THOSE WHO CAN, PROTEST

 A lot of humans have issue with self-fulfilling prophecies.  They will say stuff like, "Why bother protesting?  What little I can do will make no difference." They then proceed to do nothing and lo and behold, it makes no difference.  Would it have been the same if they had actually done something??  I assure you, we'll never know.

What we can and do know, is that those who oppose the criminal, irrational and self-enriching actions of Felon47 are a very large group.  The NO KINGS protests of 10/18/25 proved that there is a large number of humans - citizens of the USA as well as many other nations - who are in strong and public disagreement with the actions and attitudes of him and his supporters.

If your reason for not protesting or for not doing what you can to support the protesters was that there were too few in opposition to make a difference, 10/18 disappeared that reason.  7 million or more of your closest friends, your family members, your neighbors all showed up in public at their own expense to display their dissatisfaction with this criminal cabal.

Now, I happen to know from conversations I have been a part of and things I have observed that a slew of those in opposition to the USA's worst mistake ever, for some very good reasons did not show up to the protests.  Some appeared to be Hispanic and though they were legal, citizens even, they knew they could be wrongfully arrested and abused with zero repercussions for the LEOs.  Some had more mundane reasons.  They have children or elderly or disabled individuals that depend on them and cannot be left alone.  Regardless of reason, the 7 million number being tossed around is at best, a small percentage of those actually in opposition to the orange clown.

Now though, now we have some idea of the scope of the resistance.  Because we attended this protest, we might have inspired enough hope to encourage more of our neighbors to attend the next one, to take a more active role in their opposition.  If all the protest accomplished was to let the back-benchers know they were not alone in their opposition, it would have been worth doing.  Hopefully, it also twisted into knots the intestines of those hangers-on who had it made known to them that Trump and trumpism will not be around to protect them forever.