking as a former Warren donor

And supporter I have come to 

Question her judgment on this 

Tactic. I’ve seen it before when

In the negotiations for health

Care reform Obama very publicly

Trusted on Republican promises

Of reasonable cooperation only 

To encounter total defiance.

Even Romney turned on his own

Heritage Foundation model and

Called it wrong for the nation as

A whole. Whimper as you will

Liberal Democrats. Progressives

Now is not the time to close your

Eyes hoping divine intervention

Will spare you from the onslaught.

The collision will come and be worse

Than in your imagination. People will

Tire of resistance marches as they do 

Of charitable crises and appeals with

Compassion fatigue. There is only

One true way to derail the juggernaut:

Absolute and utter resistance to

Even their good wishes. Cry “These

Wishes are not good enough. Make 

Them better,” and hold out for 

What the people really want. In 

Other words follow their example 

From the last eight years. Win on

Redistricting and let your primaries

Bring on true progressives pledged

To the electorate not to the donors.

Learn from your mistakes.

c. 2016, J.S.Manista