Resist capital

I drove through maybe the busiest intersection in Boulder today, and while I was stopped at the light a youngish man (maybe 20something although it’s a snowy day and he was wearing winter hat so it wasn’t easy to see him very well) went out into the intersection in the direction of the stopped traffic, and waved a cardboard sign around that had the message “Resist Capital” written on it in what looked like two different colors of magic marker.

He scurried back to the curb just as the light changed, and then headed out into the stopped traffic on the street perpendicular to the one he had just been in the middle of.

I had an idle urge to stop and ask him if he had voted, and if so for who, but there was no place to park nearby plus it was cold, so this particular bit of ethnographic research remained notional rather than actual.

It’s easy to mock this kind of thing, for reasons that don’t need to be elaborated on, but on the other hand this young man was trying to do something in response to the horror of the last 24 hours, however pointlessly symbolic his act was.

Which made me wonder: Will there be any large scale protests between now and January 20th? It’s interesting that I’ve seen almost no suggestions from the left of voter fraud in the wake of Trump sweeping all the swing states (To be clear I think such suggestions have no basis, but that’s never stopped either Trump or the right wing in its entirety from embracing them when convenient).

There is no turbulence on the left, or what passes for the left, in America any more.

Meanwhile the worst are full of passionate intensity.

This is just one of the many things to mourn in this deep and dark November.