Here’s what the Malvern, Pennsylvania train station looked like shortly before 9:00am this morning, as an estrogen-fueled army prepared to descend on Philadelphia and rage against the Trump presidency.
Reports are that the train was jam-packed by the Berwyn stop, meaning that they will be packed like sardines long before they near the city. And that’s just one of many regional rail lines. This protest is going to be huge.
I’ve seen the same reports from Washington DC, where the train stations were virtually empty yesterday for the inauguration.
SEPTA is also making no attempt to collect fares, providing their part to the Pussy Hat Revolution. #Solidarity
Very good.
In Denver it was impossible to get a ticket at the fare kiosks, and it was evident early one there would be no checking on the light rail trains. We were packed in so tightly it was literally impossible to move. No need to hang on to anything because no way could you fall over as the train lurched. We understood from transit folks that a number of extra trains had been put into service.
Huge, mellow upbeat crowd. All ages and kinds of people. Great day.
And every one of them is doing it wrong… 😉
Just ask quentin.
Reports are that it’s awesome downtown and people are feeling the solidarity and esprit de corps.
I have to say I remember nothing this large and this early when Reagan was elected.
It is an impressive display of activism done wrongly (joke).
I wonder if Steinham will mention this when she speaks:
“Ms. Steinem, 81, one of the most famous spokeswomen of the feminist movement, took the sentiment a step further on Friday in an interview with the talk show host Bill Maher. Explaining that women tend to become more active in politics as they become older, she suggested that younger women were backing Mr. Sanders just so they could meet young men.”
I think not.
Some theme music.
Will the news networks cover the protests today in DC and across the country? I hope so. I leave to tomorrow for a teaching gig in NC, so no protests for me, but my husband and his sister are heading downtown for a local group protest.
Every measure of protest against this new administration is worthwhile. Letters to Congress, marches, vocal protests are signs of our disappointment, disapproval, and despair. If we say nothing, trump thinks we approve.
Looking forward to the identical media reports of ‘tens of thousands’ rather than any attempt to do actual reporting on estimated crowd size.
Being fairly treated as far as I can see on CNN right now.
I think this is CNN’s way of informing Cheeto Mussolini that if he belittles one of their reporters in a press conference, there will be consequences.
Listening to MSNBC just now about how mean and non inclusive it was for organizers to not allow pro life women’s group to speak. So yeah, they’re covering it, just the way you would expect.
That bullshit doesn’t define their coverage. It’s in there, but it’s no biggee. To the degree that women have to fight out this issue, it’s a legitimate issue to fight about.
Let the forced birthers have their own rallies. I’m sure they will, and I’m sure they will be much smaller.
Trump doesn’t care what you say. His only goal and that of his crime family is to loot the country/world. So he keeps you busy with petty little shit things while they’re acting on the big stuff behind the scenes.
For example, hundreds of people were arrested yesterday during the D.C. protests but my guess … don’t have the data … the masked assholes who set a small bonfire of garbage cans SOMEHOW got away; i.e. they were Trump plants. A little more of that and he can have the military cracking heads in order to maintain order. The tyrant’s playbook.
Protests? Go ahead … network, do whatever. Call me when this turns into the anti-war/draft stuff of the late 60’s.
Watching CNN right now. They led with it, are still covering it with lots of live feeds of the massive crowds and interviews with big-name people involved with it. Very favorable coverage so far.
“turn out more (way more?) than he could even for his inauguration” has a lot of merit.
Women hold up half the sky, and most of the Eastern Corridor.
“…There is a certain boringness and restraint inherent in being the preservers and betterers of a republic that has endured for almost a quarter of a millennium.
And yet here we have the opportunity to be its guardians and protectors at a unique moment, perhaps a moment of especial peril. Who would not embrace that challenge? We know the curse: may you live in interesting times. We are living in interesting times. Most of us would not have chosen it. But we have it. I think many of us look back at critical momentous moments in our history, the Civil War, World War II, the Civil Rights Movement and other comparable passages in the country’s history and think, what would I have done? Where would I have been? Well, now’s your moment to find out. We are living in interesting times. We should embrace it rather than feel afraid or powerless. We have a fabric of 240 years of republican government behind us. We have the tools we need.
This isn’t naiveté. It’s not any willful looking away from anything that is before us. It’s being ready. It is embracing the challenge of the moment rather than cowering. It’s having some excitement and gratitude for living in a moment when a new and potent challenge to preserving who we are has fallen to us.”
