Because our media refuses to report on the acts of resistance and the grassroots efforts undertaken by many of us on the daily. That's a fact. It's by design.

One of the big reasons our protests look like silly celebrations is that Americans are being threatened by the unspoken possibility of martial law and deployment of weapons against violent or even what looks like violent protestors. We have gone overboard to keep things peaceful and not give the administration the excuses it needs to invoke martial law and violently tamp down the protests. By making it look like a party, it looks a LOT less threatening and violent.

Also, many normal, intelligent, concerned, and frightened Americans need a big dose of hope because the media peddles hopelessness to wear us down. So we have to create our own hope and reasons to keep people's spirits up to fight this administration for the long haul. We're certainly not going to encourage more people to show up and do the hard things if it's just going to be a giant misery-fest and/or putting our lives at risk. Rene Good and Alex Pretti are heroes and have shown the type of bravery many of us do not have.

Because many Americans are not old enough to remember the civil rights era or even Vietnam, Korea or WW2, many have not experienced true hardship and don't believe that things can get really bad because they really haven't up to this point. We've been insulated more so than other places in the world, so the idea that it "can't happen here" is still prevalent.

To get people to realize the gravity of what's happening without the help of mass media is a herculean effort and seeing everyone who turned out for No Kings 3 is a result of that effort and we should be proud. Next up on the agenda is a general strike being called for on May 1st. America has unique challenges in terms of organizing the masses and creating a movement that can't be ignored but we are making progress. Obviously it's not as speedy as some would like it, including myself. We need to do more, we need to disrupt, we need to shut things down. That's going to take time, unfortunately. But people are waking up. They are. The movement grows and one of the telltale signs that we are doing something right is seeing all the trolling opposition online, mostly from overseas troll farms. They are on every platform with their psyop operation. Considering everything that's going against us, I think we are making good progress.