Guns won’t help you. Government has the biggest guns, and it will win every armed confrontation. Besides, leftists as a whole are insufficiently skilled in firearm safety and handling. But civil disobedience and peaceful protest is definitely the way. And although there is nothing wrong with a jolly evening of anarchists protesting, followed by a round of beers in the jazz cafe, there are two problems. One, you’ve got to think of this as a sort of ad campaign. It is a waste of time and money to place sporadic ads here and there. It is necessary that you saturate the media with your ads until such time as everyone has seen them and knows who you are. Therefore, the effort, while noble-hearted is strategically pitiful. Look once again at your 1968 ancestors. Protests positively dominated the news media because they happened practically every day, in many places all over the country.
Second, it is not sufficient to target merely the Republicans. They are the enemy in uniform, but there is another enemy who moves incognito and dresses in disguise. They are your own leaders. They are your enemy because they have failed you. They have sat on their laurels and basked in their complacency. You should have protested the Democratic convention with equal if not greater fervor than the Republican one. You need to wake those people up, let them know that their days of colluding and conspiring with Republicans for shares of power are over. Demand of them answers, as I indicated above, to such questions as why they failed to exercise their powers of oversight when Bush was dragging us off to war. It is the exercise of your will, the perseverance of your determination, your unwavering adherence to principle that will impress friend and foe alike. Again, look to the Democrats before you from the 1960s. It was both Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon who bore the brunt of their ire.
Your party needs a shake-up. Kick out the socialists and find the lovers of freedom. Put them in power. Show your own party that the Republicans have no monopoly on patriotism. And show them that patriotism does not mean snooping on Americans or invading foreign states who have not harmed Americans. Until you make your own leaders eat blame, they will continue to make half-assed attempts at victory.