Thanks for stopping by and for your contradicting comments. I won’t stop going, but I think I’ll go a bit more tempered than I have in the past.

Nothing will be as powerful as my first rallies… I was 20 on the “lawn” of the white house–does it get any better?

Leah

first, let me allay your concerns with encouragement and confirm that yes indeed, three people making a stand is as good as a hundred. good job.

second, let me confirm your worst concerns — most protest speeches are made of soundbites, and public advocacy movements inexorably evolve into pat, community circle-jerks. around this acretes a thich crust of self-rightiousness, protecting the soft group-think inside.

as someone who spent a couple of years organizing street demonstrations from the pov of the american center-right, i experienced this as, “good lord, i’m really just a bizzarro commie, imposing my harsh “pedagogy” on people who just want to go past me on the north ave ped bridge.”

still, its important that voices for republics and liberty, and the rights of liberal republics to defend themselves, is worth getting “out there” in whatever numbers possible.