Where is the massive strike? Where is the APB to get out into the streets on a massive scale?
Like most of us here, I am doing the deed of resisting, but mostly from my office. I send emails and leave phone messages to my representatives, and the media. I have a lot of friends in Canada and Europe I am in touch with, linking arms. Pretty sure CNN and the LA Times hate me. I have a small Substack audience and a couple of private, political Facebook pages—maybe 250 read something I posted in a given week. Small potatoes, but still, like Elizabeth Warren, I persist. I get up every morning thinking about what I am going to do to resist that day.
I have joined two street protests to date, one outside SpaceX offices in Hawthorne, CA, and another much smaller one in Brea, CA.
Good on Rachel for her nightly summaries of protests around the country. But they appear to add up to 5,000-10,000 on a good day. The townhall turnouts matter. Keep those up.
I would join a street protest twice a week here in Orange CA. But where are they?
I am about to make a sign and be a one-person protester outside the district office of my representative, Republican Young Kim. She is squirrely, and vows to not cut Medicaid. As if.
Who has the wherewithal to call a national strike, plan it, and organize it? Certainly, not the DNC. So far, they are pretty feckless. People speaking out like Chris Murphy, Bernie, AOC, Jamie Raskin, Elizabeth, and Jasmine Crockett are important, but they do not have the organizations to pull this off.
I cannot remember the last time I heard from any Dem politician, and most liberal organizations, who did not ask for money with EVERY email or text. Put a nationwide march together, and I will send you some money.
But who? Indivisible? MoveOn? DailyKos?
We need something larger than the 2017 Women’s March. My wife and I joined 20,000 in Santa Ana, CA. Was it 5 million nationwide? Who orchestrated that march?
How about 10 million protesters reaching every corner of this country?
We are the majority. Let’s act like it. Don’t let the bastards win.
I’m pleading!
