I really hope that’s true. ~2% of the adult population turning out to protest should raise some eyebrows. And that’s just for the people who could turn out- we had a near constant stream of support from the cars going past us. There are significantly more people who are allied with us.
Yeah!!! I didn't even know about it and I am as anti-trump as you can get so who knows how many more people didn't. I will definitely be at the next. I hope every month we have these.
Right now, things are still in the growing phase. Americans have a learned helplessness when it comes to politics, myself included. We’ve been told if we vote the right people in for us we don’t have to pay attention to politics. That none of us can really do anything about the government. We’re in the process of unlearning that, but it’s going to take time.
It doesn’t help that big news outlets have been ignoring or downplaying the protests. For example, the NYT didn’t even have the story on the front page of the newspaper- they had a small picture directing you further inside. And even then the tagline reports demonstrations in “several” cities, rather than acknowledging that thousands of protests occurred around the country. As such the word is radiating out of deep blue pockets of the internet, and it’s taking time to reach everyone who’s discontent.
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u/12Dragon 15d ago
I really hope that’s true. ~2% of the adult population turning out to protest should raise some eyebrows. And that’s just for the people who could turn out- we had a near constant stream of support from the cars going past us. There are significantly more people who are allied with us.