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In reply to the discussion: These marches are great, but where the hell were they three months ago??!!!! [View all]tinrobot
(10,883 posts)6. If all those people actually voted...
We wouldn't have to march.
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These marches are great, but where the hell were they three months ago??!!!! [View all]
RBInMaine
Jan 2017
OP
Will the organization and activism continue? Hopefully. But where was it three months ago????????
RBInMaine
Jan 2017
#3
You never, ever, ever take ANYTHING for granted! It was DUMB thinking and DUMB behavior!! Hopefully
RBInMaine
Jan 2017
#4
We didn't where needed, and MILLIONS didn't vote or voted third party. Colossal FUCK UP, PERIOD!
RBInMaine
Jan 2017
#22
Absolutely positively CORRECT! Learn the lesson, and March in October/November 2018!!!!!
RBInMaine
Jan 2017
#20
Comey and Putin didn't force "progressives" to stay home or vote third party. OWN the FUCK UP!
RBInMaine
Jan 2017
#24
With the mega-monster that is Trump, that should not have mattered. Many were APATHETIC! Period!
RBInMaine
Jan 2017
#19
She didn't win where NEEDED, and APATHY killed us, not just Comey and Putin!!!
RBInMaine
Jan 2017
#17
the comey thing was a huge factor and a lot has come out after about how it was too hurt Clinton
JI7
Jan 2017
#21
I hear ya. Maybe few thought he would win so it didn't matter. wrong
Laura PourMeADrink
Jan 2017
#23
Interesting that I don't see the word "disenfranchised" anywhere on this thread. n/t
Cal Carpenter
Jan 2017
#27
Some folks (like march co-chair Linda Sarsour) find it easier to be anti-Trump than pro-Hillary
oberliner
Jan 2017
#29