In all my 66 years, I have never seen the likes of the activism and energy that this man stirred up.

[CurtEastPoint]

I hope we put it to good use. The entire country is boiling!

[Skittles]

1. THIS is our *SILVER LINING*

I am hoping it BRINGS OUT THE VOTERS WITH CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS

PATRIOTS WILL FIGHT FASCISM

[rzemanfl]

5. I thought the silver lining was his hands were so small you didn't feel it.

Hi! Skittles.

[Skittles]

7. WHASSUP RZEMANFL

[rzemanfl]

11. Just trying to hang on to a shred of sanity. You? n/t

[Skittles]

13. OMG DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED

I feel like I am living in BIZARRO WORLD, where over 60 million Americans think a MENTALLY ILL PERVERT would make for a swell president

[rzemanfl]

14. It is strange and ugly. At the YMCA I go to people were quiet about their political views.

Now they yell at each other. A Trump voter said to me today, "I'm washing my hands of the whole thing." I replied, "It's too late. You own it." The country is boiling as the OP says.

I wore an Obama/Biden shirt on Inauguration Day. Got some compliments and some dirty looks.

Resist Skittles, he will be brought down.

[Skittles]

15. I too am seeing them making excuses

fuck them, THEY OWN EVERY BIT OF IT - THEY NEED TO KNOW EVERY BIT OF DAMAGE THEY CAUSE

[CurtEastPoint]

17. Yeah and I've heard 'Can we all quiet down and move on' or something like that. HELL, NO!

You FUCKERS brought this shit on us. Shame on you.

[Skittles]

42. hell no, FUCK NO

and if it takes a SNOWFLAKE to fight creeping FASCISM, then I am ONE DAMN PROUD SNOWFLAKE

[CurtEastPoint]

43. Amen!

[madokie]

45. I hate to butt in, BUT

I live for the moment that he is brought down. It's the only thing I can see that keeps me trucking on



Peace

[rzemanfl]

46. You're more than welcome to join our little sidebar chat. n/t

[madokie]

47. Thx

peace

[rzemanfl]

2. In my 69 years I have never seen the likes either.

I was in Madison, WI at the height of the Viet Nam protests, but this is different.

Today I saw a car with "Delete Hillary" "Blue Lives Matter" and "Coexist" bumper stickers. WTF?

K&R

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Yup,do remember Madtown and there are

many of us still around to do it again.

[rzemanfl]

19. Can't run anymore, but I have a smaller investment in continuing to live so it evens out. n/t

[Augiedog]

30. I live in madison, then and now, went the women's march with my wife. Madison has and always

will be a a center for humanity. When I was growing up our weekends were a choice of country cornfield beer barrel parties, drive in movies or state street protests. Protests that often required breathing teargas, dodging night sticks and evil weed.

[politicat]

32. There's one local to me that makes me think the car has shared ownership.

A Jeep Wrangler, from left to right:

A Johnson/whoevertheLibVPnom sticker
Who is John Galt?
the Captain America shield
Bernie or Bust
Hillary 2016

The cognitive dissonance in that household must be chewy.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. I have been to two protests in the past three months

Those are two protests more I have attended since I was a lil kid wearing a black arm band on Moratorium Day to oppose the Vietnam War.

[still_one]

4. I hope your right because this hasn't even started

[Greywing]

6. I'm 60 and I'm glad to see it stirred up again

We became too complacent, I think. I also believe it will be put to good use and remind these career politicians we the people don't work for them - they work for us. Peaceful protests can be a powerful weapon!

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. I'm having flashbacks to my college years during the Vietnam war.

Wish I was as young as I was back then, but with the knowledge and wisdom I've gained since then.

[CurtEastPoint]

10. Me, too. I remember driving to DC to march

[cilla4progress]

12. Look for the helpers.

There are always helpers, said Mr. Rogers.

In these dark days, when there is so much tension and hostility and distrust and alarmism around...there are people who are doing good, putting themselves out and out there, understanding our connection. I need to focus on them, because sometimes I feel myself spiraling into negativity.

[IrishEyes]

16. Not even in the 1960s?

I was not alive back then but I always imagined it a time of protest and activism. I really hope that this will be a time of activism and energy. I will be a part of it. The night of the election after the horror of finding out he won, I promised myself that I would become more politically active.

[rzemanfl]

22. Then it was young vs. old (except in the civil rights movement).

Now it is democracy vs. fascism.

Keep those eyes smiling. Interesting times.

[FailureToCommunicate]

29. Oh there was plenty more then. Being sent to Vietnam to kill, or tear gassed and beaten

here at home, millions marching for civil rights and doing antiwar jail time...

I think either the OP wasn't very involved back then, or social media seems to amplify the current "activism" or, is using

hyperbole to express excitement that there is growing resistance to Trump's 'vision' for America.

[oasis]

18. Keep it up America.

[DeminPennswoods]

20. I'm a bit younger than you

and I sure remember the activism of the 60s (civil rights marches, 1968 Dem convention in Chi) and early 70s (Kent State).

