January must be the time for only
slightly organized parades, also known as “Marches.”
First there was the national March
for Life in Washington DC, along with 70 local marches across the land. Crowd estimates seem to be in the 50 to
100-thousand range for this pro-life demonstration in the Capital. By all reports the march was pretty well
organized and respectful as you would expect for people who support life.
Next came the Woman’s March which
should really be called the “anti-Trump” march, since the last time they felt
compelled to march prior to President Trump was in 1997 when they got together
in Philadelphia to bring attention to the marginalization of African-American
Women during the Clinton presidency. Finding
an estimate for crowd size in DC seems to a bit of a problem. The march permit was cancelled by the
organizers[1]
but the news covered the event and there were people in the streets, as well as
a number of other cities across the land.
My search for the Woman’s March 2018 generally took me to websites that
offered to sell me a T-shirt, so I will leave it to you to figure out exactly how
many turned out to condemn the President and call for his death.
The two marches obviously have
different drummers.
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