The column sums it up pretty well. Here's the nub of it:
...Protests are meant to be the voices of the unheard. Yet these protests are the voices of those who never shut up. Not for one minute, not for ten years, and all of us have had to endure them like being trapped inside Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory with hundreds of thousands of Veruca Salts....
A lot of superannuated types wheelchairing while re-living their teenage years protesting VietNam.
But at least they had a case then, and they had lots of sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll.
These days, the drugs are prescriptions, the sex.......well...........and rock'n'roll is like Vivaldi to the younger generations--a foreign concept. Worse yet: the under-30 crowd loves them some Trump.
Heh.
UPDATE: More good analysis from another blog!
...No Kings is less like a protest and more like an emotional clearinghouse for generalized Trump resentment. There’s no legislative demand, no policy plank, not even a unifying grievance beyond “Trump = bad.” It’s the political version of primal scream therapy — catharsis through ‘collective activism.’
In other words, it’s group therapy cosplaying as democracy. They should call it a mental health session. Instead of protest signs, they should hand out clipboards, mood surveys, and those folding paper crowns that Burger King gives out for kids’ fast-food birthday parties.
To be fair, it is “inclusive” in the sense that it invites anarchists, neoliberals, bored college kids, restless boomers, never-Trumpers, socialists, professional NGOs — everyone can show up, wave signs, shout slogans, and feel virtuous together....
Only problem with his thesis is that 'mental health' may never again darken the doorways of most of those protesters. Otherwise? Good stuff!
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They still have lots of sex, but it’s “Viagra” sex and it’s grotesque.
Again, more poison from Pfizer
The demographics of these protests make the Dems long term viability look even worse. A big percentage of these citizens will be dead in 20 years, and sometime after that their votes will stop being cast.
I drove by 2 protests this weekend in 2 different suburbs. It was as you suspect. Nothing but gray haireds probably retired teachers. 25 in one group and maybe 40-50 in the other.Sad really.
Interestingly enough no alphabet people.
I drove by several this weekend. Packed to the gills. Young and old. Quite the scene.
Greg, Jr.
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