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The Women's Marches maybe the largest in US history

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Re: The Women's Marches maybe the largest in US history

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Post by michaelchisari »

This is truly unprecedented. For perspective, the largest march on DC during the Vietnam War was 500,000. Adjusted for population, that would be 784,411 people.

Estimated crowd in DC on Saturday was 1.2 million. Nationwide, it was 3 million. Just one of the six Los Angeles area protests had 750,000 people.

Even Witchita, Kansas had thousands.

I've never seen anything like this, and it's just the beginning.

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Post by Mao_Zedang »

michaelchisari wrote: post #2

This is truly unprecedented. For perspective, the largest march on DC during the Vietnam War was 500,000. Adjusted for population, that would be 784,411 people. Estimated crowd in DC on Saturday was 1.2 million. Nationwide, it was 3 million. Just one of the six Los Angeles area protests had 750,000 people. Even Witchita, Kansas had thousands. I've never seen anything like this, and it's just the beginning.

Honestly I am going to say its the end not the beginning, in four years, Trump will run again and maybe we will see another tantrum protest but at least for the next four years do not expect any great resistance or movement, the time for that is over.

Re: The Women's Marches maybe the largest in US history

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Post by revx »

Mao_Zedang wrote: post #3
michaelchisari wrote: post #2

This is truly unprecedented. For perspective, the largest march on DC during the Vietnam War was 500,000. Adjusted for population, that would be 784,411 people. Estimated crowd in DC on Saturday was 1.2 million. Nationwide, it was 3 million. Just one of the six Los Angeles area protests had 750,000 people. Even Witchita, Kansas had thousands. I've never seen anything like this, and it's just the beginning.

Honestly I am going to say its the end not the beginning, in four years, Trump will run again and maybe we will see another tantrum protest but at least for the next four years do not expect any great resistance or movement, the time for that is over.

I think this time, there's enough of a threat to general persons' livelihoods (repeal of ACA, threat of international embarrassment or incident, etc) that we will start to see organized resistance. But only time will tell...

Re: The Women's Marches maybe the largest in US history

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Post by antidaily »

Mao_Zedang wrote: post #3
michaelchisari wrote: post #2

This is truly unprecedented. For perspective, the largest march on DC during the Vietnam War was 500,000. Adjusted for population, that would be 784,411 people. Estimated crowd in DC on Saturday was 1.2 million. Nationwide, it was 3 million. Just one of the six Los Angeles area protests had 750,000 people. Even Witchita, Kansas had thousands. I've never seen anything like this, and it's just the beginning.

Honestly I am going to say its the end not the beginning, in four years, Trump will run again and maybe we will see another tantrum protest but at least for the next four years do not expect any great resistance or movement, the time for that is over.

Thanks for being honest.
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