This will be short and sweet. I am putting this proposal up on the off chance that some of you will read it or hear of it and think it’s a good idea. It’s very simple: make it about something very specific and make that something the demand that the Senate confirm Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.
Do think that this will persuade them. Of course not even if there is actually a slim chance that the few Republicans needed to confirm would see the wisdom of doing so. But failing that slim possibility, having a specific focus and goal would have the effect of reducing the chance that the public perceives you as just an unruly mob. But even more important is would focus public attention on the dereliction of the Senate Republicans when they refused to do their Constitutional duty for months after he was nominated. It would force them into public accountancy. And that attention would add legitimacy to any effort Senate Democrats make to force a modicum of sanity in coming Supreme Court appointments.
How you receive this suggestion I leave to your wisdom.
Finally I want to say that I speak to you in the second person because I am quite old and live far from any of the gatherings. But I am with you in spirit. If there is a Million Woman March on D. C. for inauguration I will try to put my medications in a bag and join you there if at all possible. Anyway Godspeed to all of you and keep it real.