John Perry Barlow has a good idea for something to do during the RNC<\/p>\n
\nDancing in the Streets:Revolution with a Smile<\/a><\/h3>\n
I spent most of my political life as a Republican. While that’s a little hard to imagine now, I have sufficient experience to know that the commonly held view that Republicans either can’t dance or won’t dance is inaccurate. When I was a Republican, I was as dedicated to dancing as I am now and there were others like me, as I recall.<\/p>\n
Still, part of what drove me from the party – aside from a categorical repudiation by the current administration of most Republican principles – is a dour dancelessness that crept into Republican “culture.” It seems increasingly ironic to call the GOP a party at all…<\/p>\n
…I want to dance in the streets.<\/p>\n
I don’t want to confront the Republicans. I want to discombobulate them. I don’t want to argue with them, which would only convince them further, I want to throw them off their game. I don’t want to be aggressive in my discontent. God knows there’s been plenty of that on all sides. I want to be genial. But disconcerting.<\/p>\n
So, to that end, I propose the following: I want to organize a cadre of 20 to 50 of us. I want to dress us in suits and other plain pedestrian attire and salt us among the sidewalk multitudes in Republican-rich zones. At a predetermined moment, one of us will produce a boom-box and crank it up with something danceable. Suddenly, about a third of the people on the sidewalk, miscellaneously distributed in the general throng, will start dancing like crazy and continue to do so for for about a minute. Then we will stop, melt back into the pedestrian flow, and go to another location to erupt there. [BarlowFriendz<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I can just see the headlines…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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