STOP. Please. Or if you’re thinking about joining a march, don’t go.
Here’s why.
See these kids:
From The impossible has happened” Washington Post
They’re celebrating Trump’s victory on election night, and if you look at them one way, yes, they do look like Hitler youth. But look again – they really look like your kids – or the kids in your neighborhood. They’re just kids.
Don’t make them – and everyone who supported Trump, even the ones who are older and should be wiser – hate us more. All us old hippies; pinkos; lefties; punk rockers; Black people; Asians; Latinos; Native Americans; anyone who looks not quite white, including the Jews; Muslims; Gays; Lesbians; Transgender; liberal, educated, white elitists who drink fancy coffee out of reusable travel mugs; people who believe climate change is real; people who ride bikes and try not to drive cars – older women who remind them of their mom, and that strict teacher who told them what to do, and yup, Hillary Clinton.
Give Trump a chance to get into office and disappoint them all. Let them start hating HIM – not us. Especially with the Republicans in charge, and guns laws getting overturned – they’re all gonna be armed.
Work within the system – for those who remember the 60’s and 70s, that was the mantra back then – and when the backlash against Trump happens, we can take back the government.
Run for office yourself. Find an organization that is doing what your believe and support them – League of Women Voters, 350.org, Human Rights Campaign – there’re only about a million of them.
Make love, not war.
Listen to our old heros – the late Phil Ochs and Tom Hayden; and other old guys who are still writing, like Garrison Keillor.
Stop marching. Don’t make them hate us. Make them hate Trump. Please. Thank you.