Posted on 10/25/2025 2:59:27 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
Jonathan Alpert says protesters are craving community validation in era where therapy speak dominates culture.
At last weekend’s "No Kings" protest in Washington, D.C., inflatable chickens bobbed above a crowd that, according to demographic research, was made up mostly of educated White women in their 40s.
Psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert said that the "No Kings" protests are a snapshot of an era when emotional catharsis and civic activism have begun to blur.
"What we’re seeing is a kind of group therapy playing out in the streets," he told Fox News Digital.
According to researchers at American University who track protest movements, and whose findings were first reported by Axios, the typical D.C. attendee was an educated White woman in her 40s who learned about the demonstration through friends or social media.
"The 'No Kings' movement allows people to feel belonging and community," Alpert said. "Sharing grievances with like-minded people feels good, but it doesn’t necessarily change anything."
That fleeting catharsis, Alpert added, can also mask something darker.
"A lot of times people are unhappy in their own lives," he said. "They may have anxiety or anger, and they project that onto others.
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“Educated” is a nuanced term here.
I’m pretty surprised that folks don’t want anything to do with MLK now.
I have to wonder how many were paid to be there?
The correct word is indoctrinated.
All of them.
No kidding. They're confusing matriculated with educated ... what they spout is propaganda, not knowledge.
That is True.
EYI
Educated Yet Idiots
Psychotherapist sees group therapy. I see a tantrum from spoiled children.
Sad, MLK was OK, not perfect, no one is, he did have a good foundational belief system.
Proving out the postulate that a democrat over forty lacks a brain.
I believe you have the better assessment.
Seems so.
A No Kings protest in a country that doesn’t have kings. They’re delusional, and every excuse they give to think of Trump as a king is simply untrue. He was elected by the majority of voters and he has done nothing illegal. He doesn’t make up his own laws, like a king would do, etc. etc. All they are is frustrated that they can’t have their way because they’re unpopular, and they need someone to lash out against.
+25 years from what I saw personally and in pics
True.
Didn’t the FBI tape MLK beating and screaming at the White prostitutes during orgies? There is a reason we will never see or hear his FBI files. I think his belief system was pretty effed up. But his communist handler, Stanley Levison sure did write a good speech, when he wrote “I have a dream” for Mr. King.
Mostly rat Q-Tips. Nothing worse than an old Democrat.
Educationally brainwashed, overly emotional, perpetually bitter, psychologically unstable, older white harpies.
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