Will the March become a movement?

Will the March become a movement?: Distinctly Catholic: The Women's March was larger than expected, and it was clear from reports, especially from Global Sisters Report, that the marchers were there for a variety of reasons.

MGB:_These marches are mostly rallies.  Most of the marching is getting to the rally point.  While there was an organic beginning to the events, most of the speakers were from established orgaizations. I suspect many of the supporters were already linked into to them as well.  This was mostly about rights, not democracy, and mostly reproductive, racial and gay rights, particlulary lesbians. I did not watch every speech, but it was not about globalization. Anti-globalization is what you find at Trump rallies.  These groups are coalition already, mostly through the Democratic Party. The question is whether this coalition can win back Congress in 2018.



Pro-life is code for Republican in most circles and is properly understood as sending doctors to jail (which you really can’t do outside the right-wing spin machine without jailing women). The pro-life left must face the fact that the movement is about the expansion of criminal law and most of us will have no part of it. Pro-life feminists need a new name because their friends are ugly.



The Tea Party, in reality, was a wing of the GOP. This movement is a wing of the Democrats. It is the Democratic Party that needs an economic message. Look to Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders for that. The question is whether the Clintonians will, who were well represented Saturday, will go along. Of course, Sanders and Warren don’t really go far enough. Real socialist cooperativism is more than the Democrats can handle.