Woman's March on Washington and Across the Planet - Part 1

 1/21/2012 

Millions of American woman took time off from their jobs and their families to come to Washington DC to put the new administration on notice. The message?

• We are listening, 
• We are active, 
• We are mobilizing. 

You may control all 3 branches of government and do a lot of things we may not be able to stop on the short term, but we are watching your every move and we are not going away.

This is not only the sentiment of woman across America, but the sentiment of the voting block that won the popular vote by 2.8 million more votes than President Trump received. Given what we have seen for his cabinet picks, and what we will likely see with the repeal of the Affordable Care Act these numbers are going to grow.

Trumps rise was as much a referendum on the GOP voters who felt their party was doing nothing for them. After all, for the last 2 years of the Obama administration republicans controlled both the House and the Senate. During that period what legislation did they propose to help Americans that are still hurting? What we are now witnessing seems to be worse than GOP business as usual. People will soon feel the sting that comes with losing the Affordable Care Act.

The Womans March blew away the number of people at the Inauguration. According to the Washington Post ,"On Sunday, Metro officials announced that Saturday was the second-busiest day
in the Washington subway system’s history, with 1,001,613 trips. (By contrast, on Trump’s Inauguration Day, the system recorded 570,557 trips.)"

And in this day of claims of fake news when the story does not meet your narrative a
picture is worth a thousand words.

Given the events of this day that were witnessed by President Trump you would think he would have gone to Twitter. His Twitter feed was silent on this event. When your main message has been talking about the size of your own crowds, to witness a crowd twice the size of your own inauguration must be sobering.

The only comment thus far from the Trump Administration came from Kellyanne Conway.

"We certainly respect people's First Amendment rights," Conway said. "But I frankly didn't see the point. I mean, you have a day after he's uplifting and unifying and you have folks here being on a diatribe where  I think they could have requested a dialogue. Nobody called me and said, 'Hey, could we have a dialogue?'"