I’m heading downtown here in Nashville, where we are also marching. Fuck trump.
The twitter feed is full of pictures:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/WomensMarch?src=tren&data_id=tweet%3A822813675757060096
The event in DC looks enormous.
Over 100,000 expected here in Seattle.
Last night at the University of Washington a protester was shot by a Trumpbsupporter. The victim is, as of this morning, still in critical condition. Today’s organizers are scrambling to provide additional security.
Please, everyone. Stay safe. Shit is getting real.
Theme music:
Throw on some X-ray Specs, “oh bondage up yours!”
¡Boston presente!
excellent.
Make was for nasty ducks….
How big is the demonstration in Boston?
Sis isn’t there yet. She’ll tell me. Media estimate is 100,000, but my sister will know the exact, real number.
She’s like that.
Whatever it is, though, it’ll be dwarfed by Sox and Celtics parades…
The crowd looks about the same as the ’84 crowd for Mondale in Boston – a big crowd.
CNN: Boston police report estimated 100,00-125,00 for rally/march.
I wait with ‘bated breath to see how the media will downplay this one as they have so many other marches and protests. It is huge!!! But then…so were other marches I was on in NYC over the past decades and they were basically given short shrift by the media.
Oh.
Wait a minute!!!
This one is for the same forces that the other ones were against!!!
Why do say that? Because being anti-Trump has been media-magically transformed into being pro-PermaGov.
A nifty trick, really.
The results?
They speak for themselves. Look at the headline lead on Google News (1/20/17 11AM ESDT) for all you need to know about that idea.
Riiiiight…
What’s the “other choice,” again ?
Yup.
What has been happening over the past 8 years.
Continued.
The old “two box” trick.
If both boxes are full of shit but you are only given two choices, you choose the box where the shit smells less bad.
Oh.
Nevermind.
Yore freind,
Emily Litella
Imagine the coverage if this kind of movement was opposing a newly minted preznit Hillary Clinton and her coterie of warmongers and money hustlers.
The silence of the lambikins.
Bet on it.
Bet on that as well.
AG
WATB
We Are The Best, I assume.
How about:
What If The Best Isn’t Good Enough?
What then?
Serious musicians have an answer.
Practice.
Change what you are doing and/or learn how to do what you are doing better.
AG
Um, actually it’s “Whiny-ass Titty Baby”…
He knows.
I actually looked it up on Google.
Y’see…I don’t speak Twitterese.
That’s what came up.
I looked further now. You are quite right.
Sorry.
My “two boxes” idea still stands, though.
Take a deep breath and it’s 1992 all over again.
Only a “bad guy”…read “Not With The PermaGov Program”…won.
“UH oh!!!” say the PermaGovs and Governesses. “Where’s that Judith Miller character when we really need her!!!???”
Demonstrate on…you’ll either change the two boxes one for another or you won’t.
The shit smell will remain one way or another.
Y’gotta give them TomKats and PussyProtestors another alternative besides PermaHouse Right and PermaHouse Left before they learn to shit in the woods where they belong.
Bet on it.
So far?
No acceptable alternative.
Result?
Yup.
AG
I recently returned from one of my real gigs…proselytizing for the understanding of what the darkish populations of North and South/Central/Caribbean America have contributed to the musical (and thus overall) culture of the world…to find myself under attack for not getting with the PermaGov program of “Trump?-Never!!!”/”Neoliberalism? That’s the ticket!!!” bullshit that is now being trumpeted by the media regarding the Pussy-Whatever marches that have happened today.
Here’s what I saw on the 1 train…up Broadway from New York City’s Upper West Side towards da Bronx…at about 5PM.
A few bedraggled PussyHat wearers sitting staring at their cellphones amidst a mostly black/latino population who quite frankly could not have given less of a damn what alla these middle class, 20-ish to 30-ish to 40-ish white women in their PussyHats (and their occasional male companions) think that they are doing with their weekender “protest.”
The protestors will all be going back to their middle class lives in academia/techworld on Monday, while the working class darkish people will wake up to the same economic problems that have dogged most of their families for several generations.
Did Clinton/Obama solve these problems?
No. They did not.
Do they expect that group of people to solve those problems in the future, should they regain power in DC?
No. They do not. Not anymore they don’t. Their mamas didn’t raise no fools. It’s been business as usual from the neolibs since Clinton I came to power. Talk the good talk whilst jerking off in the Oval Orfice and public/privating their way to fame and fortune.
I’m wid dem.
You?
