Which is more powerful, a Picket Sign or a Weapon? [View all]

Under the circumstances, I think a picket sign, or a marching sign, is more valuable than a gun. What we need now are millions of people saying "NO!!" in large numbers. Nonviolent but insistent push back against Donald Trump et al. He is clearly demented and drunk with power.

I was thinking about this as I realized that my stress reaction to seeing or hearing Trump is changing to really violent images. I don't want this for myself. I don't want to move on from picturing myself punching him. That's okay I think, not too bad, but the other stuff I'm picturing is not okay, for me. Then, I thought, I don't need to see that other stuff, anyway. I don't need a damned weapon, I need a picket sign and somewhere to go. So, I need to situate myself to be ready. We are not quite there, but almost.

We may need something more later, but right now, we haven't tested the military. We certainly have tested the Rule of Law, which doesn't seem to exist anymore, at least not for us. We had the Orange Turd dead to rights, but the stinking US not-so-supreme Court sided with the dictator, so the law doesn't seem to mean much, although we cling to it. But now, out of necessity, we are going to have to turn out, nonviolently, en masse in opposition, and hope whoever controls trump will see it just isn't working out for his continued dictatorship.

We did this in the 60s. We can do it again. It isn't nostalgia. It will be necessary. Leave your weapons at home, and pick up your signs. You didn't want to shoot someone, anyway. Just, get ready.