Protest & Organize & Vote

Watching fanged zealots yell at school boards (and clap gleefully for their fellow yellers) I keep returning to something REV said in a podcast.  I'm going to make a hash of it but it was something like - Getting protest energy and capitalizing on it by organizing and recruiting candidates and keeping everyone together to vote is the program.    I think of that political activism flywheel when I see those Karens lacerating their school boards because that program seems to be baked into the GOP DNA right now.   Meanwhile party Democrats always seem to be wary of gathering any political energy.

DL Open Thread Tuesday August 24th 2021

I was in a store yesterday and some asshole was yammering on about the "Nuremberg Code"  and how it meant that he didn't  need to get vaccinated because the vaccine is experimental.  The Nuremberg Code seems to be everywhere these days as MAGA shitheads have embraced it as the ultimate legal defense for their assholery. Like this guy, for example:   
An Alabama man who called himself the 'vaccine police' told pharmacists at a Missouri Walmart that they will be 'executed' if they continued giving COVID-19 shots...