The ‘People’s Convoy’ is a Joke

What, exactly, do they want?

MartinEdic

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10,000 people, at least, have died in Ukraine this past week. 1500 are still dying daily in the US from Covid. And I read about trucks and campers driving around DC, blocking traffic, and I have to ask, why? Something about mandates? Really?

I respect anyone’s right to protest. But it helps to have some clue to what they are protesting. This thing looks like a protest, but I have no clue what they are protesting. It actually looks like the organizers, who don’t seem too organized, just did it to get attention.

You briefly have my attention: now tell me what you have to say. Because there are people with real problems out there, life and death problems.

Like packing a rolley bag, grabbing your kids and walking hundreds of miles to escape a senseless war that has just destroyed everything you worked for.

Like the citizens of towns destroyed by huge tornados or super firestorms.

I mean, honestly, why are you driving in circles around the Capitol? Burning very expensive gas and wasting time when you could be delivering needed goods. You know, working? And making a living.

If I was in DC, and I met one of these protesters one on one, I’d have one question: why are you doing this? Tell me…

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MartinEdic

Mastodon: @martinedic@md.dm, Writer, nine non-fiction books, two novels, Buddhist, train lover. Amateur cook, lover of life most of the time!