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"What do you think you'll accomplish?" [1]
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Date: 2025-06-15
"What do you think you'll accomplish?"
This was the question we got from a Trumper as he passed us as we were assembling for our protest yesterday.
(Mr. Global also got the same question [below])
I reminded my follow protester not to engage, as we were told not to do. But we understood the point of the mocking question, no matter what Trump will still be president the next day.
Yeah, I know. It always reminds me that we are just one good hamberder away from Vance being president. I also think Trump being president is proof that Satan exists and that there was deal made. But anyway . . .
It was during one of Trump point 1 speeches that I realized that he reminded me of my physically and verbally abusive ex-husband. And I said so on Facebook. What I didn’t realized is how much I was suffering from PTSD, and that realization didn’t come until after Joe took over.
I didn’t know that it was my PTSD that kept me from going back and re-writing my capstone paper for a better grade before graduating. I couldn’t put my mind to it. I love research but couldn’t open the books. In the end I gave up, signing my intent to graduate form and taking the grade and GPA I had. (It’s not bad, but I had wanted better for graduate school).
I did know that toward the end of his reign 1.0 when adults kept him as best they could within guardrails, I was struggling each day to stay alive.
With his election 2024 election, I knew there was a great chance I might not survive his regime.
I knew I had to fight back anyway I could.
I started by attending the local Democratic Committee once a month meetings, and coming back here to Dailykos. I even changed my registration from Independent to Democrat.
But I still needed more. I needed to “be” with people who opposed Trump as much as I did. Social distancing taught me that. I needed to feel the positive energy to counter all his negative energy and messaging.
Seeing people at the protest, protesting with me and me with them makes ME feel better. When I got a friend of mine who had never protested before to go, she said it made her feel the same way. Better, hopeful, not isolated, not alone.
It also sends a message.
“No” isn’t just a word for Milo/Ceasar anymore
In the Alan Parson’s Project song “Breakdown” the outro has these words:
Freedom, freedom, we will not obey
Freedom, freedom, take the wall away
(Take the wall away)
(I wish those lines themselves were a protest song.)
NO! I’m not going to obey a tyrant, I will resist as much as possible. I know you think Biden and Obama were tyrants, but please show me on the US Constitution where they hurt you. But this is real. That education and real history that you eschew, informs us.
Millions of other people in this country feel like I do. Their courage to stand up, helps me to stand. My courage in standing may help others to stand, etc..
We have, in a very real way, helped others to find their courage, even if it is just to live another day. It also helps our elected officials, local, statewide and nationally find a spine or strengthen it.
That’s what I/we accomplish!
Seeing others across the nation lets me know I am and we in New England aren’t alone. Sure, you all pay attention to us when there is an under inflated football, but by in large you look at New York City. Hey our state, urm, commonwealth, is up here! Eyes up here!
We are the only “state” to have voted completely blue, no red counties. We had around 100 protests Yesterday from Pittsfield near the NY/MA border to the very tip of Cape Cod, Provincetown (or P-town for short). But does the rest of the country see what we are seeing, feel what we are feeling?
Maybe I shouldn’t try to speak for everyone or even a majority. Just myself, see and feel what I am seeing and feeling?
Yesterday many millions of Americans (and I think 5 million is too low an estimate, 11 million seems more reasonable) said “yes we do.”
That’s what I/we accomplish.
All that positive energy feeds and sustains us. Ah, again I’m trying to speak for everyone. It feeds and sustains me.
That’s what I/we accomplish.
Our “tantrum”* at losing? Excuse me, you voted for a guy who whined and threw a fit for 4 years about how he lost, oh sorry, had the election “stolen” from him in 2000 (he didn’t). He’s still whining about it.
It’s hard to conceptualize 10 million people when its just a number, but looking at pictures upon pictures of hundreds and thousands of people across this country, you can understand that.
That’s what I/we accomplish.
Yeah, he’s still president but now he, his maladmistration, the world, AND YOU, see how much he is opposed, how much we won’t go quietly into that goodnight, but opposing fascism all the way.
Yes, I’m using the F word. You may not see it or only see it when FoxNews applies it to our politicians, or you may actually want to live in an authoritarian state. We, I do not.
That’s what I/we accomplish.
We are at least half of the country and most of this country did not vote for him.
And I see them protesting on the streets, just like I am (hey, we even got to sing Les Misérables, “Do You Hear the People Sing?” in my little city) and it gives me
HOPE.
That’s what I/we accomplish.
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