AG
You mean, am I wid you, in doing even less than protesting?
No.
Man, I enjoy your posts, but you would’ve refused to fight the Nazis on the ground that the US government was violently racist and brutally imperial. Which was all very true, of course, so there’s the comfort of being right all the time.
Arthur, Today is the day to party like it’s still November 7, 2016. Tomorrow will be the day to mourn like it’s again November 8. The sentiments and concern expressed by these marches are ones I share. But the demonstrators are setting themselves up for another epic fail in November 2018 unless they broaden their perspectives and commitment to include social and financial matters across the spectrum. The one woman who embodied the hope of so many men and women (not mine) n in the last election failed to do that, she basically refused to talk about he money. And here we are. Doubling down on her legacy will not lead to a more satisfactory result.
she basically refused to talk about [he] money.
This is an ignorant lie.
No.
It is a well-informed truth.
AG
Now go get your fucking shine box.
Quentin, there are a ton of issues and subjects which people are talking about and carrying homemade signs about at these worldwide rallies today. Participating in one of these rallies might have opened your eyes. In fact, we’re getting the standard pushback from people who are trolling the protesters, saying today’s protests lack a central message.
You want the overriding message to be about the money. You and others can start organizing next month’s massive worldwide rallies. I’ll go to yours too, and so will many to most of us, including the women who led today’s march. Your desire to lecture these women about what the dominant theme should be at their own rally is a bit patriarchal.
And your assumption that talking about the money would have won Hillary the election fails to account for the clearly established fact that Trump supporters aren’t animated by the money men. If they were, they wouldn’t have voted for a money man, and they wouldn’t be ravenously supporting him now even after he established that his Cabinet is co-sponsored by Goldman Sachs.
You want it to be simple. It’s not simple.
But there was a central message:
“You’re Not Good Enough, You’re Not Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Don’t Like You.”
It’s not “Expropriate the Expropriators”, but it’s catchy, has a beat, and you can dance to it.
Look at this photo of the London march today
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4142956/Thousands-women-march-London-against-Donald-Trump.ht
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Today’s rallies are quite remarkable. There is no doubt about that. And it includes many messages, especially fuck you Donald Trump.
But I don’t believe Clinton spoke enough to the working people. I hope there will be many more talking about the economics—- wages, inequality, health care, SSMM, etc. I am still not understanding how she lost those four Midwest states, not by much but enough to lose.
Start or join the organizing of a rally in your area to talk about the economics. We’ll be there. If you want to maintain the ability to keep a cohesive movement together in your area, it would be highly advisable to not slag Clinton and her campaign at the rally. You’ll make many of your supporters walk if you do so. Clinton supporters who choose to come out to your rally are with you on the issue; keep them working with you and build your organizing power by respecting them.
You are not saying that Hillary is,out of bounds to criticize are you? I do have criticsm of her. I voted for her this time but never again. I doubt I am going to organize a march anywhere. I might come out to one as I did with my three sons to Jon Stewart’s rally and in NYC Occupy. I suppose that just disqualifies me from saying anything, eh? Sorry but unless the dems can come to grips with the needs of the people, this could happen all over again. This march was a resounding success. It needs to continue. And as long as you are looking for leaders, sign yourself up.
I organize lobby visits, phone banks, and other campaign activities all the time; it’s my work. I’ve also helped support large marches and rallies, as I did today. There were Bernie and Hillary and Stein and Socialist and ANSWER signs and supporters at today’s rally, but it was harmonious because everybody understood it would be counterproductive for one to demand acquiescence from the other. That included the major speakers at the rally; neither Sanders or Clinton or other liberals were criticized on the mic, because we were all on the same side. Big rallies are not the place to work out small differences or relitigate the 2016 Primary.
That would be true of your economics rally as well. The people turning out to it would be Bernie and Hillary supporters and others, all on the same side, if not exactly the same ideology or rhetoric or organizing capabilities.
That’s good. I don’t do that sort of thing. But my son and wife worked for Bernie and they were out in Chicago today along with a second son.. They like this sort of thing. I also have a niece who was in Las Cruces today. It is just not my thing and never was big for me. So good for you but not my thing.
Nobody is noticing, but the Sanders and Clinton forces are already at war in the elections for State Chairs.
In Florida Ellison cut a deal with Clinton guy for support, which pissed off the Bernie people. As a delegation most of the Florida votes will back Ellison though.
In Iowa yesterday the Party actually selected someone not tied to either camp out of some thought that we can’t be refighting the primaries over and over again.
