The Women's March, 2017

I have just finished listening to Gloria Steinem.  Oh, what an inspiration; this was America at its classiest.  Articulate, gracious, insightful, determined!  So many wise observations.  She said, at one point, that one of the advantages of being long-lived, is that you can remember when things were worse.  Amen.  But we survived the deaths of Lincoln, John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and so many numerous inspirational leaders who were snuffed out, and we still were here to see Barack and Michelle Obama occupy the White House with such grace and decency, and to see Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton stand for election.  They are still alive, and there is still hope.

Gloria Steinem said that when we elect a "possible" president, we elect him and go home.  But we have an impossible president, and we're never going home!  What a great sense of humor!  But most of all, her long perspective allowed her to be optimistic and enthusiastic about the march.  It was an unprecedented gathering, and we must all hope that the women at the march caught fire with the success of it, in terms of the turnout.

Constant pressure: that's imperative.  If we tire of the effort, this administration will have an easy time of dismantling everything that not just Obama achieved, but Clinton, Carter, and even a few reasonable laws passed under Reagan.

[More later.]