[Cha]

21. KICK

[calimary]

23. And I hope people don't get tired or give up.

Or distracted. Or apathetic! Now that we've started, it needs to continue! And hopefully keep growing. Remember, the teabaggers didn't fizzle out. They made damn sure they STAYED a force to be reckoned with.

[hibbing]

24. I feel absolutely defeated

I'm trying, I went to the local march here Saturday. However, the pace of the dismantling of what many worked so hard for and many died for is truly terrifying, and they haven't even got to the big stuff like the ACA, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, selling public lands and of course more tax cuts for the ruling class. I wish I had your optimism.

Peace

[marybourg]

35. Don't feel defeated. We're just starting.

Find an activity that excites you. There are plenty of links to follow here on DU to find something to do. I like this: https://swingleft.org/ and am going to get involved with it. I feel fired up!

[politicat]

36. One thing per day.

Little things. Focus on what you care about most, and make that your daily priority. A phone call a day to one of your three congress critters is good. Or a postcard. Or knitting on a scarf for a kid in the foster system, quilting a lap blanket for an elder in care, or making a batch of cookies for your local volunteer organization. You know what your strengths are. Use those.

And one of those little things you must do is self-care. You have to take care of yourself. It's a radical form of resistance -- it means that the weapons of exhaustion, frustration, apathy and disgust are useless against you. When you're feeling tired, overwhelmed or anxious, check this document first: https://t.co/V24BIC61l2 (this goes to a google drive document in pdf format). Do those things first.

If media terrifies you, it's okay to block everything except your area of focus and what connects you to your real-life social world. Really, truly. Activists have been doing this for years, and so do academics, scientists and specialists. It's hard to be a generalist activist or generalist academic or generalist scientist. We build knowledge and power by breaking large goals into very small tasks and actions.

If we all try to do everything, none of us will accomplish anything. But if we all focus on our one thing, and stand with our accomplices when their thing is urgent, we'll accomplish everything.

One brick at a time. That's how China built the Great Wall. One brick at a time. But that thing is visible from space.

[hibbing]

38. Thanks to you both n/t

[JudyM]

41. David whooped Goliath. And many other stories exist, true ones, of defeat of larger ogres.

We are just starting. No civil rights fights have been easy.

Try taking this "medicine" Michael Moore suggested once a week: call your congresscritters about an issue to let them know you're watching and you care. Takes very little effort and cumulatively makes a difference.
202-224-3131

[sarcasmo]

25. Wait until summer, gonna go off.

[KittyWampus]

27. something's going to happen in late June, early July. Just my gut instinct.

[KittyWampus]

26. Survival instinct is kicking in. And since we're liberals that means our higher brains

signal "ORGANIZE" and not "DESTROY".

[AgadorSparticus]

28. People in my universe ARE doing something about it. It is really exciting to see!

[Dustlawyer]

31. We must vote out every incumbent Republican up for re-election and

every Democrat who votes for these nominees. If the Republicans can march in lock step for BS, the we must be able to on the issues at stake now!!!

[Thekaspervote]

33. Agree completely

It is the silver lining... Hopefully galvanizing the dems

[OceanChick]

34. I'm a 66-year-old woman and I agree

I hope everyone stays as angry as they were on election day. We have a lunatic sexual predator in the White House. As a Liberal Feminist, I can barely sleep.

[DEM4EVR801]

37. Courage...

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. - Muhammad Ali

[dflprincess]

39. The morning of the election I got in my car, flipped on the radio just in time to hear

Mick Jagger sing "You can't always get what you want" (actually it was the part the choir sings). I turned it back off and I swear, I knew then things were not going to go our way. -- It may be the closest I've ever come to a psychic flash.

But Saturday I kept thinking of the other line in the song "But if you try sometimes you might find ou get what you need>"

And I'm really hoping it will turn out that Trump is what we needed to reinvigorate the left.

[stage left]

40. I didn't march in the sixties

So I'm making up for it now. A grass roots group sprang up in my area from our sister march or it was really a rally. Two hours in the pouring rain and it was magic. Yesterday some members of that group went to the offices of our Senators Graham and Scott, about 15. We met a twosome coming out and had another group on our coattails. None of these were Cons, all fired up Libs. We're planning to make a habit out of it. Got a big strategy meeting about Feb 5 and postcard campaigns and phone calls between now and then. I hear Trump Baby has a sad because everybody's protesting him and he can't enjoy being President. Well, boo hoo. You ain't seen nothing yet. Lots of us are retired and we've got lots and lots of time.

[Vinca]

44. The nearest thing to it were the Vietnam protests, but this is going to dwarf that because of the

organizing capabilities of social media. We're in an awful mess, but I'm heartened to see young people picking up the cause.

[crazycatlady]

48. I just hope we harness this energy correctly

The teabaggers used their Million Moron March and took over school boards, local governments, state houses, and Congress. We need to do the same.

[sellitman]

49. American Spring