But Robert Reich is correct when he writes this morning (And I am not his fan):
Make no mistake – a war within the party is coming.
David Brock has 40 million in donations. The DNC hired the Clinton campaign rapid response director to handle rapid response for the DNC.
This is going to be a fight between money and activists. To some degree every party fight I have been involved with is: this time though, I think the activists have the momentum.
It’s really quite simple, WI elected and re-elected Scot Walker, MI elected and re-elected Rick Snyder, OH elected and re-elected John Kasich. Look what those governors have done, and still got re-elected. That’s what the people in those states want, so that’s what we all got.
I know the history. The dems seem incapable of of holding local or congressional offices. Some new leadership is needed.
Get involved with your County Party Central Committee or other Party leadership body. Learn to organize effectively in order to grow the number of supporters in your local Party. Encourage other like-minded people to do so in their regions.
Not my thing. But I did encourage one guy I know to run for congress in the primary. He lost to a shit head. And I attended several planning meetings in 08 but there was too much in fighting for me.
OK. So you have no power, I guess. You can change your mind about that any time you want. In the wake of Trump’s election, lots of people have done so.
Disagreements are part and parcel of being in the arena. If you’re unwilling to bear frustrations and uncomfortable moments, things are more likely to continue in the disappointing ways they are in your area. If you need new leadership, organizing for new leadership is the way to make it happen. It means persuading people and sticking with it.
It’s up to you, moment by moment. Politics is not a spectator sport, or a consumer item.
You are certainly a cheerleader about this. I see Michael Moore is calling for replacing the old guard too. So when u get your rally planned tell us where it is.
Oh, no doubt.
Remember your ancient history when Billy Boy won his Prez election with the chant “It’s the economy, stupid.” ? And what did you get … NAFTA. It’s always been jobs, the economy, the rise of the ultra-rich, etc. Most Fed Dems only care about getting re-elected; they want you to go away and SHUT UP ! Have a nice day.
In this one AG, I think you’ve been captured by TINA again. Trump is in fact the today’s right wing of the Permagov. The people on the stage in the various marches were only in part the seeking-to-coopt part of the left wing of the Permagov. There was an anti-establishment and traditional protest wing present on that stage as well. But they aren’t the importance of the march because marches are symbolic events and not discursive events.
They are where political movements see themselves reflected in their size and diversity and have a gauge of their focus. They are also another chance to practice the logistics of giving organizational form of large formations of a mass movement. Moving 500,000, or a million or two million people into major cities is a non-trivial logistical problem. The cities with the better internal public transportation systems of course had the better performance in turnout.
The geographical spread yesterday was significant as well. It mirrored the geographical pattern of Occupy Wall Street’s peak demonstrations on October 15, 2011 — the day that police chiefs started plotting to take it down and the date first mentioned in all the subsequent indictments. But this time the crowds were slightly more mainstream and much larger. But a lot of Occupy Wall Street people were tweeting from within the rallies, having organized networks of local people in the interim. They and #blacklivesmatter and LBGTQ activists who were previously in the streets were in the streets again with larger numbers and #pussyhat became a meme, one chosen specifically to highlight the focus issue of sexual assault and its defense by the Gropenfuehrer-in-chief and his Alt-Right Twitter troll army. There were too many signs with theme to ignore that as a focus. The equal protection of the law issue in that also bled into issues about abortion and other areas of discrimination against women that is being excused by too many liberal and left men and by most of the right wing.
The consequences will not be of the march but of the networks and common understandings established during the march. We haven’t had that sort of effective follow-up since the end of the Vietnam marches. It is far from a slam-dunk after this one. Cynicism, nitpicking and factionalism will be the biggest dangers to its effectiveness. Not to mention outright iron-fisted suppression. I doubt if the folks at those marches have yet decided what they will do in the case of that last consequence. I would discount incompetence and disorganization stories from the opponents of the Trump juggernaut and watch for subtle signs that he has discovered the way to make the hammer come down on his opposition once is has been clearly identified. He might be an incompetent Constitutional presider, but he can be and damn efficient autocrat, given the sycophants to carry out his orders. The transition team was a combination of looking for those sycophants and looking for the staff to co-opt his direction to current GOP agendas. That can become very dangerous very quickly. Do not underestimate that in the general anger of the fecklessness of the Democratic establishment.
hey ladies:
About to go to a rally here in California. I just heard Sally Quinn given a mic to blather on the telly, “I think that this rally is about inclusiveness. And so it seems to me ironic that they would then turn around and exclude this huge group of women who are on their side on every issue, but actually believe that abortion is taking of a human life.”
