Thursday, February 2, 2017

STOP trying to LABEL us as DEMS or Hillary supporters or worse

When the media looks at what is happening in social media and on the streets, being led by intelligent compassionate women, they want to put us in a convenient political bucket. They say "Where was this passion during the election?" to imply that, if had been present, HRC would now be president. Well, that is factually untrue. It was out there in pockets they were ignoring and obviously still do, just as the Democratic party was ignoring it. The women from the March were from several different political fronts. Many were democrats who felt that their candidate did not get the nomination. Some were independents who might have felt the same way. Others were Green party activists with Jill Stein always as their candidate. The coming together of these groups was a result of the winner, not the losers. The party chose their candidate irrespective of the passion that was evident elsewhere and not for her. Now the media needs to GROW UP and start doing some actual journalistic activities, which includes analyzing the force behind the movement. Is it Liberal? Is it Progressive? Or is it more than that? More than the sum of the parts? It was not just the "Women's March on Washington " that 5 women initiated. It grew way beyond their wildest imagination. It had a life of it's own. The marches errupted all over the map of the USA and all over the world. Each had it's own format, structure, focus. None was quite exactly like another. There was a central place to register your planned march but it was not managing marches. Unbeknown to many, the marches in some cases included "Pro-Life" and "Pro-Choice" participants. Following up "the organizers of the Women's March on Washington posted the "10 Actions for the first 100 Days" campaign to keep up the momentum from the march." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Women's_March

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