These marches are great, but where the hell were they three months ago??!!!!

[meadowlander]

26. This is the opposite of helpful.

We need to move past the election and look forward.

1. Most of these people probably did vote (and volunteer and donate)

2. Nobody thought Trump was going to win, including Trump. Nate Silver had between a 70-90% of Clinton winning for months before the election. Why would you hold marches and rallies when you're already 90% sure your candidate is going to win?

3. It takes months to organise something like this. Pink hats and signs don't materialise out of thin air.

4. A few more people in Philly, Detroit and Milwaukee would not have helped because the problem is gerrymandering, voter roll purging, broken machines in Democratic districts, misinformation campaigns, etc. The problem is the system, not the people. And you don't fix the system by lecturing the people, many of whom live in districts where they have to take time off work, hunt down a polling station that difficult to access, stand in line for four hours and then find out their vote didn't count anyway because either the machine was broken or they live in a district that was always going to go D anyway.

More people voted in 2016 that in any previous election and 3 million more of them voted for Clinton. Don't buy into the meme that Trump is sitting in the Oval Office for any reason other than the fact that the system is rigged to keep Republicans in power.