Help ! Red state rural protest tomorrow

[berniesandersmittens]

I'm bringing two younger sisters with me. The march starts at noon. This is red Arkansas.


What signs would be best to sway women to our side?


It's short notice and I need all the help I can get. Red state women unite!

[rubbersole]

1. The elephant in the womb...

I'm a guy but that was effective. Very clever. I don't know where a picture could be found. I think it was on a tee-shirt. Just Google that. Just did. Tons of stuff.

[elleng]

2. Here's one:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1014594528/we-need-to-address-the-elephant-in-the?

[Woodswalker]

3. Good one

[berniesandersmittens]

4. I like it

Remember this is ruby red rural Arkansa though. What I profess is sooooo important and I want it to reach the Independents and gqpers

[rubbersole]

5. You'll have more support than you think you will.

But still act humble...just because their messiah is embarrassing them to themselves. It's tough on smart people. These deep thinkers need somebody to blame.

[berniesandersmittens]

7. Honestly I'm terrified

I know that that correct response is" fuck em"

But I've lived here my whole life. This is scary but I will not back out.


It's happening fast and my head is spinning. I hope for at least a few hours of sleep.


I'm taking my newly unculted little sister and I want to make a difference.


I feel the weight of it on my shoulders.

[rubbersole]

14. You're terrified because you know these people.

A protest march isn't the place to feel sorry for them. But you don't want to fear them either. Calculate the "after" hate. If you think that you will be in danger when the crowds disperse and a week from now it won't be safe to go to the store, you might go to a bigger city and expend your energy and frustration there. Trumpers are insane. Logic can't be factored in. You're a "baby killer" is what they've been programmed to think. It's impossible to make an inoffensive sign to them. Hell, they couldn't read it anyway. Your passion and courage are amazing. Stay safe bsm. You are needed on this wall.

[elleng]

6. I don't know.

"Violence does not spring from a vacuum. It's born out of other men's violence. It gets nurtured and it grows in a soil of prejudice and of hate and of bigotry."

~Rod Serling

AS I KNEW HIM: My Dad Rod Serling

[berniesandersmittens]

8. Rod was your dad?!

I am so not cool enough for you to be my friend.

If you re ever in Arkansas, hit me up for coffee and conversation. I need something short and to the point. Between the religious zealots and the klan, I've been fighting hate for what seems like my whole life.


I'm so scared of going to jail tomorrow. I'm hope my sisters will be safe. I'm in enemy territory and it is scary.

[elleng]

9. Not MY dad, Anne Serling's dad.

You and your courage are surely cool enough to be my friend!

I won't likely be in Arkansas, unless Wes Clark invites me.

[berniesandersmittens]

10. I really wish we lived close enough for coffee

Wes Clark is a smart, caring, and logistically savy man. I may be in love with him lol

[elleng]

11. I've loved him since the first time I saw him on TV,

at which time he became, and still is, my #1 favorite public person. (I'm not, however, IN love with him!!!)

[berniesandersmittens]

12. Lol

I'm a bit anxious and saying weird shit.

Hence the need for DU validation...

[elleng]

13. Gotcha.

[pnwmom]

16. My red-state apolitical but pro-choice relative really responded when I said

that I was a one-issue voter now.

She said, "That's what I'm going to be too. From now on!"

It does simplify things. And it doesn't hurt Dems since virtually all Dems are prochoice, and almost no R's.

[werdna]

17. Embrace your HEART - not their hate. n/t

[Timeflyer]

18. How about these?

Vote out GOP forced birthers.
(This one's long, but was effective July 4 following yet another mass shooting) "If women took up arms to defend their reproductive rights, the GOP would ban assault weapons yesterday."
To you and all who protest, brava, stay safe, be strong, continue to raise hell!