Several months ago I wrote my first political post, calmly and rationally discussing my disgust at the election turn outs, and my opinions of the extremism from both sides which I truly believe was one of the more important reasons why this all happened.
I also in that post discussed how peaceful protests have been going downhill, with people now attacking random civilians or police men who would have been on the side of the protesters, or just breaking public or private property. (Although to be a hypocrite I did hear about the neo-Nazi who was punched on inauguration day by a protester and I plan on watching said video sometime because that is something I fully agree with and am happy happened)
I won't bother copy and pasting my older statements, especially since as far as I know, I am in fact say the wrong thing after all. Getting political is hard when it comes to not stirring anything up. All I need to say is that today, there were was a Woman's March. In fact, there were several.
On every single continent. Yes, including Antarctica.
And everything the protesters is, was what I have been waiting for.
There were no arrests. No reports of broken property. No rough housing. Everyone simply came together, and peacefully stating everything that is going wrong. The worst thing that could be said is the vulgarity of some of the signs, which in this day and age means nothing.
And they came in droves. In total, all together, millions. One of the marches counted a total of around 750,000. That is impressive, and it is more impressive how well everyone behaved considering the last few years. This is how you protest, and any protest after this that doesn't follow suite has learned nothing.
The following years will be terrifying, horrible, disgusting. However, if the powers that be have to contend with the kind of protests I saw today, then they are in for a world they will not like either.
A quick history lesson. Fascism always started bad for the citizens, but it ended very bad for the fascists themselves.
So let's share some moments from Twitter about this amazing part of the world's history.
This next one will simply be a link to The Atlantic, which sums up photos from around the world. https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/01/photos-of-the-womens-marches-around-the-world/514049/
You don't need me to tell you this, but keep marching. This is the right thing to do, and those against it are learning they are far more powerless than they think.