First of all, Sally, wishing to change laws in order to force women into your family planning restrictions is the definition of not being “on their side on every issue.”
Second of all, Sally, women who believe in forced birth are almost never willing to fight for equal rights for women in other arenas. I think you’re just lying there.
Lastly, Sally, you’re a bad person who should feel bad:
“…The remark chimes with something I’ve been told by the redoubtable Sally Quinn, who–in part because she’s a frequent contributor to the Washington Post, in part because she’s the wife of the Post’s legendary editor Ben Bradlee–must herself count as a figure in the so-called Washington establishment. “There’s this old joke about the farmer whose crops fail,” she says. “One year, he’s wiped out by a blizzard, and the next year there’s a rainstorm, and the next year there’s a drought, and so on every year. Finally, he’s completely bankrupt–he’s lost everything. He says, `Why, Lord? Why, why me?’ And the Lord says, `I don’t know. There’s just something about you that pisses me off.’ ” She pauses, then says, “That’s the problem–there’ s just something about (Hillary) that pisses people off. This is the reaction that she elicits from people…”
Autonomy is apparently carried on the Y chromosome…
someone, somewhere actually pays any attention to her, even solicits quotes from her?
What’s wrong with this picture?
My crew is in Chicago which originally projected 22,000. Turns out it is 150,000 and counting – so many the police cancelled the march so they are just holding the rally.
Maybe the 50 deg. and sunny instead of colder & rainy made a difference; maybe it was an just an underestimation of the fear and rage simmering – like the Trump voters.
I’m thinking congressional town halls are going to get lively again.
local news at the end of it was saying 250,000 in Chicago but I think 150,000 is pretty impressive, I’m in the Chicago FB group and they were only expecting 50,000 yesterday
Women’s March on Washington Beats Expectations: Half a Million Descend on Mall
Official Seattle estimate 130,000.
My favorite sign so far, from a women near the White House at the DC march: “I can see Russia from here.”
Today will be generational in its impact. New activism is inspired, lifetime commitments are born. People network, organize, or go back home and do the same.
How best to mobilize this newfound energy, in the face of near-complete control of the federal government by people who are moral monsters, is the most central immediate question. Hopefully today will convince some of the sclerotic hacks that dominate the Democratic Party’s upper levels that they need to grow spines in a hurry. The passion on display today could not have been inspired by Hillary Clinton in ten lifetimes; Democratic leaders knew this perfectly well, didn’t care, and now we’re all paying the price for their arrogance.
If Tea Psrty types can purge their party’s leaders for inadequately fearing dark-skinned people, surely we can demand some accountability from Democrats in the name of preserving life on the planet Earth. Monday’s confirmation hearings would be a fine time to start.
You’s folks keep treating the Dem uppers … other than a few outliers like Bernie and Lizzy Warren … like they give a fuck about anybody but themselves. That ship sailed long ago. The Fed Dems huddle with the Repubs … they just don’t advertise it. The Fed Govt. is now the Official Enemy of The People ! Deal !
I don’t know who this guy is, but I know that what he says is what is giving a lot of people the heebie-jeebies.
Well #1 has just about reached its apotheosis when the President’s Press Secretary’s first briefing consists of a lie about a provable fact. Ana Marie Cox has latched on to the political dynamic in this that no amount of fact-checking can dispel. This is the power that excludes all other sources of news and gives the authoritarian total control of the narrative. We are not there yet, but not for lack of the GOP and Donald Trump trying. Today’s rallies in approaching 300 cities are challenging that power with large numbers and testing the ability of local media to still report the truth.
Item #2 has to do with suppressing contrary organizations. That will come with the stripping from budgets of the many citizen review and citizen participation requirements for recipients of federal funding. These are often the points over which local civil society non-profits, voluntary organizations, and local organizations (often ad hoc issue protests) can exert local leverage over the spending of federal funds. It also has to do with what is seen as legitimate petitioning of the federal government and what is seen as illegitimate petitioning of the federal government.
Item #3 happened for sure the moment Donald Trump took the oath of office. At that moment he started violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution and the laws implementing it. But the check (the Congress) on that ethical lapse is now gone–a check against authoritarian governance. The President can now personally shake down people. Not “have the appearance of shaking down people”, but blatantly do it.
