I don't want to burst your bubble but packing signs won't do anything.
“I don’t want to burst your bubble but packing signs won’t do anything.”
OK, you’ve said your what, now followup with your why.
Ditto.
Do you happen to recall the ‘60’s war protesters, the racial protests or the “gay” protests when streets where packed with those people? Were they successful in getting their point across? I rest my case.
We have thousands (millions) who are frustrated that our rights are being trampled and I can tell you from experience... It’s cathartic and it gets us coverage.
Not to mention, it’s good for the soul to meet other decent people who share our principles. It’s also GREAT for networking with like-minded people.
But you do whatever you wish. Just please don’t rain on our parade (pun intended).
So in other words you suggest we sit and do nothing hoping it all just go away just like so many Germans did in 1938.
The public at large has little exposure to grassroots conservatism. Many think that it's just a small band of power-hungry white guys pretending to be upstanding and stealing from the common man left and right.
Large groups of conservatives would definitely give many people a big shock that many everyday people are conservative and have deep beliefs. Just as important, the public sometimes has a tenuous grasp on the importance of a subject until they see people sacrificing for it in the flesh.
Humans are social animals and the more they can place a face to a movement the more importance they will give it. Those numerous faces make a movement more personal and more likely to light a fire to oppose the moral audacity of what's occuring.
Conservatism needs more faces willing to show they will make small sacrifices to give it more credence and to show that conservatives believe what they are saying.