On the rainy evening of February 5 I joined about two to three-hundred others in downtown Seattle to protest the blatant cover-ups of the crimes of one Donald J. Trump. It was a day that pounded a final nail into the coffin of democracy and pushed the United States one large step closer to full blown fascism. I’m not going into the details of how Trump violated his oath of office. The US Constitution is available on line. But there were protests happening all over the country.
What is even more appalling is nearly every single republican senator voted to acquit him. I know they’re in that proverbial rock and hard place position. They’re deathly afraid of Trump. Whenever Trump feels someone has been “disloyal” to him, he acts with swift vengeance and shows no mercy. He’s a sociopath and this is sociopathic behavior. For anyone who has read their history of WWII, they’ll see the horrifying similarities between Trump and Hitler.
As I mentioned, there were maybe two to three-hundred participating. I’d like to think that’s a good turnout for a rainy evening, but if this had been a playoff game or just a regular season game for the Mariners of the Seahawks, 50,000 people would have left work early to attend. But they couldn’t be bothered to attend a march to protest the loss of democracy. I see people post on Facebook, why aren’t we all taking to the streets. Well, we took to the streets but hardly anyone showed up. People held signs, they chanted slogans like, “sham trial, sham president.” A few passing motorists honked their approval and some waved at us.
I left work and had to deal with pouring rain and wretched traffic to drive about 15 miles to downtown. I had to then drive around to find a place to park. But I made the effort because I want to live in a democracy and I know that in order to live in a democracy I must be an active participant. Either not enough people have figured this out or they just don’t care. When I see places like Hong Kong or Paris or Iran, where people are coming out in the thousands to protest oppression and I compare it to the United States and I am deeply ashamed.
– Holly Homan
