Most animals, whenever possible, try to avoid human beings. It is as if they can sense the danger that comes with our intrusion into their lives. Birds will fly away. Critters will scamper, wolves and other predators will use the landscape structures and vegetations to camouflage and conceal themselves. However, all will fight back when they feel trapped by us. Even the gentle deer will lash-out when it becomes cornered or surrounded by those of us attempting to capture, control or harm it. Average human beings behave in a similar fashion. Most of us scamper away, fly away, conceal and camouflage ourselves from the intrusive dangers and conflicts brought into our lives by others, and we continue to do so ― until we feel cornered and trapped with our backs against the wall. Then we begin to fight back.
Grass-root movements are always reactive, with the common dominator among its participants being the common affect of laws, policies, and practices in their lives. In most cases these movements represent the last desperate act of the partakers, who feel trapped and cornered with no way out, other than “to fighting back.”
Hubristic, political experts often criticize these movements for their lack of central leadership and common goals. This underscores the fact that these experts miss the main point: Grass root movements are acts of desperation aimed at improving fairness, equality, and social conditions. They are never motivated by greed or the desire to further subjugating the masses for the purpose of accumulating greater wealth. Moreover, they are fundamentally aligned ( in chapter and verse) with the United States Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and most religious teachings ―especially the Christian teaching of God in the Christian Holy Bible. And what’s more, these movement gain momentum because the principles upon which they are based resonate in the honest, truthful, God-fearing sectors in most of our souls.
By
James A. Porter
