I won't lie to you and say I haven't been expecting eventual trouble. I have. Maybe even a classic "revolution" some day. It's just that my vision of a revolution was of crowds in the streets with torches, tossing Molotov cocktails, driving corrupt leaders to hastily board their fast jets and make a dash for whoever will give them political asylum, just like in the movies. I expected it to abruptly just boil over, like a giant volcanic eruption.
Turns out we've likely been watching one for the past decade or so. Think about it: Republicans were traditionally the party of the upper class, while the Democrats represented the working class.
But by 2016 the establishment, exemplified by Wall Street, was hoping for a Democratic presidential victory, while the working class gave up on their former benefactors and elected a very un-Republican Donald Trump. WTH just happened?
Even the 74-year-old self-described socialist Bernie Sanders came within a whisker of pulling off a miraculous upset. The natives are restless!
A decade ago the right-wing Tea Party was born. Their unofficial motto seemed (to me at least) to be, "I've got mine, F__K YOU!"
With today's nationwide (worldwide?) Women's March, some say we're seeing the jelling of a new, left-wing Tea Party.
Judging by the size of today's crowds, I wonder how many sitting Congressmen / Senators will decide to retire in 2018 and "spend more time with their families"? *Start the car....START THE CAR!* The mood is getting pretty nasty, folks. Let's hope we can defuse it with signs and ballots vs bullets and fire bombs.
If we can, there might just be a silver lining to this growing mess. *fingers crossed*
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Far more marching against Trump than showed up for his inauguration. Of course Trump and his press secretary just outright lied by saying his inauguration had much bigger crowd than it actually did. The Fuhrer has no clothes.
ReplyDeleteOh, and this is only Day 2. Buckle up, buttercup.
DeleteWe'll see in two years, at the mid-terms.
ReplyDeleteOne question I have....where were all these people and this activism in the months, weeks before and on election day?
Apparently just simmering on the back burner.
DeleteOne of my friends lives in Oregon and flew to Washington, D.C. to participate. She said it was so crowded, "marching" was impossible.
ReplyDeleteMy fingers are crossed and I'm holding my breath. There are many people who voted for Trump because they believed he would be their champion but these folks are in for a big surprise.
ReplyDeleteI thought the same thing about the corporate support during the election. It certainly appears, however, that now that Trump is in power, he is goiong back to a more traditional role of letting the corporations run rampant over the rest of us.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, looking at the Cabinet, the corporations aren't even using politician middle men to this time out - they're ruling directly.
I do hope that the Left finds its heart, however. Or, if it already knew where its hear was, then the courage of its convictions.
Interesting how Trump's version of "draining the swamp" is to bring in even worse alligators.
ReplyDeleteThe crowds protesting Trump worldwide were overwhelming. And, what does Trump do? He sends out his press lackey to chastise the media for under reporting or allegedly distorting the number of people at his coronation. This just keeps getting better (or worse actually).
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