The rally itself was the message.
If people had stayed home, it would be a message. A crowd gathered, and that, too, was a message.
The event was to demonstrate that they cared.
Body language.
A crowd of two hundred gathered in Medford, Oregon to carry signs and wave at passing traffic. It was one of some 600 rallies nationwide.
The Medford rally was at a city park at the corner of Main Street and Central Avenue, the center of the traditional business district and junction of two arterial streets. The corner gets busy traffic, and it moves slowly. The crowd waved at the traffic. Some people in cars waved back and smiled. Some kept their eyes on the road.
Events like this don't "just happen." It was organized and promoted. The rally was promoted by Indivisible groups on Facebook, and they made signs to distribute: "Trump is NOT above the law" on one side. "Impeach and Remove" on the other.
A man brought a battery powered projector and put comments on the blank wall of an adjacent building.
Ten people held signs that spelled out IMPEACH NOW and they lined up along Main Street.From time to time individuals would start a chant: "Impeach Donald Trump" or "No more years" The chants lasted only a brief time. The overall feel of the group was informal, rather than a closely organized event. Most of the signs were homemade.
People were there to be there, to do something, anything. Show up, greet friends, and wave.
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All across Oregon Congressional District two, people showed up to rallies last night—over 100 in Ashland at 4 pm, over 150 in Grants Pass, a large group in Klamath Falls, over 150 in the Dalles . . . There is continuing strong resistance to the Trump regime, even in a district that has consistently elected a Republican to Congress.
Public protests have been constant over the last three years, beginning the day after this person was inaugurated.
We have met in the town square, made calls, and written letters and the only acknowledgment our representative ever made was to mock us as "paid protestors".
“And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? ... It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
Republicans have chosen to pretend that the impeachable offenses did not happen as opposed to admitting that they did happen but they condone it. This is not surprising from a political party whose constituents are divorced from reality and it is also a prime example of denial in the whole:
If one admits to even the slightest possibility of the truth the entire construct collapses.
The House will impeach. The Senate will acquit.
The fallout will prove out one way or another in 11 months.
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