The show of force of the “Pussyhat Revolution”(tm) and the boycott of the Inauguration had as much to do about throwing the Trump juggernaut off stride as did the failure of the GOP to allow Clinton a then-normal “honeymoon” period or Trump doubling down on the birther story to try to throw Obama off stride. Or Mitch McConnell’s GOP boycott of legislation for almost the entire period Obama was in office.
The second theme I saw in the Women’s March today was most tersely expressed in “My body. My rules.” It goes to the heart of the pro-choice side of the abortion issue and also the the privileging of men to commit sexual assault and brag about it as “locker room talk”. Having devolved from at state Gropenfuhrer to a Gropenfuhrer-in-Chief and having all sorts of men argue their privilege, not the least being the shrill voices of the so-called Alt-Right, many women saw today as a way to assert their political power over the personal and their own persons. Look at the signs. That is where most of the self-made signs trended.
This potentially is the March on Washington for the feminist movement if the people who built this coalition give political form to a geographically broader and deeper movement. Sally Quinn is trolling to prevent that from happening because it has certain consequences for the GOP; she is aiming at a Democratic Party establishment that exists only as a rump group in Washington and a few state capitals.
The Trump administration was sucker-punched on Inaugural Day by one of those situational coalitions that you see in many card games, you saw between Russia and the US in Syria in suppressing Daesh/ISIS/ISIL. The situation causes independent actions to function collaboratively despite the plans of the parties and even with resistance to the implicit coalition. The black bloc action that swept through a part of DC while more well-behaved protests dogged the inaugural party-goers had the effect of setting up a standard for what would be considered a successful Women’s March.
The significant thing to note about the black bloc action is that it involved around 500 people, it moved rapidly, and it was media catnip that the action used with more skill than usual. They rampaged the usual newspaper racks and trash cans. They busted glass; ATMs were a favorite, and a local McDonalds got it. And they punched Nazi-enthusiast Richard Spencer, an advocate of punches and rough stuff, in the face, sending him retiring to nurse his dignity. No doubt the police and the DHS will take note of the size of this action. The participant paid heavily–217 of them in jail, enough on felony charges.
The Women’s March’s near zero arrests were the result of a different strategy and it succeeded. But the combined effect was the first “diversity of tactics” action on the part of black bloc activists that showed some restraint and discipline.
Nixon and W. Bush believed power could shape reality, too.
That didn’t work out too well for them.
It’ll be up to us, ultimately. Not the Parties, not the politicians, not the media, not foreign and domestic ratfucking. Us.
Given the state of the media, social media, and the strategies for national, state and local ratfucking, a detached impersonal marketing approach to political communications is pretty much blocked by the overwhelming application of money to buying the media and astroturfing the grassroots.
We must find a non-astroturfing (not top-down like most progressive NGOs approach things) means of delivering information about a rapidly changing reality and political reality to a wide geographic network of a grassroots movement. The fact that this is not a trivial problem should not allow it to be dismissed for lack of easy answers, quick comments, and Beltway and expert approval. It is a vital challenge that must be met if democratic Constitutional government is to survive the Trump era.
We must not look back to the disaster that has been the 2010, 2014, and 2016 elections that called to judgment the corruption of the Democratic Party and the K-Street, media, and long-term corruption of the GOP. Looking back will turn us into a pillar of salt, dry and preserved in stone as a monument of absolute practical conservatism.
Whether it was totally expressed effectively in the results of this election — indeed it was played and conned — the mood of the public is against being played and conned by politicians even as they find it hard to escape the misinformation environment that make that fraud possible. Too many people are at the point of wanting to tear down the Constitutional structure of the American government and starting over while clinging tight to the empty symbols of American identity than is wise in an environment of disorienting misinformation and disinformation.
The current public is as wise as lambs and are being led by politicians who are as innocent as serpents. That is not the Biblical tactic of effective action in faithful service. Pointing out the hypocrisy is not sufficient; people need a practical demonstration of the alternative.
pertinent today to take a look at the video of T and Melania, he’s practically assaulting her on the dance floor. suggests he has no concept of difference between being prez and his previous life. [now cannot find video, was on newsweek site]
The activist in me really was dying to ask if there were voter registration tables. Tables taking names for volunteers to join precinct organizations.
The good thing was the Marchers were focused on political change, not in the creation of the magical “movement” which makes elections irrelevant (See Occupy Wall Street).
Heard in California that you couldn’t walk two feet without seeing a clipboard, and I know the Democratic Socialists were signing people up all over.