One step ahead

Is there a way to make a point that does not allow Trump and his white supremist groups to take advantage of it and have their way with us?

Perhaps there is now. The peaceful protests are obviously not going to be allowed to be peaceful by these people, so let's turn a page.

What about memorials?

Huge mounds of flowers, signs, notes, things. Things.

Things.

It is hard to turn things into Trump tear gassing extravaganzas. The flowers will weep for us.

And yet, if the news still covers them, the ideas will grow.

Things, because people are not things despite what our president believes. We are not ants to be exterminated and brushed aside so he can make a political appearance at a church. Not to pray, but strut his power.

Take away his power to stomp on us, gas us, mock us and how will he respond?

At first he will not even understand it, but when he finally figures it out, or someone explains it to him, he will have those peaceful piles of statements, flowers, signs, hopes and fears destroyed. He will claim they are public nuisances, or dangerous.

Then we move them to private property.

One step ahead of a bully is the only way to prevent him from using us to continue to promote his causes. Perhaps not as soul satisfying as hands on, but that is what separates us from him.