Today's protest was better attended than the previous two were, but not as well organized as Valentine's Day protest.
The lack of organization meant that there was a vacuum into which the "People's Workers Party" stepped, since they had a megaphone. They have some decent seeming things to say about not sliding into fascism, but they kind of want a revolution. My housemate engaged one of them in conversation, and asked how they voted, and they said they didn't vote because that would be supporting a non-communist regime. I was like "you are the problem". How many people didn't vote? A lot! If you look at the numbers, Trump got about the same number that he got last time, and Harris got several million fewer than Biden got. So it's all about the people who stayed home, or didn't vote on principle. With the electoral college, it doesn't matter what you do in this blue state, but I think that popular vote matters, and so even in a blue state you should not do stupid things on principle.
We did march around a bunch. We didn't fit at the original meeting location, so we ended up being herded around in a big circle in Boston Common, and then we went off to Government Center again, where we marched around in some pedestrian-only touristy areas, Quincy Market and Faneuil Hall. There were a lot of tourists to see us, so I thought that was worth doing.
2.5 hours is too many for a protest, especially when you don't have a bunch of speakers lined up for the rally part. So we wandered back to the train station where it was warmer and hung out and had our lunches and read our books until the train came.
#50501movement
The lack of organization meant that there was a vacuum into which the "People's Workers Party" stepped, since they had a megaphone. They have some decent seeming things to say about not sliding into fascism, but they kind of want a revolution. My housemate engaged one of them in conversation, and asked how they voted, and they said they didn't vote because that would be supporting a non-communist regime. I was like "you are the problem". How many people didn't vote? A lot! If you look at the numbers, Trump got about the same number that he got last time, and Harris got several million fewer than Biden got. So it's all about the people who stayed home, or didn't vote on principle. With the electoral college, it doesn't matter what you do in this blue state, but I think that popular vote matters, and so even in a blue state you should not do stupid things on principle.
We did march around a bunch. We didn't fit at the original meeting location, so we ended up being herded around in a big circle in Boston Common, and then we went off to Government Center again, where we marched around in some pedestrian-only touristy areas, Quincy Market and Faneuil Hall. There were a lot of tourists to see us, so I thought that was worth doing.
2.5 hours is too many for a protest, especially when you don't have a bunch of speakers lined up for the rally part. So we wandered back to the train station where it was warmer and hung out and had our lunches and read our books until the train came.
#50501movement
